Experience

ChiCommons LWCA

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding member and President

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  ChiCommons, a worker-owned cooperative helps small and medium size enterprises achieve their highest potential by supporting them with technology and business services. We offer-business services (strategic planning, organizational development, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more)-technology (planning, development, implementation, training, and support)As joint owners, we are motivated to use our centuries of experience and expertise in ensuring your success. We pay it forward by supporting to the cooperative sector and local neighborhoods.



P2P Cooperative

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Peer to Peer Collaborator

  • Feb 2005 - Present

  Collaborate on various projects at the P2P Cooperative, current focus on the commons



Steve Ediger Associates, LLC

• Owner

  • Jan 2012 - Mar 2020

  Assist non-profit organizations, education, business, and government agencies identify and achieve strategic objectives by facilitating organizational and technology planning. Sample contracts: -Reinvigorated local county plan to replace and add to complete infrastructure and Management Information Systems-Primary consultant to Synod of the Southwest on new church-based CyberCafes that is reducing travel costs and increasing communications across all of Arizona and New Mexico.-Restarted languishing educational technology plan at Rio Gallinas School and found significant funding sources to make it possible.



The Latin School of Chicago

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Database Administrator

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

  Planning, execution and administration of the school's complex information management systems.-Documented information flow within and between departments-Rebuilt transcript system to expand it from the Registrar's local laptop to a web-based system available to appropriate stakeholders-Acted as liaison between vendors and departments to increase productivity of our systems and add new facilities as released.-Planned and led Project Week trip of 16 students to India for Cultural Exchange, Service Learning, and Outdoor Education with one other Faculty Member



UWC-USA

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Information Technology Director

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2011

  Rebuilt decaying infrastructure with state of the market systems, implemented complete suite of management information systems and initiated multiple technology in the classroom projects.-Innovated in educational technology with programs like ISAS TEDx Youth Day that blended physical/virtual gatherings of students across 4 states in an experiential, technology enhanced, interactive program for them to present their ideas about changing the world-Implemented full suite of Management Information Systems that covered Student Management, Finance and Fund-raising that provided significant improvement in information available to administration for key decisions-Revamped and built entire infrastructure including, completing and centralizing fiber optic network backbone, implementing campus-wide wireless network, increcting Internet connection 20x, and building virtualized server structure as a foundation for above activities and systems-Replaced all workstations on campus and developed on-going workstation replacement policy



Woodstock School

• India
• Education Administration Programs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director, ICT

  • Jul 1996 - Jun 2006

  Starting from scratch, built and developed communications and technology infrastructure, management information systems and academic technology that made Woodstock the top technology K-12 school in India.-Served on Senior Admin Team during decade of innovation that cemented Woodstock as a world-class educational institution -First school in India after the prodigious India Institute of Technology universities to get Internet broadband connectivity. As a result, Woodstock currently has a 30Mbps connection, more than many US schools-First school in India to implement the Blackbaud Education Edge Student Management System-Selected as Promethean's Interactive Whiteboard premier school-Written up as the "Techiest School in India" by Digit Magazine, India's leading consumer computer magazine at the time.



SANDS Associates

• Founder and Owner

  • Jan 1988 - Jan 1996

  Provided comprehensive value-added IT sales and services to non-profit sector throughout Los Angeles County, resulting in continued customer requests to move back to the area and provide them service years after selling the business.



Thomson

• Worldwide Product Manager, Personal Computers

  • Jan 1987 - Jun 1988

  Beat previous corporate 'time-to-market' records in getting computers from conception to market by managing design, production and delivery of personal computers for this global corporation.



Ingram Software

• Director of Product Acquisition (SofTeam/Ingram Software)

  • Jan 1981 - Dec 1986

  Built this national distributor from the ground up by directing Product Acquisitions, OEM Services and Technical SupportDeveloped the product lines that propelled this national distributor to the top three distributors in the United States.