Date: 03/24/2016
Interview Transcript
1. What is your role in the Information Technology department at your organization?
What has happened is that the IT department has evolved; before it was a situation where everyone could have done everything. You will find that we have distinct roles now such as webmaster. My role here is two-part because I lecture full-time also. You find that right now due to schedules, there is a little slump in terms of development. In terms of what my role has evolved into as webmaster, I publish web pages, make sure it’s up, linking, and that basically everything goes to the website. In terms of quality control, in terms of content, we’re not in charge of that. What we have are various departments …show more content…
Recently we have the timetables for the beginning semester, and even more recently we have a notice board that gives you information in terms of all that is happening. It has been noticed that a lot of students don’t read the notice board or they may have an excuse of not being in class when the notice was given. So we’re putting it somewhere you can’t miss it because everyone should have Internet access at some point whether its home or at school. We offer wireless internet, plus we have the libraries, and the labs that they could use so there is no excuse for not getting a notice. Right now there is a move not only to give info about new courses, but also current student information. So right now we’re working on basically getting some dynamic aspect on to the website, things like class schedules, notices, deadlines, due dates, projects, anything you need to know about your current course. We also want to make that dynamic to the point where as soon a change is made on the information system database, it should register on our intranet plus our website. That’s pretty much it, that’s what we’re trying to do right now, that’s what we’re looking at, development, getting it into a dynamic …show more content…
Be able to create an each and concise directory to store information and files related to the web pages. You have to perform system backups and restores and recommends hardware and software upgrades when needed. Also to provide basic technological support, including but not limited to setting up equipment, installing software. That’s pretty much it, and of course knowledge of the software used to create graphics, spreadsheets, word processing files, databases, and PDF