Experience

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  Viewfinder Innovation

  • Founder, Principal Consultant

    • Dec 2022 - Present

    Insisting that technology and the future are at the service of the human experience (and not the other way around). I work with visionary clients to connect their big ideas to the things they need to build and do differently for success in the information age.Areas of expertise include:- Thought Leadership- Masterplanning- Strategic Initiatives- Academic Program Development- Workshops & Stakeholder Facilitation- Assessments- Architectural Programming & Feasibility Studies- Special Reports and Expert Analysis

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  Vantage Technology Consulting Group

  • United States
  • Architecture and Planning
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Principal

    • Oct 2013 - Dec 2022

    Strategic planning, design, and management of projects in audiovisual and communication technologies.

  • Associate Principal

    • Dec 2011 - Oct 2013

    Advising clients and managing projects in institutional technology, ranging from audiovisual system designs to strategic planning.

  • Sr. Consultant

    • 2008 - Dec 2011

    Specializing in advising, conceptualizing, and designing large scale high-technology systems and environments for the classroom, medical, and business sectors including: the interconnection of broadcast studios, distance learning classrooms, press conference and video conference boardrooms, intranet/extranet edge devices, and personal electronics.

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  Acentech

  • Consultant

    • Oct 2001 - Sep 2008

    Lead or contribute to the design of Audiovisual and information systems totaling over $8 million annually. Serve as technical adviser on the two-year marketing initiative to develop a new corporate internet presence. Also participate in the management and training of the newly established CAD drafting department.Project highlights include serving as project lead and designer of an award winning environmentally-friendly sound system for the first LEED certified Gold athletic facility.

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  Dickinson College

  • Carlisle, PA

  • Professor - Physics and Astronomy

    • Jun 1999 - Jun 2001
    • Carlisle, PA

    Taught two 12-hour lab/class sessions, updating the curriculum for modern technology-enabled active learning. Also led all sections of Astronomy and Astrophysics labs. Managed the teaching-assistant and student tutoring programs. Oversaw and facilitated transition into a new science building with technology-rich physics classrooms and a planetarium/observatory complex.

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  NASA

  • Research Intern

    • May 1998 - Sep 1998

    Contributed to the development of two projects: -the GENESIS mission as a systems analyst tasked to design the world’s cleanest lab environment-the Orbital Debris Lab as a simulation programmer developing a computer model for predicting and tracking meteorites trapped in low earth orbit.