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Professional Portfolio

Here are a few select highlights from my extensive, nearly three-decade-long career as a technology professional.  For even more stuff, check out my LinkedIn profile!

Documents 

IT Operations Kanban Board I built this to address an immediate need for managing projects for my Services Team. This was an attempt to address our limited capacity vs our client demand. It worked well for many years. 

Vendor/Partner DEI Notice  My industry is full of older terms that are no longer appropriate in today’s society, so I built this document to work with our vendors to help address that one step at a time.  Feel free to reuse it however you would like. 

Presentations

Cybersecurity Presentation to Gresham City Council In 2021 I was asked to give a presentation to Gresham’s City Council on the organization’s cybersecurity program.

The Future of IT This is a presentation that I did for my staff in 2017 where we set the direction, scope, and expectations for the future of my department. 

Podcasts

CityTalk “The IT Episode” I was asked by the City of Gresham to participate in an interview about my department’s operations and I even got to bring along my IT Service Manager to talk about some of our major projects. (No dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this podcast…)


Pre 2010 Examples

 

Projects

Evergreen Thin Client/Windows Deployment

In 2001, I led a team in Clark County, Washington to engineer, deploy, and administer a technology project that involved approximately 7,000 network nodes spread across 32 sites. The primary objective of the project was to replace the old Macintosh and Windows 98 infrastructure with a commercial Windows XP/2000 deployment, which would provide ubiquitous access to technology resources for both staff and students, lower costs, improve the overall user experience, and standardize support. Key elements of the project included deploying almost 3,000 thin client terminals using Citrix 1.8x, which were later migrated to XPe during the 24-month implementation period. The project affected every level of the organization and resulted in the successful deployment of more than 100 servers in a new centralized data center.

70 Terminal Servers in the Racks (to the Left)

Overall View of the Data Center – 1 Terabyte NAS (Near the Center)

Backup Systems including DVD Archival Tower (Lower Right)

Presentations

Six Minute Presentation – You have six minutes in the public forum to impart everything the Board of Supervisors needs to know about your department… GO!!

BoS Worksession Presentation – A presentation for my Board of Supervisors discussing my business methodology.

HEC CRM Project – An introduction to the Customer Relation Management project under development for the Hampshire Educational Collaborative.

AESA 2006 Presentation – This was for a talk  I gave at the annual Association of Educational Service Agencies national convention. I spoke about Open Source alternatives to commercial software for infrastructure development.

Writing

I have done a fair amount of writing and presenting around technology and below you will find links to a couple of my favorite articles that have been reprinted on the web.

Cut Costs With Computing – School Planning & Management Magazine (April 2003) “What if there were a way to triple the number of administrative computers in your district without tripling the cost? Take a look at the numbers and consider Thin Client computing.”

Energy and Technology – eSchool News (August 2001)
“How to Reduce the power consumption of your district’s technology system.”

 


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