Assistant Director Information Technology
CurrentThe City of Newport News is home to nearly 200,000 citizens and has 40 elementary, middle, and high schools. The Department of Information Technology is one of 30 departments and serves over 3,000 users. The five divisions of Information Technology include: Technical Services: employs 10 systems administrators, DBAs, and other technical support personnel to maintain and support enterprise-grade servers, network storage, and backup systems as well as an IBM mainframe system.Project Management: employs 20 project managers, programmers, and analysts to maintain and support dozens of systems covering every aspect of City business Operations: employs 18 engineers responsible for data backups, computer security, PC help desk, networks, and telephone systems Radio Shop: employs eight technicians in charge of public safety radio communications e-Gov: employs seven programmers and analysts involved in bringing services to citizens via the web Assistant Director of IT (2007-Present)* Responsible for shaping IT Strategic Plan * Develop enterprise-wide strategies that result in virtualization of teams of IT staff across departments * Participate on steering committee of city-wide high performance organization initiative * Manage resources for IT-wide projects including end-user department support, business analyst initiatives, and multi-departmental projects * Continue to perform Computer Operations Manager's duties