Shannon D. Smith
4789 White Rock Circle, Unit F,
Boulder, CO 80301
sds2323@gmail.com ● ssmith@educause.edu
www.smithstorian.com ● Twitter: @smithstorian
Education
B.A., University of Nebraska-Kearney,
1982
Major:
Computer Science, Minor: Business Administration
M.A., History, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001
Academic Experience
EDUCAUSE, Boulder, Colorado,
2009-Present
Associate Director, Teaching, Learning, and
Professional Development
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Responsible for
creating and implementing new approaches to EDUCAUSE education offerings to
higher education faculty and IT professionals through new formats and
technologies
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Key player in the
creation of EDUCAUSE online conferences, including the Annual Conference with
over 2,000 online participants
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Designed and
conducted online webinars for proposal creation (CFP orientation) and speaker
preparation for all EDUCAUSE conferences (8 per year)
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Reviewed all
EDUCAUSE Institute program curriculum and guided program faculty in redesign
efforts and implementation of assessment strategy
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Drawing upon the
community, directed collaborative teams to design and implement program content
related to learning technology and higher education IT operations
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Designed new
customizable views into all EDUCAUSE professional development offerings (conferences,
institute programs, webinars, publications, committee memberships and other
volunteer opportunities) to enable members to find opportunities appropriate to
their career level and desired investment of time and expense
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Created and
implemented new speaker development program to frame presenting at EDUCAUSE
conferences as a significant career milestone and improve the quality of
conference presentations
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Identified
potential partnerships and collaborative opportunities to deliver new programs
Fellow, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
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Conducted
research and analysis and wrote reports focusing on the use of information
technology in higher education, including best practices in pedagogies and the
direction of technology
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Lead principal
investigator for the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Technology
for 2009 and 2010
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Study is used by
education leaders and widely cited by scholars and journalists to foster better
understanding of the use of technology in education
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Designed and
implement online survey instruments, perform in depth quantitative analysis of
over 30,000 responses using SPSS
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Delivered
presentations at conferences and symposia presenting results and conclusions
Oglala
Lakota College, Kyle, South Dakota, 2002-2009
History and Social Sciences Instructor, Department of
Humanities
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Developed,
taught, and administrated online courses using open-source course management
system; incorporated social networking technology including wikis, blogs, and
video/picture sharing websites
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Responsible for
curriculum development and instruction of history, geography, and political
science courses including adjunct instructor selection and assignment
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Taught courses in
face-to-face, online, and to multiple locations via PictureTel
high-speed video-based conferencing/training system
Chair, Distance Learning and Technology Committee,
2004-2008
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Attended first
distance learning certification program for the college in 2002
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Conducted the
college’s first entirely online course in 2003
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Developed
selection criteria and evaluated distance learning technology
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Used WebCT,
Blackboard, and Moodle course management systems for online-only and hybrid
classes
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Designed policy
and procedures for implementing online courses
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Designed and
conducted over 15 courses on multiple technology platforms
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Created standard
templates and training material to support instructors in developing online
courses
Chair,
Faculty Development Committee, 2003-2005
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Wrote and won a
$150,000 Faculty Development Grant awarded for 2006-2009 for Oglala Lakota
College from the Archibald Bush Foundation
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Responsible for
semi-annual financial and progress reports to the foundation
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Designed
programs, seminars, and conferences to support faculty improvement across all
academic departments
Designer/Developer,
Lakota Language Orthography Project.
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Working with the
Lakota Studies Department at OLC, developed a downloadable tool to enable users
to type diacritical markers and special characters for written Lakota Language
Medicine
Journey, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 2003-2008
Founding
member
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Medicine Journey
is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to help medicine men travel to
where they are needed and to help bring people to Native American reservations
for their services. The organization also purchases and protects sacred items
that would otherwise be exploited or sold into private or public collections
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Grant-writing
support, historian, and academic liaison in our mission to protect sacred
artifacts and share native worldviews with non-Indian constituencies
Mari Sandoz
Heritage Society, Chadron, Nebraska, 2002-2004
Executive
Secretary
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General
management and administration of membership-based historical society
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Developed and
managed membership marketing campaigns
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Coordinated
fund-raising activities including development of donor solicitation materials
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Designed and
maintained organization website including online purchasing and donations
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Budget/financial
reporting to board of directors managing over $2 million in endowments
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1999-2001
Teaching
Assistant, Department of History
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Instructor
support, including lectures, grading, and administration for five courses: U.S.
