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What are you seeking from this site? | Collaborating with others to make the Internet a public commons |
Organization categories | Social impact, Community stakeholder, Open access, cooperative |
Partnering interests | AI Knowledgebase team, joint grant proposal, share training materials, Community organizer, community tech hubs, leverage public libraries |
Skillshare | Project Management, Workforce Development, Systems Innovation, WordPress, Cooperative Management |
Toolshare | Ubiquity Antennas, Routers, Crimping Tool, PA System |
Interest, hobbies | Mindfulness, Climate Activism, Electronic Music, Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Grateful Dead, Ethnic Cooking |
Software Tools
Tool name | Trello |
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Description of TOOL Purpose | Project management (Kanban boards) |
Tool name | Canva |
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Description of TOOL Purpose | Graphic design |
Tool name | OpenAI |
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Description of TOOL Purpose | AI Chatbots |
Tool name | Miro |
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Description of TOOL Purpose | Think and create. All in one visual workspace. Go from brainstorming to execution, all in one place. Miro is your team's collaborative online workspace. |
Base
First Name | DrRon |
Last Name | Suarez |
User Name | Ron |
Bio & Org
Bio | Social Impact, Digital Equity activist for Internet #OpenAccess, fundamental systemic change | Psychology professor turned serial, software entrepreneur | Organizer, teacher & community relationship builder In 1971, I founded a food cooperative while I was an undergraduate at New York University. In the 1970s, my career followed the paradigm shift in psychology from behaviorism to cognitive science. After my PhD at the University of Michigan, I wrote a grant that funded the continuation of a four year post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience. This background in cognition helped me to transition to corporate training in Artificial Intelligence, specifically Expert Systems in the 1980s. As I shifted from academia into software, I was a part of the paradigm shift it to Object Oriented Technology during the late 1980s and 1990s. Then, around 2006, I was a part of the paradigm shift, going on in the music industry as my company created a digital asset content management system for artists to enter their music into iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, etc. I was cofounder of this worker owned Cooperative: Could forming worker-owned cooperatives assist with economic recovery? See my Fortune 500 clients in the resume I created for an application to become Director of the State Broadband office. (I was not hired.) My video history. |
My Organization Name | Broadband Institute Foundation |
My Position | Founder, Executive Director |
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About my Organization | In addition to what you see on this website, we can be available for Social Impact Digital Strategy consulting, and WordPress websites. We have specialized in community engagement for WordPress websites since 2010. |
Partner Organization Name | Ann Arbor for Public Power |
My Position with Partner | WordPress support |
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Resume, Vita | 506 N State St Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Ron Suarez, Ph.D. I would like to apply my experience as a paradigm shifter to assist the state of Broadband Institute Foundation, Ann Arbor, MI Founder 2015 – 2016 Primarily engaged in pro bono services to create web properties supporting horizontal communication tools for grassroots activists involved in the Bernie Sanders primary campaign. Ron was an elected as a NY 14 CD Delegate, pledged to Bernie Sanders. 1 of 4 2014 – 2015 Designed and developed a social network for Management Sciences for Health, with online courseware for healthcare administrators in Africa fighting HIV, TB, Malaria and Ebola. See: https://leadernet.org We also developed GovScore Global, http://bit.ly/govscore – a governance maturity assessment tool. Phonegap and the JavaScript FLOT library were used for a mobile app governance survey with mobile offline data collection and online data visualizations. 2011 Ron Suarez and Margarete Koenen were developers #1 and #2 for the website that registered 9,000 users in 100 Working Groups for Occupy Wall Street. We used a Multisite WordPress installation with BuddyPress to build a social network, where each Group maintained minutes of their meetings, their own calendar and discussion forum. We thus centralized the engineering, but decentralized content control that enabled each Group to employ consensus democracy for governance and decision making. Today we work with other technologies that grew out of the Occupy experience: Loomio.org for consensus decision-making and OpenCollective.com for financial transparency and fundraising. 2006 – 2010 Loud Feed was originally spun off from Object Insight in 2006 to help music distributors, labels and artists manage and monetize their music, video, show ticket info and related metadata using their own branded web site and e-commerce enabled social media widgets. The Loud Feed platform included an integration with Amazon Web Services for storage, bandwidth and e-commerce, plus Clearspring technologies to support widgets for dozens of social networks and blogs. I began podcasting services for independent artists, e.g. Aimee Mann, in 2005, and built Toolshed.biz, a music promotion site for 30 independent labels in 2006. Artists included: Ani DiFranco, Beastie Boys, Spoon, XTC, The Chemical Brothers, and Cat Power. In 2007 LoudFeed managed the creation of tools used by Tunecore to deliver music for artists into iTunes, Amazon, Emusic and Rhapsody. In 2008, we launched MyReggae a digital music store with over 10,000 albums in the catalog. In 2009, I built a social networking site for the American Association of Independent Music. Object Insight, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan — President, Founder 1997 – 2009 I founded Object Insight to create “UML for the rest of us” (Unified Modeling Language). Object Insight’s JVISION tool was a lightweight, round trip software engineering tool for Java programmers, which generated code from diagrams and also reverse engineered diagrams from code. Thousands of customers preferred our approach to the IBM, Rational Rose heavyweight approach. JVISION customers included: USGS, Detroit Edison, Dresdner Bank AG, HewLett Packard, Harvard Business School, GTE, Gartner/ Griggs-Anderson Research, Florida State University, FermiLab, Federal Express, FAME, ESRI, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, MCI, Lockheed-Martin, Knight Rider New Media, Kaiser Foundation, IBM, Honeywell, Pratt Whitney Canada, Oracle Corp., Nortel Networks, National Bank of Georgia, Motorola, Mitre Corp., Raytheon, Swisscom AG, Sprint, Sony Online Entertainment, Smith, Kline and Beecham, SDRC, Schlumberger, Sandia National Laboratories, Quest, Chase Manhattan Bank, ThoughtWorks, Inc., Tivoli Systems, University of Michigan, Wells Fargo Bank, and Yale University. 2 of 4 As JVISION reached the end of its product life cycle and Object Insight went back to the consulting business, I provided Object Technology training for companies like UNISYS and the Santa Fe Institute. I managed consulting projects including large scale digital asset management for JSTOR and ProQuest (two of the largest providers of digital “text oriented” libraries). We architected JSTOR’s next generation Java based system in 2003, which provides millions of students worldwide with access to virtually every online academic journal at thousands of universities. We also implemented the Open Archives Initiative for bibliographic metadata management and updates. City Council, Ann Arbor, MI — Elected Councilmember 2006 – 2008 I worked to hold back special interests from wasting taxpayer money and create more transparency in government. It wasn’t easy to go from being a serial entrepreneur to the bureaucracy of government, but I continue to believe that many more citizens need to take a turn in government. I was on the Cable Commission, the Liquor Commission, the Housing Board and I was the Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals. Arbor Intelligent Systems, Ann Arbor, MI — President, Founder 1988 – 1998 1986 – 1988 Co-Founder, Executive Director and Project Manager for computer consultants worker owned cooperative: In 1986 we organized MacHack and the first National Apple Users Group Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. Under contract with Apple, we developed curricula and delivered nationwide training for Macintosh programmers. I was also the Project Manager for Dayton Power & Light’s contract. 3 of 4
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1976 – 1986 4 of 4 |
Locations
Work in State or Territory | CA, IL, MI, NY |
My ZIP Code | 48104 |
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