Scott County, Iowa
Samuel Samara has extensive experience in network infrastructure and technology education. As the Network Infrastructure Manager for Scott County, Iowa, since August 2003, Samuel leads a six-member team and acts as a senior technical advisor in the Network Infrastructure Support Division. Concurrently, Samuel serves as an Adjunct Technology Instructor at Eastern Iowa Community College District, specializing in the Cisco Certified Academy’s CCNA/CCNP program. Additional experience includes a past role as Business President and Assistant Fire Chief at Long Grove Volunteer Fire Department, where Samuel managed departmental finance and budget while serving as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder. Previous positions held include Senior Network Administrator at Sprint and Network Administrator at Verizon Wireless, with a focus on network design, management, and administration across multiple states. Samuel's educational background includes a B.A. in Applied Studies from the University of Iowa and various degrees in Liberal Arts, Information Technology, and Electronics Engineering Technology from Eastern Iowa Community College and Hamilton Technical College.
Scott County, Iowa
Cradled by the mighty Mississippi River on the east and south, and the meandering Wapsipinicon River on the north, Scott County, Iowa offers an extraordinary combination of quality living styles. Scott County is part of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), located in eastern Iowa and western Illinois on the Mississippi River, 165 miles west of Chicago. The Quad Cities MSA consists of Scott County in Iowa and Rock Island and Henry Counties in Illinois. Combined with the nearly 165,000 Scott County residents, it measures over 350,000 people in population. The Quad Cities is midway between Minneapolis on the north and St. Louis on the south; Chicago on the east and Des Moines on the west. The area's 300-mile market of nearly 36.5 million people comprises nearly 15% of the nation's population. This makes it the largest 300-mile market west of Chicago.