Ron Suarez, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

INTERNET PUBLIC COMMONS PLATFORM COOPERATIVEOnline courseware: (1) Learn about Internet network engineering, (2)Learn to build a Community Owned Internet Network, (3) Get a job and create jobs, (4) Keep money circulating in your local communityhttps://broadband.institute/ AND https://ipcpc.org/

Since 2010 LoudFeed has been a two person consultancy (Ron and his wife, Margarete Koenen) providing a full spectrum of web and mobile tech services for Social Good, from digital strategy and branding to solutions with WordPress, BuddyPress, CSS. HTML, JavaScript, Phonegap and Cordova.2017 Began working with https://nycmesh.net to develop educational tools to help community owned networks to scale using a decentralized model 2015 - 2016 Primarily engaged in pro bono services to create web properties supporting horizontal communication tools for grassroots activists involved in the Bernie Sanders primary campaign. Ron was an elected NY 14 CD Delegate, pledged to Bernie Sanders.2014 - 2015 Designed and developed a social network with online courseware for healthcare administrators in Africa fighting HIV, TB, Malaria and Ebola. See: https://leadernet.org We also developed GovScore Global, http://bit.ly/govscore - a governance maturity assessment tool. Phonegap and the JavaScript FLOT library were used for a mobile app governance survey with mobile offline data collection and online data visualizations for comparing organizations.In 2011, LoudFeed partners, Ron Suarez and Margarete Koenen were developers #1 and #2 for the website that registered 9,000 users in 100 Working Groups for Occupy Wall Street. We used a Multisite WordPress installation with BuddyPress to build a social network, where each Group maintained minutes of their meetings, their own calendar and discussion forum. We thus, centralized the engineering, but decentralized content control that enabled each Group to employ consensus democracy for governance and decision making. Occupy was unable to scale Direct Democracy, but Liquid Democracy offers a solution to scaling Consensus - see: http://bit.ly/consensusdemocracy and http://bit.ly/liquiddemocracysimplified

Washington, Dc, Us

Pledged Delegate for Bernie Sanders in NY 14th Congressional District

New York, Ny, Us

New Work City is a coworking space and community center for independents. I also contributed to "copartying" as DJ and VJ for company launch parties and events.

As a committee member I wrote a white paper on Metrics and Decision Making for the web and social media. The NMC's Mission is to educate members on the emerging new media sector, provide access to opportunities members might not otherwise have, and provide additional income by reducing costs or increasing income streams. I am also a member of the A2IM Web Committee and built their site at http://a2im.org

Loud Feed was originally spun off from Object Insight in 2006 to help music distributors, labels and artists manage and monetize their music, video, show ticket info and related metadata using their own branded web site and e-commerce enabled social media widgets. The Loud Feed platform included an integration with Amazon Web Services for storage, bandwidth and e-commerce, plus Clearspring technologies to support widgets for dozens of social networks and blogs. I began podcasting services for independent artists in 2005, built Toolshed.biz, a music promotion site for 30 independent labels in 2006, and in 2007 managed the creation of tools used by Tunecore to deliver music for artists into iTunes, Amazon, Emusic and Rhapsody. In 2008, we launched MyReggae a digital music store with over 10,000 albums in the catalog. In 2009, I built a social networking site for the American Association of Independent Music.I founded Object Insight to create “UML for the rest of us” (Unified Modeling Language). Object Insight’s JVISION tool was a lightweight, round trip software engineering tool for Java programmers, which generated code from diagrams and also reverse engineered diagrams from code. Thousands of customers preferred our approach to the IBM, Rational Rose heavyweight approach.As JVISION reached the end of its product life cycle and OI went back to the consulting business, I provided Object Technology training for companies like UNISYS and managed consulting projects including large scale digital asset management for JSTOR and ProQuest (two of the largest providers of digital “text oriented” libraries). We architected JSTOR’s next generation Java based system in 2003, which provides millions of students worldwide with access to virtually every online academic journal at thousands of universities, each with different subscription plans. We also implemented the Open Archives Initiative for bibliographic metadata management and updates.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

I worked to hold back special interests from wasting taxpayer money and create more transparency in government to expose the real motivations behind decision making. It wasn't easy to go from being a serial entrepreneur to the bureaucracy of government, but I continue to believe that many more citizens need to take a turn in government to stem the tide of opportunists. I was on the Cable Commission, the Liquor Commission, the Housing Board and I was the Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals.

I sold Arbor in 1998 for $3.1 million, after building Arbor on a $30,000 investment. Recruiting over USENET, I built the company from 3 to 30 engineers with a focus on Object Technology from Smalltalk to Java. I insured the success of a multi-year “process monitoring system” project at a coal fired electric power plant for Dayton Power & Light. In 1988, when learning all about the power plant first seemed too complex, I developed a HyperMedia Power Plant Interface Building Toolkit with drag and drop features. Plant diagrams were scanned and linked by technicians with high school educational levels. In 1992, when Ford needed an “automobile design change management system,” I mimicked early group collaboration software change management (in tools like Smalltalk ENVY) to build a system used by 15,000 employees worldwide involved in the design process. I designed the Arbor Help System product, which enabled non-programmers to create context sensitive online help in the live application (an early example of the “Stay on Page” usability design pattern). Arbor contracted with Sun Microsystems for curriculum development and delivery of Java programmer training (Java Factory). I also personally created curricula and led training sessions for expert systems development and object oriented analysis and design. Arbor was a part of the Chrysler payroll project with Kent Beck. This project inspired the Extreme Programming book series and influenced the move to Agile methodologies.

Founding member, Director and Project Manager for computer consultants worker owned cooperative (a step beyond current experiments in coworking - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking.) Under contract with Apple, we developed curricula and delivered nationwide training for Macintosh programmers and organized the first National Apple Users Group conference in 1986.

Phd, Cognitive Science (Psychology)

Ba, Mathematics