On School district IT head resigns after computer system meltdown
Posted on November 14 at 10:40 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
yet one more (sorry)
It sounded like I was saying that Brandon was in charge of managing the people in their respective departments. I meant that Mr. Bunton is in charge of the department heads (not Brandon) within his role as Director of Business Services. That includes Brandon, who has been the one in charge of the IT department. Brandon was top dog of IT, while Mr. Bunton's role is completely different. He's Brandon's boss, but he doesn't specifically deal with IT. Now I'm probably just getting more confusing so I'll just leave it at that.
On School district IT head resigns after computer system meltdown
Posted on November 14 at 10:30 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
One more thing:
I've heard that Brandon's salary is six digits, but that's second-hand. The person who questioned whether the district pays a sufficient salary in order to find someone with the necessary skills, I assure you he was making more than the $60K to $80K you quoted as being the norm. The 3rd party's tech report identifying a need to invest more heavily in the IT department was referring, I believe, to manpower (in numbers) and cost of equipment.
On School district IT head resigns after computer system meltdown
Posted on November 14 at 10:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
OMG, YESSS!
Some comments are very interesting, and could use some clarification. First, to the person who called Brandon's release a "knee jerk reaction", are you kidding? This has been a long time coming, and it's not all about the virus and how it was handled. As Brandon quoted to the Gazette, his people-skills are incredibly poor. He's probably a decent guy (trying to be nice), but in his work he is very arrogant and sort of mean-spirited. In his job, he needs to not only know how to get along with people, he needs to know how to manage people.
To the person or people who are wondering if Mr. Bunton is passing the buck or finding some scape goat, you should understand that Brandon is the head of the IT Department. He was in charge of making sure our network is functioning properly. He manages the people that are in charge of their respective departments, with Brandon's being the IT Dept., as I said. There's no way Mr. Bunton should be held responsible for the computer problems, except perhaps for not recognizing Brandon's incompetence sooner, especially since our computer problems pretty much started the month Brandon first came on board with the district mid-year last year. His (Mr. Bunton's) only fault that I can see is not getting rid of Brandon sooner.
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On School district IT head resigns after computer system meltdown
Posted on November 15 at 11:05 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Excellent point, coach. We are getting frequent updates now, but initially nothing was being shared. Not until Colleen's communication did we actually get some sort of communication from administration about what the heck was going on.