Jeff Billings

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Jeffery F. Billings
email = billings.jeff@gmail.com

Experience
Mr. Billings has strong, “in the trenches”, experience in the areas of environment, busi-
ness, technology and education. As a graduating high school senior, he became a full
scholarship recipient from the National College of Education(1), based on his implemen-
tations of innovative work with Special Olympics and self-esteem interventions for Cere-
bral Palsy children.

Mr. Billings changed his collegiate studies to the environment starting a consulting com-
pany immediately after graduation. His focus on Hydrology, resulted in a corporate
growth to $6 million per year revenue. During this business pursuit, Mr. Billings ob-
tained four patents on remediation of volatile organics in the subsurface, with an example
referenced at the US Patent and Trademark Office(2).

These patents become licensable under the trademark name of “SVVS®”, serving com-
mercial and government licensees, throughout the US and Europe. The technology was
selected by the US Environmental Protection Agency under a Bilateral Technology Trade
Agreement between the US and Germany. Mr. Billings has published scientifically-
reviewed papers dealing with subjects ranging from; acid rain, to radioactive isotope
tracers, to hazardous waste remediation. During this time he also presented at both na-
tional and international, technical conferences to audiences nearing 1,000 people. His
company received the US Chamber of Commerce, “Blue Chip” Enterprise Award, prior
to the sale of his interests, after 15 years under his corporate leadership.

Mr. Billings then focused on Information Technology, specifically related to the K-20
education industry. In 1994, he helped develop an innovative partnership with a public
elementary school, Sonoran Sky(3). Using high bandwidth, data connectivity, the school
pioneered online content by elementary students and staff, resulting in several awards:
Official Education Content Partner of Super Bowl XXX; Apple Computers - What Works
in Education; Kids Voting AZ Online. This partnership allowed Mr. Billings to become
the first Arizona Education Association’s, “Business Partner of the Year”.

Mr. Billings then expanded his information technology participation in the education in-
dustry through consultation with public schools and districts. Consultation ranged from
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back-office operations of servers and network gear, to professional development of teach-

ers in the integration of technology into the learning process. This experience yielded his
current position by the Paradise Valley Unified School District(4) as their Director of In-
formation Technology (IT). Since 2000, Mr. Billings has managed this department of 35
people, with broad talents of programming, technology integration specialists and net-
work engineers. He manages a capital and operational budget of approximately $11 mil-
lion per year.

In his IT Director role, Mr. Billings has been instrumental in the vision of a range of ini-
tiatives, many of which have been reported in trade magazines and newspapers. Some of
these initiatives include;

•Wireless WAN - conversion of a leased, wired, Wide Area Network, to a

wireless-microwave, internally-owned, network. Bandwidth increased over two
orders of magnitude.
•Multimedia Carts - deployment of some 3,000 multi-media carts to K-12 class-
rooms, with wireless laptop computer, LCD projector, document camera, and
audio speaker, housed on a mobile cart.
•STR - Developed and championed the Site Technology Representative program,
where addenda-funded, teachers are trained and supported in the implementation
of technology at the school.
•Mobile Labs - deployment of 5,000 wireless laptops in a 30 computer per mobile
lab specification.
•ConnectMe - an integrated, online system for 3,000 teachers and 35,000 students,
providing communication and collaboration using email, calendaring, chat, web,
bulletin board and voice mail technology.
•pIGB - internally-developed, online, standards-based, gradebook for K-6 teach-
ers, students and parents.
•pOGB - internally-developed online 9-12 gradebook, wrapped around the current
student information system, providing real time student achievement connection
between the teacher, student and home.
•VoIP Conversion - promoted and succeeded in the organizational shift from non-
converged data, voice and video networks, to an IP-based converged network.
•pOSE - internally-developed, online IEP and MET system for facilitation and
compliance documentation on progress of special education students.
•GenYes - implementation of the GenYes(5) program throughout the high, middle
and elementary ranks. The program is implemented through courses at High and
Middle levels, and as part of the Media Center curriculum at Elementary level.
•pDAT - internally-developed, online, open source portal and data warehouse for
district records, allowing all student achievement records to be correlated to date,
location and teacher.
•Distancia - development of an online, open-source, portal for conducting courses
at the high school level, using the Moodle Content Management System.
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•pSAM - an internally-developed, online system for the capture and immediate

