Communication scholar, educator, emergency medical technician, and public-service professional working across research, classrooms, technology, and field operations.
Communication scholar, higher-education faculty member, National Registry EMT, EMS instructor, and technology leader with more than two decades of experience. As a partner at IDR Technology Solutions, I also support technology strategy, client relationships, and network and security services. Work spans IT and cybersecurity management, college instruction, New York City 911 emergency care, volunteer ambulance operations, and New York Guard state mission support. Holds EMT credentials in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Brings staff leadership, training design, and technical knowledge management to time-sensitive operations.
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Open résumé PDF ↗Curriculum vitae, teaching philosophy, film and media-production work, doctoral research, and a summary of student evaluations.
Open academic portfolio ↗Teach communication, journalism, graphic design, and digital media courses. Guide students in writing, layout, visual communication, and the production of print and web materials.
Teach professional and technology-oriented coursework, including design, e-commerce, virtual enterprise, and communication for tourism and hospitality contexts.
Provide prehospital basic life support, patient assessment, and transport on urban 911 assignments. Communicate with partner agencies and receiving hospitals, and complete electronic prehospital care reports.
Support S6 communications and IT liaison work, staff knowledge management, personnel accountability, mission documentation, and S1/S3/S4 coordination. Lead a small knowledge-management team and help maintain shared systems, reports, and information workflows. See the service profile.
Teach EMT candidates prehospital assessment, emergency care, and ambulance operations; assess written knowledge and practical skills.
Support voter registration processes, poll-worker recruitment and training, and Election Day operations.
Directed school IT systems serving approximately 360 students and more than 600 devices. Managed networks, security controls, endpoint support, vendors, technology planning, and classroom integration.
Board of Directors, Director of Information Technology, dispatcher, and EMT-B. Support ambulance dispatch, technology policy, security, and coordination with public agencies.
Support client relationships, consultation, network and security administration, and technology project coordination. IDR designs and installs security, access control, surveillance, cabling, Wi-Fi, audiovisual, and IT infrastructure solutions for schools, businesses, and residential properties.
Computer Lab Technician supporting campus computing and instructional technology.
IT Coordinator and Teacher, supporting school technology and classroom instruction.
Provide volunteer emergency medical service and support the Brooklyn community through ambulance dispatch, information technology, communications, and organizational leadership.
Help support Cub Scout activities that encourage teamwork, confidence, preparedness, outdoor learning, and service.
Earned the rank of Eagle Scout and continued involvement in significant Scouting activities.
Doctoral research focused on social construction of meaning, semiotics, and firearm representation in Hollywood film.
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT), with state EMT credentials in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
Qualitative study of how popular films communicate meanings of power, heroism, conflict, identity, and morality through firearms and narrative convention.