Carlos Herrera

August 2019

Carlos Herrera has been working in the information technology field for over twenty-three years. He started his career with the Oregon Department of Corrections and has worked in higher education, health care, and the private industry. His fields of interest are Academic Technology and Instructional Design. He enjoys providing technology to enhance teaching and learning here at UNM.

Carlos started his career at UNM over five years ago, working at the Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center as a Systems Administrator. He was a senior member of the team that supports the HSC academic enterprise systems and services.

Currently, Carlos manages the Computer Pods & Classrooms and oversees a very large team of Students Consultants (SCONS) and the Student IT Engineers (SITE) technical team that supports the computer labs and classrooms.

Prior to UNM, Carlos worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the Mission Critical group supporting fortune 500 companies. And before Hewlett Packard, he worked at Harvard Business School and Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology groups.

Carlos holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management and an OILS Masters in Instructional Design and Technology (ID&T.) Carlos grew up in Colombia and has lived in the US for over 30 years. He was an exchange student when he came to the states and lived in Oregon. Later he moved to Massachusetts and, then arrived here in the land of enchantment in 2010. Carlos and his wife have two grown children and an affectionate Great Pyrenees. Carlos enjoys spending his free time outdoors, hiking, cycling and backpacking the Gila wilderness with his wife and children.