Brandon R. Ermita, CISSP is the Academic Technical Support Manager of both the Department of East Asian Studies and the East Asian Studies Program.  He has multiple information technology professional credentials, including ISC(2) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+), Project Management Institute-Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-CAPM) and ITIL.

After his BA degree from New York University (1992), he pursued post-graduate work in behavioral and computational neuroscience at Rutgers University.  Profile on Google Scholar.  He appreciates the critical role for professional and accredited technologists to be embedded within academic departments to consult with faculty and students -- while advising centralized university offices on enhancing opportunities for members of the university community.  Working with Princeton University since 1999, he joined the East Asian Studies department in 2010.

As an information technology manager at Princeton University, he realizes that information technology professionals can often get enamored with technology, but that effective managers need to keep the primary focus on our organizations' INFORMATION needs.