MDCC honors IT director after 31 years of Army Reserve service

Mississippi Delta Community College honored retired Chief Warrant Officer Three Torrey D. Moore after his 31-year career in the U.S. Army Reserve ended with a retirement ceremony May 17 at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Jackson. Moore, the college’s executive director of information technology and chief information officer, spent those same years helping anchor the campus systems students, faculty and staff depend on in Moorhead.

Moore is a native of Goodman, Mississippi, and MDCC said his military path began in March 1995, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a human resources specialist. He later moved into the Warrant Officer Corps in 2006 as an information services technician, a shift that matched the technical work he carried into higher education. MDCC also said in 2021 that Moore joined the U.S. Army Reserves as a high school student, underscoring how long his military service ran alongside his civilian career.

At MDCC, Moore’s responsibilities reached well beyond a single office title. In 2025, the college said he had been promoted to executive director of information technology and chief information officer with oversight of data services, compliance and reporting. The college later named him vice-chairman of the Mississippi Community College Connectivity Consortium, placing him in a regional role that connected MDCC to broader technology and cybersecurity coordination across the community-college system.

MDCC has also tied Moore and his team to campus technology upgrades that included security systems, software enhancements and infrastructure improvements. Those are the kinds of changes that affect whether classroom networks hold up, whether records are accessible and whether daily operations keep moving without interruption. In a college setting, that work reaches students registering for classes, instructors depending on network access and staff managing institutional records.

Moore’s retirement closes out a career that joined military discipline with campus operations in a region where public service often overlaps across institutions. For MDCC, the recognition marked more than a personal milestone. It highlighted the continuity behind the college’s technology operations and the senior leadership that helped keep them steady over time.