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Salt Lake City, UT, US

San Francisco, California, US

As VP of Communications, Strategy & Marketing, I perform three key roles for IGT: to develop and implement strategic communication plans and impact reporting frameworks for new and existing clients; to provide direct oversight to IGT account management staff; and to optimize account management practices that ensure day-to-day excellence in media outreach.

San Francisco, California, US

In this role, I served as an Account Director at TRUE Communications (the name of our group before merging with InGoodTaste). In addition to leading Account Managers and overseeing day-to-day client communication and media outreach efforts, I provided counsel on brand marketing tactics and communication strategy to senior members of our client's marketing.

Park City, UT, US

As the Brand Manager of Portfolio Brands at Backcountry.com, I oversaw the brand marketing efforts of Competitive Cyclist, the biggest online retailer of bikes and bicycle accessories in the US. I briefed in and oversaw the execution of our largest marketing campaigns and made sure that our brand vision and value proposition came to life on the website and.

Austin, Texas, US

I worked as part of the management staff to coordinate activities relating to the growth and development of the Mellow Johnny's brand - one of the most well-known and controversial bike shops in the world, owned by Lance Armstrong. This included managing direct marketing efforts on the online store as well as digital and search engine marketing efforts of.

Starting in 2012, I helped a wide range of business owners - from ranchers to restaurateurs - assess business systems and develop processes that enabled them to scale various food production systems to meet federal, state and municipal regulatory food safety requirements. I developed policies and procedures for the safe and effective operation of state and.

Washington, DC, US

I was part of the Knowledge and Learning Systems Working Group (KLSWG) of the World Bank's Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP). Our strategic team crafted recommendations and other documents for open business models and identified business practices that help to not only transfer expert food safety knowledge to practitioners, but also improve food safety.

Austin, TX, US

I returned to the world of Open Education after learning about a unique center at the University of Texas. I joined the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) as a Program / Product Manager and supported foreign language faculty within the College of Liberal Arts by coordinating the development of free and open online.

I was one of the co-owners and managing members of a cooking collective that ran a catering company (Underground Catering), two restaurants (Underground Kitchen & Forequarter), and a meat business (Underground Meats). The company catered nearly a hundred events each year in and around Madison, ran a successful restaurant (until it burned down 9 months.

I left Open.Michigan to become a managing partner and owner of a cooking collective called the Underground Food Collective. A mutual friend from graduate school introduced us after learning about my growing hobby in bacon and sausage making. Following my entrepreneurial spirit, I joined the business, specifically to work on developing the Underground Food.

Flint, MI, US

As part of an extension of my work at Open.Michigan, I was asked to develop and teach a class for the University of Michigan's Technology in Education Master's Program. I was honored to developed the curriculum, readings, activities and assignments and also teach EDT 585 – Open Pedagogy. The course was an early example of a Small Open Online Course.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

In the fall of 2007, our research team was approached by the Office of Enabling Technologies of the University of Michigan Medical School to implement at the Medical School our distributed, participatory system for students and faculty to collaborate and publish OER. That is when I agreed to graduate early and work to turn this research project into.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

I investigated the viability publishing openly licensed educational content from the University of Michigan. As part of a group of five graduate students interested in Community Informatics and Social Entrepreneurship, I spent nearly a year working with this team and an advisory group of faculty to design, developed and form the basis of an Open.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

As a graduate student employee of the University of Michgan, I conducted daily usability tests on development versions of CTools, the University of Michigan's Sakai based course management software - similar to Canvas and Blackboard. I generated, tested and reported bugs and other software or system issues to the software development team. This is also the.

Ottawa, ON, CA

As part of my summer internship in graduate school, I pursued my interest in the area of Information and Communication for Development (ICT4D) and was fortunate enough to intern with Canadian-based International Development Research Centre (IDRC). I worked specifically on a brand new initiative called telecentre.org, and was tasked with using social media.

Msi, Information Policy, Community Informatics

Ba, History, Latin American Studies