Hires announced at UA OIT, federal relations

November 14, 2018

Tori Tragis

President James R. Johnsen announced the selection of Mark Kondrak as the chief information technology officer for the University of Alaska, and Dustin Bryant as the director of federal relations.

Kondrak is currently the CIO at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He regularly speaks on IT strategy and leadership, has been recognized as one of the country’s most innovative CIOs, and was recently named 2018 Twin Cities CIO of the Year in the public sector category.

Prior to his role at Hamline, Kondrak was IT director at the University of Minnesota Medical School and operated an IT consulting business. He holds an M.S. in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Kondrak will assume his responsibilities in January.

Dustin Bryant will become the director of federal relations for the University of Alaska System Dec. 3. He will be based in Washington, D.C., where he will work on federal issues including efforts to increase UA's land grant, federal investment at UA and research-related priorities.  He’ll also focus on a variety of federal education policy issues.

Bryant has more than 13 years of public policy and government relations experience. He most recently served as the assistant director of federal relations for the Texas A&M University system in Washington, D.C., where he represented the A&M system’s 11 campuses and seven state agencies.  

Prior to representing the A&M system, Bryant served in the Washington, D.C., and Texas offices for U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, and later served as a field representative for Hinojosa in his district office. Bryant received a B.S. in agriculture development from Texas A&M.