Jason Ball

Christian Block

Assistant Vice President & Deputy CIO

Office of Information Technology

cblock@fau.edu
(561) 297-3000

Boca Raton Campus

As the Assistant Vice President & Deputy CIO of OIT, Christian Block oversees business operations for OIT and the Value Management Office (VMO), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Applications and Software Development and Integrations, which are all part of the Administrative Systems (AS) umbrella. These teams ensure the proper operations of all major administrative applications used at FAU, including two major services, Workday HCM/Finance and the Ellucian Banner Student Information System. Prior to joining FAU in November 2021, Christian served as the Chief Business Officer for Information Technology (IT) at Broward College, where he oversaw a $12 million budget and supervised the IT Help Desk, Project Management Office (PMO), Enterprise Communications and Systems, Quality Assurance, and Fiscal Management. He also managed procurement, contracting, and vendor relations at the College for IT. Christian earned his bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Jacksonville University and his master’s in computer science from Nova Southeastern University.