Chief Technology Officer
Ed eisenstein
Ed Eisenstein has been a technology leader since the mid 90’s and has designed, consulted, procured, implemented, upgraded and administered multi-user computer networks for thousands of clients and organizations.
Mr. Eisenstein implemented his first 1M dollar network in 1993 to 1994 for Smithtown school district. This was Ed’s first large Technology Implementation where a computer network was implemented in most classrooms around the district at the time. ” I am exceptionally proud of that installation because of the active use of technology in that district. This implementation burst these students far into the technology future”, said Ed Eisenstein.
In 1996, Ed partnered with a few associates and started his first IT company called Frontline Technologies, in Farmigdale where computer networks and Microsoft email systems were first being implemented.
After Y2K, Ed had used the profits of his Computer Company sale to his partners to fund a recording studio where Ed recorded a number of music albums for local artists called Unfold Studios. A Number of artists went on to become full time music professionals.
Ed Eisenstein soon returned to the Information Technology field out of love more than necessity and joined a company that was part of a technology incubator in 2001. Technology incubators on Long Island was a growing field and a number of tech incubators popped up made up of regional technology experts working together on larger initiatives. Ed joined the Listnet.org technology incubator in Bethpage that was funded in a Bethpage college at the time.
Ed Eisenstein went on to lead the network Services division for Rent-A-PC, Inc. for 4 years from 2003 to 2006, a national technology company supplying Technology to trade shows nation wide. The Need for Microsoft Exchange Server upgrades were a driving need for Microsoft e-mail system integration.
Successful projects also included large Network relocations for SmartMoney magazine and SMSC as well as Large Hardware recycling projects for local school districts. in 2007, Rent-A-PC, inc was acquired by Smart Source, a trade show management company.
Ed Eisenstein went on to partner with a Wireless transport company in Plainview. This was a short lived experience, since the owner died in a car accident a few months into the partnership. Ed Eisenstein managed and lead that Wireless Internet Business into a purchase by a larger entity. Diligently working with the surviving staff, Ed scouted and found interested parties to purchase the business that was ultimately sold to Rainbow Wireless, circa 2007.
Ed Eisenstein then re-established the corporation called United Network Associates, Inc. around June of 2006 and integrated senior network administrators into the practice.
Ed Eisenstein was then hired as the Chief Information Technology Officer for Nassau County from 2010 to 2018 and made all senior technology decisions for the county in that time. In 2018, a new administration replaced Ed with his deputy commissioner and Ed returned to United Network Associates Inc.