In my personal life, I am a wife an mother.  My husband is a R"M in Beis Medrash, and my children range in age from Seminary down to early elementary. 

Many years ago, I went to Seminary, and thought I was going to teach, until I realized that classroom teaching, especially with elementary school children, was not something I do well.  So, I went into computers.  But, I have always maintained a strong interest in education.  Once my children entered school, I actually needed to stay even more abreast of things, as I now had to deal with a whole new dimension.  I'm also fortunate to have many other mechanchim in my family, and circle of friends and colleagues, and I have no hesitation to reach out to them when I need advice.

Today, I work for a nonprofit organization as the IT Director, as well as running a program to help other nonprofits with technology in all aspects of the organization.  Both aspects require me to keep up with trends and news in the technology field.  That includes getting a good handle on what is happening in the consumer "space" because often, things that show up on the business radar start in consumer areas first.  Also, there is often a dynamic between the two.  In addition, because of the nature of our workforce, remote access for staff is a small, but significant part of what I do, and for that I really need to keep in touch with what options available have for safe internet access.  Most of the staff that use remote access have young children at home, and they use remote access to enable them to arrange their schedule to have as much time with the children as possible.  At the same time, they are truly concerned about the safety of their children and the general issues of internet access in their homes. 

I started this site because I have received several calls from parents who needed advice on how to handle internet issues in their homes.  While I think I was helpful, I know that I could not transmit everything that is useful in one telephone call, even a long one.  Furthermore, in some cases, part of what was needed was specific places to find information or programs, and I didn't always have that handy.  And even when I did, if someone was not at a computer to get the information into the browser, the level of errors was going to be high.  Here, the address can be found as part of the discussion, and a simple click (or at worst, cut and paste) gets you where you need to be.  Some of the pages are not finished, but many important addresses are already there, and I'm getting more in.  Also, there are many people who won't call for whatever reason.  This will give them an opportunity to find the information without whatever constraints would keep them from calling me.

Look at http://www.nphd.org for more about what my program does and http://www.jccgci.org to see what my entire organization does (under construction, but with a fair amount of information)  http://kayzasblog.nphd.org is my work related blog.  And http://www.puzzlenyc.org/, which is a bulletin board site run by NPHD, will give you a bit of a sense of the variety of issues we deal with.  

My email address is kayza.zajac at gmail.com  You cannot click on it. You need to replace the word at with the @ sign, and you need to put it all together. I don't want this site to become a source of spam (that would be highly ironic, I think) and therefore I have set it so that the "harvester robots" cannot automatically pick my email address of the site.