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The TECedge Team:
TECedge has a cadre of knowledgeable and capable practitioners to address your specific needs. Here is a summary of the background and experience of TECedge's
team members:
Marcia Kaplan, Principal (mkaplan@tecedge.net):
Marcia Kaplan has over 23 years of experience in all facets of the technology industry. In her 15 years consulting to education, Ms. Kaplan has worked with Broward County, FL; Connecticut Community Colleges, CT; Colorado Springs, CO; Detroit, MI; Everett, MA; Glendale, CA; Green Bay, WI; Lee County, FL; Miami-Dade, FL; Medford, MA; Mineola, NY; New Hampshire Department of Education; New York, NY; and Philadelphia, PA, as well as many smaller school districts. Her expertise includes:
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administrative / instructional technology audits and strategic / tactical technology planning
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analysis of IT operational processes, organizational
restructuring, staff capabilities, and technical support / service delivery
models
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technology procurement assistance for administrative and
instructional applications including needs assessment, requirements
definition, and bid specifications
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curriculum improvement planning and curriculum / technology integration
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project management for large-scale technology audit, planning, and implementation projects
Ms. Kaplan holds a Bachelor of Arts in History at Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education where she concentrated in Technology in Education and Language and Literacy.
Stephen Kelley, Principal (skelley@tecedge.net):
Stephen
Kelley has extensive experience providing technology consultation and
implementation services to schools, school districts, state departments of
education, public libraries, and higher education institutions throughout
the U.S. for over 25 years. He has worked with: Archdiocese of Chicago, IL; Boston, MA, Broward County, FL; California State University, CA; Connecticut Community Colleges, CT; Colorado Springs, CO; Detroit, MI; Green Bay, WI; Los Angeles, CA;, Massachusetts Public Higher Education Libraries, MA; Medford, MA; Miami-Dade, FL; New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation, NJ; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Prince Georges County, MD; Rockbridge Regional Library, VA; and Seattle, WA; West Virginia Higher Ed, WV; as well as numerous state departments of education including GA, MA, NH, and NJ. His expertise includes:
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E-rate planning, procurement, application filing, and compliance audits
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technology procurement assistance for administrative, instructional, and
decision support applications including needs assessment, requirements
definition, and bid specifications
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data, voice, and video network designs and bid specifications, including
LANs, WANs, Internet access, Ethernet, Web, client/server, analog and
digital video, Centrex/PBXs, and building wiring
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strategic and tactical technology planning and budgets, including implementation plans
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technology and organizational audits / assessments, including
administrative audits, WAN assessments, and review of statewide
technology standards
Mr. Kelley earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from UCLA.
John Coster (jcoster@tecedge.net):
John W. Coster specializes in project and engagement management and is a nationally recognized expert with nine years of experience in strategic planning, information and network systems design, technology planning, project management and the integration of technology into education. Mr Coster spent an additional nine years as a management consultant and project manager with one of the most respected consulting and systems integration providers in the southeast United States. While at this organization, he designed, managed, and deployed large data center implementations, enterprise information applications and network implementations for major financial, retail, health care, manufacturing and governmental clients. As a result of his respected status Mr. Coster has participated in numerous regional and national panels dealing with educational technology and funding strategies including E-Rate.
Prior to his 18 years in consulting, Mr. Coster served 12 years in school administration and is a certified superintendent, holding an Masters Degree in education administration from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Eric Esteves (eesteves@tecedge.net):
Eric Esteves runs an IT consulting business, The Esteves Group, which provides Web and IT strategy services (planning, design, hosting, etc.) for small businesses and non-profit organizations. He currently serves as Program Director of the TechBoston Consulting Group for the Boston Public Schools where he manages a student-run, school-to-career program that provides cost-effective services to businesses and hands-on work opportunities for students. In this capacity, he recruits students and clients, develops programmatic resources, and manages Web and IT projects.
Mr. Esteves previously worked as project manager for a leading educational consulting and IT architecture firm, where his responsibilities included knowledge management, professional development and project management office (PMO) coordination. His engagements included urban school districts across the country, including Miami-Dade County Public Schools (FL), Broward County Public Schools (FL), and Colorado Springs School District 11 (CO). He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems and a M.S. in Information Systems, both from Northeastern University.
Scott Garren (sgarren@tecedge.net):
Scott Garren has over 30 years experience in delivering information technology solutions to business, industry, and K-12 education with a focus on designing and implementing educationally effective computer and network systems. Mr. Garren has provided E-rate consulting services to the Boston Public Schools, Archdiocese of Boston, and Colorado Springs School District 11. He was a project leader for the Mass Ed Online statewide technology plan as well as for the City of New Haven and the City of Boston planning projects. Mr. Garren led the development of the State of Connecticut's School Building Technology Infrastructure Standards. He is the author of various reports on information technology topics, including local and wide area network design and system security. He earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bob Howell (bhowell@tecedge.net):
Dr. Robert (Bob) Howell has over 35 years of experience in both private and public schools and in corporate healthcare. His work has included leadership in consulting with private and public entities in developing programs for children and adults with education and or mental health needs. He has been a practicing principal in the elementary and secondary settings, and has lead large district-wide initiatives in curriculum and instruction. He has conducted workshops, trainings and in-service in the US and Mexico. His major focus has been students at risk, including research findings, application of research to programs, program development, research and evaluation.
