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Show What You Know Publishing provides online diagnostic assessments, remediation lessons, and challenging online games aligned to the new Common Core State Standards. As schools nationwide transition to the CCSS our product helps educators measure and improve what students understand based on the Common Core Standards. In addition we produce a set of workbooks, Show What You Know on the Common Core, for grades 3-8. The workbooks are aligned with the CCSS and contain two full-length diagnostic assessments per grade level for reading and for math.For school year 2013-14 Show What You Know Publishing will release Show What You Know Online for STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness). The 3rd to 8th grade lessons, assessments, and games cover reading, writing, math, social studies, and science helping students prepare throughout the school year for the annual STAAR exam.The introduction of the online system follows the successful release in school year 2012-2013 of the workbook series Show What You Know on STAAR. This series has two full-length assessments per subject (tested by STAAR). Each assessment matches the STAAR Test Blueprint.

After K to the 8th Power was acquired by Connections Academy in May 2009, I remained as Senior Director of Sales during the transition and continued to sell and implement the Kto8 product. Additionally I trained key personnel at Connections Academy on the product and the market.

One of three founders of this online education company originally headquartered in Steamboat Springs Colorado. My primary responsibilities were the initial database design, and then I was responsible for all sales and marketing for the company. The product is a software as a service based curriculum to teach K through 8th grade students how to use most popular PC computer application. Over 600 integrated lessons combine academic content with a computer skill based project. Subscription based model serves over 250,000 students at over 1000 public and private schools. K to the 8th Power was acquired by Connections Academy in May 2009.

Responsible for managing a group of software companies with commercial applications developed with the Progress RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). My responsibility was to help these companies refine and implement sales and marketing strategies to generate more sales of their applications in order to generate more RDBMS license fee revenue to Progress Software. Results: In 2003 I was the number two account manager world-wide with $2.5mm in revenue (200% of assigned quota). I left Progress Software to help start K to the 8th Power.

Part of the start-up team and an initial investor in MiracleWorkers.com which was the first nation-wide healthcare web site to match healthcare workers (nurses, lab technicians, administrators, and all other healthcare professionals except physicians) with healthcare employers (hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, nursing homes, etc). Responsible for sales to key hospital groups nationally. The company was acquired via stock purchase in 2000 by Headhunter.net who was subsequently acquired by Careerbuilder.com.

The Company created a management reporting suite of products that could be adapted to almost any commercial software application. The primary sales channel was through vertical software companies that would package IQ with their application for sale to their customer base. IQSC received royalty streams from 100’s of software companies. In 1992 the company conducted a successful IPO. I led the channel sales team until 1997. In 1998 IQ Software was acquired via stock purchase by Information Advantage. I left Information Advantage to be part of the start-up team and an initial investor in MiracleWorkers.com.

Field Sales Representative for one year Branch Sales Manager for two years. Qualified for AT&T Achiever’s Club for three consecutive years. I left AT&T after being recruited by the founder of IQ Software to become Vice President of Sales of a company with less than $1mm in annual revenue.