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St. Louis, Missouri

Provide Higher Education clients with a unique combination of business acumen, higher education expertise, technical know-how and professional planning. Serve as the technology leader, the translator, and the trusted advisor to senior management. Provide expertise in all aspects of technology infrastructure, instructional and administrative computing, and.

Mcpherson, Kansas

• Serve as the Chief Executive Officer of a consortium of 6 private liberal arts colleges. Direct all consortium activities including employment of staff, preparation and management of budgets and expenditure of funds..
• Successfully migrated a 6 College ERP data center to a hosted/cloud environment.
• Negotiated 6 institution health insurance pool contract, achieving excellent premium rates and cost containment.
• Managed information technology campus evaluations for all six consortium colleges
• Negotiated five-year contracts for ERP maintenance and enhancements. Developed and secured financing.
• Facilitated a process to develop strategic alignment between the consortium and member colleges.

Pittsburg, Kansas

• Oversee campus-wide technology and information systems for this public university, including a state-of-the-art network utilized by 7,000 students and 1,100 faculty / staff. Hold full-scale responsibility for resource.
• Re-organized existing Office by restructuring operations based on customer service goals and implementing a team-oriented approach to application development to achieve optimized end-user support and eliminate critical.
• Expertly secured $200K+ in annual grants for past four years.
• Working with university faculty developed and implemented a plan for the evaluation, selection and deployment of a new university wide Learning Management System.
• Effectively managed multiple infrastructure and procedural changes, to include implementing gigabit Ethernet backbone, learning management systems, and network file sharing as well as multiple resource management.
• Planned and coordinated system evaluation and major upgrade of Datatel-based ERP.

Overland Park, Kansas

• Held accountability for spearheading Education Markets Group, overseeing 14-member team of technology developers and market managers as well as guiding multimillion-dollar business development objectives, product.
• Triggered significant business development growth, driving revenue from $30 to $110M in three years by aligning Sprint products / resources with needs of the K-12 and higher education markets.
• Successfully guided the development of a new Internet-based educational community of practice for a non-profit foundation, to include coordinating prototype / beta testing for market trial.
• Completed comprehensive analysis to develop position papers and marketing strategies based on the application of DSL technologies in leading university institutions and higher education at large.
• Guided development and execution of the Universal Service Fund Schools and Libraries Program called e-rate, positioning Sprint as a national leader in the education market. Show less

Overland Park, Kansas

• Brought on board to forge market penetration and steer business development within the education market. Trained and led education market managers, providing guidance in account acquisition, development, and management.
• Played key role in connecting technology and education by forging partnerships with major school districts, developing education-related products / services, and developing research / position papers on technology.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Oversaw all business operations for the MIT Telecommunications Department. Developed and managed billing and service provisioning systems. Provided leadership for telecommunications and data networking services /.
• Expertly reorganized the department and staff resources to realize better levels of service while reducing operating costs by 20%.
• Successfully project managed multiple, large-scale telecommunications system / infrastructure development and deployment projects, including PBX, ISDN, and LAN technology, to achieve technical objectives within.
• Led impact and analysis studies utilized in determining tariff / rate structures and vendor selection. Show less

Lynchburg, Virginia

• Director, Communications Services, July 1986 to August 1989Selected to strategize and execute campus-wide telecommunications and data network infrastructure implementation utilized by 6,000 students while establishing.
• Credited with… Show more Director, Communications Services, July 1986 to August 1989Selected to strategize and execute campus-wide telecommunications and data network infrastructure implementation utilized by 6,000.
• Credited with developing and implementing innovative Student Long Distance resale program, including a PC-based system utilizing real-time data processing for student billing; system later adopted by other universities.
• Earlier success includes serving as Budget Planning Analyst from May 1985 to June 1986. Show less

Doctor Of Education (Abd), Educational Leadership

Advanced Graduate Study, Educational/Instructional Technology

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Science Education / Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Environmental Biology