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Chief Technology Officer

Special School District, located in Town and Country, Mo., provides special education services to students with disabilities. The district also operates two technical high schools that provide a wide range of career and technical education programs to area students. The district educates more than 30,000 students and performs more than 100,000 hearing and speech screenings and diagnostic evaluations annually. State legislation requires that a committee be appointed every four years to review the operations of the special school district and to make recommendations for improvement. Its areas of review include the SSDs structure, governance, administration, financial management, delivery of services and cooperation with partner school districts.

One of the major challenges facing organizations today is how to implement technology that supports the organization as a whole. Due to the complexity of the needs of the staff and the mission of the organization, no single product fits the bill. IT staff must be flexible and proficient enough to manage solutions across heterogeneous software platforms. With over 10 years experience in the IT field, I have acquired the skill sets to implement technology solutions for any organization from the small business to the large enterprise.Specialties: Active Directory design, implementation, and administrationWindows, Novell, Unix, and Linux AdministrationLawson ERP Implementation and managementMicrosoft SQL Server AdministrationIBM WebSphere AdministrationMicrosoft IIS and Apache Web Server ManagementApache Tomcat AdministrationMicrosoft Exchange Server AdministrationIT Project ManagementHelp Desk ManagementNetwork Security AdministrationDisaster Recovery PlanningTechnical TrainingTraining Event Management