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Tulsa, Ok, Us

Tulsa, Ok, Us

Building and developing a team of IT professionals who passionately leverage technology solutions that impact globalization efforts, and supporting creative online learning initiatives.

New York, Ny, Us

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Author of three books; Heaven 3.0, And God Chose Dreams, What in Heaven in Hell is Happening, numerous articles, and author coach for other authors and writers. Speaker at national conferences and seminars.

The Woodlands, Tx, Us

Inventor of the national award winning Education and Career Positioning System - Originated and designed the patent-pending Education and Career Planning System at MyDatabutton.com and WWW.EPS4.ME. A web-based and mobile application to help parents and students simulate, navigate, validate, and plan their education and career destinations.Winner of the 2013 Campus Technology Innovator of the Year Award, and 2012 U.S. Department of Education Start-up for all U.S. colleges and universities.

The Woodlands, Tx, Us

Plan, accelerate and strengthen the college’s “Innovation Eco-system” to be recognized and emulated globally by industry, academia and government agencies. Develop a unique set of academic, research and technological initiatives, programs, and resources that facilitate and mobilizes mind-share of all partnerships to create: • A center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Assists entrepreneurs to turn innovative product or service ideas into viable new businesses.• A center for Student Innovation - Provides a pipeline for the creation and support of interdisciplinary student projects. • An entrepreneur’s house - Provides a dedicated residence facility for undergraduate student and alumni entrepreneurs.• A center for Senior Masters (Retired) Executives - Provides a publishing and speaking forum for retired executives that want to be re-engaged in thought leadership via publishing, speaking or leading incubation projects.

Manage the strategic assets and relationships for national teaching and learning services, developmental education solutions, grants management, and business process improvement. Manage and oversee large scale improvements from a design, sales, and delivery perspective. General Manager of National AccountsManage the strategic relationships of client executives for multiple regions. Manage sales and delivery accounts, including the facilitation and management of CIOs, consultants, and IT organizations to achieve the operational and financial goals of each client engagement. Comprehensive knowledge of entire enterprise including systems, applications, and infrastructures. Consistently met annual operational and sales goals including a 100% success rate in contract renewals.Successfully won all IT outsourcing RFPs submitted over four year period. Valued at $47MExceeded all areas of client satisfaction ratings.Exceeded all operational and financial goals for both client and corporate objectives. Recognized by multiple national agencies and magazines for development of innovative IT projects and initiatives.Presented at 10 national technology and higher education conferences.

Manage the strategic assets and relationships for national teaching and learning services, developmental education solutions, grants management, and business process improvement. Manage and oversee large scale improvements from a design, sales, and delivery perspective.

Consult and develop transformative IT initiatives for client executives who desire to make IT a strategic and innovation investment. Designed over 20 innovative solutions for IT operations.Re-designed the business development process to speed up the sales and development cycle by 100%. Facilitated sales, marketing, and client services team members in sales solutions for both new and existing technology management clients. Designed ITIL process for company wide implementation. Reduced the average IT operation costs by 10% with innovative and integrated solutions. Deployed plans for best practices in leveraging fully integrated IT solutions that included administrative systems, help desk, networking, and business process improvement. Hosted over 50 executive planning sessions for ROI, trends, and benchmarks within technology.

Manage, plan, implement, and maintain information service hardware, software, and business applications to obtain maximum results. Successfully managed four directors, 35 employees, and $5 million annual budget.Successfully Implemented ERP system (SCT Banner) for a total costs savings of $1.8M.Featured in national magazines for substantial ROI and innovative initiatives. Partnered with industry, K-12, and health care for major costs savings and improvements. Requested to speak at numerous state and national conferences for innovative initiatives. Recognized by state-wide educational leaders for innovative and resourceful ways to save costs while leading in technology investments. Developed team initiatives for innovation projects in teaching and learning, and the online learning process.

Eau Claire, Wi, Us

Manage annual IT budget, corporate training efforts and led the multi-plant and worldwide ERP implementation. Renovated the company-wide telecommunications, Internet, network, servers, mainframe, and business systems at four nation-wide facilities.

Springfield, Mo, Us

Research, plan, and implement all technology methods to enhance the effectiveness of university's course offerings to over 14,000 students. Developed and implemented a asynchronous and synchronous learning environment that was reported in New York Times as a 'first of its kind.' Consultant for the Commission on Higher Education on innovative uses of technology at 17 colleges and universities. Led consortium of 17-colleges and universities on co-curriculum initiative.

Managed world-wide publications and training for engineers and customers on Cray Research Systems. Led multiple teams between training and engineering to utilize alternative training methods, and Simulators to save time and money while increasing the effectiveness of the learning process. Nominated and awarded three innovation awards for successful projects. Instructional supervisor responsible for 10 instructors who developed and taught all aspects of the supercomputer environment. Training Instructor responsible for developing course curriculum, reference manuals, maintenance manuals, and delivering courses. Awarded top instructor three consecutive years. Led national revenue reclamation project that increased service and training delivery by 50% annually over two years.

Masters, Online Learning

Ba, Biblical Studies

As, Computer System

Bachelors Of Arts

Associates Degree, Computer Systems

Post High Schoolmba 30 Credits