Richard Schrader

Mr. Schrader joined Kendrick Services in October 2021.  His primary responsibilities lie within the IT audit realms. Richard brings a very strong background in IT operations and education. Prior to his association with Kendrick Services, Richard was the Systems Communication Engineer for the Midway ISD in Hewitt, Texas, for 3 years. Among his many responsibilities were Data Integrations and Automations Administrator, Single Sign On Administrator, Active Directory/Accounts Administrator, Exchange On Premise/Office 365 Administrator, Email Phishing Simulations Administrator, Cisco Call Manager Administrator, Cisco Unity Administrator, Google District Administrator, Clever District Administrator, Administrator for a host of school-wide user applications, and Ad-Hoc SIS (eSchool) and HR (eFinance) reporting.

Prior to this, Richard worked almost 5 years for Lorena ISD in Lorena, Texas, as their Business and Technology Teacher. His responsibilities included President of the Lorena Education Instruction Committee, Professional Learning Community Leader for Career and Technical Education, Campus Technology Team, District Site Based Decision Committee member, and the UIL Computer Applications coach. Classes Richard taught included Digital and Interactive Media, Web Technologies, Video Game Design, Computer Science, Computer Programming, Graphic Design/Yearbook, and Business Information Management.

Richard has also worked with the Waco ISD (Waco, TX) and West ISD (West, TX) as their Information Technology and Business Teacher. Richard’s software experience includes Visual Basic for Applications, Java, Python, SQL, HTML, Adobe Master Collection, Campus Website Administrator, and LDAP Queries.

Mr. Schrader is a CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor). The CISA is probably the most well-respected certification for information systems auditors. Richard plans to acquire the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification. He obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Sam Houston State University.

Richard and his wife currently live in Lorena, TX.