As vice president for Information Services and librarian of the College at Connecticut College, Gardzina is the chief information officer and leads both the libraries and Information Technology of the College, including traditional library services, administrative computing, telecommunications, networks, desktop computer support, digital scholarship, special collections and archives, instructional technology and data security.
Gardzina most recently served as chief information officer at Columbus College of Art & Design, where he oversaw the library and information technology division. He previously held leadership positions at Bucknell University and The College of Wooster, and served in IT roles at Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania and Duke University in North Carolina.
Before his time in higher education he was a faculty member at Cary Academy where he taught history, coached the cross country and track and field teams; he also helped establish a technology program for Wake County high school students.