Director, Infrastructure and Application Operations
Bayer Business and Technology Services
George
Bartha is the director of Infrastructure Services for Bayer Corporation in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Bayer, a $40-billion worldwide pharmaceutical and crop science
company, is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. Bartha has worked for over 18
years at Bayer and is responsible for Bayer’s North America Data Center and
Network Operations serving over 15,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada and over
16,000 employees in Latin America. He is responsible for the computer infrastructure
of over 125 Bayer sites in the U.S. and Canada and more than 120 sites in Latin
America. The computer infrastructure assets that he manages in the Pittsburgh Data
Center and at other sites are valued at over $500 million.
Bartha
has over 30 years of experience working in the IT industry for a number of
large and small companies. Prior to working at Bayer, he worked as an IT Service
delivery manager consultant at CIBER. He was employed as a customer liaison at Applied
Science Associates and as a service delivery manager for Computer Delivery
Services, two small software startup companies in the Pittsburgh area. He also
worked at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh and Delmarva Power and Light Company in
Wilmington, Delaware.
Bartha
is a 1983 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a double major in
MIS and accounting. He is also a 1990
graduate of Widener University with an MBA and a concentration in management information
systems. He has served for over 10 years on the IUP Business Advisory Council.
During that time, Bayer has hosted many student events on the Bayer Pittsburgh
campus and, in 2015, hosted exchange students from IUP’s Hyderabad, India,
campus. In addition, Bartha has served on the Pittsburgh SAP User Group as vice
chairman.
Bartha
and his wife, Kathy, a 1984 IUP accounting graduate, live in McDonald, Pennsylvania, with
their two children, Michelle and Alexander. Bartha has been active over the
years in many community service activities and currently serves as a school
board director for the West Allegheny School District. He previously served on
the North Fayette Township Zoning Hearing board for 13 years, a number of which
he held the position of chairman, and has also served in various capacities on
the North Fayette Athletic Association.
Updated
2016