NEPIRC · Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center
Director of Technology
November 2021 – Present
- Direct NEPIRC’s information systems, security, disaster recovery, and AI policy.
- Write the grant narratives and the closeout reports, and maintain the CRM bridge between NEPIRC and Pennsylvania DCED.
- Ran NEPIRC’s NIST Supplier Scouting initiative, funded by a federal grant: industry trend data, and matching Pennsylvania manufacturers with domestic suppliers.
- Keep NEPIRC’s Salesforce org fit for the operation, including the expense and mileage object that federal reporting runs through.
- Appointed by a vote of the board with approval authority over NEPIRC’s organization-wide credit-card spending and invoices.
- Built the KPI, budget-versus-actual, pipeline, and sales-forecast dashboards, with year-over-year and month-over-month views for project managers and business advisors.
- Selected Conga for proposals, set it up, and trained the staff. That took the manual work and the errors out of the proposal process.
- Conduct NIST 800-171 and CMMC 2.0 gap analyses for regional manufacturers, and report the findings.
- Report every project NEPIRC completes each quarter into MEIS, for the state and for the federal Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Schedule the client impact surveys and conduct the meetings through the Fors Marsh portal, explaining each project so the impact of those taxpayer dollars is reported fully and accurately.
- Since May 2025, when the marketing manager left, stand in for marketing management on events and trainings.
- Run Manufacturing Day, NEPIRC’s largest event, at more than 300 attendees and 100 exhibitors.
- Run every part of NEPIRC’s first Advanced Technology and AI Summit: program, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, ticketing, and the event day.
- Launched and host the Manufacturing Matters podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube, and appear on television and radio on manufacturing and AI on the factory floor.