Religious services contractor for Washington State prisons, providing support to religious coordinators and prisoners around Neopaganism. Assist with religious services and education statewide, across twelve facilities for the three main US Neopagan traditions: Asatru (heathen), druidic, and Wiccan.

Work with a variety of interesting people on projects of personal and social importance.Business consulting, training, project management and coaching services. The druids were iron-age teachers, advisors and peacemakers, and Druid Companion is a training and education consultancy; founded near the end of a year-long sabbatical, to help me take my career in a direction more focused on soulful production. Community service through coaching, planning, facilitation and custom trainings. Process improvement for individuals, teams, small businesses, specific projects and non-profits.

Individual projects of social importance, supplemented by sole-prop gigs and day-labor.Sophists were the consultants of classical Greece, providing subject-matter expertise and general counsel across a variety of topics to best meet the needs of their clients. After shutting down Thrasymachus Corporation in 2013, I began a sabbatical of study and service for 2014. Still working as a sole proprietor with a few of my former consulting clients, I took on other projects of interest to focus on community service and personal development through conscious "under-employment." I am blessed to find that, as I grow and deepen at mid-life, much and more of my career is about making a difference rather than mere money.Most positions suspended or phased out during the 2020 pandemic.

Helped a non-profit recover from post-2008 economic shocks, stay alive, become sustainable.Executive director for a fifteen-year-old nonprofit with primary responsibility for six-figure annual budget and all operations during major restructuring. Co-created and streamlined a centralized communication plan with regular status meetings. Used "lean" principles to narrow focus on fundamental tasks and "open book" techniques to simplify and convey budget process more cleanly. Helped reduce personnel expenses by nearly half, mobilizing dozens of volunteer staff, coordinated across two states. Was part of a dynamic outreach team, whose volunteers tripled the number of outreach events to completely fill almost all of our flagship trainings while shepherding the organization toward financial stability and final merger into a larger, national structure.

Successful IT consultant and contractor for the better part of twenty years.Founded own business as a contract technical writer in 1998, just as release of the iMac and OS X created opportunities for someone with Macintosh and Unix experience. Changed company name from RoryBowman.com to MacRory.com, then incorporated in 2003 as Thrasymachus Corporation to bring on employees and function as a small-business incubator. Specializing in integration of systems for non-profits, individuals, small and micro-businesses, my primary job was to serve as IT department and small business advisor to people using Mac OS computers. I helped make sure that hardware, software, people and business processes all worked together to increase pleasure, decrease frustration and improve productivity.Unhappy with changes in the direction of the industry, I gave one year's notice and chose to shut down my corporation fifteen years to the day after my first business license, having supported thousands of users at hundreds of locations. In all that time I never lied to or hurt anyone for money, and never turned anyone away for inability to pay. It was an honor to have served and had the trust of so many kind and interesting people.

Spent a few months inside Seattle's late-90's "dot-com" boom.Contract technical writer and project manager, covering key accounts for woman on maternity leave during transition from InfoSeek to Go.Com after purchase by Disney corporation, primarily in Content Services.

Burned out while doing my best to give back to the public school system which helped make me.Sixth-grade teacher at Gaiser Middle School, team-teaching standard sixth grade one year and in the Challenge program for gifted and talented students. Special emphasis on Visual Math program and Junior Great Books, with an interest in hands-on science, cross-disciplinary social studies and integration of the writing process across the curriculum.

In the interim before grad school, I enjoyed a delightful five-year digression into crime prevention.Worked as dispatcher then as Community Safety Officer and first responder within security department for a residential, private liberal arts college. Obtained a degree in criminal justice as I trained for a supervisory position, including work as crime prevention officer and bringing department into compliance with national Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act (now known as the Clery Act).

Placed by a deeply racist and corporate teacher corps, I tried to do the right thing.Fifth-grade teacher at McDonogh #19 in New Orleans' lower ninth ward. Charter member of Teach for America program, having completed student teacher training in Los Angeles Unified School District at Betty Plasencia Elementary near Echo Park.