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    Ray Trygstad

    Director of Information Technology, IIT School of Applied Technology
    Associate Director, Information Technology and Management Degree Programs
    Industry Professor of Information Technology and Management
    Faculty Adviser, Beta Chapter of Gamma Nu Eta
    Adjunct Professor of Public Administration
    B.S., United States Naval Academy
    M.S. Systems Management, University of Denver
     
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    Office: IIT Rice Campus: Room 227 (Google Map Location)
    IIT Main Campus: Perlstein Hall Room 223D, 10 W 33rd St, Chicago, IL (Google Map Location)
    Office hours for Fall 2012: Rice Campus: Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm; other times by appointment.
    Main Campus: Tuesday 1:00pm-4:30pm; other times by appointment.
    Downtown Campus: By appointment only.
    I do not acccept appointments during office hours; they are walk-in, first-come-first-served. For other times, book an appointment.
    Telephone: 630.447.9009
    (Unified number rings both my Rice Campus office line and my mobile phone.)
    Text: 630.666.7348
    Fax: 630.682.6010
    Email:
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    School of Applied Technology
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    201 East Loop Road
    Wheaton, Illinois, 60189-8489 USA
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    Ray Trygstad has broad experience and education in the management and administration of information systems; information security; computers; the Internet; and higher education. He teaches disaster recovery & business continuity, information security management, open source operating systems, cloud computing, and operating system virtualization. He serves as the Associate Director of IIT's Information Technology & Management (ITM) degree programs, and wrote the curricula currently in use for both the Bachelor and Master's Degree programs. His experience as a college professor as well as over four years as a Navy Flight Instructor have made him an expert in curriculum development. He is also the Undergraduate Adviser for the ITM degree program. He is a member of the IIT Undergraduate Studies Committee and the IIT NSA Accreditation Assessment Team. Ray is also the Director of Information Technology for the IIT School of Applied Technology, where he is responsible for technology planning and computer system management and administration for the school. He is involved in cloud computing through IIT's participation in the Midwest Academic and Resilience Cloud Computing Consortium. He has taught Naval Science, Computer Science, Business, and Public Administration at IIT, and has guest lectured at the University of Chicago. Ray is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, and was designated a Computer Systems Management Subspecialist by the U. S. Navy, where he served as an Information Systems Manager and Information Systems Security Officer when he was not flying helicopters. In this capacity he did his first information systems security audit in 1988. He is a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Chicago-based Technology Executives Club, and is the Chair-elect of the National Board of Directors of Gamma Nu Eta, the National Information Technology Honor Society. He earned a Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Denver and has done Ph.D. Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology.

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