Dean Ericksen Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa

Half-time oversight of WTA systems,

Ericksen Initiatives is in the business of making organizations stronger, saving money and giving trustworthy advice about using technology. I like looking at the big picture: what is trying to be accomplished, and what are some innovative/affordable ways to make it happen? Sometimes this can be frustrating, as technology is not the answer for everything. More often it's exciting, because there are so many useful tools being created and refined every day. Marrying smart technology with a good cause is what I love to do. I've seen a lot. From 1989 to 1994 I worked at Microsoft in a number of technical positions. I left to join another Microsoft alumni in starting a web design firm, Free Range Media, and as the first employee help grow that company from zero to over fifty people in two years. I then took the Technical director spot at ONE/Northwest, where I did strategic consulting for ten years focusing on the nonprofit environmental community. For the three years to follow I was the Director of IT at grist.org, overseeing significant growth and all of the challenges associated with a growing business. My work involves: * Operational Assessments - How to save money and become more efficient by making smart, informed decisions about technology * Publishing strategy - Using multiple channels (web, email, RSS, social networks, etc) to deliver your message to your audiences without a duplication of work * Opportunistic Projects - Progressive projects that would benefit from my experience

* Responsibility for Grist's production and IT departments* Oversight of all internal/external infrastructure* Managed technical aspects of several high-profile projects (site redesign, new CMS, new email marketing platform, web-host migration, etc)* Team management* Budgeting/Planning/Reporting

* Managed projects with hundreds of nonprofit offices, applying technology to make them more effective in their work * Established and maintained over 800 strategic email discussion lists * Delivered public training sessions to demystify technology * Continuous research, evaluation, and when appropriate, evangelizing of new tools * Authored content management system that was used for four years * Budgeting/Planning/Reporting

* Strategic planning; business modeling * Board recruitment; fundraising

* First employee in start-up; oversaw growth to 50+ staff* Management of large account websites - IBM, Macmillan publishing, MCI - as well as many boutique projects* Wrote proposals and pitched clients* Learned HTML, and the server platforms used to deliver online content

* Managed international customer database for two years* Wrote and delivered and product upgrade notices for international customers