Summary
Nicola Monat-Jacobs is a seasoned IT leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling enterprise applications for higher education and cultural institutions, now serving as Director, Enterprise Applications at the J. Paul Getty Trust. She blends strategic thinking and transparent, collaborative leadership to align technology initiatives with institutional goals, driving cloud transformation, data governance, and reliable IT service delivery. A Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner, Nicola is known for building trusted campus partnerships and teams that consistently deliver results while emphasizing quality and service. Her background spans hands-on technical roles at NYU and open-source-focused work with Longsight, giving her deep practical experience integrating learning platforms, identity systems, and academic software. Quietly, she pairs a politics BA with an MS in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon, bringing both policy insight and technical rigor to complex organizational change.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Politics, BA Politics at New York University
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
French, Czech