More than two decades of leading IT with passionate dedication at Lone Star Legal Aid came to an end late 2021. Neither the firm nor I wanted this to happen, it was heartbreaking. Yet, even though I immensely enjoyed the responsibilities and challenges of my role it soon became apparent to me that this was a rare and unusual opportunity to spend time with family, make some lifestyle changes, and pursue personal interests before re-entering the workforce.During this time, I helped my mother in a somewhat complicated move from Arizona to Texas and almost immediately thereafter assisted my son in his move to into the dorms at Colorado School of Mines. Soon after I began dedicating a good portion of each day to exercise and fitness. When not occupied with these endeavors or an occasional consultancy I engaged heavily in my lifelong personal passion for aviation, spending many hours in the air and in the hangar maintaining my airplane. The events in Ukraine reawakened my old obsession for geopolitics and history. I knew “why?”, but why "now?” It was a simple question without a simple answer and soon I plunged back into the geography, demography, economics, history, and politics that so interested me in the past. Of course, Ukraine did not occur in a vacuum and my research quickly expanded. For well over the next year, I read and digested everything I could to gain a sense of how all the pieces come together to make today what it is or, more importantly, what tomorrow might be. Of course, I do not know what the future will bring but perhaps it is enough to simply understand the present. What a fascinating place this world is.Our world is changing, the time to jump back in is now. I’ve done those things that needed doing just as I will continue to do them. I am truly fortunate to have been gifted this time to enjoy friends and family, to learn, and to rest. I feel just as fortunate to come back into the work force with renewed vigor and fresh perspective.

IT consultant to a growing construction firm that did not need full time IT but wanted trusted expertise for infrastructure planning and M365 administration as well as light forensics. The firm also requested verification of prior and ongoing work of other IT contractors and consultants. I am still occasionally consulted on strategy and operations.

• Director of the LSLA IT Department, supporting up to 400 users in 16 locations in a complex legal environment with a full-time staff of 8• Report to Senior and Executive Management, communicating direction and relevant issues, concerns and technologies via meetings, committees, discussions, and custom white papers• Active participation in the evolution of business strategies and processes• Create and manage multi-million dollar departmental budget and project cost/benefit analysis• Develop and maintain firmwide Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans• Design of physical network infrastructure• Managerial and technical issue recognition and correction/mitigation• Federal (CFR) and state legal, regulatory and policy interpretation, documentation, and compliance• Private grant interpretation, documentation, and compliance• Company and department internal development, strategies, goals, and objectives• Maintain and oversee the daily operations of the department• Design and implement a variety of software, hardware, and infrastructure projects• Oversee the servicing of extensive data reporting requirements of all funding agencies/grantors• Provide IT and program performance related document production required by management and governmental regulatory and inspection agencies• Collaborate extensively with funding agencies and sources as well as other legal aid programs• Maintain, upgrade, and manage 15 remote office infrastructures across the Eastern region of Texas • Perform facility analysis of new potential office locations as well as the condition and suitability of existing offices• Develop and maintain vendor and contractor relationships, issue RFPs and evaluate proposals, negotiate purchases

• Part of MIS group supporting 5 branches comprised of approximately 100 users• Maintained, upgraded and replaced Netware servers and Windows 95 workstations• Planned and implemented ArcServe6, FAXserve 5, Upgraded GroupWise 4.1 to 5.2• Developed IT Asset Management System

Information Systems Consultant Greyhound Lines, Systems Integration Lab• Planned and developed new computer lab for GLI• Assisted in establishing standardized life-cycle documentation for all hardware and softwareInformation Systems Consultant AMR Sabre Group, PC Rack• Tested, validated and documented hardware and software for worldwide distribution• Accepted or rejected hardware and software in line with established protocols and parameters

• Network, Computer, Software support for Commercial Properties Team and Accounting Department• Netware Server Support• ArcServe• Infrastructure Support

• Telephone support for commercially available software ranging from Avery LabelPro to MS Office.• Part of an elite team supporting corporate customer end users over a wide range of issues from software support to network and communications failures.

• Mortgage Processing Software validation, testing and documentation