David Duncan

David Duncan is a new device specialist at Pattonville High School. He previously worked at Willowbrook where he taught 4th grade.

Have you worked anywhere else before Pattonville?

• “I used to be an IT recruiter, so I spent many years working with fortune five companies working on building high-level IT teams for companies, projects, etc. One of the major projects I did -all the electronic voting we do right now, I actually put all the teams together that designed the first stage of the whole entire process. It was like a two-and-a-half-year project here in Westport where I had like five hundred employees that worked under me.”

What does your job entail?

• “Here it covers everything from just power/password resets all the way through taking a device completely apart and putting it all the way back together, and everything in between. It also includes managing close to 4,000 devices in the building. Making sure [the devices] are functioning and making sure everyone has everything they need.”

What would students be surprised to learn about you?

• “In my free time, I’m actually super big in the board gaming community. I work with major game producers in the world for anything like playtesting. Currently, I’m working with a major company on producing a star wars game and help them decide if they want to release it into the world to play. I’ll have a lot of input on how the game works, what it looks like, how the interactions happen, stuff like that. I also do international level judging for high-level competitions for card games.”