Independent IT Consultant

Extensive experience in advising private sector and non-profits in applied IT infrastructure.

• Launched the world's first printed magazine dedicated to exploring social media: The Social Media Monthly - May 2011
• Released "The Big Book of Social Media Case Studies, Stories, Perspectives" through Yorkshire Publishing - Nov. 2010
• Started own company to promote and explore the developing social media industry, with an investigative research focus on applying social media for influencing
conservation policy and performing environmental science data collection
• Created the “Cool Twitter Conference World Tour” series in May 2009 – a series of 1- day conferences focused on the myriad applications and use of Twitter in business and society. The conference has now been held in 18 cities throughout North America and the Middle East including: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, Toronto and Dubai. Details about the conference series can be found at
http://CoolTwitterConferences.com
• Created a 2-day conference called “Government 2.5” focused on the implications for social media’s impact on government at all levels (local, state, federal and international). Issues explored included job creation, governance, healthcare, election processes, improving transparency and citizen participation. Details about this conference can be found at http://Government25.com
• Provided Strategic Planning services to the District Attorney’s Office of Brooklyn, NY
• Advising clients on the use of applied social media
• Recognized in numerous press articles, including a 15-minute nationally aired television
piece by the PBS News Hour (July 22, 2009).

- Responsible for all outreach to IT leadership and departments of InsideNGO's 300 member organizations
- Lead the sharing of information, best practices, opportunities for cooperation among member organizations
- Provide both networking opportunities and training workshops to aid in the professional development of IT staff working for international non-profits
- Responsible for all internal IT infrastructure and development projects

• Responsible for building IT infrastructure throughout CI field offices, includes 50+ offices in 35 countries
• Practical, on the ground work experience in 30+ countries throughout Neo-Tropics, Africa and Asia-Pacific (see last page for complete list)
• Co-manage $9 million annual IT budget
• Established an international team of 25 staff including training and professional
development
• Extensive facilitation experience in strategic planning process including institutional initiatives in information technology, marine conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Experience in fundraising in-kind grants from tech sector (i.e Microsoft, Cisco and ESRI)
• Extensive experience in developing partnerships with international NGOs, government agencies and universities

• Provide technical sales and business development support for the “Mailspinner” product, a carrier class web-based front end for large scale email systems. This includes performing customer presentations, designing and costing full scale solutions including cost/benefit analysis, writing and presenting proposals, and managing post-sales deployments. Customers include large ISPs, telecom carriers and Fortune 1000 corporate clients.
• Act as the intermediary between the sales organization and the product marketing and engineering groups, providing insight and market evaluation of new feature requests and custom development efforts.
• Provide the CMGI parent company with wireless business strategy assessments for the emerging WAP industry. This included performing and publishing a national and international survey of the current technologies and companies throughout the WAP industry.
• Provided training to reseller on marketing, sales and technical aspects of “Mailspinner” in London, Paris, Munich and San Francisco
• Co-authored a business plan for CMGI to enter and deploy WAP services in the Chinese marketplace, included performing an assessment of the wireless strategies for all the CMGI companies.
• Co-authored a business plan for the future of the “Mailspinner” product.

• Managed system integration group, included planning and deploying wireless networks both domestically and internationally. Handled $500,000 budget including hiring and
firing of fulltime and contract personnel.
• Provided pre & post technical sales, including presentations, full customer service and technical support function, systems integration for point to point and point to multipoint direct sequence, spread spectrum ISM band 2.4 and 5.7 GHz T1/E1, 4T1/4E1 products
• Negotiated vendor pricing and qualified 3rd party equipment, antennas, cables, polyphasors, muxes, CSUs, bridges, etc.
• Benchmarked and established performance baselines of wireless networks versus wireline networks to demonstrate performance and price qualities to customers.
• Carried out complete network planning functions for end to end solutions for both small & large scale networks, including establishing customer needs based on requirements and economics, performing site surveys, RF planning, installation & commissioning, technical troubleshooting & relationship building
• Designed, implemented and instructed demos for trade shows & customers, integrated client/server applications i.e. web server & browser, VOIP (Cisco/Selsius equipment), video conferencing applications with ioWave microwave links. Included ISPCON ’98 Spring, Supercomm’98, IDLCON ’98 Spring, CTIA ’98, Telecom ‘98 Fall & ’99 Spring, Intercom ’99

• Project managed three month network deployment field trial of a reverse-link smart antenna applique’ with Bell Atlantic in Philadelphia, worked application and diagnostic
problems with Lucent Series II equipment
• Benchmarked cellular basestation performance with and without smart antenna applique’ for Bell Atlantic field trial • Developed and analyzed test data for comparison of smart antenna vs. 2SSD including reverse signal strength coverage, fast fading performance, handoff boundary location, SINAD, real audio and MTSO statistics
• Developed a phased-in customer service plan to match smart antenna rollout including warranty, training, on-site and in-house depot repair
• Developed field engineering budget for performance of trials
• Organized and supported equipment demonstration at 1997 CTIA trade show

• Performed cell site & MTSO surveying throughout Hanoi, Vietnam and Jakarta, Indonesia
• Led team to Prague, Czech Republic for cellular equipment rework project
• Developed cell site installation manual for fixed wireless equipment • Designed & developed MS-Windows based automated CAD program streamlining creation of cell site installation manuals and price quote process
• Designed, implemented & maintained modernized CAD lab on MS-Windows NT & ’95 platforms
• Implemented a low-cost international real-time audio, video & data conferencing system over TCP/IP network
• Performed network planning for CDPD overlay with AT&T Series I & II, Motorola, and Northern Telecom cellular equipment for North American markets
• Performed network planning and surveying for cell sites & MTSOs throughout Bell South markets
• Provided complete computer support to network planning department