ChiCommons, a worker-owned cooperative helps small and medium size enterprises achieve their highest potential by supporting them with technology and business services. We offer-business services (strategic planning, organizational development, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more)-technology (planning, development, implementation, training, and support)As joint owners, we are motivated to use our centuries of experience and expertise in ensuring your success. We pay it forward by supporting to the cooperative sector and local neighborhoods.

Collaborate on various projects at the P2P Cooperative, current focus on the commons

Assist non-profit organizations, education, business, and government agencies identify and achieve strategic objectives by facilitating organizational and technology planning. Sample contracts: -Reinvigorated local county plan to replace and add to complete infrastructure and Management Information Systems-Primary consultant to Synod of the Southwest on new church-based CyberCafes that is reducing travel costs and increasing communications across all of Arizona and New Mexico.-Restarted languishing educational technology plan at Rio Gallinas School and found significant funding sources to make it possible.

Planning, execution and administration of the school's complex information management systems.-Documented information flow within and between departments-Rebuilt transcript system to expand it from the Registrar's local laptop to a web-based system available to appropriate stakeholders-Acted as liaison between vendors and departments to increase productivity of our systems and add new facilities as released.-Planned and led Project Week trip of 16 students to India for Cultural Exchange, Service Learning, and Outdoor Education with one other Faculty Member

Rebuilt decaying infrastructure with state of the market systems, implemented complete suite of management information systems and initiated multiple technology in the classroom projects.-Innovated in educational technology with programs like ISAS TEDx Youth Day that blended physical/virtual gatherings of students across 4 states in an experiential, technology enhanced, interactive program for them to present their ideas about changing the world-Implemented full suite of Management Information Systems that covered Student Management, Finance and Fund-raising that provided significant improvement in information available to administration for key decisions-Revamped and built entire infrastructure including, completing and centralizing fiber optic network backbone, implementing campus-wide wireless network, increcting Internet connection 20x, and building virtualized server structure as a foundation for above activities and systems-Replaced all workstations on campus and developed on-going workstation replacement policy

Starting from scratch, built and developed communications and technology infrastructure, management information systems and academic technology that made Woodstock the top technology K-12 school in India.-Served on Senior Admin Team during decade of innovation that cemented Woodstock as a world-class educational institution -First school in India after the prodigious India Institute of Technology universities to get Internet broadband connectivity. As a result, Woodstock currently has a 30Mbps connection, more than many US schools-First school in India to implement the Blackbaud Education Edge Student Management System-Selected as Promethean's Interactive Whiteboard premier school-Written up as the "Techiest School in India" by Digit Magazine, India's leading consumer computer magazine at the time.

Provided comprehensive value-added IT sales and services to non-profit sector throughout Los Angeles County, resulting in continued customer requests to move back to the area and provide them service years after selling the business.

Beat previous corporate 'time-to-market' records in getting computers from conception to market by managing design, production and delivery of personal computers for this global corporation.

Built this national distributor from the ground up by directing Product Acquisitions, OEM Services and Technical SupportDeveloped the product lines that propelled this national distributor to the top three distributors in the United States.