Ryan Van Ommeren is the Associate Vice President of Operations and Planning at California Lutheran University.  He has worked at California Lutheran University since 2000 and assumed his current role in 2006.  His direct responsibilities include food service, facilities management, facilities planning, and campus safety.  He also has leadership roles on campus in sustainability and risk management.  Ryan has been an integral part of the planning and construction of an aggressive institution master plan adopted in 1998.  Since the approval of that master plan, the university has doubled in size both in terms of square footage and enrollment.  Significant projects include a new science building scheduled to complete in Fall 2020, work with the Los Angeles Rams to create a practice facility on the campus, and of course, work with CRPD to construct a community pool at CLU!  Ryan received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota State University and his MS in Construction Engineering from UC Berkeley.  Outside of work, he is involved in the Thousand Oaks community on a variety of non-profit boards and citizens’ advisory groups, and he has a particular passion for bicycle-commuter advocacy.  Ryan is married to wife Patricia (30 years in November 2019) and has one child, Bailey, who recently relocated to Minnesota for full-time employment.