Diane Ward Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, Ny, Us

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Oversees all aspects of event management for the cofounders of the growing and unique education conference. Successful direction of sponsorship, fundraising, and business development for high-profile annual satellite education conference held at Kennedy Space Center. Initiates, conducts, closes sales. Orchestrates all social media and traditional marketing / media outreach, and conducts analysis/ROI. Directs outreach to educational organizations (elementary, middle, high schools, homeschool groups, colleges, universities). Creates promotional swag, arranges student prizes, creates in Canva programs, flyers, advertisements. Works with academic team to select program participants. Liaisons with aerospace and cyber industry. Navigates logistics of event at KSC and with third parties. Monitors and manages ticket sales for individuals, groups, and exhibiting organizations. Builds floor plan and event presentation logistics. Estimated conference size 400.

• Liaison for outreach and participation to New York State education community to promote the opportunities of the local NY chapter as a part of the National Invention Convention of the Henry Ford Museum (Detroit) and the Global Invention Convention* Successful event management of 225 participants; growing participants from 40 the previous year. Total reach of student population in afterschool, in-school, at home, STEM fair outreach was 850 students. *Responsible for 12-fold growth in participation in 2023-2024 school year. * Successful implementation and cooperation with outreach to City schools, homeschool cooperatives, private and religious schools*Support teachers in afterschool invention club programs * Writer of the 20 page entrepreneurial and innovation-focused curriculum for grades K-8.* Affiliate representative to RTX National Invention Convention* Chair of fast-paced and active committee working with educational stakeholders to provide access and training to STEM and Engineering Process Education for all students* Emphasis on diversification of participants and outreach with collaboration with partners in city and rural schools, as well as suburban, private, and homeschool groups• Point person to generate strategic partnerships with regional educational community stakeholders to increase the participation of students in the annual science invention convention• Judge of local and global STEAM student project that lead to patents, contracts, venture capital, entrepreneurial starts• Work with schools, community businesses, museums, and superintendents to gain sponsorships and funding and visibility* Increase the educational outreach to teachers and administrators about the invention process and entrepreneurial opportunities for K-8 students* Train teachers on the invention design process and support their year-long journey with newsletters, meetings, and other outreach resources* Previous Board Member

Co-founding educator, grant-writer, outreach architect.Cultivating an online environment for homeschool and afterschool gifted students. Creating from the ground-up an online global homeschool cooperative. Once weekly meetings feature guest speaker assemblies, STEAM challenges, critical thinking skills, self-confidence, communication skills with an emphasis on Space Education and Emerging Technologies.

White-glove management of the corporate reassignment (pre-trip, settling in, school support, gov't documentation, residence location) of C-level global executives of Fortune 100 companies (engineering/electric vehicles/energy/aerospace/alternative energy). Professional language training for executives and family members.

Writer, 100 Years of Spaceflight - Educational treatment of the last 100 years of spaceflight- under review at various educational streaming services

Author of best-selling RFID project implementation textbook and DVD: The Complete RFID Handbook:A Manual and DVD for Assessing, Implementing, and Managing Radio Frequency IdentificationTechnology in Libraries published in 2007, Neal Schuman (261 pages) 9781555706029 Researcher and author of book, white papers, peer-reviewed and trade articles on the topic of RFID implementations for defense, retail, museums and libraries. Focus on privacy rights, metadata storage and retrieval, user experience, marketing, problem solving technology issues, evangelizing the benefits of the wireless technology

Volunteer Director of national volunteer support network for large non-profit group that supports the U.S Space Force, the fifth branch of the U.S. Military.Lead for the SFA Conference, (1-6/2024)

Volunteer judge for elementary, middle, high school, university STEAM competitions. Expert-in-Residence and Mentor for UB Blackstone Launchpad innovators

• Parent Advisory Council Director: Calibrated the needs and UX of subscribers with the mission of Synthesis’ online educational service. Selected, hosted, and analyzed subscriber focus groups • Created presentations, edited copy, and wrote materials for parent audience• Created a knowledge management database (Knowledge Base) of company info for subscribers• Student Experience Team: Customer experience problem-solver, recognized patterns, created ways to optimize user experience, recognized and remediated potential and actual churn/dropped subscribers• Developed, managed, marketed, and hosted popular speaker series for students/parents to enhance STEAM knowledge, build community. Interviewed speakers and managed questions of 200 participants during webinar including a Nobel Prize winner, CEO of a space company, PBS Entertainer, Astronaut • Social Media Admin: Set-up, organized, managed Discord server for subscriber base• Originated/executed ideas for the Vice President to create value for price point and increase brand • Collaborated with marketing on initiatives to evangelize its alternative educational mission

Popular set of classes on invention and emerging technology for ages 5-13, designed to inspire children globally to become innovators.

