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Joshua Bryan Phillips

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EXPERIENCE
2010- Present Hoover City Schools Hoover, Alabama
Chief Technology Officer

  • Provides visionary leadership and the ability to articulate that vision in areas of responsibility.
  • Overall management of district network and technology team.
  • Establishes and maintains an adaptive technology infrastructure strategy.
  • Evaluates the integration of new technology.
  • Develops, evaluates and maintains policies and procedures, strategies and technology rights management systems.
  • Seeks funding and resources for program development.
  • Builds working relationships with key community leaders, organizations and outsourced vendors.
  • Monitors and controls project costs versus budget, and accomplishment versus schedule.
  • Provides assistance to the schools through the development and implementation of technology education and learning technologies that meet system needs.
  • Establishes and maintains highly secure technology environment.
  • Develops and updates on an annual basis the district technology plan.
  • Provides leadership in technology training, resources and staff development.
  • Evaluates and prepares reports to the Superintendent on an as needed basis concerning technology issues.
  • Provides consultation and develops bid proposals on all types of computer technology and networks.
  • Collaborates with the Alabama Department of Education and higher education, as appropriate to ensure that teachers, staff and school administrators are prepared to use technology.

2007- 2010 Hoover City Schools Hoover, Alabama
Network Administrator

  • Implemented new networking projects in response to System needs.
  • Ensured maximum network uptime and performance.
  • Investigated and proposed new policies, procedures and hardware relative to network systems.
  • Researched the impact of application development upon network infrastructure and servers.
  • Responsible for TCP/IP design, implantation, documentation and management.
  • Provided training for various personnel within the school system on hardware and software.
  • Established and maintain appropriate back-up and disaster recovery procedures.
  • Maintained an awareness of current technological trends.
            • Monitored school compliance with all applicable laws and make needed recommendation.
            • Administrated Microsoft Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, MOSS, OCS, Cisco Call Manager and other technologies.

2004- 2007 Hoover City Schools Hoover, Alabama
Instructional Technology Specialist/Technology Coach

  • Made recommendations to administrators as to how to best utilize technology budget money.
  • Developed “Pilot” program for a “one to one” solution in the elementary schools.
  • Mentor to new team members.
  • Worked on team to develop Hoover City Schools SharePoint Portal.
  • Presented new technology to staff and administrators the integration into the classroom.
  • Provided ongoing technical support to staff and administrators.
  • Assisted Chief Technology Officer in relating material to students from K to fifth grade.
  • Lead planning sessions of the use of new technology being implemented in Hoover City Schools.
  • Developed plan/outline for computer lab. As well as Group Policy and remote desktops.
  • Created new users in Active Directory as needed.
  • Created and maintained school website, district website, and on-line training.
  • Intel Master Teacher.

1998-2004 Oak Grove High School Bessemer, Alabama
Classroom Teacher/Coach

  • Teaching Experience included self-contained and departmentalized instruction
  • OGHS Second Mile Teacher for the 2001-2002 School year.

EDUCATION
University of Alabama in Birmingham, BS in Elementary Education, 1998
Samford University, MS in Elementary Education, 2003

REFERENCES
Available upon request