[pakkal]

Well, my job search has been fruitless as of late, despite that I have been applying for dozens of jobs. Thankfully my father put me in touch with my old high school principal who is starting a new private high school just blocks away from the university my father works at. He needs a IT Director/IT person and got in contact with me. I trained the IT director at my high school (yes trained, he barely could use outlook...) My old principal always liked me and seems to be very interested in getting me up here in the next months.

The school is temporarily (<5yrs) going to be located in a fire house/training facility. There is no existing network. The school will be ran off Powerschool, each classroom will have smart boards, students will have netbooks, and each classroom needs a projector. Initial count is for 12 class rooms, 100 students. This is a ground up, buy everything- racks, wiring, network, servers, desktops, software, ect. The equipment will reach EOL before the new building is done and we are on a budget. Mostlikly a Dell/HP house, Cisco/HP/Dell networking, and Microsoft everything.

As I am in the initial stages of this and being brought on to help design, implement, and support the system, I want to plan EVERYTHING out that I can. I figure this will be a fun project, I will post updates and look forwards to feed back from people here.
Wish me luck... I am going to need it!