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Tempe, AZ, US

Tempe, AZ, US

• Convened and advocated sustainable solutions to climate change and other large scale challenges.
• Helped create and fund systems-based scientific research supporting the restoration of the world’s agricultural soils and the creation of resilient food systems.
• Directed sustainability projects and daily business operations.
• Facilitated the educational mission of the organization through feature film and movie short production.
• Coordinated vast network of sustainability resources tackling renewable energy, soil health, animal welfare, and human well-being.
• Enabled and disseminated in every way possible the extremely powerful simplicity of Carbon Nation's focus: returning the world's soils to their naturally productive state through carbon restoration, the side effects.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Collaborated on background research for the book The Future of the Suburban City based on urban sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan region.
• Conducted critical analyses of current and past urban sustainability studies and metrics.
• Formulated and shaped content for hypotheses on the future prospects for arid desert cities in terms of sustainability.
• Generated educational materials for new university curriculum on urban sustainability challenges.

Phoenix, AZ Arizona, US

• Bolstered community awareness and support for permaculture principles.
• Promoted edible Sonoran Desert plants and the power of food to build community.
• Organized and led food harvesting workshops.
• Advanced organization’s social networking presence.
• Authored and published educational materials and newsletter articles.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Designed and advanced bicycling infrastructure in Phoenix including bike share, bike lanes and paths, and connectivity analysis.
• Promoted sustainable urban transportation solutions.
• Presented independent research on sustainable mobility.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Built a world-class enterprise network and set strategic direction for IT infrastructure.
• Managed high-powered network engineering team and multimillion dollar infrastructure budget.
• Aligned business goals for growth, productivity and flexibility with technology directives, budgets, and projects.
• Mentored junior employees for technical and personal development and career advancement.
• Maintained and continually evaluated all major components of existing infrastructure for potential innovation and continuous improvement.
• Guided and streamlined system upgrades, application deployment, customer service, and new technology implementation.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Designed, built, and maintained all major components of network infrastructure including servers, routers, switches, storage area network, firewalls, wireless, MPLS network, layered security, and application support.
• Performed system upgrades, application deployment, and new technology implementation.
• Managed network operations at remote locations through monitoring, third tier support, and rotating 24 hour on-call shifts.
• Led enterprise network projects such as wireless deployment, thin client rollout, laptop encryption, automated software patching, hardware load balancing, and server consolidation.
• Virtualized 90% of network servers on VMWare ESX platform, reducing costs and enabling agile response to rapid business growth.
• Performed complete SAN migration from HP EVA platform to 150TB EMC VMAX system.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Architected a companywide operating system conversion from Windows NT 4.0 and Netware to Windows 2000.
• Built company's Active Directory infrastructure.
• Relocated primary corporate datacenter to a new company headquarters location.
• Engineered IT infrastructure and processes for rapid operations expansion, including the launch of dozens of new locations on a continually aggressive schedule.
• Upgraded entire Microsoft Exchange 5.5 email environment to Exchange 2003.
• Designed and implemented substantial network upgrades including Microsoft terminal servers, firewalls, OWA, VPN, internet monitoring, NLB, antivirus protection, email spam filtering, network management systems, and.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Performed hardware and software maintenance for corporate clients and remote clients and branch locations.
• Operated as second tier support lead responsible for stellar customer service for all end users.
• Provided guidance for helpdesk operations and processes.
• Instituted enterprise-wide antivirus deployment and security procedures and processes.

Certificate, Full Stack Web Development

Master'S Degree, Sustainability Studies

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration