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Dave Cassell Contributions during his service: In 1987 Dave helped found the NACCB, serving as its second president in 1988. He remained actively involved in Lobbying for several years, serving as Chairman of Political Affairs in 1990 and 1991. In 1997 Dave was the second person to volunteer to serve on the Open Door Board, serving as Secretary and Fundraising Chair. During the Open Door’s first fundraising drive at NACCB’s Conference in 1998, Dave almost single handedly drove the total pledged amount to the $500,000 level. Background: After graduating from the University of Kansas and completing his military service, Dave entered IBM’s training program to sell computers. For 15 years, he sold IBM equipment in Chicago and Houston with great success, gaining the confidence and experience to start his own information technology consulting company, Pro-Access, in 1982. After growing Pro-Access to a ten million dollar company, he sold the company in 1990 and served as a Senior Vice-President until early 1997. He then started a new company, Consultants’ Choice, Inc. based on the concept of allowing his consultants to earn stock and participate in the company’s management and direction. The company has been very successful and recently made the Inc. 500 list as the 23rd fastest growing company in the United States. Susan Donohoe Contributions during her service: Even though Susan is no longer the official Director of the Open Door, we are still very fortunate to have access to her knowledge and know how on a pro bono basis. Susan has been instrumental in developing several fundraising programs to the benefit of the Foundation. In addition, she helped identify several funding opportunities through grant programs.
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Susan earned her Master of Arts in International Commerce & Policy from George Mason University in 1997, with a special focus on science and technology. Her undergraduate degree was in Political Science from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
Christine England Contributions during her service: Initially, Christine served as Open Door Chapter Chair for Northern California, where she raised over $120,000 in contributions. Working closely with directors of successful scholarship programs in local community colleges, Christine designed policies and processes that became the cornerstone of Open Door’s national scholarship program. She also designed comprehensive procedures for chapter-level fund-raising and approaches to establishing relationships with target schools. As Scholarship Chair, Christine brought her local scholarship experience to the national level, working with Open Door staff to create a system that awarded over $650,000 in scholarships to deserving students nationwide. During her tenure as a board member, Christine also worked on special projects; she provided a significant portion of the content for the Open Door web site, www.keys2it.org. A writer by profession, Christine also acted as writer/editor for the majority of Open Door’s national communications. Background: After many years as a writing professional in the IT industry, Christine founded a company called Writers Inc., pioneering the employment of contract technical writing services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Writers Inc. was acquired in 1998, enabling Christine to take an active role in Open Door. She now volunteers at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bill Gower Background: After a successful career as a technician with IBM, Bill joined a start-up called Comshare, helping grow the business rapidly, eventually taking it public with great success. In 1983, Bill formed a company called Matrix with four other partners. Matrix provides programmers and other technicians to clients on both a permanent and consulting basis and currently has over 2,000 employees. Bill continues to serve on the Board of Directors of Matrix
Carolyn Kelley Background: With over 20 years of association management experience including strategic planning and Board governance, fundraising, government and public affairs, program creation and delivery and membership recruitment and retention, Carolyn was most recently Executive Director of the National Technical Services Association (NTSA). Before joining NTSA, she was Director of Government and Public Affairs for the American Payroll Association, responsible for all employment, tax, and labor issues affecting the membership. Carolyn received coveted Award of Excellence from the American Society of Association Executive’s, has served on the prestigious IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group, and was the first Chair of the congressionally appointed IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee. For her work in tax administration, Carolyn was invited by President George H. Bush to the White House for a presentation in the Rose Garden. She was also honored by President William Jefferson Clinton at a ceremony held at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Through her public relations work, Carolyn has helped raise the visibility of the organizations she has been associated with and has been quoted in many publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CEO, Forbes, and various trade publications.