review of hundreds of thousands of district and classroom, standards-aligned,
measures.
•Real Time - program for integration of over 6,000 handheld devices to be used
exclusively in over 200 classrooms to aid cross-curricular learning in the K-8
grade levels.
•LDAP - Conversion of an approximate 50 campus network from a proprietary
Windows framework to a current LDAP, open architecture. (in progress)
•TAC - provided vision, advocacy and success in the organizational shift to a pri-
ority, committee-based, approach of information technology decisions.
•pOTH - provided vision and implementation of a program to refurbish “older”
computers for deployment to lower, socio-economic students for home use of in-
formation technology. Developed partnership with MTI(7), for free, home inter-
net access to students, through the district’s network.
•KOA - implementation of an innovative professional development and technical
resolution program. Training was taken to the schools, in a “camping at the
school” type model, efficiently utilizing teacher “prep” periods.
•pTV - development and implementation of a large, enterprise system for the con-
version to an IP network of television and cable audio/video signals, delivery of
internally-developed audio/video, and distribution of commercial content. pTV
was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Cox Technology in Education.

Mr. Billings has expanded his service to the education industry by being requested to
serve as the Information Technology Policy Advisor to the Arizona State Superintendent
of Public Education(8) . In this capacity, Mr. Billings provided advisement on the Stu-
dent Accountability and Information System, general IT operations, and was the vision-
ary behind the IDEAL(9) (Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona’s Learning), online sys-
tem. Said online system is providing curricular resources such as United Streaming, pro-
fessional development through Asset, standards-based formative assessments, online AP
courses, etc., to every teacher and student in Arizona. The system was chosen as one of
five initiatives by the State Superintendent in his State of Education speech for 2005(10).
As part of this initiative, Mr. Billings provided the online instruction for the Arizona De-
partment of Education's first online high school course through IDEAL - Advanced
Placement, Environmental Sciences.

Mr. Billings has presented at district and state level, education conferences. He was a
recent, Featured Speaker(11) at the 25th Anniversary of the Microcomputers in Education
Conference, where he presented on one-to-one computing(12). He is an avid believer in
the good, the power and the necessity of life long learning. He has three children, and is
married to his high school sweetheart (and best friend....;-)...).
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Education
Bachelor of Science
Masters of Business Administration (with Distinction)

Skills
Mr. Billings is an Arizona Certificated Substitute, a Cisco Certified Network Associate
(CCNA), an Apple Product Professional (APP), a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
(MCSE-NT), an IBM-AS400 Associate Operator, and is CompTIA Net+ certified. He
has taught semester and year long courses at the High School Level and was an Adjunct
Instructor for Network Essentials and Network Security for the University of Advancing
Technology(13) and Media Communications at Arizona State University(14).

Cited References
1: National College of Education: http://www.nl.edu/academics/nce/
2: US Patent and Trademark Office:
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5653288
3: Sonoran Sky Elementary School: http://sonoransky.pvusd.k12.az.us
4: Paradise Valley Unified School District: http://www.pvusd.k12.az.us
5: Gen Yes: http://genyes.com
6: Arizona State University: http://www.asu.edu
7: Mountain Telecommunications, Inc.: http://www.mtntel.com
8: Arizona Department of Education: http://www.ade.az.gov/
9: IDEAL - Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona’s Learning: https://www.ideal.azed.gov
10: 2005 State of Education Speech -Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction:
http://www.ade.az.gov/administration/superintendent/2005StateofEducation.pdf
11: Microcomputers in Education 2005 - 25th Anniversary:
http://mec.asu.edu/2005/keynotes.html
12: From Idaho to Arizona - 1 to 1 Computing - It’s Inevitable (podcast):
http://blogs.dmit.asu.edu/podcasts/media/audio/billings2005.mp3
13: University of Advancing Technology: http://www.uat.edu
14. Arizona State University: http://www.asu.edu