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Office of Instructional Technology

Troy Fischer, Director

Division of Teaching and Learning

 

 
  Meet the iSupport Staff

James Leahy, Manager // JLeahy@schools.nyc.gov

Hardware/ Software Services

James' teaching career began in 2001 when he started teaching 8th grade English and Social Studies at IS77 in Ridgewood Queens. This was his first full time teaching experience after graduating from Dowling College with his Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. After a year of teaching 8thgrade, James transferred to PS89 in Elmhurst queens to continue his work elementary school that we started at Dowling.

While teaching at IS 77 and PS89 James began a Masters of Instructional Technology program at New York Institute of Technology. Within two years of starting the program James graduated with Distinction from the school and quickly began working for Region 4 as a technology staff developer. James spent the next two years training over 130 schools located within districts 24, 30 and 32 on the latest instructional technology practices.

In 2006 James was offered the position of Hardware/Software Manager for instructional technology with the Office of Instructional Technology. At this position, his main focus is to assisting schools and offices in making technology decisions that meet their curriculum goals. His main focus is to make technology work so that teachers and staff don't have to think about technology, it just works.

Timothy Lampson // TLampso@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Bronx

Tim hails from northern Illinois near Chicago and attended college in Milwaukee.  At 20 years old, he began a career as Photographer and eventually moved to New York to pursue that dream.  It was while working as a photographer in New York and witnessing a paradigm shift to digital photography that peaked his interest and involvement with computers.  Tim enjoyed working with the computer so much that he decided to change careers and pursued a degree in Computer Operations.  After completing his degree, Tim joined the NYCDOE in 2000 and has worked in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the city.

Felton Thomas // FThomas@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Bronx

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Eric Siler // ESiler@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Manhattan

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Ion Goran // IGoran@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Brooklyn

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Sherif Mikhail // smikhai@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Staten Island/South Brooklyn

Sherif Mikhail has served the Department of Education as a computer service technician for DIIT and supervising technician for the Title IID grant in region 7. With attentive, patient service and superior technology skills, Mr. Mikhail provides unparallelled support and innovative solutions.

Wayne Demacque // WDemacque@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructional Technology Technician - Queens

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Kin Fung Leung // Kleung@schools.nyc.gov

Borough Instructonal Technology Technician - Queens

Kin has worked as a computer service technician in the Central LAN, Queens Integration Center, and is currently with the Office of Instructional Technology. Kin's experiences include working with both PC and Mac platforms, helping schools with various networking problem, server rebuild, workstation setup, DOE application support, and much much more.

 

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