Monte Kalisch Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Bethesda, MD, US

EPS Learning has partnered with educators for more than 70 years to advance literacy as the springboard for lifelong learning and opportunity. The 20+ supplemental literacy solutions included in the EPS Literacy Framework are based on the science of reading and support grades PreK through 12, all tiers of instruction, and every pillar of reading. EPS.

Bethesda, MD, US

Mesa, Arizona, US

• Prenda is a startup education company that supports microschools: public school learning pods for K–8 students. Prenda specializes in creating flexible learning environments that combine state standards-aligned.
• Direct the organization’s product and technology strategy, including oversight of product management, UX design, software engineering, business systems, data science, and technology operations.
• Created and oversee the Product Steering Committee to evaluate and prioritize product development investment decisions to ensure alignment with the company’s mission and OKRs.

San Diego, CA, US

• The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education is powering K–20 inclusive educational innovation through pioneering research, development, and professional learning.
• Co-inventor of Pactful® (pactful.org), an award-winning, patent-pending social good innovation curriculum and platform for teens and teachers who want to build a better world. Pactful underpins the institute's larger.
• Created the annual Jacobs Teen Innovation Challenge that has helped thousands of teenagers develop an innovator's mindset and critical innovation skills that prepare them for jobs of the future.

Columbia, MD, US

• Connections Education, a division of Pearson, supported 35+ statewide virtual public schools in the US, with over 65,000 full-time K–12 Connections Academy students, with an additional 100,000 students taking.
• Directed all aspects of the organization’s technology efforts, including strategy, product development and implementation, and ongoing operations, with direct oversight of $40M+ budget and 300+ person team.
• Member of the executive team, helping to shape the strategic direction of the organization including establishing a customer-centric service organization while integrating with our parent company.
• Provided product and technical oversight for Connexus v3, a dual cloud-based (Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web Services) education solution combining off-the-shelf products with custom software to improve users’.
• Lowered costs and improved back-office capabilities and experience for over 4000 customers, moving from on-premises systems to cloud-based solutions such as VOIP and Google Apps.
• Established a dedicated operations team and KPIs that improved platform availability and responsiveness, reducing downtime and maintenance from hours to fractions of a minute per week, always achieving 99.9%+ SLAs.

Columbia, MD, US

• Connections Education was founded in 2002 and privately held by Apollo Management until 2011 when it was sold to Pearson for over $400M.
• Managed the software development through planning, architecture, design, coding, testing, delivery, maintenance, and operations.
• Created Connexus, a multi-tenant, integrated web application that served the organization and its full-time virtual public schools, supporting 300 students in 2002 and more than 40,000 in 2013.
• Spearheaded transition to formally adopt Agile software development methodologies.
• Oversaw the ongoing operations of the company’s enterprise-level software products with a focus on maximizing uptime and around-the-clock performance for over 80,000 customers and thousands of simultaneous users.
• Participated as a member in the company’s executive management team, helping to shape the strategic direction of the organization during a 10-year period of 25%+ growth YoY.

• MonTek Computer Solutions was my consulting company, suspended so I could focus on Connections Education.
• Owned and managed business that provided Internet, Intranet, network, and computing solutions.
• Consultation included graphic design, dynamic web design, database modeling and access, and overall site integration and administration.
• Provided network and computing analysis, network implementation, technical support, and information technology planning services.

• Versient was a provider of logistics solutions, including management, procurement, and distribution of print and corporate materials.
• Responsible for maintaining the technical infrastructure after the company acquired B2E Resource and in preparation for the company’s subsequent acquisition by Shamrock Acquisition Company.
• Oversaw the daily operations of the development and operations departments, including managing personnel and maintaining the corporate and production networks at an off-site, hosted facility.
• Worked with senior management to produce technical and personnel inventories and documentation necessary for the acquisition. Met with potential acquirers to outline the technical infrastructure leading to the final.
• Established website development and implementation standards for an ASP-driven B2B web application.

Washington, DC, US

• SpeakOut.com was a political portal site that later became Ntercept Communications, a market research company that created proprietary technology to gather real-time polling data and other survey information.
• Direct oversight of website engineering team (using IIS 4/5, ASP, Oracle 8i, HTML 4, CSS, Flash, XSLT) that created web-based interfaces to conduct over 400,000 surveys for Fortune 100 companies.
• Responsible for customer experience and user-interface development.
• Responsible for site efficiency, security, scalability, and maintainability.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Michael Baker Corporation is a federal government contracting company.
• Analyzed, designed, programmed, and implemented web applications for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
• Responsibilities also included database modeling and administration, web server administration, and software engineering documentation.

• VantagePoint was an Internet startup by John Deere that created the first online Crop Management system.
• Lead the technical creation and implementation of the Crop Management System, an ASP web application with over 300 pages.
• Created site infrastructure, coding standards, and graphics.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure standards adherence.
• Coordinated efforts with the release manager and assisted with the deployment and administration of the production site.

Washington, DC, US

Analyzed, designed, and implemented web-based database systems. Responsibilities also included database modeling and administration, web server administration, and software engineering documentation.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Designed and taught a graduate-level Computer Information Systems C/C++ course. Course used Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and emphasized structured and object-oriented programming concepts, data structures, and syntax.

Assisted with the management and administration of LANs on site. Consulted with customers regarding applications, networks, and hardware configurations. Installed a myriad of hardware and software components for customers.

Routine law firm duties expanded to include client work in litigation, non-litigation, and estate planning.

Msba, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems

Ba, Computer Science, Mathematics