I lead higher education IT teams across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, service management, endpoint management, and day-to-day technology operations. The work has to be reliable, and it has to make sense to the people using it. I've spent 25+ years in public-sector and California State University environments, starting with hands-on endpoint and systems work and ending up in director-level leadership of multi-campus organizations.
Right now I direct user support and endpoint management for three CSU campuses (San Francisco State, Cal State East Bay, and Sonoma State) through the San Francisco Bay Regional Network. That means an $8M annual operating budget, a team of 50, roughly 40,000 students and 5,000 faculty and staff, and thousands of service tickets every month. In the past year we cut $800K in annual costs through shared-services consolidation and rolled out enterprise endpoint management with Microsoft Intune and Jamf across the consortium.
The through line in my career is practical modernization. I want services people can actually find and use, less institutional risk, and technology decisions that trace back to what the organization is trying to do. I manage as a servant leader, I lean on data when I have it, and I use AI where it takes real work off my team's plate rather than because it's fashionable.
Current Focus
Multi-campus endpoint management, shared-service consolidation, ITSM maturity, and NIST-based cybersecurity compliance across the CSU system.
Target roles
AVP / Deputy CIO, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Director of Enterprise Systems, or Director of Service Management, in higher education or the public sector.
What I care about
Servant leadership, AI governance, building teams people want to stay on, and making complex technology simple for the people who depend on it.
Location
Vallejo, CA. Open to Bay Area, Sacramento / Northern California, Central Coast, and select remote or hybrid arrangements.
