Gerard commenced employment with UCC in the Quality Promotion Unit in 2005 and moved to the Department of Management & Marketing in 2007 to gain experience operating in an academic department. In 2021, Gerard moved to the new post of programme administrator within the postgraduate programmes team where he is responsible for the administration of the MSc Management and Marketing, the MSc Marketing and the MSc in Banking and Risk Management. More recently Gerard took on additional administrative responsibility for the MSc Design & Development of Digital Business. In terms of education, Gerard has a Postgraduate Certificate in Project Management (2018), from University College Cork, an MA in International Studies (First Class Honours) (2003) from University of Limerick, a Diploma in French (1998), from Cavilam Language Institute, France and a Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours) in History & Sociology (1997) from University College Cork. In relation to UCC staff awards, Gerard received the Outstanding Colleague Award (2017) from UCC President, Professor Patrick G. O’Shea, an individual UCC Hero Award, (2020), an initiative that sought to highlight university staff who made an exceptional contribution in UCC during the Covid-19 crisis and finally was a member of a team who received a College of Business & Law ‘Heroes Team Award’ (2021), which recognised the tremendous efforts made by administrative staff again during the Covid crisis and the restructuring of the business school.