In his twentieth year at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, Stewart Crais serves as the school's director of operations, overseeing all aspects of the physical campus including technology infrastructure and planning, construction projects, buildings and grounds, summer and after school programs, dining services, conference and facility rentals, long range planning, and renewal / replacement budgeting. A graduate of Rhodes College, Crais also is director of the Lausanne Summer Institute, an international conference for K-12 schools studying ways to further engage students and learning using digital devices and non-traditional best practices, and past President of the Memphis Area Independent School – Technology Education Consortium. In addition to online publication contributions and articles in print media, Crais is the coauthor of "Technology Usage and Administration at the Independent School: Balancing Control and Autonomy" in Looking Ahead: Independent School Issues and Answers published by the National Association of Independent Schools.