Brent Lee Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Director, Information Technology supports the Assembly’s long-term strategic goals of operational excellence, a healthy workforce, and open access. The Director leads staff in Project Management, Operations, Security, Infrastructure, and DevOps to deliver service excellence and secure, reliable infrastructure at the Legislative Precinct and 87 constituency offices across the Province. To mitigate risks and to innovate services, the Director works with business owners from across the 13 departments to plan and execute technology programs and projects. The Director manages the design and development of the enterprise architecture comprising infrastructure (on-prem and cloud), applications, and data in support of business processes and activities. The Director ensures a secure environment compliant with best practices that mitigate risk to support the efficient and effective operation of the Assembly, Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), and their constituency offices.

Mill Bay, British Columbia, Ca

My role as Director of IT & Infrastructure requires that I serve multiple committees. Further, I directed, coordinated, and prioritized the Support Team's activities for all business applications including transportation, admissions, finance, human resources (HR), operations, marketing, communications, and client services. Part of this includes overseeing employee wellness and training to ensure that all employees are able to effectively execute their assigned tasks. I am also responsible for ensuring that vendor agreements align with our business needs and IT resources.This role requires me to utilize my communication skills to establish and maintain stakeholder relationships. Additionally, this role requires large budgets for projects and therefore, I utilize my financial resource management ability to effectively spend the project's budget. Part of this is hands-on experience in facilitating vendor purchases and consulting services negotiations. Key Contributions:• Appointed as Chair of various committees.• Improved internal customer satisfaction by overhauling IT service model to reduce external consultants.• Successfully utilized expertise to direct rebuild of VOIP Phone System.• Updated and replaced the student information system.• Improved IT and security literacy of faculty and student body.• Capital Project Engagements related to over 20 million dollars which included a Boarding House, Athletic Centre, and Centre for Academic Innovation.

Victoria, Bc, Ca

While serving as Director of Innovation & Technology Services at St. Margeret's School, I partnered with the Board of Directors to develop the school's strategic plan. This included a five-year technology improvement strategy. Further, I collaborated in the restructuring of leadership, student records, technology teams, and library services. I also, conducted contract negotiations with IT vendors to ensure cost-effective products/services for Technology Service updates and modifications.Key Contributions:• Appointed to serve as Deputy Head of the School, while overseeing daily operations of the Technology Team.• Showcased leadership and management skills by coordinating the replacement of the IT Team and redesigning of the technology strategy focused on modern cutting-edge systems and solutions. • Demonstrated expertise by developing a new website, as well as implementing a new internal staff communication portal, student information system, financial system, and marketing system.

Nanaimo, Bc, Ca

Key Contributions:• Designed, developed, and delivered multiple courses over eight years including ITAS175: Wide Area Networks (Applied Networking), ITAS278: Internet Server Management II (Adv. Linux Servers), ITAS181: Network Operating Systems (Windows Server), ITAS233: Communication Systems (VOIP Servers), ITAS218: Security Essentials (Security+), and ITAS288: Database Administration and Design (Oracle, and MySQL).

Nanaimo, Bc, Ca

Concurrent to the Team Lead (above), I worked three days a week as the network and system administrator for the ITAS (Information Technology and Applied Systems) program. (www.itas.ca) Designed, implemented, and supported complex lab environments (Unix, Windows, and OSX).Created network topologies, and completed technical research on a daily basis, which to this day was one of the most rewarding and satisfying moments in my career.

Nanaimo, Bc, Ca

During this tenure, I directed the planning and execution of multiple projects. This included the development and implementation the first provincial enterprise datacenter to host Moodle LMS, the implementation of enterprise Kaltura streaming platform, and the online cost-recovery curriculum for 14 fully online courses. Key Contributions:• Served as co-chair of Health & Safety Committee.• Effectively supported first provincial enterprise datacenter providing authentication and hosting for 11 post-secondary institutions across British Columbia in 24/7/365 model.• Elected as senator for Faculty of Trades & Applied Technology for two consecutive terms, due to outstanding leadership and management skills.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Learning And Technology

Technical Diploma, Wide Area Technologies

Fdw, Faculty Developer

Technical Certificate, Technical Certificate In Computer Systems & Networking

Foundations, Learning And Technology

Certificate, Leadership Development