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Rogersville, Mo

Supporting business continuity and maintaining data operations around enterprise data management. Using data to empower us to best serve our members and to reinforce our mission: EDUCAUSE is inspiring the transformation of higher education in service to a greater good.

Rogersville, Missouri, United States

Oh, look, a shiny new position working with data alongside the IT department at EDUCAUSE!In my new role, I'm excited to shift gears and leverage my skills and knowledge to bolster our data and reporting infrastructure. Enhanced systems integrations, mature data practices, and detailed reporting are foundational to our staff success, notably when understanding and improving our member benefits and experiences. Downstream data reporting and related insights are shared with our members and their institutions across an array of events, services, and offerings provided by our association.

Rogersville, Missouri, United States

As a technical product lead with EDUCAUSE, I work with a talented, passionate, and driven group of people--a strong association that builds IT-empowered solutions to unlock new paradigms in higher education. We are part of an amazing effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in all aspects of educational planning and practice. Through our work, we empower educators and institutions to have critical resources to best host their complete audience of students. New mindsets are required to no longer scope success to a technical solution, its creators, or its owners. Incredible effort is needed to break the bonds of our current norms, to create an education system in which DEI can thrive. Systems are now being structured to help instructors identify educational resources and strategies that are most meaningful to their learners. Through use of these tools and resources, instructors can make a concerted investment in student engagement, improving outcomes where most needed.Furthermore, in our work we desire success for each student, not only the institution or instructor. Each individual is recognized and supported as being unique, empowered, and centered in their own experience. Each student is living their own truth, and each is best capable of achieving their full growth potential when they help inform their education process.It isn't unique to higher education; outcomes are improved when individuals are directly respected, listened to, and supported through their engagements with a given system. We must identify and negate bias, elevate and normalize the voices and perspectives of the marginalized, and re-center those at the fringe of current and historical affairs. We cannot simply hope for new outcomes while recreating traditional system patterns and power hierarchies. We must achieve meaningful and compassionate systems that serve everyone. Let's level the playing field through new approaches to systems and design; let's change the world.

Springfield, Missouri Area

With Added Innovation, I am proud to be working with a dedicated team of enterprise-focused software architects and developers. We are a small coding shop that specializes in auditing, augmenting, and managing existing systems and sites for performance, functionality, and security. We leverage best-of-breed solutions, identifying new platforms as needed, to meet or exceed the industry needs of our partners. We are endeavored to make our clients successful and we are hyper-passionate about our goal: providing Added Innovation to your organizational missions through quality software development, all while maximizing the value of your investment. Our knowledge as a team spans many problem domains. We enjoy using our experiences to service a wide variety of clients with local, regional, and global goals.

Springfield, Mo

Promoted to Technical Manager of Engineering Services. Helping to better lead and coordinate the development life-cycle for our professional services department.

Springfield, Mo

Promoted to lead software architect, partnering with our excellent developers, project managers, product developers, and others to ensure successful technical implementations for our services deliveries. Grew into the role of Architect Manager during this period as well.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Same great place; same incredible service!

Springfield, Missouri Area

In November of 2014 I was graced with a job change within Old Town IT. In my new role as a software architect, I am working closely with our senior architects to shape and hone our approach to the services and solutions we provide to our clients. We are ever tackling new and exciting challenges. In so doing, we are working to strengthen the knowledge and diversity of our development and professional services staff while maintaining the core focus of Old Town IT: delivering quality, innovative solutions alongside outstanding customer service.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Through my continued work with the stellar development team and staff at Old Town IT, I am very pleased to say that my expectations of a quality work environment have well been exceeded. I still can't believe the amount of dedication and hard work that each employee puts into this company. It's no wonder that we've made Inc. Magazine’s top 500 list two years running, coming in 405th with 1,101% growth in 2013!At the present, I am working alongside one of the most well-versed netFORUM developers and architects that we have in house, David Schlum--that's aside from our CEO, Tim Ward, of course! Together we are strengthening our development practices, training plans, and means of disseminating information to our associates so we can continue to keep our staff at the cutting edge of professional services for associations. We are very dedicated to our client base and we are committed to the positive outcome of our endeavors as witnessed through the success of our clients.I came to Old Town IT hoping to be part of a workplace that is focused on delivering outstanding customer service alongside strong, robust software solutions—I am happy to say I could not have made a better choice. There's a great feeling of satisfaction to be had when one realizes they are surrounded by success and the successful, and that such gains were founded in honest and hard work through quality software development.

I worked to perfect small- to large-scale, multifarious software solutions for a range of industries with a strong document management company, PaperWise. Acting as a mini-software house with my professional service associates, I handled custom software solutions on top of the core PaperWise product. I saw solutions from their infancy in proposal and discovery through to their implementation and support in the hands of satisfied customers, coordinating with all departments along the way. I also worked with some of the best people in and around Springfield, Missouri.

Under the guidance of Dr. Scott Sigman, I helped research, architect, and initiate development of an online-based response gathering solution funded by the National Science Foundation. After working on the system through my senior year of college, I continued to perform contract-based consulting and programming for the university. In so doing, I helped to guide the project and transition knowledge to future students for continued learning opportunities through hands-on software development.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science Major / Maths Minor

Activities and Societies: Programming and Math Competitions, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Gravity Tests

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies