at OpenIssue
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Partner, Systems Integration Lead at OpenIssue
- Board Member at NTEN
- Board Member at Aspiration Tech
- Past
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- Principal at Metacentric Technology Advising
- Coordinator at Nonprofit Open Source Initiative
- Consultant at Database Designs Associates
- Vice President for Technology at Database Designs Associates
- President at Ursa Minor Technology Consulting (Self-employed)
- Associate Professor at Hampshire College
- Education
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- Pacific School of Religion
- Case Western Reserve University
- Bennington College
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Michelle Murrain’s Summary
I have worked in the nonprofit technology field for 10 years, focused on helping organizations leverage technology to serve their constituents.
Michelle Murrain’s Specialties:
Planning, implementation, training and evaluation of over all technology uses in organizations. For many years specialized in web and database technologies, open source software, Linux and Macintosh OS. Specialize in Drupal, CiviCRM, and CMS/CRM integration.
Michelle Murrain’s Experience
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Partner, Systems Integration Lead
OpenIssue
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Providing technology consulting including data system and infrastructure implementations (backbone hardware to data migrations), SaaS service roll-outs, business operations analysis and ongoing support services. Our team has broad and deep capacity in web design and information systems, both open source and SaaS. We work with a wide variety of small and medium-sized nonprofits and social enterprise organizations in the San Francisco and New York City areas.
•Business analysis/solution design with from initiation to adoption
•Decision support/expert guidance on technical integration challenges
•Extensive nonprofit work in online fundraising and e-marketing solutions
•Evangelize project objectives gaining buy-in from stake holders
•Broad network of collaborators in all areas of technical consulting -
Board Member
NTEN
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
I am a member of the board.
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Board Member
Aspiration Tech
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
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Principal
Metacentric Technology Advising
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)
MetaCentric Technology Advising will help your organization evaluate whether or not technology is really facilitating your mission. Through visioning, evaluation and training, your organization will be empowered to make appropriate technology decisions, and to look at the ways your use of technology fits into the bigger picture of the community and our planet. If you enter into a process of software or service selection, I can help you evaluate the options based on a wider variety of criteria than is traditional, and facilitate discussions with vendors. If your technology implementation has hit a snag, I can help you navigate your way through the snags, and mediate with vendors, if that's necessary. If you've thought of using open source software, I can help you figure out whether and how to implement it.
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Coordinator
Nonprofit Open Source Initiative
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative fosters the adoption of free and open source software in the nonprofit sector by providing tools for nonprofits to learn about and evaluate free and open source software projects.
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Consultant
Database Designs Associates
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)
Project management, database design and implementation, web application programming.
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Vice President for Technology
Database Designs Associates
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 6 months)
Worked with nonprofit and educational clients on database-driven web applications for mission-based functions.
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President
Ursa Minor Technology Consulting (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 1996 — June 2003 (7 years 1 month)
I worked with nonprofit and educational institutions on dynamic web-based database management systems for a wide variety of organizational and educational functions.
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Associate Professor
Hampshire College
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1989 — June 1999 (9 years 11 months)
I taught Biology and Public Health
Michelle Murrain’s Education
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Pacific School of Religion
CTS , Theology , 2005 — 2006
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Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. , Biology , 1981 — 1987
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Bennington College
1977 — 1981
Michelle Murrain’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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