About

What I Do

• Messaging and collaboration, information technologies
• Marketing communications
• Instructional design, technical training
• Community development, strategic planning and analysis
• Product, program, and project management

What I've Been Doing Recently

2012 Portland, Oregon

• Community organizing, community and public relations, volunteer engagement and leadership development, program management.

2011 Portland, Oregon

• A situation audit and portfolio assessment identifying information systems, business processes, applications, services, and associated human resources unique to and common among a unique federation of not-for-profit organizations in Greater Portland.
• Pro-bono marketing communications, web and graphic design for a small not-for-profit organization.
• Technical writing for ForgeRock (open source Identity Management, Access, Authentication and Authorization.)
• Research and experimentation with a variety of messaging and collaboration applications, technologies and frameworks.

2010 New York, New York and Portland, Oregon

• Development of public classes for Oracle Corp., covering Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite.
• Observation of developments in Government 2.0 and the Open Government Directive.
• Strategic planning for a venture in online public participation.
• A little experimentation with iOS.

2009 Carmel-by-the-Sea, California and New York, New York

• Workshop design - aptitudes and personal practices for sustainable transformation - in partnership with Lisa A. Berkley (international policy studies, transitional justice and counter terrorism - teacher of emotional and spiritual intelligence using principles of alternative medecine as a tool for conflict resolution.)
• Custom Sun Communications Suite workshop development. Preparation for delivery of online seminars covering Virtualization and Cloud Computing concepts.
• Software product development and marketing consulting. Copy writing. Storyboard development. On behalf of Security Mentor (innovative security awareness training, online.)
• Workshop and courseware development (including "Sun Java Communications Suite: Operations and Maintenance" public instructor-led classroom training.)
• Experimentation with various content management systems.
• Strategic planning. Consideration of additional technologies to add to core competencies.

2008 Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

• Development and delivery (classroom and online) of Sun Java Communications Suite support readiness training for Sun Microsystems' technical support engineering teams, worldwide.
• Political campaign leadership (various local, state, and national campaigns.)