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Lloyd Lowry
Director of Information Services
Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST)
lloyd.lowry@iforces.org
Mr. Lowry has been the Director of Information Services at the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) for the past two years. He is currently tasked with the technological issues of moving his agency to a multi-disciplinary public safety academy on a new campus, which will incorporate training venues for criminal justice, corrections, emergency services, telecommunications and private security officers. The new academy facility will open in the fall of 2006.
Prior to coming to DPSST, Mr. Lowry worked in the private sector as a National Account Manager with an international telecommunications manufacturer and an Account Executive with a national technology staffing firm. He also has over 20 years providing technological leadership and creativity at federal, state and local levels of government. Early in his career, he worked for the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project, a true pioneer in the distance learning field. He has served on the Technology Advisory Board at Chemeketa Community College and taught database programming there as well.
Mr. Lowry has built several technology services organizations from the ground up, and has spoken at the National Association of Counties conference and at the Oregon Telecommunications Conference. During his tenure at the Information Systems Director at the City of McMinnville, Oregon, he was the chief architect and project manager for developing a city-wide fiber optic network that serves the city, the school district and the local utility provider.
Mr. Lowry has provided technology consulting services and advice to various private companies and public agencies throughout his career. His presentations to various audiences have included subjects as diverse as the economic development benefits of a high-speed telecommunications infrastructure; the non-threat of Y2K; and the processes, political and technical, required to build a multi-jurisdictional network.
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