Scott Bernotas currently serves as special assistant to the executive vice chancellor for Finance and Operations and CFO, Dwayne Pinkney, and to the vice chancellor for facilities management, Laura Zullo, through the end of the calendar year prior to his retirement.
Bernotas previously served as the vice chancellor for facilities management for 10 years. He worked to balance preservation of the University’s historic structures while enhancing maintenance and sustainability, including the construction of the upper campus chilled water plant, significant improvements in campus storm water capture and reuse, and sustained growth in renewable energy generation and procurement.
Prior to joining the University, Bernotas spent 29 years in the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineering Corps. He managed projects ranging from federal real estate, environmental compliance and restoration, maintenance and repair of federal properties, and served as a facilities contracting officer. His last naval assignment was overseeing and maintaining all U.S. Naval Academy facilities.
Bernotas holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from California Polytechnic State University.
