John Dehlin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

OpenCourseWare Consortium Director

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a network of over 100 universities and non-profits worldwide, working to promote the open sharing of university course materials via the Internet. As Consortium Director, my responsibilities include:

• Working with Consortium members to develop the OCWC Strategy
• Devise and execute on a Consortium governance structure
• Work w/ Consortium members to design, build and manage Consortium online sites and community, including the consortium portal, forum and wiki.
• Manage Consortium $500,000 annual budget
• Plan and manage the semi-annual OCWC conferences (one international, one domestic)
• Extensive speaking and recruiting of new Consortium members

 

Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

Logan, UT

Funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the NSF, COSL seeks to promote the open sharing of educational resources on the Internet through projects like OpenCourseWare via a $1M+ annual education grant.

Director of Outreach

• Worked along side MIT, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and others to promote OpenCourseWare to universities worldwide.
• Worked to bring Notre Dame, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wheelock College, University of Klagenfurt (Austria), and others into the OpenCourseWare consortium.
• Provided customer support, feedback, and feature set prioritization for eduCommons--a Plone-based OpenCourseWare management system.
• Worked along side MIT to create the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
• August, 2006 completion of an M.S. in Instructional Technology (4.0 GPA). Emphasis on
  Web 2.0 technologies-- Blogs, Podcast, Wikis, Social Software and Commons-Based Peer Production.

 

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WA

Business Manager to Vice President of the Developer Division (S. Somasegar)

• Provided strategic and tactical support to Soma in his management of a several thousand person organization, responsible for the entire Microsoft development platform, including Visual Studio and .NET.
• Helped drive and coordinate everything from business strategy, "people review" (organizational leadership), executive reviews with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, Human Resource issues, Budget, Headcount, Speech Writing, etc.
  

 

Speech Writer to Group Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Services (Orlando Ayala)

• Wrote speeches and coordinated keynotes/presentations for Orlando Ayala.
• Speeches given in over 40 countries in forums as large as 15,000 people.

 

Technical Evangelist for Speech Recognition Technologies (Kai-Fu Lee)

• Evangelized Microsoft speech recognition technologies to partners and customers. Presented speech recognition demos on stage with Kai-Fu Lee and others.
• Worked with Cisco, Speechworks and others to form the "SALT Forum."

 

Director of DemosRUs Team (Director over a 25 person organization)

• Founded and managed a team responsible for developing technical sales materials. demos for the worldwide Microsoft sales force. Awarded General Manager award.
• Presented demos on stage with executives like Steve Ballmer and Jeff Raikes for product launches, sales meetings, customer events, etc.

Technology Consultant

Chicago, IL and
Salt Lake City, UT

Provided Visual Basic, SQL Server, and Visual Basic for Applications consulting to Fortune 500 customers.

Developer

• Customers included the John Nuveen Company, Citicorp, Arthur Andersen and the LDS Church.
• Received the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) certification.

 

Arthur Andersen

Chicago, IL

Arthur Andersen (now defunct) was the #1 tax and audit firm in the world.

Associate Consultant

• Worked in the corporate world headquarters for AA in the Tax and Technology group.
• Lotus Notes development, desktop and LAN support to field offices.
  

 

Bain & Company

Dallas, TX

Bain provides strategic management consulting to Fortune 500 companies.

Associate Consultant

• Continental Airlines: Worked on various projects, including inventory provisioning, call center staffing, and strategic market analysis.
• Helped in the merger of Lockheed & Martin Marietta.