My nom de guerre for business and political consulting. Recently I've been press secretary for a Cambridge City Council campaign, political flunky for hire, and done a bit of marketing consulting. Less recently, I've worked on business plans, e-commerce consulting, web useability audit, and a Portland mayoral campaign. I'm also doing more freelance writing.
Managed all marketing, contract negotiation, account management, strategic planning, fundraising, PR, and business development for $3.65M revenues e-commerce company in Portland, Oregon. Signed major accounts including Sony Entertainment, HBO, Viacom Consumer Products (Paramount Pictures) and King Features, among others. Raised $568K of capital in 2002 based on $2.5M trailing revenue at full asking valuation of $9M. 3rd fastest growing private company in Oregon (2003); 10th fastest growing private company in Oregon (2002); 50th fastest (2001). 100 Best Companies to Work For (Oregon Business Magazine, 2002).
Managing a half million dollar operating budget, 14 staff (about 8 FTE), and technical/strategic issues for community network with 6000 dial-in and 6000 telnet-only users, in Lane County, Oregon. Hands-on manager, working extensively with activist/operational board. Community liaison to many groups, some fundraising, building partnerships, negotiating joint projects. Currently focussing on technical/strategic issues, website, and our defense of community networking with the IRS, since the hire of a second manager within the organization. Laid off in late August due to continuing shortfalls -- continuing as key volunteer.IRS work includes coordination of national campaign for community networks, which continues on a volunteer basis. Clips include NY Times, Business Week, NPR and PRI newsmagazines, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and other publications. See also Publications and Professional vitae.
My ex-husband's and my side business, defunct. Providing Internet/intranet consulting, including web design services, marketing, and training. Reference sites upon request -- many have been substantially updated and altered since we handed them off.
Responsible for pro-active network management strategies/implementation for LANs and WANs, including campus network, metropolitan network and state-wide network. Technologies monitored include 10base{various}, fast ethernet, FDDI, and ATM; protocols focussed on TCP/IP but network includes many Novell servers, Macintoshes, some large DECNet machines. Working on integration of operations, network help desk, and network operations, to provide the best level of service for the University community. Member of webmaster group. Project cancelled.
Provided multiprotocol support for campus network. Assisted LAN administrators. Monitored campus spine -- planned and implemented UNC-NOC (network operations center) with SNMP platforms and cross-campus coordination. CERT/Internet security contact. Hostmaster. Internet contact with whois, etc. Provided full LAN consulting from physical level to user application assistance as required. Reported directly to Director of OIT Systems Division. Participated in gopher and web development groups for department, including main pages and sunsite (now ibibio) projects, as well as the now defunct launchpad.unc.edu community network project.1990-1992
Supported network of Sun workstations, Stardent minisuper, Macs, and Intel PCs. Started campus wide Novell Admin Group (UNC-NAG). Supported varied R&D needs of research (Unix and Mac) environment. Trained and supported secretarial staff in using Novell and networked applications.
Supported network of Intel PCs and trained and supported secretarial staff in new technologies. Data analysis in Datatrieve. Supported research executives in various forms of computing on VAX computers.
Founded and coordinated VAXSyM user group; produced wishlist from user group to Information Systems directors; produced implementation plan, budget, level of service agreement, and business plan. Negotiated funding with budget office and VP's of Information Systems, Finance, and Sr. VP. Negotiated major contracts with DEC, and facilitated contracts through MIT legal offices. VRC opened for business 13 months after first proposal.1985-1986Interviewed and hired staff, negotiated staff expansion; set up office procedures; directed production of marketing materials; produced documentation and monthly newsletter. Provide software and hardware support for DEC equipment users (VMS &Ultrix) on campus. Negotiated site licenses with third party software vendors. Facilitated VMS sites to come onto campus network (TCP/IP). Consultant to usergroups on campus, including Mac and PC usergroups. Brought in first year under budget. Facilitated transition from entrepreneurial to regular operations.
The VRC was the first "intrapreneurial" venture at MIT, and continues as a successful component of the central computing infrastructure, ten years later.
Responsible for system management; operating system, network and layered product integrity, software updates for three VAXes running VMS. (2) 11/785's; (1) 11/750. Applications included MIT's Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Budget, Office of Sponsored Programs, Chart of Accounts, and General Ledger systems. Systems linked by T1 lines to offices in administrative building one mile away; responsible for all programmer training and support and some end user support.
Included work for over one year as Chief Software Engineer/Prototype Applications at DEC Educational Services. Database design for DEC VAR. X.25 Satellite Communications Server for ComputerVision (Sun Workstation, Berkeley 4.2).
Supported software and worked with delelopers to correct bugs in real time electron beam lithography device. Maintained extensive trouble report database. Revision control and compliance testing on pending releases. Field engineer: software installations, debug, and modifications, and user training at client sites. System manager for engineering group's VAX. Assisted in ergonomic/user-interface design of new 68000-based generation of the device.
Supervised, hired, fired, and trained pool of 15-20 data entry and operations personnel. Consultant to software hotline. Trained clients on computer operations (DG Eclipses and Novas).
(Temporary, Full Time 8 months) QA, debug, maintenance and documentation of new membership/contributions tracking system on CDC Cyber 6600/75 at U/Mass. Directed conversion to new system and trained staff. Coordinated volunteers for fund drives. Prepared books for three year audit by Coopers & Lybrand.