Meetup allows me to reach people I wouldn't otherwise meet and invite them to be a part of something I love. As an online community organizer on the Meetup platform, my role revolves around fostering a thriving virtual community centered on common interests or goals. I'm responsible for crafting engaging online events, facilitating discussions, and nurturing connections among members. Communication is key as I interact with participants, organize virtual gatherings, and promote community expansion. By staying attuned to the community's needs, I adapt strategies to ensure a welcoming and enriching experience for all members.

I was looking for an online community to meet people, make friends and nurture platonic friendships. As a Stitch member, I found a friendly and welcoming community that I would like to introduce to others. My role on Stitch quickly evolved from just a member to Community Champion.As a community champion on the Stitch online platform, my primary duty is to serve as an advocate and leader within the community. I foster a sense of belonging and camaraderie among members, ensuring that everyone feels valued and included. This entails organizing events, initiating discussions, and providing support to individuals seeking connection and companionship. With a keen focus on empathy and understanding, I strive to create a safe and supportive environment where members can forge meaningful relationships and enrich their lives through shared experiences.

Blacks Gone Geek is an online community that serves to inspire a new generation of African Americans to consider and select IT careers, as well enthuse interest and promote technology entrepreneurship; ultimately increasing African Americans’ participation in IT.The Blacks Gone Geek consulting practice develops highly skilled talent specializing in Microsoft Office web apps and internet, extranet and intranet sites built on Microsoft Office Live for Small Business and Office 365 SharePoint platforms to support the client*s Web/Portal strategy. Blacks Gone Geek is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network and Microsoft Office 365 Marketplace.As Founder of Blacks Gone Geek, a social networking initiative dedicated to promoting African American in IT, grew the online community to over 25,000 subscribers in 4 years. Responsible for the design, configuration, implementation and support of public facing resource website with 191 web pages on Microsoft Office Live for Small Business ASP.NET platform.BGG Consulting ServicesLead the planning and successful implementation of Office 365 SharePoint platform migration project from Microsoft Office Live for Small Business. Moved full inventory of Microsoft Outlook email, contacts, calendars, 372 documents, 219 images and 191 web pages. Current leading 15 person virtual team using agile project management methodology, ITIL Knowledge Management processes/procedures and mind maps to manage SharePoint intranet on public facing websites on the Office 365 for Small Business and Office 365 Enterprise platforms.Leading the expansion of the Blacks Gone Geek consulting practice by developing highly skilled talent specializing in Microsoft Office web apps and internet, extranet and intranet sites built on Office 365 SharePoint platforms to support the client*s Web/Portal strategy. Joined Microsoft Partner Network and Microsoft Office 365 Marketplace to expand client base.

Responsible for championing IT knowledge sharing practices so that the IT intellectual capital, information, and experience are shared throughout the organization, maintaining and promoting the use of standard knowledge management tools, and monitoring the usage and making recommendations on feature and quality improvements. Implemented an IT knowledge center by categorizing enterprise knowledge into 12 major knowledge areas and created an intranet portal to link to corresponding content.Managing global team of on shore/off shore knowledge analysts responsible for creating/updating over 8,000 knowledge articles and maintaining relationships with over 200 knowledge owners and support partners. Responsible for PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation) supplier management for Kaidara knowledge database. Conducted ITIL v3 process assessment and implemented process improvements to bring CMMI maturity from level 1(initial) to level 4 (managed).

CIO responsible for for all Information Technology platforms within the enterprise and for linking technology to the organization’s strategy. Responsible for infrastructure platforms (Windows Server 2008), cloud applications (web hosting, salesforce.com, yourmembership.com, Google apps), social networking environments (LinkedIn, Facebook, Groupsite.com, Yahoogroups, Twitter).Supporting 2,000 members in 45 chapters nationwide, and a national website of over 250 pages and 100 online communities.

The PMI Chicagoland Executive Council is a group of invited executives from various industries in the Chicagoland area who meet to share ideas, perspectives and best practices to improve the management of projects in organizations and the role of the project management profession.More than doubled council size by providing value added services to a strategically targeted constituency.

Managed Enterprise PMO and IT strategy and planning department that supported an IT organization of over 3,500 IT professionals with $400M capital and expense budget. Member of IT senior leadership team responsible for collaborating with business leaders to set the strategic direction and implement IT shared services solutions.• Designed, configured and implemented multiple project management, IT employee collaboration, knowledge management intranet sites and web 2.0 social networking communities using SharePoint, IBM Websphere, Web Content Management (WCM), HTML, JavaScript, SharePoint WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, MOSS 2010 and a wide variety of web authoring tools. SharePoint site administrator of corporate intranet and site collections servicing over 50 Corporate IT departments.• As Integration Project Director, responsible for resolving multiple technical platform issues and the successful deployment of the email name change migration from Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Google mail and MS Exchange servers impacting 8,000 employees from Solvay acquisition. Used agile methodology to quickly implement technical solutions.• Executed programs to improve project and portfolio management functions and instituted common project management methodology resulting in $2.88M 1st year savings. Created project dashboard and facilitated monthly status review sessions with senior management resulting in the efficient management of a $300M project portfolio.

Managed a Global Project Management Office (PMO) responsible for roll-out and support of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Project Management Methodology and the Concerto Enterprise Project Management Tool. The PMO supported over 620 Project Managers, Resource Managers and Task Managers.

Developed applications on IBM mainframes in Assembler, COBOL, Easytrieve Plus, DB2 and CICS. Utilized methodologies such as the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Information Engineering Methodology (IEM), Information Systems Planning (ISP) and Business Area Analysis (BAA) to develop a life insurance agent performance, compensation and bonus system.