Andrew M. Hardy was promoted from SAN Team Lead to Commonwealth SAN Manager for the PA Office of Administration at the Commonwealth Technology Center, Harrisburg.
Hardy manages a team of four senior technology engineers. His duty is to manage the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's information technology data storage infrastructure. This includes managing operations, leveraging new technologies, developing and implementing the Commonwealth's disaster recovery plan, allocating data storage resources for state agencies, coordinating with vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, EMC, etc. for hardware, software and professional services and problem resolution.
Hardy is currently a school board director for the East Pennsboro School District. He has been employed by the Commonwealth of PA for 13 years. He is a 1993 graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School, a 1998 graduate of Susquehanna University with a Bachelor of Communications, and 2007 graduate of Duquesne University with a M.S. in leadership and information technology.