Matt's_Proposal

Matt Jackson
 * St. Mark's One-to-One Laptop Initiative**

St. Mark's School of Texas is a non-sectarian, college-preparatory, independent day school for boys in grades one through twelve. The School's charter states that it is "designed to afford its students well-rounded physical, intellectual, moral, and religious training and instruction." We intend the School to be a diverse community of teachers and students who share a love of learning and who strive for high achievement in whatever they undertake. St. Mark’s has 843 total students: 150 in Lower School (grades 1-4), 330 in Middle School (5-8) and 363 in Upper School (9-12).
 * Executive Summary**

St. Mark’s is a diverse socio-economic community that provides laptops to students beginning in middle school, giving equal access to technology and removing technological and financial barriers from our community. From a pedagogical standpoint, student organization will be improved. The improvement starts with the faculty; faculty members will have the ability to send work in digital format to their students. Students will receive time-management instruction to maximize efficiency and organization. Grade increases will be measured at the end of each six-week period. End of term comments for students should no longer indicate that a student is doing poorly because of his inability to navigate and organize daily school activities. St. Mark’s presently maintains three computer classrooms (1 Mac Classroom, 1 Windows Classroom, and a Dual-Boot Mac/Windows Classroom) and a student drop-in lab with 33 workstations. The Green Library maintains 10 iMacs for student research. Solid network infrastructure and a robust wireless system were incorporated into the campus during the construction of two new facilities during the 2007-2008 academic year.
 * Infrastructure **

This proposal will request 693 new laptops for students, 40 spare laptops, replacement hard drives, two new servers, as well as a support staff to manage the network and a repair technician. The members of the technology department will provide training for students and faculty during pre-session meetings and student orientation days. St. Mark’s presently offers laptop and tablet training for all teachers twice a year and an additional six-hour computer-training requirement for all faculty members begins August of 2009. Due to existing licensing agreements with Microsoft and Adobe, each machine will be imaged with the latest version of Office and the Adobe Master Suite. **Budget **   **Glossary **  **Laptops** 13” Macbook 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) iWork '09 preinstalled AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook/MacBook Air - Auto-enroll **Hard drives** Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVS 160GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 1.5Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive - OEM  **Servers** 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) 12GB (6x2GB), On-board SATA/SAS Controller 3 x 1TB Serial ATA ADM @ 7200-rpm 8x SuperDrive DL (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 256MB Dual 750W Power Supply Rack Mounting Kit - Square Hole Rack Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 (Unlimited Managed Systems) AppleCare Service Parts Kit for Xserve AppleCare Premium Service and Support for Xserve Sets up, configures, and supports internal and/or external networks. Develops and maintains all systems, applications, security, and network configurations. Troubleshoots network performance issues and creates and maintains a disaster recovery plan. Recommends upgrades, patches, and new applications and equipment. Provides technical support and guidance to users. May require a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and 4-6 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. **PC Maintenance Technician I** Maintains, analyzes, troubleshoots, and repairs computer systems, hardware and computer peripherals. Documents, maintains, upgrades or replaces hardware and software systems. Supports and maintains user account information including rights, security and systems groups. May require an associate's degree or its equivalent and 0-3 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under immediate supervision. Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment. Typically reports to a project leader or manager.
 * Software **
 * <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Units ** || **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Price ($) ** || **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Total ($) ** ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Hardware ** || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Laptops ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">693 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 1,173.00 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 812,889.00 ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Spare Laptop (replacements) ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">40 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 1,173.00 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 46,920.00 ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Hard Drives (spare) ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">50 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 47.99 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 2,399.50 ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Servers ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">2 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">10,097.00 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 20,194.00 ||
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 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Staff ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Network Administrator III ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">1 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">69,701.00 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 69,701.00 ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">PC Maintenance Technician I ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">1 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">33,779.00 || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 33,779.00 ||
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Total Cost ** || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 985,882.50 ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Hardware **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Job Descriptions ( **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">obtained from Salary.com for 75230 zip code **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">) **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Network Administrator III **