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Tyler, Tx, Us

Serving faith-based multi-organizational collaborations to achieve true collective impact through shared vision, shared data, coordinated activities, continuous communication, and operational support. Providing leadership and thought-partnering in the areas of technology, analytics, and finance. Building and growing systems and processes that support collective impact initiatives at scale.

Serving faith-based multi-organizational collaborations to achieve true collective impact through shared vision, shared data, coordinated activities, continuous communication, and operational support. Providing leadership and thought-partnering in the areas of technology, analytics, and finance. Building and growing systems and processes that support collective impact initiatives at scale.

Several small business endeavors and work as an independent contractor. Ventures include web and technology consulting, web portal hosting, law enforcement information management systems, and web product development and sales. These ventures revolve around the core concept that web technologies can help bring ideas to fruition quickly and to an audience ready to stretch boundaries.Recent work also includes providing frontend development and theming for multiple Wordpress sites including municipal government and Chamber of Commerce sites along with commercial web presences. Experience with custom Wordpress theme development, custom post types and taxonomies, CSS, HTML5 responsive design and jQuery.

Tyler, Texas

A trusted senior leader of Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance & Accounting, Facilities, and mentor to programmatic ministry leaders and other areas. $1.2M building renovation project lead to $105K under-budget. Best Christian Workplace Institute culture survey improvement from toxic to healthy in 10 months (3.65 to 4.06). Replaced two core technology systems in seven months with an annual cost savings of $48,000. Established job classification and salary survey systems. Increased program compliance from 5.4% to 91.%. Programmatic ministry improvements with over $80K/year in cost avoidance over 3 years and $50K in cost savings. EOS self-implementor.

Arlington, Texas

Key Senior member of a leading technology team trusted to provide management, leadership, and advice at all levels of the team. Negotiated technology acquisition with $920K in savings. Economy of scale savings of $60K/year in end-user equipment procurement in a centralized fashion. Creative catalyzation and collaboration with peers and teams resulting in a strategic investment in critically overdue key staff roles over a three year, result-oriented plan. Significant process improvements resulting in increased trust and customer satisfaction scores.

Arlington, Texas

Lead technology strategy, direction and management for organization business needs. Ensure alignment of I.T. objectives and programs with international organizational objectives and strategies. Plan and manage $1.8M technology budget, ensuring effective use of resources. Maximize utilization of internal and external resources to achieve organizational goals. Built consensus and implemented project prioritization process with senior leadership ensuring alignment and allocation of resources toward technology projects. Well seasoned executive leadership partnering established through transparent, honest, open communication channels. Thought partnering and leadership to inter-organizational shared services project supporting a second line of business (ministry). Lead business need definition, research, selection and implementation of non-profit Office 365 enterprise deployment. Providing technology and construction leadership in large scale 32,000 sq. foot new facility build-out.

Arlington, Texas

Provided leadership to organizational design and structure changes. Led technical areas of technology organization including IT operations, help desk, software development, database operations, business intelligence. Defined and set technology and architecture standards through excellent team interactions and performance management. Cooperatively led reorganization of I.T. team and resources to achieve alignment with organizational goals, strategies and objectives. Successfully recruited Kingdom-minded, high caliber technology staff to provide management of software development, operations and solution support teams.

Texas

Information Technology Manager with a focus on web application / database development and integration. Primary drivers include creating tools and leveraging technology to link financial investors and prayer partners with Bible translation project teams including mother tongue translators to accomplish the organizational mission and vision.Leverage technologies including: Drupal/WordPress/PHP/MySQL, Web Services, SQL Server Business Intelligence stack, Microsoft Server platforms, VoIP and VMWare server infrastructure

City Of Arlington

* Webmaster: Selected operational and technology direction for web technologies. Managed development team for internal and external web based tools including online tax lookup and 3000+ page municipal government web property.* DBA:Responsible for schema design, database application development and integrations for various applications and platforms. Both operational and strategic direction setting.* Assistant Director:Performed this management role in a variety of business units including I.T. Operations and Application Support/Development. Led ideation through implementation of Data Center rebuild to facilitate increased operational efficiency and reduce risks. Generated and managed operational budgets including use of multi-year bond funds. Increased team staffing levels and quality. Implemented procedures with training to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.* Acting CIO:Filled the vacated position of CIO as part of a lengthy nationwide search for a permanent CIO. Operational budgets, executive accountability, council reporting and operational excellence.

City Of Arlington Police Department

Application developer under a Department of Justice/National Institute of Justice grant. Brought numerous disparate data sources into a single web based application supporting information personalization, full text search, single click links to all primary/foreign key entities, mugshot integration, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) integration, SARA problem resolution methodologies and "find what you know" paradigm.Presented project to large audiences at a number of national and international conferences including the 2000 Police Executive Research Forum annual conference on Problem Oriented Policing. According to Dr. Craig Fraser, PERF's Director of Research, the APD Intranet is one of the most advanced police information tools in the world.http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=183204

* Computer Operator - Night and weekend operations support* Lead Computer Operator - Lead change management implementation for primary change windows. Systems included VAX/VMS, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and more.* Support Analyst II - Second level support for VAX/VMS, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Oracle and Network comunications.* Technical Analyst (Special Projects) - Individually developed web based solution for the collection and reporting of operational SLA statistics. SAS, Unix and ColdFusion development.