chriscEnterprise Architect — New York University, IT
March 2023 – June 2026Co-led NYU’s university-wide governance process for evaluating new technology and vendors, served as Privacy Engineer, and brought generative AI into real institutional work.
New York, NY
Christian Colón
Enterprise Architect — AI Governance & IT Strategy
An enterprise architect who spent fifteen years at New York University connecting technology decisions to the institution they serve — across solution architecture, IT governance, privacy engineering, and product leadership for the platforms behind three degree-granting campuses and 13 global academic sites.
About
Most recently I co-led NYU’s university-wide governance process for evaluating new technology and vendors, and put generative AI to work on real problems — building working tools and evaluating models across capability and cost.
I spent a career practicing lead-by-influence governance in a federated, decentralized environment — the kind of setting where standards only work if people trust the person carrying them.
TOGAF 9 · GEVA (GIAC Advisory Board) · ITIL-trained
Focus
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AI Governance
Governance applied to AI where it actually arrives: technology and vendor review paired with hands-on adoption — agentic coding tools and LLM evaluation across capability and cost.
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IT Strategy
Software procurement and vendor evaluation, application portfolio rationalization, and translating technical risk for non-technical stakeholders — the connective work between technology teams and the business they serve.
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Enterprise Architecture
TOGAF 9-certified practice: architecture review governance, enterprise architecture platform stewardship, and IT resiliency, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity governance.
Experience
Solution Architect — New York University, IT
January 2018 – March 2023Co-founded NYU’s Architecture Review Board; lead architect for the re-implementation of a major institutional communications platform; reviewed and advised on enterprise cloud migration.
Information Technology Specialist — New York University, IT
January 2011 – January 2018Co-architected www.nyu.edu — NYU’s most globally-consumed web property, serving audiences in 100+ countries — and led NYU’s primary web portal as Technical Lead and Service Lead.
Earlier — University of Oklahoma
2005 – 2010Web development and IT coordination for the university’s web presence and student recruitment.
Fuller detail is on LinkedIn; resume available on request.
Credentials
- TOGAF 9 Certification Enterprise architecture frameworks, governance, and standards
- GIAC Enterprise Vulnerability Assessor (GEVA) Invited to the GIAC Advisory Board for exemplary exam performance
- ITIL Foundation Certificate IT Service Management — service lifecycle, risk, and compliance alignment
- B.A., Information Studies University of Oklahoma · English (native) · Spanish (native/bilingual)
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About this site
This site is its own small case study: I designed and built it using agentic AI tools in a single working session — what would otherwise have been a week of evenings — at no incremental tooling cost, on free static hosting. The AI drafted; I directed and reviewed every decision. Under the hood it’s a single self-contained page: semantic HTML, embedded styles, and a little vanilla JavaScript — no frameworks, no build step, no analytics, no trackers — with self-hosted open-source fonts and WCAG AA accessibility.
The opening sequence — a hand-drawn SVG skyline you bring online node by node — is plain SVG and vanilla JavaScript, no libraries, with a skip button, keyboard support, and reduced-motion and no-JS fallbacks.