The Vice President for Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities serves as a collaborative and strategic leader, fostering a culture that highly values customer service, engagement, communication, and responsiveness to faculty, students, and staff. Reporting to the executive vice president and chief operating officer and partnering with university stakeholders, the vice president in this position leads the Division of Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities, which has a team of approximately 550 employees and a base operating budget in excess of $24 million.

The vice president oversees the care, maintenance, and development of Virginia Tech’s campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, and the greater Washington, D.C., metro area; the university’s research facilities located throughout the commonwealth; and the Steger Center for International Scholarship located in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland.

The vice president provides broad-based facilities planning and operations experience and a record of leading change, implementing innovative solutions to complex problems, streamlining processes and systems, and creating and delivering large scale strategic plans and projects.

Frances Keene, vice president for student affairs, chairs the search committee.

Search committee members are:

  • Latawnya Burleson, executive assistant, Vice President for Information Technology 
  • Van Coble, assistant provost for academic space, Academic Space Management
  • Joe Cooley, ADA accessibility architect, Equity and Access
  • Emily Gibson, director of local government and community relations
  • Bruce Heath, director of budget and financial planning, Division of Finance 
  • Roberto Leon, David H. Burrows Professor and associate department head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Laurel Miner, assistant vice president and chief of staff, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
  • Stephanie Overton, senior director of communications, Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  • Elvis Rosario, emergency coordinator, Emergency Management 
  • Ken Smith, chief operating officer, Virginia Tech Foundation
  • Casey Underwood, associate athletics director, Facility Maintenance and Capital Projects
  • Dave Wilder, senior director for D.C. region building operations, Innovation Campus

Steve Filipiak, senior human resources division director for the EVPCOO, will serve as the administrative contact, and Teresa Thompson, executive assistant in the Office of the Vice President for Campus Planning, Infrastructure, and Facilities, will provide administrative support for the search committee.

The search committee welcomes nominations for the position. For confidential inquiries or to nominate an individual for this position, please email Jared Bralley at jbralley@vt.edu. Learn more about this position or complete the application process here.

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