I am about to take a job with a local charter school. They have no IT people other than a guy that is gearing them up for web based applications using 900 chromebooks they just ordered. They have a total of 1400 users (staff and students). They are housed in a 100,000 square foot facility. They have 5 Cisco Airnet 1040ag's. I could only count 6 hp procurve switches due to all the unmanaged wiring and one small Cisco ASA 5505 running the entire network. I honestly don't know how they are even functioning. They have been contracting out so many different people and wasting money only to end up with what they have. They have 1 old dell server with windows server 2003 that runs their DHCP and their school library. No active directory services at all. It looks as if everything is running on local profiles on each machine with no security in place what so ever. Before I take this job I was looking into my direction I need to head in first. I would first suggest they consult with a network engineer before anything. The principle knows that he doesn't know what proper questions to ask. I really want this position mainly because it is an inner city charter school and they need serious help. I'm not a Cisco guy yet but I'm working on it, but I can setup and configure active directory. This is a newly created position and they need a helpdesk / network admin. I just need some friendly suggestions as to what direction I need to point these guys in if I decide to take the Job. I already know that they will need to increase their bandwith from 25 Mbps to something that will be able to handle all those kids using chromebook's Google apps and web based testing and increase their wifi coverage. Thanks in advance for any help suggestions.
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