- I'm currently on a second leave from Mixrun to continue working in the Federal government, this time as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Education, acting as the Deputy Director of Education Technology. My work is focused on helping the industry during its transition from print to digital. This involves a lot of work on a project called the Learning Registry, which is designed to make federal educational content available in an integrated manner to the public. While at the FCC, we made several recommendations along these lines, so it's nice to now be eating my own dog food, and implementing those recommendations.
- From August 2009 to March 2010, I took a leave from Mixrun to serve as Director of Education for the National Broadband Plan run by the FCC. This work involved developing a national strategy for making use of broadband infrastructure to improve educational outcomes. This work led to a set of findings and recommendations that were published in the National Broadband Plan and sent to Congress in mid-March.
- As consulting principal of Mixrun, I often serve as consulting CTO for a number of projects and organizations. My work spans a broad area including technology, strategy/planning, management, facilitation, financial forecasting and implementation. My focus is on developing technology systems grounded with values of transparency, flexibility and community. Notably I am working with the California Department of Education on a project called Brokers of Expertise, which uses on-line and real world systems to share and build the expertise of educators.*
- Previously, I served as a Program Manager for the Stupski Foundation for six years, where I designed and implemented various grants for technology in K-12 education. I also worked actively across the country with a number of K-12 Districts and other agencies. I also wrote and co-authored a number of articles and papers while there, including this book chapter with Jeff Wayman and Sam Stringfield.
- From 1996 to 2001 I worked as Vice President of Engineering and Software Architect for LoopNet Inc., a commercial real estate listing firm. I designed and built LoopNet's technology and web systems from its inception in 1995 (from napkins). I left the company in early 2001 to get involved with non-profit and philanthropic work. LoopNet remains a successful business and is currently listed on NASDAQ.
- I reside in Berkeley California (though I'm in DC these days because of my work at the US Dept of Education).
- I contribute to several open source software projects including developing a pure Ruby geocoding solution called GeoX, a simple Ruby image library called MojoMagick. I am also an active participant on the Postgres SQL language group. I went to RailsConf 2008 to talk about internet search techniques.
- Addenda/Errata at misuse.org/science * For more on Brokers of Expertise see the articles I wrote for CETPA and First Monday on this subject.
Also this video gives a good explanation of how the system currently works.
