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41. This High School Student Hacked the Network

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rolland Kornblau I recently joined the City of San Bernardino as IT Director. I had been in Educational Technology Management for 23 years prior with a Master in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. I began my educational career as a computer technician and worked my way up to Director and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In 2008, I received a Chief Technology Officer Certification from the California IT IN Education (CITE), served as a Mentor and on the CITE Board as a Director at Large. In 2014, I received a Career and Technical Education Certificate in Information and Communication Technologies in addition to participating in the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Innovative Technology Academy.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today.

0:05.9

We have on the show, Roland Cornblow.

0:10.8

And this is another public sector show today.

0:14.2

So there's a big difference when we talk about money and numerous other things of IT directors

0:20.6

that are in either mid-market

0:22.1

space, in business, or in nonprofit slash public sector. But, you know, without any further ado,

0:28.0

Roland, welcome to the show. Why don't you just give us a brief rundown of where you're at

0:32.4

right now and maybe the size and expansiveness of the network and people that you manage.

0:39.4

Sure. Thanks. Glad to be here.

0:41.8

So I'm a director of technology for a school district in Southern California.

0:46.6

We have 17 locations, 14 schools total.

0:51.6

The other locations are like district office and such.

0:53.9

We have about 8,500 students, about 1,000, the other locations are like district office and such. We have about 8,500 students,

0:55.7

about 1,000 roughly staff. My staff is about 10 folks plus myself and a voice over IP telephone

1:06.9

system. We're doing a bunch of things. I think we have about 6,000 Chromebooks and miscellaneous

1:13.0

hardware. So a pretty good operation. Six thousand Chromebooks is a pretty big deal. So now of those

1:22.2

6,000, I'm assuming that a large group of those are used by the students or how like what's the

1:26.9

breakdown there of

1:27.7

like people that actually i don't know if you'd call them employees government employees whatever

1:32.0

you'd call you know teachers etc but what are the majority of the chromebooks for sure so we have

1:38.5

we call them certificated staff and classified staff so the teachers are certificatedated. All the rest of the folks are classified.

1:46.8

And the Chromebooks, so we're not one-to-one. We have about 8,500 students. We're almost, we're

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