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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

● Developed a healthy leadership team, changing difficult board/director dynamics to create a positive, cooperative culture, moving from 2 board members to 7 engaged directors.● Led the new board through a transition of executive leadership and a comprehensive policy review achieving 100% parity with district standards and award of a new charter contract.● Moved the school from a growth stage framework into maturity and long-term stability.● Drove positive leadership to change cultural tone, moving the staff from only a 60% retention to 100% retention.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

● Created a 501(c)3 organization aimed to promote healthy spiritual formation.● Created and matured the board from startup, through growth, and into sustainability over 10 years.● Set up accounting functions, financial sustainability model, legal framework, and standard operations. ● Continue to serve as founding board member.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

● Directed cross functional teams in solutions delivery for cybersecurity, PAM, and identity (IAM, IGA) solutions including Ping Identity, SailPoint, ForgeRock, and Delinea, bringing departmental overrun down from 35% to 3%.● Launched a cross-cultural Project Management Office (PMO) between the US and UK, implementing global project standards using both Agile and waterfall processes.● Managed scope and resources in managed services projects, increasing captured revenue by thousands of hours and increasing departmental revenue by 300%.● Matured the company along the CMMI framework from simply managing work, to driving business through data analytics and KPI metrics for a 6 million dollar portfolio. ● Established standards for DevOps CI/CD using SDLC processes.● Entrusted with our highest profile projects with challenging customers, creating collaborative environments in potentially contentious spaces.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

● Established a comprehensive project management methodology, implemented uniform project standards, and streamlined workflows, bringing projects from an average of 80% overrun to 15% under budget in one year.● Developed and maintained project templates and documentation, including roadmaps, schedules, and status reports, improving communication across stakeholders.● Directed IT Consulting Services in development and delivery of identity and infrastructure projects, facilitating the company's growth from $15M to $40M in sales over three years through effective internal change management strategies.● Managed budget and profit and loss (P&L) bring the business unit to profitability with $40M in sales. Solicited the support of the owners, vice presidents, and finance team to succeed.● Led stakeholder engagement ensuring alignment between technical and business objectives for large, complex relationships ensuring customer satisfaction and retention.● Facilitated internal merger of 2 services divisions including change management efforts, organizational design, functional integration, and development of new metrics for success as a cohesive unit.● Developed and implemented a talent retention strategy including mentoring of junior project managers resulting in no loss of team members during a time of 30% attrition across the rest of the company.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

● Built and executed Change Management strategy for $100MM+ global process and technology redesign around Salesforce. ● Created project plans for establishment of new fundraising offices in Brazil and the Philippines to opening income streams in untapped international markets.● Introduced strategy for new field office development, reducing exposure to risk in developing countries by clearly establishing milestones of stability.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

● Led 12 international organizations through a 5-year $100MM+ Business Process Optimization (BPO) project to implement new processes and technologies.● Compiled and vetted the business requirements for Salesforce and custom development teams. ● Built ROI model of Profit and Loss including not only financial analysis, but also non-financial objectives into a non-profit ROI resulting in funding of over $100MM.● Negotiated and brought unity around diverse international objectives between headquarters and international offices. ● Envisioned and built internal online collaboration community, successfully launching a central communication hub for international marketing coordination for the sharing of best practices.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

● Created and led a company promoting social media strategy by utilizing change management principles in online community development. ● Consulted in social media strategies enabling promotion through blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and other tools, resulting in social media communities of over 100,000 people.● Built marketing channels in social networks to engender loyalty and create trust, resulting in members sponsoring their own events.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

● Created vision and executed technology strategy for non-profit organization. ● Managed teams through the design, development, and implementation of five websites including features such as a CRM backend, store, accounting systems, customized event systems, social networking, and data and accounting management.● Created social media communities including managing relationships to build trust and loyalty within community resulting in over $100k in donations from loyal community members.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

● Created and executed the vision for the support of Windows platforms for our product.● Established an engineering assessment of customer environments to ensure our product would work well on their networks.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

● Analyzed, designed, implemented recommendations for improving production systems high availability and performance (7x24 support) resulting in our department being the sought-after provider for stable, always on, systems.● Developed engineering assessment tools and standards resulting in 99.99% uptime on our servers.● Created and executed disaster recovery plans meeting SLAs for 24-hour recovery.

● Project Manager for Y2K hardware upgrade for desktops (1,200 PCs).● Developed a system to track and coordinate calls, resulting in elimination of a yearlong backlog.● Provided personal computer support for all company executives.

● Cared for the emotional and physical well-being of 11 kids five days a week, 24 hours a day in a wilderness setting. Learned to live with no electricity or running water for the winter.● Through personal relationships, enabled troubled kids to develop relationships with their parents and others, and empowered them to reenter society and lead successful lives.● Hiked 163 miles of the Appalachian Trail.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Cybersecurity And Non-Profits

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Intervarsity Christian Fellowship