Ministerial Experience & Skills

• Helped to found and affiliate Cityside Spiritual Community, a Center for Spiritual Living.
• Sits on the Board of Cityside Spiritual Community and provides guiding input on the overall direction of the community.
• New Thought class instruction at the Bodhi Spiritual Center and Cityside Spiritual Community.
• Creation and presentation of workshops targeted at a specific spiritual subject, such as visioning, psychological topics, and body centered spirituality.
• Inspiring and dynamic New Thought talks (see the Portfolio section for a sampling of my past talks).
• Applies an attitude of continuous improvement to the Science of Mind and New Thought core principles, with the goal of evolving and modernizing our teachings.
• Implemented and evolved the Cityside Livestreaming program, allowing for realtime, hybrid livestreaming of services to both YouTube and Facebook simultaneously.
• Set up new digital sound system for the Cityside sanctuary, allowing for direct sound in the Livestream as well as for the in-person audience. 

Chicago Public Schools | Manager of Identity and Access Management

Nov 2016 to Present

• Leads a team of three full time engineers and one vendor contractor supporting the overall CPS identity management infrastructure. 
• Works directly with managers, directors, and chiefs to gather requirements and leverage the IAM infrastructure to achieve desired outcomes. 
• Architected and lead the CPS Google Classroom Remote Learning project, which ensured that every teacher and student had an automatically generated Google Classroom ready for School Year 2020-2021. This allowed our students and teachers to easily connect during Covid-19 remote learning and was instrumental in the District’s ability to ensure our students have a high quality, equitable education. This project created over 100,000 new Google Classrooms through automation and had to overcome a number of systemic hurdles due to the limitations of Google Classroom and Google’s API infrastructure. 
• Supports the ongoing Google Classroom Integration project to bring more seamless integration between the District’s Student Information System and Google Classroom. 
• Supports and co-architects the District’s Curriculum Equity Initiative, a multi-year program designed to bring high-quality digital curriculum to the entire District, supported by automated rostering and single sign-on (SSO). 
• Supports the District in its overall Covid-19 response plan where necessary. 
• Advises on the overall IAM strategy for the District. 
• Provides top-tier Information Security and Investigation support. 

Chicago Public Schools | Access and Identity Management Team Lead

July 2014 to Oct 2016

• Lead and empowered the team supporting and maintaining the District’s Active Directory, GAFE, IAM, Sharepoint and automation environments.
• Played a key role driving the transition of CPS Windows servers from Server 2003 to Server 2008 and above.  Worked closely with application owners and teammates to ensure a smooth migration of all involved systems.
• Collaborates closely with multiple internal and external business partners to securely integrate new technologies into the CPS Active Directory environment.
• Worked closely with Google and internal CPS departments to roll out Google Hangouts chat and video conferencing to the district’s teachers and staff in a way that complies with the Illinois Open Records laws.  This included working with Google to implement the Forced On-the-Record feature, enabling Hangouts to be archived in Google Vault.
• Works closely with Google to roll out new features, test new code, improve support processes, and bring training and technical knowledge to CPS teachers and staff.
• Provides robust and timely eDiscovery services and direction for the CPS Law and FOIA teams.
• Develops and enforced security policy within the IAM infrastructure with the help of the CPS InfoSec team and independent audits.  
• Provides innovative professional development for my team, including communication and project management skills.

July 2013 to July 2014

• Worked closely with my teamates to improve all aspects of service, from account provisioning to patching to system upgrades.
• Designed and implemented a 1:1 organizational structure to empower technology coordinators at schools to develop their own GAFE policies.
• Built out the CPS System Center Orchestrator environment to provide additional automation tools.
• Migrated existing CPS .NET and Powershell automation off of aging, unsupported systems.  
• Developed additional Powershell automation to streamline repeatable tasks.  
• Learned existing Microsoft Identity Manager environment from scratch with no documentation, then updated existing documentation to ensure operational continuity.
• Promoted a number of domain controllers in multiple domains as part of the District’s Active Directory upgrade project.
• Worked with multiple teams to successfully diagnose and triage major incidents impacting District IT systems.

July 2008 to July 2013

• Designed and built out Midland’s Hyper-V 2012 environment, including zoning and provisioning Netapp storage LUNs in a highly-available Cluster Shared Volume configuration.
• Administered Midland’s storage area network, comprised of HP and Netapp fiber-attached storage arrays.
• Lead administrator for the company’s messaging and archiving environments, including Exchange 2010 and Symantec Enterprise Vault.
• Lead Backup Exec administrator; performed multiple Backup Exec upgrades and migrations, including integration with Quantum virtual tape library hardware.
• Administered and built out Sharepoint 2010 for the company.  
• Created and managed robust workflows within Sharepoint to completely automate archiving and tagging of scanned purchase orders and pick tickets using KnowledgeLake and ReadSoft software.  
• Racked and stacked servers, cabled servers and switches, and triaged servers when hardware failed.

Identity Management Institute

Six Sigma Green Belt

University of Illinois BIS