
Client Evangelist at rSmart
Portland, Oregon Area

Client Evangelist at rSmart
Portland, Oregon Area
I work at the intersection of internet technology, business strategy, marketing and communications with deep experience in large and visible public sector organizations. Strong skills in envisioning a different world, making a different world happen, and translating ideas between the 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
Evangelizing, shepherding, wrangling, herding, (en)visioning, communicating: technology, education, non-profit, open source, information architecture, web design.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Ensure client success with the open/community source rSmart Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment, including deployment, configuration, faculty, student and institutional adoption, and teaching and learning, portfolio and collaboration strategy.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Marketing & Communications: Promote rSmart's brand and offerings via online and offline channels.
Product Development: Match rSmart product offerings to market needs.
Partnerships & Business Development: Identify and foster strategic partnerships with customers, professional organizations and other vendors.
Community Relations: Represent rSmart in key open source communities and facilitate greater participation by colleagues. Promote appropriate recognition of rSmart's community contributions.
Knowledge Collateral & Research: Conduct research and develop original works that support rSmart's business strategies and promote its stature as a leading open source solutions provider.
Internal Processes: Standardize and improve the efficiency of rSmart's business processes.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2002 — November 2007 (5 years 11 months)
Direct all web communications strategy, services and technologies for Oregon's largest, most diverse and only urban public university.
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)
October 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 3 months)
Directed all web strategy and services.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1993 — May 1998 (4 years 9 months)
Taught undergraduate courses in the history, technology, and theory of film, television, and digital media in the Department of Modern Culture & Media/Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies.
Designed and taught senior seminars: The Big Picture: Contemporary Hollywood & Social Crisis and US Television and Postmodernity focusing on the social and cultural history of the production, consumption, and technologies of film and television.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MMC; Management Consulting industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Designed and produced digital media for management consulting practice.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KCIN; Management Consulting industry)
May 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 4 months)
Designed and produced digital media for management and financial services consulting practice.
ABD for PhD , Film, Television, New Media, Media History/Economics, Critical Theory , 1992 — 1997
BA , History, Latin American , 1988 — 1990
Liberal Arts