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After serving for months in an advisory capacity, officially joined the excellent Deep Roots Harvest team as the Chief of Information Technology. We're investing in the infrastructure, technology, and people needed to modernize cannatech and grow our strong position as a regional cannabis leader.

After serving as Cresco Labs' first IT hire and building paths to rapid expansion and success, promoted to VP of Infrastructure and Enablement. My hand-picked team is tasked with ensuring user success in all stages of the digital experience, from enterprise infrastructure and security design to customized hardware, software, telephony, and cloud solutions that meet the most demanding teams' needs.

Founded in 2014, Chicago Partisan, LLC is a boutique technical consulting firm operating in downtown Chicago but servicing the world. Chicago Partisan LLC draws from 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience in technology, communication, and basic human psychology to enable small and medium-sized local and international companies trying to harness technology for their business vision.

Since 1998, VISANOW’s immigration attorneys have provided tens of thousands of visas to visit, work, or join family members. We specialize in placing foreign nationals in U.S. companies and assisting placement of U.S. employees in foreign locations. We provide comprehensive legal expertise, unparalleled customer service, and patented online technology.I served as the Manager of Network Operations, overseeing an enterprise redesign/rebuild and leading Network Operations development and training. VISANOW's group of smart, energetic professionals and far-sighted leadership are building a company of the future from downtown Chicago and I was thrilled for the opportunity to play a role for it.

The Welcome Home Foundation started the nation's movement to formally welcome our veterans returning from the post-911 wars and help with their transition back to civilian and family life. We have organized and executed citywide events across America, raising more than $140,000 in 2012 to finance veteran resource events.

-Lead all training programs, from classroom to community, using face to face and distance learning methodologies.-Three full cycles of change management: Novel-Windows 4.0, 4.0-Active Directory, Active Directory-Google Cloud-Implemented and cultivated social media outreach programs to engage community-Supervised planning, deployment and management of Active Directory, infrastructure and switching, VOIP, more-Deployed SANS solutions, cloud storage and Google networking, SQL database solutions, Microsoft Exchange, more-Served as chief comms liaison for President Obama during a national healthcare address delivered via my network-Ongoing relationship management with companies like Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, Apple, CDW and more

Taught courses focusing on the historical human evolution of concepts like religion, law, government, warfare, and coexistence, all against a backdrop of technology of the respective periods.