New Cohort, New Member

Maybe the first thing to know about me is that I love my job.

I manage a mighty team of creatives within the Network Technology department of T-Mobile. Together, we design, develop, and deploy what has been observed to be some of the most advanced data warehousing work in the business. Recently, I was privileged to lead a collaborative effort involving eight different vendors and five internal designers, working with hundreds of terabytes of data, to fulfill an enterprise initiative that produced meaningful, actionable results. It’s pretty exciting stuff. We have a lot of fun.

While the technology is fascinating, what really energizes me about the work is the concept building, the process design, and the structural methods used to invoke the genius of the collective team. That’s really the heart of it for me: the collective, the team, the community. I am primarily interested in the ways we are together, the way we build and advance the ways/means/products of our togetherness.

My master’s degree is in Applied Behavioral Science from a program that emphasizes study in organizational systems. I carry with me a continued enthusiasm for the study of leadership, culture, and community, and remain informed by some of the more clinical insights from the program. I am interested in how media and technology affect our togetherness in our systems at home, at work, in our communities, and within the national/global political frame.

In my undergraduate studies, I worked through a broad swath of humanities topics, returning several times to visit theatre and Jungian studies. Performance, presentation, and symbology are ever-present in my thinking and all aspects of my work. Theatricality and aesthetic are big components of technology development, corporate/organizational leadership, and creating optimal work structures.

From Fielding, I want to find a placement for these highly active and ongoing mental occupations. On a purely intuitive/feel-y level, it’s as if there’s a conversation happening somewhere, and I’m supposed to be there to be part of it, but haven’t learned the language yet. I’m looking to all of you to help me learn and practice, so that if/when there is a contribution that I can make, I will be fully capable of joining.