Bryan Lewis, Ed.D., has extensive experience in the design and implementation of core business, collaborative, and emerging technologies. Prior to joining the McIntire School, Dr. Lewis served as a Company Officer and Principal for an audiovisual and telecommunications design, engineering, and manufacturing company. His past experience includes large-scale network infrastructure and secure system design, deployments, and migrations, including secure distance-based learning and collaborative space design. Past projects include project management of all audiovisual, security, and telecommunications technology in several long term multimillion-dollar projects at universities across the United States and Canada as a primary implementer of the Dell-connected campus.Dr. Lewis currently serves as the Chief Information Officer and Assistant Dean for Operations / Information Technology & Innovation area lecturer at the McIntire School. As an administrative dean, he manages the Instructional Technology, IT and AV support, IT innovation, space planning, and facilities operations at the school. This role focuses on information technology strategy, cyber security policy, and major project implementation with a school-wide product management focus. His main areas of emphasis are implementing the school's strategic plans for a data driven environment, improving use and efficiency of University systems, and evangelizing the use of technology to improve business processes and student outcomes. Academically Dr. Lewis serves as a lecturer on network, data, and cloud security with a focus on defensive technologies, personal privacy, secure communications, and the business impacts of information security in the M.S. in MIT, MS in Accounting, Certificate in cybersecurity, and undergraduate curricula. Certified as both a CISSP and CCSP, he has extensive experience with cybersecurity operations, research, and instruction in both the public and the private sectors. His primary research and consulting interests focus on distance learning design, cloud computing regulatory and legal compliance, information security in the public sector, and collaborative space design projects.