New named coordinator of technology infrastructure for Madison schools
Aaron New is coordinator of technology infrastructure for Madison City Schools. (CONTRIBUTED)
MADISON – Aaron New now is working as coordinator of technology infrastructure for Madison City Schools.
New has served as the district’s network specialist since 2012. He will continue his responsibilities as network specialist, while also “setting the vision and supervising the existing technology team.”
In his job, he must remain aware of “the direction technology is moving. With the proliferation of mobile devices and their use in the classroom, we have to stay ahead of the need and continue to expand our wireless infrastructure to support it, New said.
“The rest of the technology department is smart, dedicated and hard working. I cannot be successful here without them,” New said.
A 20-year veteran in the information technology industry, New first worked at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His work in the IT field actually “started by accident.”
“I took a student worker position as an UAH freshman while attending school to be a mechanical engineer,” he said. “Within four months, I went from stuffing envelopes to running several of the computer labs in the continuing education division.”
Next, New pursued several jobs with small corporations and manufacturing. In 2003, he co-founded an IT consulting business.
“I worked with multiple school districts until 2008 and closed the business at that time to join Attalla City Schools,” New said. “I served as their IT manager until 2012.”
New was chosen as a co-presenter at the 2013 Alabama Educational Technology Association Fall Symposium and the 2014 International Society for Technology in Education conference on desktop virtualization.
He grew up in Sardis City. This family moved to Gadsden, where he graduated from Gaston High School.
New earned a bachelor’s degree in management of technology at Athens State University in 2010. He also holds Novell’s Certified Netware Engineer and CompTIA’s IT Project+ certifications.
His wife, Sonya teaches math at Etowah High School in Attalla. They have a three-month-old son.