Most recently Dr. Howell was placed in charge of a District-wide initiative to implement Response to Intervention (RtI) in a public school setting to increase student achievement for sub-groups impacting Average Yearly Progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As part of this initiative, Dr. Howell secured funding for the evaluation and research of RtI with nationally known researchers that is now in process.
John Kerr (jkerr@tecedge.net):
Dr. John Kerr worked in
School District 11, Colorado Springs, Colorado for thirty-seven years as
Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, Executive Director of the $210 million
Bond Implementation Program, Executive Director of Curriculum and
Instruction, Executive Director of twenty-one schools K-12, elementary
principal, and elementary and adult education teacher. After retirement, he
served as Chief Human Capital Officer for an education technology consulting firm. He holds a
Doctorate and Masters degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado where he focused on strategic planning, educational administration, curriculum
development, and counseling/guidance. His undergraduate work was in
elementary education and library science.
Richard Kesner (rkesner@tecedge.net):
Dr. Richard M. Kesner serves Northeastern University as an Executive Professor in the Department of Information, Operations and Analysis within the College of Business Administration. Prior to his Northeastern assignment, Dr. Kesner served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of an IT strategy and architecture firm working with K-12 public education systems. He has also served as a senior IT executive for Northeastern University, MetLife, Babson College, Multibank (now part of Bank of America), and the Faxon Company.
Dr. Kesner is a well established member of the higher education community with extensive experience with all aspects of university information systems and operations. As part of his ongoing work in data and knowledge management, he has led a twenty-six state effort to assess the needs and design solutions for State Education Agency (SEA) decision support systems (DSS). In this regard, Dr. Kesner has architected data integration, unique student/education ID, and data warehousing and analytics solution sets for both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.
Dr. Kesner holds CLU and ChFC certifications from The American College, a M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and an A.B. and M.B. from Oberlin College. He has also completed post-doctoral training in finance and strategic planning at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles and nine books, including his most recent publication from Auerbach, The Hands-On Project Office: Guaranteeing ROI and on Time Delivery Office (2004). His current hands-on consulting and research interests focus on eCommerce, knowledge, identity, and data management within educational organizations and across associated vertical market spaces.
Jan Miele (jmiele@tecedge.net):
Jan Miele has been designing visual communications for more than a decade, including corporate identity, marketing materials, packaging, display ads, product literature, Web sites, trade show displays, and more-through all phases from initial concept through final production.
Prior to starting the design firm of Miele-Fleury Graphics, Ms. Miele was a computer programmer and then senior software engineer with Software Research Corporation in Needham, MA, and with Pegasystems in Cambridge where she did software development and installations of large database applications for the banking and financial industry. She is also a licensed Private Pilot (single engine land).
With a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Oberlin College and a Masters in Art History from the University of Missouri-Columbia, fine arts training, and years of experience as a computer programmer, Ms. Miele brings a blend of skills to graphic design that is at once aesthetic and technical, practical and academic-experience particularly well-suited to Web design with its demand for a combination of technical understanding and a grasp of the visual arts. In addition to the purely aesthetic aspects of a Web site, the analysis of site content and structure as well as needs analysis of functionality and usability are of particular interest to her.
Sandy Patton (spatton@tecedge.net):
Ms Patton is a highly experienced school library media and technology specialist/administrator and a broad-based educator with 39 years experience in K-12 education. She retired as Executive Director of Learning Resource Services in Colorado Springs School District 11 where she recently served as Project Director for their Response to Intervention (RtI) Initiative. Sandy was selected as Educator of the Year for Colorado Springs School District 11, was awarded the SIRS Media Specialist of the Year from the Association of Educational Communications and Technology, and was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Colorado Educational Media Association.
She holds degrees from the University of Alabama (library science), University of Colorado (educational media & technology), and University of Denver (administrator licensure).
Key areas of strength are Response to Intervention (RtI), professional development, information literacy, 21st Century learning, educational reform, standards-based learning, strategic and organizational planning, and project management.
Ms. Patton is a frequent presenter at state, regional and national conferences such as Technology in Learning, Association for Educational Communications & Technology, T + L, CoSn, and NASSP. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Educational Communications & Technology Foundation and has served leadership positions with local, state, regional, and national organizations, frequently serving as an officer.
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