Chad Elish Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA

Founded in 1953, Construction Tool Service offers a comprehensive selection of tools, supplies, and safety products for contractors while serving the professional and business needs of the community.

- Qualified in every aspect of event production from fundraising to permitting, relations, volunteer coordination, outreach, booth design, setup, strike, and more.- Grown most events 15% each year.- Launched a "Producer in Residence" program at Maker Faire Orlando that brings in directors of other events to learn and share knowledge.- Co-wrote an.

- Created and manage a community of thousands of makerspace leaders, educators, and event producers.- Support the executive director, staff, and the board to oversee the direction of the organization.- Help produce and hold a yearly conference hosting over 400 makerspace leaders from across the United States.- Created multiple virtual conference spaces for.

- 1 of 8 chosen by the Obama White House to transition its Nation of Makers initiative into a stand-alone non-profit organization. Completed the transition in only 4 months.- Worked with stakeholders in the community to find out what they want to see Nation of Makers to be. Used that data to build a non-profit to advocate for STEM education and more.

Working on bridging the digital divide between makers and boaters in the United States, Mexico, and beyond.- Work with communities, artists, and teachers in underprivileged communities.- Teach boaters digital design skills so they can design and make parts in remote areas.- Create open source designs for others to use freely.- Work with social media.

- Worked with and managed many large companies IT solutions.- Lead and created custom curriculum for training.- Directed teams across multiple large companies to ensure smooth rollouts.- Built roadmaps for complex network implementations across multiple sites. - Automated Mac and PC integrations in networking environments.

Millvale, PA

A community center for positive change that features Pittsburgh’s first tool lending library as well as a makerspace.- Hired a new Executive Director.- Supported the executive director, staff, and the board to oversee the direction of the library.- Partnered with the makerspace director to write curriculums for use in the space as well as in high schools..

Pittsburgh, PA

- Rebuilt HackPGH, Pittsburgh's first makerspace so that it yielded a ten fold increase in revenue and a sustainable ecosystem.- Grew the community three fold and more than doubled it's space and tooling.- Drafted training and curriculums for classes.- Charted outreach and external events with local and national organizations. One example being; Hosted a.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Led multiple store openings while actively mentoring employees. Managed the servers and security systems in the store. Regularly visited and supported other stores nation wide.