Two STAR Instructor, including many specialties

Instructor for the following courses for Search & Rescue (SAR), EMS Responders, SCUBA Professionals, and anyone interested...Diving First Aid for Professional Divers (DFA), Emergency Oxygen for Scuba Diving Injuries (EO2), Basic Life Support: CPR/AED and First Aid (BLS), CPR/AED: Health Care Provider with First Aid (HCP) (All DAN courses)https://dan.org/education-events/instructor-led-courses/

I am a Technical Consultant with a boutique consulting firm. I have worked in this capacity on an as needed basis to deliver software, hardware, and program leadership on projects. This has meant educating and engaging clients in the solutions, managing the project scope, and pivoting through change to achieve the desired outcomes.My diversity of project experience fuels my success as a consultant. I am brought to validate the technical feasibility, to coordinate testing, and to deploy post-implementation adjustments. I have done this on site and in direct partnership with clients, vendors, and colleagues. I also adapt the project management methodology to each project and client to maximize the satisfaction with the delivery of the particular solutions.Wins in this capacity include:● Manage relationships with clients, stakeholders, and vendors to achieve results for multiple projects.● Led the operational and technical projects to install scientific displays requiring coordination of multiple national vendors, nonprofits, and global partners.● Present standards-based instruction to technical and non-technical audiences including assessments.● Spearhead the delivery of renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal) through the installation of equipment, integrations, and software to optimize the energy mix.Representative Clients: Nonprofits (Science Museum of MN, Faith-based), Higher Ed, Manufacturing

Master SCUBA Instructor in a Higher Education environment at the University of Minnesota. With 2600+ pool dives, 4000+ open water dives.Dive Charter and Training Service Staff Instructor in the upper Great Lakes region.Certifications from SSI, PADI, YMCA, CMAS, MDEA, DAN, ARC, AHA, MedicAid, NOLS WMI, CERT, FEMA, Search and Rescue (SAR). Oversees travel in the States, Caribbean, Central America, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Authorized service technition for Aqualung, Apeks, Seaquest, Poseidon, Atomic, Mares products.See us at UMN.edu, SuperiorExpeditions.com and SolMatesBoatCharters.com

Science and arts exhibit installations, exhibit fabrication, multimedia installations, structured low-voltage cabling, power cabling, computer server and network installations. Work with multiple multi-national external exhibit vendors and museum institutions in the States and Australia.

Project Manager• Information technology systems research and development (R&D) of new products• IT Infrastructure, software and vendor risk management• Software development Agile/Scrum (SDLC) experience• Global workforce, 11 locations• Software release and patch management, and institution-wide and multi-client roll-outs• Large-scale technology roll-outs, Windows Server, MS-SQL Server, F5, NetApp and EMC Vmax SANS, VMware• Lead NetApp to EMC Vmax SANS migration project and data center migrations, LAN / WAN / Firewalls• Disaster recovery / high-availability, project and fiscal scope planning, documentation and implementationTechnical Account Manager• Client project and relationship management, client primary point of contact, 3rd party vendor intermediary, client evangelist and relationship driverBusiness Analyst, Operations Analyst, Airline and Rail Reservations Systems• Managed global process standards and guidelines, supporting and deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) applications on high-availability systems on AWS, Azure and VMware virtual infrastructure• Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies, software requirements gathering, root cause analysis (RCA), documenting software bugs, bug tracking, software change and enhancement requests• Software deployment and monitoring tools development• Customizing software platforms and modules• Change and incident management• Enterprise-wide Change Control Manager, Disaster Recovery Manager/SME, Manager on-call• Reservations system operations, data warehouse, travel commerce, loyalty, implantation, migrations, performance labs, product improvement, software development, change management• Working with 3rd party vendors such as GDS vendors, Amadeus, Travelport, Apollo and Galileo• Vendor management, primary Microsoft account contact and case management, incident management directlywith infrastructure vendors such as F5, Akami, VMware, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cisco, Verizon, Sprint/MCI, Level-3 and others.

Security software consulting analyst on Iron e-mail filtering application/appliance including bug reporting, root-causeanalysis(RCA), development bug tracking, release management and push upgrades to customers.On-site customer security (email, web filtering and firewall) appliance installations within customer’s IT infrastructure.• Large-scale high-availability installations for global customers, foreign states, domestic states, educational, federaland military agencies, major news organizations• McAfee IronMail, Sidewinder, WebWasher administration and Sales Engineer representative

School of Kinesiology, College of EducationManager, Information Systems / Research Technologies Manager and Medical Research TechnologistI.T. Infrastructure and Research PM, LAN Administrator and Design Engineer, R&D, End User Support, IT PurchaserBoynton Health ServiceManager, LAN Administrator, Project Manager, Network Design Engineer, User Support, IT Purchaserbackup and disaster recovery planning, data center and infrastructure engineering and management, IDX, clinical radiology systems, pharmacy systems, Crescendo Dictation Systems, Windows Server, UNIX, VPN, firewalls, voice mail systems, HP and Cisco switches and routers, HP/Compaq Alpha servers, IT fiscal budget management• Institutional-wide technical committees and unit liaison, HR on-boarding, policy maker• Multiple million-dollar infrastructure and data systems projects, Design and implementation of LAN/WAN structured cabling for 7 campus buildings. F5, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard switches and routers. Project Management for IT infrastructure upgrades of IDF/MDF/data centers.• MnDOT, USAF, US Army, NASA, EU and NSF research project involvement in research labs, project R&D