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Teach MBA students to start companies & use technology. Think Shark Tank & Startup Weekend go to graduate school & shake things up. Contact me if interested in mentoring students.

Run a product development company. Spin out new products. Rinse. Repeat.

Mastered @facebook. Discovered #twitterlists. Learned to listen better.

Mastered @twitter. Discovered #hashtags. Connected people.

Served as mentor, assistant organizer, and academic liaison for Startup Weekend Omaha. Mentored various teams - spent the most time advising the event winner (#1 / 18 teams),Your Happy Plate, along with SonaSeek, Chip-in-a-bit, and a fourth team that generated IP with patent potential.Recruited 15+ students from the Raikes School on NU's Lincoln campus & Peter Kiewit Institute in Omaha (vis-a-vis my university role) Assisted with coordinating activities such as hosting Senator Ben Nelson (our thanks!), securing media coverage, & much, much, more during run-up to and the during the 56-hour Startup Weekend Omaha "sprint".

Collaborate with fellow faculty to advance our research programs in conjunction with classroom-based education.Conceive innovative research & development (R&D) programs with long-term transition and commercialization potential.Cultivate strategic business development partnerships with government, industry, and academic organizations.Coordinate proposals to research & develop technology via SBIR, STTR, BAA, and IDIQ contracts & grants.

Lead matrixed efforts of researchers, software engineers, and other folks developing knowledge discovery capabilities for information fusion, social network analysis, natural language processing & cyber security applications.Prepare and execute SBIR and BAA proposals and contracts, advise researchers in other areas of expertise, such as unmanned vehicles, sensor networks, and imagery analysis.

Showed Google to do math more efficiently. Compressed the Internet. Compressed XML data. Constructed method to disable SkyNet. Drank a lot of coffee and determined the known limits of sleep deprivation.

Taught students how to write drone control software. Graded a lot of papers. Mentored the next generation. Hiked a few mountains. Ran.

support director of 1,300 person division, for example, by serving as the lead funding authority of our divisionlead local support of the first web-based services feedback system for the Department of Defense (DoD) within the continental U.S.coordinate host funding for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at their post-9/11 assembly point.

Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of communication systems for 100-person HQ (satellite, network, phone, videoteleconferencing). Guide actions of 9+ matrixed system administrators at high-profile base agency (daily interactions with multiple high-ranking officers on and off base facility). Spearheaded deployment of IT initatives that became model for other agenices at same location and higher echelons.

complete coursework for M.A. in computer sciencecomplete bulk of master's thesis on improving graph partitioning algorithms for use in parallel computing and circuit design applications

completed bachelor's in mathematics after award of 4-year United States Air Force (USAF) Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship

instruct traditional and evening students in introductory algebra coursesfacilitate teaching efforts of junior teaching assistants

supported networks of regional hospital, area banks and local law firmsled Y2K hardware remediation efforts

Moved furniture. Loaded trucks. Helped folks realized they should haul their new couches somewhere other than their car roof. Traced out our first patio showroom & convinced leadership to install automatic doors. Won mattress carrying contest. Learned to tie knots.

Deliver papers on largest USA Today route in Omaha, 35+ miles. Start at 3am when truck arrived from KC, finish at 7 am. Rockbrook Village to Midlands Community Hospital & everywhere in between. Learn to use snow chains and hazard lights. Oh, and tear out the upper right corner of every unsold paper for inventory control.

analyzed various types of imagery in support of tactical and strategic Air Force operations at overseas and stateside locations.