Bio
Robert Smith, CISSP, PMP
Systemwide IT Policy Director
Before joining University of California’s Office of the President Systemwide CISO’s office, Robert was the senior director of technology for student affairs at UC Riverside. He has been with the University of California since 2011 and was the lead for IT security and compliance, software development, infrastructure, services and program management at UCR. His experience covers multiple industry areas, including; FDA/HIPAA regulated, DoD, corporate and product development environments. Notably, he ran enterprise endpoint security product development and other projects during his years at Symantec. He participates in UC-wide security initiatives, focused on shared services, PCI and HIPAA. He has written articles and short stories on security, compliance and IT for Journal of GxP Compliance. He speaks on IT and security topics.
