Meet Andrew Smith, MVSD's New Director of Technology and Innovation

WOODSTOCK, VT -- SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 -- Andrew Smith has joined the Mountain Views Supervisory District (MVSD) as its new Director of Technology and Innovation. He brings to the position two decades of experience that began in industrial computer and software engineering followed by nine years as a computer science teacher at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School, where he is credited with building and running the school’s Computer Science program from 2016 through 2025. He replaces Raphael Adamack, who left the District to pursue a new opportunity. 

Smith is a graduate of both Middlebury College and Boston University, from which he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies and a Master’s degree in Environmental Analysis, respectively. 

He began his career with Amsterdam-based global technology and mapping company TomTom at the firm’s U.S. headquarters in Lebanon NH, where he rose steadily through the ranks over a period of ten years and held leadership positions that included performing as Team Manager of Learning Technology and Training. In his last role with TomTom, he held the position of Expert Specification Engineer and Product Owner for the company’s quality assurance tools, which are software applications that engineers and developers use to test, track, and verify that computer programs work correctly before they are released into the global marketplace.

In 2016, however, Smith says he’d become ready for a new challenge. “I did a little teaching in my early career, but it wasn’t my jam then,” he said. “I spent a while enjoying the solving of all the new puzzles that came across my desk in my tech job. But then my own kids taught me how to engage with young people, and I realized that I wanted to go back to teaching and give it another shot.”

Smith joined WUHSMS with a vision to build a computer science program that integrated real industry practices into the learning stages, so that students would learn more than simply code writing. Rather, Smith wanted to teach them to design and build useful, computer-based products for “real people.” He said his work gained momentum when he led his department to initiate the school’s Innovation Lab, noting that a dynamic synergy existed between computer science classrooms and the tools and design principes of the Innovation Lab that was “right next door.” 

With the two programs growing hand-in-hand, Smith said his primary goal was to help every student he taught succeed in making real products with computers that would be useful in society. “There are so many different ways to approach that work -- and it’s not all about heads-down typing code all day,” he said. “There are real puzzles, people issues, and tons and tons of troubleshooting.”

During the later years of his tenure at WUHSMS to the present, Smith additionally took on new assignments in industry as an important means of staying actively abreast of the surging Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector and its increasing impact on education technology. Examples of his contributions as a remote contractor to three different AI-focused companies include supporting educator-contributors who were producing complex tasks used by major AI labs to improve student-facing AI model behavior; providing first-line technical support to teachers and administrators in a client school district; and designing a 20-hour computer-science math bridge aligned to New York State standards.

Since beginning his new role as MVSD’s Director of Technology and Innovation on July 1, Smith says the composite of his experience, including his recent work with AI and education technology development companies, continues to inform and enrich his work for the District. 

“I took a little expedition into the world of AI training to see up close how that’s done and what that kind of work feels like. I saw the power and the limitations of the technology in new ways, and that work prompted new questions for me about how AI shows up in education,” he said. “It also increased the urgency I feel about the need for our community to talk and work together to shape technology’s role in schools.”

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About Mountain Views Supervisory Union (MVSU): Located in Central Vermont’s Green Mountains, MVSU serves students from Barnard, Bridgewater, Killington, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Pomfret, Reading, Woodstock, and other neighboring school-choice communities. For more information, please visit the MVSU Website. 

Contact:
Gina McAllister
Chair, MVSD Communications Committee
gina.mcallister@mtnviews.org
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