As Technology Director
ADMINISTRATOR OF VERACROSS

• Setting up the admissions portal and online enrollment homepage.
• Opening and closing academic years.
• Setting up the faculty, parent and student portals.
• Managing processes for creating report cards.
• Redesigning report cards and transcripts.
• Creating transcripts.
• Creating queries and data exports.
• Writing how-to user guides.
• Troubleshooting faculty, parent and student problems.

ADMINISTRATOR OF EDUCATION EDGE

• Setting up the student portal so students can make course requests.
• Creating classes and enrolling groups of students into these classes.
• Inputting school timetables manually.
• Setting up the faculty portal so teachers can record grades and attendance for classes.
• Managing processes for creating report cards.
• Redesigning report cards and transcripts.
• Creating transcripts.
• Running GPA calculations.
• Creating queries and data exports.
• Writing how-to user guides.

WEBMASTER OF SILVERPOINT/FINALSITE WEBSITE

• Redesigning and reimplementing pages and faculty, parent, student and alumni portals.
• Designing and implementing new pages.
• Managing an interface redesign project.
• Importing student and teacher accounts into a backend.
• Writing how-to user guides.

ADMINISTRATOR OF GOOGLE APPS

• Creating Google accounts for students and teachers.
• Writing how-to user guides.

ADMINISTRATOR OF WORDPRESS MULTISITE

• Creating blogs for teachers and students.
• Installing blog themes.
• Giving workshops on WordPress for class websites.

ADMINISTRATOR OF MOODLE

• Importing student and teacher accounts.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing and maintaining policies and agreements for faculty, parents and students on:
  • Google Apps
  • Computer games
  • A bring your own technology (BYOT) program
  • A one-to-one iPad program
  • Edublogs
  • Faculty laptops
  • Data protection
• Creating surveys on the above to gather information and measure progress.
• Coordinating a technology team comprising of a systems administrator, systems technician and technology teachers.
• Detailing and managing technology budgets.
• Coordinating a migration from Rubicon Atlas to Google Docs for curriculum management.
• Coordinating a migration from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps.
• Managing a middle school one-to-one iPad program.
• Managing a project to locate, evaluate and eventually install a system that supports asset, alumni and human resource information management.
• Coordinating the setting up of Edublogs for digital portfolios.
• Managing school social media accounts, including Flickr, Vimeo, Facebook and Twitter.
• Working with administrators, teachers, staff and parents to implement and evaluate technological programs/initiatives and systems.
• Evaluating various models of laptops, tablets, cameras, projectors and printers, and various types of software.
• Troubleshooting technological problems of teachers, staff and students – both hardware and software.
• Meeting with vendors and negotiating pricing.
• Managing parent-teacher conference sign-up forms via Google Apps.
• Overseeing the installation of technological equipment.
• Designing infographics, logos and other work.
• Coordinating a migration from Education Edge to Veracross for school information management.

As Computer Science Educator

• Teaching the IB Computer Science and IB Information Technology in a Global Society courses.
• Teaching the IGCSE Computer Science and IGCSE Information and Communication Technology courses.
• Teaching introductory computer science and digital citizenship to middle school students.
• Teaching mathematics to middle school students.
• Teaching technology to elementary students.
• Heading a technology department.
• Supervising computer science-based IB Extended Essays.
• Redesigning a middle school technology course to focus on digital citizenship.
• Setting up a website for student-made mathematics video tutorials.
• Setting up a website for IB Computer Science.
• Integrating the Java-based Greenfoot and BlueJ development environments into computer science courses.

As Developer

• Building a website for Themantic Education.
• Building an online store for Themantic Education.
• Coding several Twitter bots.
• Building a website for namecity.
• Writing technical articles for namecity.
• Coding an authentication script for EL Drivers Club.
• Building a website for EL Drivers Club.

As Technology Coach

• Giving workshops on:
  • WordPress and Google Drive, Docs and Calendar for setting up class websites.
  • Twitter for professional development and collective notetaking.
  • Google Docs for unit planning and organisation.

As Robotics Coach

• Coaching robotics to elementary, middle and high school students using the Lego Mindstorms and VEX systems.
• Planning robotics tournaments.

As Yearbook Coordinator

• Forming yearbook teams/clubs.
• Coaching Jostens’ Yearbook Avenue software to students and teachers.
• Coordinating yearbooks to a successful completion.