WNY Homeschool/Micro-School Cooperative Network, 2012-2020• STEAM courses taught to a diverse student body: Innovation, Science Olympiad, History of Invention, Competition Science, Famous Inventors, Engineering Projects, Technology Stock Market Challenge, World Languages and Cultures

• Consultant for STEM educational stakeholders. Advising on projects, challenges, grants, privacy issues, equity amongst various socio-economic groups and learners of diverse abilities• Provided strategic marketing advice and created value-relationships and learning opportunities among parties

Oct 1, 1992 – Present (29 yrs 8 mos)Author of best-selling RFID project implementation textbook and DVD: The Complete RFID Handbook:A Manual and DVD for Assessing, Implementing, and Managing Radio Frequency IdentificationTechnology in Libraries published in 2007, Neal Schuman (261 pages) 9781555706029 **Currently writing a book on "Innovation and Emerging Technologies for Children" **Currently beginning a Podcast on Project Based Learning for accelerated homeschool students **Scores of peer-reviewed, trade articles and white papers on RFID, Mentoring, Metadata, Dataorganization and classification, Education, Alternative Education, Poetry, Business cases for emergingtechnology integration*Assistant Past Editor of peer-reviewed Journal of Library Archival Security*Editor of Quadrangle Poetry Review

Originated the content for and taught the following courses: 1-2 courses per semester, 30 studentsaverage class size•Organization and Classification of Recorded Information Beginning (required course for MastersProgram)•Organization and Classification of Recorded Information Advanced•Strategic Intelligence for Emerging Technologies

Principal Cataloger / Metadata Scientist for flagship SUNY Research University Poetry & Rare Books Library. Master knowledge management cataloger in all formats and multiple languages Project Manager for metadata classification of foreign language, poetry books, recordings, rare books incunabula, and art objects for world’s largest and pre-eminent collection of poetry and literature • Wrote and project managed all technical, supply chain, and financial aspects of local and NEH grants for various cataloging project initiatives• Expert in machine data, coding, metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge management systems -Meticulous and efficient marketing steward for collection to international clientele and media in highly valued, revenue-generating area of the University• Lead in collecting, organizing, and distilling research on UX of digital knowledge systems• Trained and supervised librarian staff on OCLC, Library of Congress, proprietary databases •Recognized by Library of Congress / OCLC with highest levels of database authorizations•Created metadata taxonomy structure for MARC/XML based database with multilevel search platform •Skilled at library supply chain problem-solving•Project managed all technical, supply chain, and financial aspects of local/NEH grants for initiatives•Managed the throughput of materials, provided metrics and assessments of the quality and quantity of work of a team of 12 librarians and graduate students •Led early entrance into social media networks for the library including efforts to provide classification and organization of Web-based data.• HTML/XML/C/JAVA coding by hand for legacy databases and web site editing/authoring• Wrote technical documentation for all cataloging programs for staff and provided training Member of national, local, university committees, task forces, professional library and cataloging organizations, contributing peer-reviewed articles to journals and conference presentations

Aerospace Professional Development Program

New Space Economy Program focused on innovative approaches to aerospace business development within professional cohort

Masters Degree, Informatics (Info Tech/Library Data Science) Focus: Metadata & Rfid Apps With Published Thesis

Thesis: RFID Applications for Walmart and U.S. Department of Defense Supply Chains Published innovative research on RFID applications.

Bachelor'S Degree, Foreign Languages: English/French/Chinese; Concentration: Russian History, Honors Program W/ Thesis

Activities and Societies: Multiple languages and cultures formally studied. Ability to read, write, and communicate in those languages..

Mba, Micro Business, Concentration In Marketing/Data Analysis

Favorite classes included crafting and honing marketing strategies based on data analysis with cohort.

Competitive Business Intelligence Certification, Focus On Emerging Technologies

Practical research and exercises in data mining, corporate information analysis, market temperature-taking, product positioning, service.

Web Design Certification

Coding, designing principles, and hacking prevention as it applies to corporate web sites.

Web Development Certification

Focus on construction of properly-sized web sites, online marketing campaigns and web outreach.