Chris Carroll

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For my first 5 years in industry I was an application developer. I then moved to work on infrastructure teams that supported servers, storage, LAN’s, and WAN’s all while obtaining a masters degree at night. When I applied to graduate schools to get a masters degree in Computer Science I was accepted into more than one program. I do believe that my Mathematics degree played a role as most people have a real respect for students with a degree in Mathematics. As my career progressed in infrastructure I moved into management positions and managed teams of architects and engineers that developed global standards for LAN design, WAN design, secure networks, firewalls, telephony and voice infrastructure. This included managing a large enterprise network as a Director connecting business locations in the US, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. My last position, before becoming a professor was a Vice President at ACE; this position involved managing all of the Servers and Storage infrastructure for ACE’s US focused businesses.

I became an adjunct professor at Drexel University in 2010 and have been a full time teaching professor at Drexel University since 2012. I teach courses primarily in the BS in Information Technology and the BS in Computing Security and Technology programs (BSCST).

Mathematics majors solve complex problems over and over again while obtaining their degree. Guess what, IT is full of complex problems that need to be solved. When I attended St. Michael’s most all of my classes were very small. I had very close contact with my professors and it was an ideal learning environment. The analytical and problem solving skills that were embedded into me by St. Michael’s College many years ago have served me well throughout my entire career.