David Andalcio is a seasoned entrepreneur and long-term advocate of incorporating educational technologies into the classroom. David Andalcio currently serves as founder and CEO of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC, a leading IT and data solutions company that specializes in technical services and computer system support for school districts across Chicago and Puerto Rico. Wynndalco Enterprises also offers consulting services for the E-rate federal program, which is organized by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).Before the FCC launched E-rate, 86 percent of elementary schools did not have classroom Internet access. In 1996, E-rate was established to connect schools and libraries with an affordable communication technology service provider. The E-Rate program also provides subsidies and prioritizes libraries and schools in high-poverty districts.To benefit from E-rate, school administrators must submit a bid to the Universal Service Administrative Company, which will then advertise that bid to relevant vendors. Schools can then select a vendor, and if eligible, receive telecommunication and information services at a steep discount.
As the leader of Wynndalco Enterprises LLC, David Andalcio has guided this Chicago-based organization to great success, including in Puerto Rico. In fact, the Chief Information Officer of Puerto Rico's Department of Education recognized Wynndalco and David Andalcio for the company's E-rate services program in 2016.The E-rate program, operated by the FCC, helps schools and libraries get the technological resources they need through funding from the Universal Service Fund. E-rate funding allows schools and libraries to purchase telecommunications services, such as Internet access, internal connections, and managed internal broadband, at rates as low as one-tenth of the typical market rate.In the E-rate program, eligible organizations identify their service needs and submit requests for bids to the Universal Service Administrative Company, which in turn forwards those requests to its vendors. Once vendors make their offers, the school or library chooses one and applies for approval. After a purchase is approved, the Universal Service Administrative Company issues funding commitments, and reimburses the vendor or applicant after the installation.
Wynndalco Enterprises LLC CEO and founder David Andalcio brings more than 30 years of experience in information technology and entrepreneurship to his role. To continue his business education, David Andalcio attended the prestigious Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Education-Scaling Program at Stanford University in 2017 and completed the competitive executive education program for senior executives at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2016. Chicago Booth Magazine recently posted an article on the topic of workplace evolution over the next decade, with insights from assistant professor Jonathan Dingel, current MBA student Cayse Llorens, and alumnus Tomer Yogev. Dingel focuses on the idea of place. The concentration of college-educated workers in big cities will continue to position those large metropolises at the center of business and innovation. As communications technologies improve, however, more connections may be made overseas, and face-to-face interactions may be replaced with Skype. Yogev, who co-founded a coaching firm, looks to the major shift from the lifelong career model to the gig economy. Yogev projects even more movement into freelancing and asserts that businesses will have to focus more on their employees to keep them on board as long as they can. Llorens sees more focus on working alongside artificial intelligence. When robotics can provide additional data for us more quickly, workers will have to get better at the emotional intelligence required to work with clients, while interpreting and prioritizing that data.
David Andalcio leverages more than three decades of experience to his position as the CEO of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC, which offers innovative solutions to clients in the fields of information technology and engineering. He leads the company in its attempt to revitalize the Puerto Rico Department of Education's (PRDE) E-Rate program. Committed to ensuring that students and teachers have access to technological tools for success, David Andalcio and his staff provide advice designed to boost the program’s efficiency and exceed expectations. In addition, they aim to help the program achieve new milestones. The changes implemented by the team have led to promising results for the E-Rate program, such as an annual increase in E-Rate funding and a reduction in the time required for disbursements. The Wynndalco team’s efforts have also aided in the development and approval of a technology plan to guide PRDE, and it has driven the organization’s compliance. Moreover, the program helped lead to more than $100 million in funding between the 2009 and 2015 fiscal years.
For over three decades David Andalcio has guided major IT deployments in Chicago’s public schools. An accomplished entrepreneur, David Andalcio has served as the CEO of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC, which supports foundations such as the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). ACEC represents over 600,000 engineers, architects, and land surveyors across the United States. The organization’s mission is to promote business through government advocacy and business education. One of the vehicles the organization uses to fulfill its mission is the Minuteman Fund. The Minuteman Fund is available to member organizations to support critical advocacy programs in their states and regions. Qualifying member organizations in need of funding simply apply to ACEC demonstrating the importance of the issue, its potential implications, and their own financial commitment to dealing with it. Successful applications receive matching funds up to the amount member organizations themselves are putting up. Since it was established, the Minuteman Fund has played a role in several states, such as Ohio, where it helped maintain motor-fuel tax revenues; Maine, Texas, and Colorado, where it supported infrastructure spending; and California, where it helped safeguarded the constitutional right of the state government to contract with entities in the private sector.
A resident of Chicago, David Andalcio is the chief executive of Wynndalco Enterprises, LLC. David Andalcio was accepted into the fifth cohort of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) Education - Scaling Program.The program at Stanford University offers a six-week online course for business leaders intent on building scalable companies. The course is based on a curriculum developed by Stanford professors and business scaling experts Huggy Rao and Bob Sutton. The curriculum was tailored to address the specific growth challenges faced by the million-plus Latino-owned businesses in the United States. The course provides participants an opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills to better position them to grow their businesses. Participants also learn from first-hand interaction with leaders who successfully grew their own businesses.The program is run by SLEI with support from the Latino Business Action Network. It is offered as part of SLEI’s mission to empower Latino and Latina entrepreneurs, helping them grow their businesses, create jobs, nurture leaders, and strengthen the overall economy.
