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Founding board member. Responsible for administration, book and record keeping, compliance, fund raising, grant writing, program management, social media and volunteer coordination. Recipient of Honoraria Art Grants from Burning Man, Ignition Northwest, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Country Fair and Willamette Light Brigade.

• Providing technical consultation aligning IT needs and business goals. Partnering with business owners to provide recommendations and budgets for existing technology needs and future projects. Working closely with stakeholders across all levels of a business to ensure the best solutions are employed.• Formulated SMART IT goals, planed IT budgets, analyzed and reworked business processes and facilitated technology changes for a variety of different business types.• Worked with customers to plan a technology roadmap, identify opportunities to use new technology tools, and developed implementation projects.• Collaborated with both my clients and Convergence technical support staff of network engineers, administrators, and help desk technicians to manage wide-ranging projects.• Supported the development of the clients Cybersecurity strategy.• Supported the development of client’s IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Providing technical consultation aligning IT needs and business goals. Partnering with business owners to provide recommendations and budgets for existing technology needs and future projects. Working closely with stakeholders across all levels of a business to ensure the best solutions are employed. Advocate for SaaS solutions, Private/Public/Hybrid cloud solutions, and IaaS platforms. Searching for unique solutions to a wide variety of client needs.

Manage a staff of 10 -15 people, including scheduling, payroll, employee review meetings and hiring. ● Review daily sales numbers. Check for errors and reconcile all receipts to ensure accuracy for bank deposits. Cross reference against the POS to maintain an accurate inventory.● Redesigned website, researched, developed and implemented a new website with an integrated ecommerce feature. Managed two subsequent redesigns and updates to the website.● Researched, selected and implemented an inventory management and POS system. The new system streamlined purchasing, increased profit margins, synced with the website to ensure up to date product availability.● Sales Manager. Collaborate with the owner of the company to set prices of merchandise, sales goals, research industry trends, formulate sales procedures and managed major commercial accounts.● Purchasing Manager. Worked directly with the owner to manage all incoming inventory,purchase orders, and inventory tracking to ensure proper revenue margins and monthly sales targets.● Business development. Added a new revenue stream to the business salvaging, and purchasing reclaimed lumber.

● Transitioned the company from Windows XP to Mac OSX due to the constraints of the new point of sale system.● Manage the network, including running Cat5 to new office spaces, extending wireless coverage using Access points, Firewall configuration, VPN access for two locations, and LAN for both locations using SOHO and SMB networking gear (Ubiquiti)● Experience with hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting in Windows 7 and later, Mac OSX and OSX server● Maintain, upgrade and service all workstations, cameras, laptops, printers and mobile devices at two different retail locations● Developed and implemented company IT security policy. Including PCI-DSS compliance, password managers, new passwords on rotation, eliminating the use of USB thumb drives, and assigning appropriate user permissions to ensure network security