Luis Plascencia was brought on as Technology Support Specialist in November 2022. His role is to support staff by providing training and troubleshooting with all technology needs, as well as working with external vendors for all athletic games and special events.
Plascencia has been with UTSA in various roles across campus. Most recently, he worked as an enterprise client virtualization analyst from 2019 through 2022. During this time, he oversaw many vital tasks, including analyzing and providing solutions in the virtual environment to better assist faculty and staff, deploying and managing desktop pools and applications, and building virtual machines for various colleges within the university.
Plascencia worked as a technology support specialist from 2016 until 2019, where he was primarily responsible for the supervision of part-time employees and the management of daily workflow and tasks for the technology support staff.
Before becoming a technology support specialist, Plascencia worked as a learning specialist at UTSA from 2007 until 2016. He was tasked with the supervision of part-time and work study technicians to ensure proper troubleshooting and solution implementation of various technological problems encountered by students and faculty.
Along with his work at UTSA, Plascencia is also a co-founder and marketing manager of One Sound Productions. Plascencia helped found the company in 2014, and he works to revolutionize live events in the San Antonio area.
Plascencia graduated from UTSA in May of 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in architecture.