Matt Moore Background: Education has made a major impact in Matt’s life. Matt graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Ball State University. After two years of work in his field, Matt went on to get an MBA from Ashland University. That’s the short story; however, the road to this education was a long and tumultuous one. Matt grew up in the inner cities of Detroit, Michigan and Elkhart, Indiana. One of eleven children, he found ways to explore the world he lived in and was in constant trouble with the law. Neither parent had a high school education, but both his mom and dad did an excellent job of instilling in Matt the idea that his ticket out of poverty was education. Although school was boring, he still managed to get good enough grades to earn a variety of scholarships that allowed him to go to college. At the end of his freshman year, Matt became a husband and a father…and his mother passed away suddenly. In all the turmoil, he lost most of his scholarships; but, he persevered and worked his way back into school after a one-year absence. Matt went through five majors before deciding on Chemistry with Computer science. Matt went on to work for a major oil company for 9 years as a programmer, programmer analyst, EDP auditor and project manager. He was a fish out of water, as he was the only child in the family that went the corporate route. Matt's burning desire to build something compelled him and his new family (his wife and their three-month old baby), to leave the comforts of corporate America and open a branch office of an engineering consulting company. Although Matt knew nothing about engineering, his burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit and love for the challenge of growing something from nothing drove him to success.
Fran Quittel Background: Fran’s unlikely entry into IT began with a fellowship for doctoral studies in Spanish and Latin American Language and Literature at Yale University followed by a faculty appointment at Mills College in Oakland, CA. As opportunities inside academia closed and those outside academia opened, she switched venues first to consumer product marketing and later to technology recruitment. Now, with 20 years’ experience addressing all phases of technology recruitment, Fran spends most of her time and energy working with senior executives to shape enduring organizations. She has also run software sales organizations as well as sold major accounts for Interleaf, a database document management company. In addition to her recruiting experience, Fran is known as a business journalist and career development professional. The author of “Firepower! (10 Speed Press) on job loss and recovery, Fran created and ran Microsoft’s first Career Forum on The Microsoft Network and has written Computerworld’s Career Advisor column for over three years. Her “CareerBabe” advisory site serves as a resource to over 300 schools, public libraries and other career sites, and she has often appeared on radio, television and even on “Good Morning, America.” Ever innovative, Fran began working with Apple Computer Inc.’s education division to help re-engineer teacher recruiting. She served on the Technology Planning Committee of the Emery Unified School District, and together with San Jose State University Associate IT Professor Dr. Malu Roldan, created a technology cross-generation mentoring program known as SuccessAHEAD! with UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Contributions during her service: Jackie Reynolds served as Treasurer of the Open Door Education Foundation from 1999 through 2000. She oversaw the initial set-up of the foundation's financial accounts and accounting systems and assisted in many other tasks and projects, whatever was required at the time. Because she was highly regarded by NACCB Board Members, Jackie's support of the Open Door helped establish our credibility during ODEF's early days. Background: Starting as a Programmer, Jackie moved up though a chain of increasing responsibilities to the position of Director of Computer Operations and Customer Service Manager for a software company. Her favorite job remains programming for the same reason she liked it in college - instant gratification. In 1981, Jackie started her own consulting business, which prospered and grew until she sold it to AETEA in 2000. In 1996, she was recognized as one of the five finalists for Atlanta's Entrepreneur of the Year award. She remains an enthusiastic supporter of ODEF's goals and objectives. Contributions during her service: Arriving at the Open Door only six weeks prior to the 1999 Conference, Sarah worked around the clock to develop and produce the program agenda, the booth decorations, and a variety of handout materials so that the Open Door was well represented at the Conference. Her task and accomplishments during her two and a half years with the Open Door were many and varied. They included working with the NACCB Chapters and Named Scholarship Donors to award scholarships, tracking the recipients and donors, providing creative talent for the web site, creating the agenda and materials for the 2000 and 2001 Conferences, making all arrangements for all Board conference calls and meetings, including keeping the minutes for the meetings. Background: After graduating from the American University in 1997, Sarah worked as a policy associate for the American Association of Engineering Societies, lobbying to help the political agenda of engineers and scientists, especially in the area of education and research funding. She left the AAES to join the Open Door in September of 1999.
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