CSUSB Names New Associate VP for Technology Operations

Cal State San Bernardino has named Gerard Au as the university’s new associate vice president for technology operations and customer support. Au, who will begin his new appointment on Feb. 3, will provide leadership to the CSUSB’s Technology Support Center and Enterprise Applications, Data Center, and Telecommunications and Network Services, said Samuel Sudhakar, the vice president for Information Technology Services and chief information officer for Cal State San Bernardino. Au currently serves as the director of information technology and is chief information officer at UCLA School of Nursing. “We are excited to have Gerard join our campus” Sudhakar said. "Gerard has a significant record of technological accomplishments at UCLA. He led a team to expand the global footprint of the UCLA School of Nursing through the strategic use of instructional technologies and provided leadership to large-scale IT projects to include infrastructure upgrades, cloud services migration and electronic health records implementation.” Au, who lives in Pasadena, was awarded a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from UCLA. He worked in the private sector for a short time and later returned to UCLA working in information technology in the university’s geology department. He later worked in the psychology and English departments before moving to the School of Nursing. He also held several volunteer staff leader positions at UCLA and systemwide at the University of California. “I am honored to be joining the information technology team and working closely with Dr. Sudhakar and the talented staff,” Au said. “Cal State San Bernardino is an outstanding university on a path to greatness under President Morales’s leadership. I am excited by the opportunity to work with faculty, staff, students and university leaders on issues of critical importance.”