Lee Connor, president of John S. Connor, Inc., has announced the appointment of Pinda Ndaki as IT manager.

Ndaki has an extensive background in the Information Technology field. Most recently he was with the University of Maryland at College Park where he was data center senior administrator. His responsibilities included management and configuration of perimeter security equipment, maintenance of all data center Windows Servers, and maintenance of all Redhat Enterprise Servers.

Additionally Ndaki was responsible for defining and maintaining the technology strategy for the data center environment, overseeing the administration of Enterprise Windows Exchange 2003 environment, and developing and managing relationships with vendors.

Prior to that, Ndaki was with EFTechnologies where he was an application designer, responsible for interviewing clients and developers, developing use cases for point of sale module for new products, and requirements gathering using the Rational Unified Process.

Ndaki has a B.A. from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a Redhat Certified Technician and a Microsoft Certified Professional SQL Server 7.