Email: rgerola@ggu.edu

Distinguished Program Management Professional, Consultant, Instructor, and Licensed Professional Engineer with focus on project portfolio planning, execution, scope/cost control, and risk mitigation for enterprise-level IT initiatives. Current focus is cybersecurity risk management, including risk assessment, threat and vulnerability management, and implementation/enforcement of essential security controls.

Extensive multi-industry experience leading geographically-dispersed cross-functional project teams in over 20 countries across Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Americas. Led projects with corporate mergers, organizational change management, data center migrations, ERP installations, Microsoft O365, cybersecurity, and additional IT activities of substantial business value.

Decades of experience as an adjunct instructor, course developer, and student mentor while continuing to serve as a faculty member of multiple college-level institutions.