Senior Director of Web Systems (Aug. 2023 to the present)Director of Web Systems (Oct. 2016 to Aug. 2023)Proven innovator in open source enterprise higher education solutions. I architect, build and administer a family of digital properties supporting the operation of a non-profit online university serving 15,000+ students, 650+ distributed faculty, and 500+ staff. These properties include open source enterprise web content management systems (CMS) housing the University's public websites, student portal, and employee intranet as well as several active institutional blogging sites. * Develop open source enterprise web CMS housing the University's public websites * Architect of the University's employee intranet and student learning services portal * Created institutional knowledge repositories in collaboration with the online education unit * Manage private and public institutional and non-LMS course-related web assetsDirector of the Online Writing Lab (Jan. 2016 to Oct. 2016)Led a distributed team including two instructional designers, a subject matter expert, and a concept artist during a 7-month redesign and platform development project for Excelsior's 9-time nationally award-winning Online Writing Lab (owl.excelsior.edu). Designed and built several properties for the online education unit including knowledge repositories for the Course Development and Instructional Design teams, and an Open Education Resource (OER) showcase site. * Using WordPress, rebuilt a custom Cake PHP platform that originally cost $250,000 * Facilitated technical integration and launch of the new Online Reading Comprehension Lab * Guided the selection of H5P for creating over 260 learning objects embedded in the OWL * Built special sites and tools for the Online Education and Learning and Academic Services groupsRead more (two other positions at Excelsior University since 2012): http://mark.oppenneer.com/excelsior/

I make music, too. For nearly 40 years, I have performed original soulful piano and vocal music with searching, honest lyrics. My songs are confessional, comfortable like a cardigan, and instantly familiar.

I bake bread. Lots of it. Some of it is really exquisite... and some, well, we won't speak of it. Oh, but the good stuff is really good. Check out https://www.bluebowlbreads.com/ where I show and tell about finished breads, publish yummy recipes, and share the tradition of home bread baking passed on to me by my mom.

Founder and director of the Ethnos Project, a research initiative and resources database that explored the intersection of indigeneity and information and communication technologies (ICTs). The project involved a broad range of inquiry including digital humanities, human computer interaction, Indigenous Knowledge management, culture and development, language preservation, participatory design, and more.