Patrick Perry currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of Technology, Research, and Information Systems for the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. He has served dual roles as the Chief Information Officer (CIO)/Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of Institutional Research for the 110 campus California Community College (CCC) System since 2002.

Perry has helped with the development and implementation of many significant systemwide and intersegmental programs, including systemwide technology efforts, such as CCCApply (common electronic application), CCCConfer (systemwide audio and e-conferencing), E-TranscriptCA (intersegmental electronic transcript exchange), 3CMedia (system satellite broadcast/webcast/streaming media hosting), CENIC (centralized internet connectivity), @ONE (systemwide technology training for faculty/staff), and the creation of the K-20 California Educational Technology Collaborative (CETC). He also put into action a system research agenda that includes institutional accountability; the study of student flow, pipelines, and transfer patterns; basic skills/remediation research; supply and demand studies for the educational commodity and student wage outcomes, Perry has also been instrumental in leading the system to the successful completion of its Accountability Reporting for the California Community Colleges (ARCC) report.

He was appointed to serve on the Board in 2009.