Executive Director of Technology
Yorkville CUSD 115
Yorkville, Illinois
Don Ringelestein CETL CISM CISSP CAPM ITILv4, Executive Director of Technology, Yorkville Community Unit School District 115
Don Ringelestein is the Exectuive Director of Technology at Yorkville Community Unit School District 115. He was the CTO at Maine Township High School District 207 prior to that, and before that he was the Director of Technology at West Aurora School District 129. He started his career in Educational Technology at Community Unit School District 308, in Oswego, IL. Focussing on cybersecurity from when he started at District 129 in 2011, he has been working to secure infrastructure and data for 13 years.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Educational Technology Leaders association, Illinois' chapter, since it was founded. He currently has the honor of serving on CoSN's Board of Directors. He gained the CISM and CISSP certificaitions in 2022, and the CETL certifcation in 2016.
Don has worked with the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SEDTA) as the CoSN representive in a collborative funded by the Gates foundation, and spoken about cybersecurity at conferences, and has appeared in articles, podcasts, and was cited in Dan Heath's book Upstream.
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