Brad Englert is the founder of Brad Englert Advisory and an author, advisor, and technologist. Brad worked for Accenture for 22 years, including 10 years as a partner. He then served The University of Texas at Austin for eight years, including seven years as the chief information officer (CIO).

During Brad’s career with Accenture, a global management consulting and technology services firm, he worked in a variety of information technology leadership and operational roles for large, complex institutions of higher education, state governments (Texas, California, Minnesota, Montana), and commercial organizations (Best Buy, Caterpillar, Whirlpool, Bell South, Deutsche Bank, and Wyeth). When Brad retired as a senior partner in 2006, he had a proven track record in information technology operations, large-scale information systems implementations, and strategic planning.

Brad’s service to The University of Texas at Austin began in October 2008, as a member of the Strategic Information Technology Advisory Committee. In 2009, he was asked to lead the implementation of the committee’s unanimously endorsed recommendations as the chief operating officer of Information Technology Services. He was named CIO in March 2010 and retired in March 2017. He founded Brad Englert Advisory in May 2017. Brad also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Schreiner University Business Advisory Council, the Writer’s League of Texas, and the Society for Information Management.

As CIO, Englert created an information technology governance approach to align strategic capital investments and operating budgets with campus-wide priorities. Englert led a number of transformational initiatives such as transitioning to a modern, cloud-based learning management system, cloud- based email for 52,000 students and tens of thousands of alumni (no ads, no data mining, extra privacy protections), and cloud-based email and calendaring for 4,000 faculty members and 21,000 staff; launching 1,800+ virtual machines; implementing a voice-over-Internet protocol telephone system (23,000 lines); expanding file sharing capabilities for faculty, students, and staff (100+ terabytes); providing data planning and management resources to researchers; deploying a cloud-based and secure survey tool; investing in the network to support the 300,000+ devices connecting every day; and collaborating with The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System to upgrade the joint statewide network to 100 gigabytes per second and redundantly connecting the Texas Advanced Computing Center to Internet2 through Dallas and Houston.

Englert’s team also built and tested disaster recovery for critical services, upgraded the web infrastructure, developed a mobile strategy, deployed a mobile device responsive home page, provided data encryption tools, updated the technology road map for supporting teaching and learning, created a master plan for administrative systems modernization, designed and built the new administrative systems technical environment, developed an identity management strategy, offered laptop and workstation data backup capability for all faculty and staff, and transitioned to a cloud-based human resources and payroll solution.

Prior to Accenture, Brad held managerial positions in payroll and human resources and labor relations at the Internal Revenue Service and was a high school teacher in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. Brad is married to Corliss Hudson Englert. They have two sons, Eric and Nathan.

Brad earned a master’s degree in public affairs from The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of arts degree in social sciences with honors and distinction from Shimer College, which is now the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.