I am the Director of Information Services and Technology for the
Saugus Union School District, a medium sized (11K students) elementary district in Southern California, where I have been for 11 years or so.
Some of the projects I have been involved with include:
k12opentech.orgedtechactionnetwork.orgelgg.orgOur various technology escapades have been well
covered by the media, for which I am currently serving on the
advisory boards of the
SearchEnterpriseLinux and
SearchServerVirtualization online magazines at techtarget.com. I am a conference committee member for
CoSN's 13th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference and am an advisor for
Technology & Learning's Tech Forum West.
I have presented on a variety of topics (mostly open source related) at
CoSN's Annual School Networking Conference (in both Washington and California,) the
ISTE National Education Computing Conference (NECC,) the Software & Information Industry Association (
SIIA) Ed Tech Industry Summit, the
Community College Foundation's TechEd Conference, Iowa and Minnesota State Education Technology Directors Summits, the Georgia Education Technology Conference (GaETC,) the California Education Technology Professionals Associaion (
CETPA) Annual Conference, the
Red Hat Summit, and a variety of other meetings, webcasts, and events.
Future speaking engagements (Spring-Summer 2008) include:
CoSN's 13th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference, the
ISTE National Education Computing Conference,
Computer Using Educators Conference,
Community College Foundation's Tech Ed Conference, and the
CoSN CTO Clinic West