Mark Houtz

About Mark Houtz

UETN visionary leadership team member discovering new and revolutionary Private…

Experience

1. Senior Network Engineer

   Northeastern Utah Educational Services

   Aug 2014 — Present

   At Utah Education and Telehealth Network (UETN/UEN), our vision is to reduce the educational digital divide through ideas that began right here in our little community and have gained traction across the country. In 2018, our own, Jason Eyre at Murray School District, a dear friend and mentor, started the idea of extending the classroom to students at home using CBRS before the pandemic. This project has exploded with national and international attention no one expected. Schools and organizations across the country have been following our lead ever since. We are changing the future of education, not just in our communities but across the country. As a member of Utah’s visionary leadership team, I’m building and testing use cases of extending the classroom to where students are located with CBRS and Wifi. Our Private LTE and 5G (CBRS) network continues to grow and expand across the school districts in the state. We are pushing eduroam across rural K12 schools and sites to staff and even some students. My passion is wireless technologies and building ways that wireless can improve our world. My specific role with these projects has evolved to a leadership role in directing new use cases from the across the stack with our LTE Core, a demo 5G SA Core, pushing the RAN, UE, and Edge, to exploring and teaching about Wi-Fi 6e, eduroam, and OpenRoaming. I personally have met with and helped CTO and Product Managers, who are respected wireless industry leaders, to better understand how Private LTE is changing education. I served as Interim IT Director for Daggett School District from Fall 2021-Spring 2022 as part of my regular responsibilities. My regular day job responsibilities at NUES, a subsidy of UETN, are to lead and direct Network and Security Engineering with nine rural School Districts and five Charter Schools covering 33,500+ Students, Educators, and Staff.

Education

• Wasatch High School

  High School Diploma, Business, Information Technology

  1999 — 2003

• Western Governors University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

  2018 — 2020

• Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

  Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems

  2003 — 2009

Skills

• Windows Server
• Enterprise Mobility
• Cisco Ios
• Os X
• Operating Systems
• Technical Support
• Windows 7
• Network Administration
• Wordpress
• Php
• Management
• Network Security
• Ccent
• Pci Dss
• Troubleshooting
• Information Security
• Security
• Mobile Device Management
• Customer Service
• Cisco Wireless
• Microsoft Office