Brendan Bellina

Brendan Bellina has extensive experience in IT architecture and identity management, currently serving as the Lead IT Architect at UCLA since September 2015, where responsibilities include AWS Cloud migration and Enterprise Slack Grid Deployment. Additionally, Brendan chaired the Green IT Taskforce and supervised the Enterprise IT Architecture team at UCLA from November 2017 to June 2019. Previously, at Yum! Brands, Brendan held roles as Manager of Governance, Risk, and Compliance and Global Identity Access Architect. Brendan's earlier career includes significant positions at the University of Southern California, where architectural responsibilities encompassed identity management systems, and at the University of Notre Dame, where Brendan established the University Enterprise Directory Service. Brendan’s experience also spans roles in database administration and programming dating back to the 1980s, with foundational education in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.