Shandor Simon has spent the past 30 years working at the intersection of technology and education, helping students and faculty understand and navigate the increasingly digitized world around them. He strongly believes in the power of data and technology to improve schools.

In 2021, he joined Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, as the director of technology, building a new technology team and launching its computational thinking initiative. Before that, Shandor worked for 22 years at the Latin School of Chicago, where he founded and developed its computer science department, which provides instruction for all its students from junior kindergarten through high school. At both Beaver and Latin, Shandor has worked on optimising systems, data governance, and cybersecurity.
Shandor has served on the advisory boards of Blackbaud (K12), WhippleHill, and CybatiWorks. He also helped found and was a board member of CS4IL, a computer science advocacy nonprofit; served as the president of the Chicago chapter of the Computer Science Teacher Association; and was a board member for Lake Michigan Area Independent Schools.

In the public education sphere, he served as the facilities steering committee member for Komarek School District 94 in Illinois and currently serves as an elected school committee member for the Nashoba Regional School District in Massachusetts.

Shandor received the ATLIS Pillar Award in 2024, is a member of the ATLIS DEI Advisory Committee, and the ATLIS Certification Council, where he helped develop the TLIS certification. He also assisted with the ATLIS Cybersecurity Recommendation and served as the Conference Committee chair for the ATLIS 2020 Annual Conference, as well as a mentor and coach for several ATLIS Early Career and Aspiring Technology Directors and ALI participants.