Situation:

You have been recently hired as the Director of Information Technology and Systems at a new start$-$up that has developed a new SaaS ERP system for the K$-12$ education industry. The company plans to hire around $500$ employees total, across all service areas including finance, sales, human resources, payroll, design, development, customer retention, etc... Since the company is just getting off the ground, you have been tasked with building a team and implementing technology to fully support the organization. With an annual budget of $$1\mathrm{.}5$ million, you have ample resources to put your plan in place. The objective of this project is to create the team. The CEO would like you to present your strategy for your new team in two weeks.

Objective:

For this project, you must develop a strategy for implementing a new IT department and to support the organization for the CEO to present to the board. This can be provided in a word processing document or presentation document $($power point, keynote, slides, etc.$)$ The following areas must be addressed in your strategy:

$1.$ The Business Summary:

Summarize the type of business and its industry you are working for. $($One pager, double$-$spaced$)$

$2.$ Infrastructure Summay:

Describe the type of systems, databases, applications, hardware, networks, etc... you expect to support, institute, or develop in the organization. $($one pager, double$-$spaced$)$

$3.$ The Team:

What will your team look like? Think of all the areas you will support from a technology perspective and build out from there.

Please include the following:

a$.$ an organization chart of the IT team.

b$.$ A job description for each position.

c$.$ An annual salary budget for your department.

Make sure you document your sources of information used in your research. This should appear as formal document that you would pass along to a CEO. Once again, please explain the reasoning behind your selections in your summaries.