Ed Evans is the Senior Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC).

Under Ed’s leadership, TAMU-CC IT bridges silos and collaborates to heighten security, enhance teaching & learning, enable research, and deliver digital transformation.

Ed joined TAMU-CC as a director in 2014 and was promoted to CIO in 2015. Since that time, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Information Technology has become a comprehensive organization that includes IT Infrastructure & Research Computing, User Support Services, Information Security, IT Enterprise Applications, and Distance Education. In recent years, TAMU-CC has begun to comprehensively evaluate cloud capabilities for cost effectiveness, security, and continuity of learning/business continuity. Ed believes the cloud promises organizational agility enabling digital transformation, however, the institution must be aligned to be able to support new work methods to take achieve the promise.

Ed has a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University and two Master of Science degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Ed spent nearly 20 years at Purdue University in a variety of IT positions ranging from colleges to central IT and comprising areas such as teaching & learning, IT infrastructure, and business intelligence.