History to 1877, U.S. History since 1877, Latin America History and Culture,
Latin American Colonies, Race and Ethnicity in the American West
Nebraska
Educational Television, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2000-2001
Project
/Research Historian
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Retained to
identify, locate, analyze, and document video, audio, and textual primary
source materials to be converted for use on NebraskaStudies.edu, an online
exhibition of Nebraska History—a collaborative project of Nebraska
Educational Television, Nebraska State Historical Society, and Nebraska
Department of Education
Corporate Experience
Sagent Technology, Inc. Mountain View, CA, 1998–2000
Regional
Sales Manager
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Opened branch
office for venture-funded, pre-IPO data warehousing software company
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Responsible for
sales and support for 8 state region
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Generated over
$2.5 million in software license, maintenance, and services revenue in 18
months
IHS Group, Inc. Denver, CO,
1993–1998
Director
– Information Integration
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Defined,
designed, and sold large-scale, complex Internet and CD-ROM based document
management products and services, carrying annual quota of $1.0 million
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Identified and
coordinated negotiations and executed contracts with potential strategic
partners, joint ventures, corporate acquisitions and distribution channels
Director and
General Manager – Transportation Information Products
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Responsible for
the start-up of a new business unit which grew from zero to thirty employees in
under three years with a total capital investment of approximately $4 million
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Managed all
departments of the business unit including Sales, Marketing, Product
Management, Technical Development, Production Operations, Administration and
Operations
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Responsible for
electronic publishing processes and technology including SGML, XML, HTML, DTD
development, OCR technology and QA processes
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Proposed, planned
and implemented the acquisition of a $6 million company
Project
Manager – Environmental CD Products
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Managed the
production and technical operations for the ongoing development and maintenance
of a 1.2 gigabyte CD-ROM database of Environmental and Safety Regulatory
Information
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Managed
production staff including technical, editorial and data acquisition activities
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Developed quality
control procedures netting a 25% improvement in database accuracy
Provista Software International San Jose, CA, 1989-1993
Region
Manager, Midwest and Eastern Region - Denver, Colorado
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Key player in the
product design and market roll-out of ProShip a
multi-platform, distribution and shipping system sold to companies with high
volumes of express packages shipments
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Built a network
of potential distribution channels into the traffic and transportation industry
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Conducted sales
presentations for executive management of Fortune 500 and other large companies
Region
Manager, Eastern Region - Boston, Massachusetts
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Opened Boston and
New York City offices for INC 500 rated California-based company providing
technical consulting and training services in computer database languages
(4GLs)
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Generated over
$400,000 in revenue in the first year, with seven consultants and over 50
clients
SDS Consulting Boston, MA, 1988-1989
Consultant/Partner
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Launched
technical and management consulting practice providing relational database design,
business intelligence systems, and software development services on a multitude
of computer platforms
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Eight consultants
supporting clients such as American International Group (AIG), Harvard
University, Marshalls Department Stores, and Williamson Corporation
MediQual Systems,
Inc. Westborough, MA, 1987-1988
Director of Product Development
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Managed eight
person software development team in the design, development, and testing of a
medical procedure performance analysis system currently in use at over 1000
medical institutions
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Analyzed and
provided recommendations on various hardware and software environments to
support software and data services products being developed
Information Builders, Inc. New York, NY,
1985-1987
Branch Technical Manager -
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Managed pre- and
post-sales technical support staff for the multi-platform FOCUS 4GL.
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Performed high
level pre-sales technical support on $2 million cooperative marketing
relationship with Digital Equipment Corporation
Technical
Representative -
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Demonstrated,
benchmarked, installed and supported a lengthy and complex sales cycle
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Received multiple
awards for excellence in pre-sales presentation and demonstration techniques
Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Dallas, TX,
1982-1985
Systems Engineer, Garden City,
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Programmer/analyst
on a large scale project to develop one of the United States’ first
comprehensive on-line banking systems using a relational database
Selected Publications
· “Mari Sandoz: Historian of the Plains,” in Women’s
Experiences on the North American Plains, edited by Renee Laegreid and Sandra Mathews-Lamb, Texas Tech University
Press, 2011.
· The ECAR
Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, November 2010.
· Powering
Down: Green IT in Higher Education, Futures Chapter, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, March 2010
· “The
Rise of Western Women to Prominence in the 20th Century,” in The World of the American West, edited
by Gordon Morris Bakken, Routledge
Press, 2010.
· The ECAR
Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, September 2009.
· Review of American Indian Nations: Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow by Horse Capture, Champagne, and Jackson, eds., for Montana The Magazine of Western History,
Spring 2009.
· “Give
Me Eighty Men” Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight, University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Winner
of the 2009 Wyoming State Historical Society Non-Fiction Book Award.
· “George Armstrong Custer,” in Icons of the American West, edited by
Gordon Morris Bakken, Greenwood Press, 2008.
· Introduction to My
Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre with an Account of the
Celebration of “Wyoming Opened” by Frances C. Carrington,
University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
· “‘Give Me Eighty Men’: Shattering
the Myth of the Fetterman Massacre,” Montana
The Magazine of Western History, Fall 2004.
· Review of Twenty
Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West by Virginia Scharff for Montana
The Magazine of Western History, Fall 2003.
· Review of Fanny
Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908 edited by
Patricia Y. Stallard for Montana The Magazine of Western History, Fall 2004.
Selected Presentations
· Elevate Your Game: How to Create and Deliver a
Fantastic Conference Session, 2012 EDUCAUSE Regional Conference season (4
conferences)
· Elevate Your Game: Create a Five-Year Career Plan,
2012 EDUCAUSE Regional Conference season (4 conferences)
· “Who Are Today’s
Students? A Closer Look at The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and
Information Technology, 2010,” EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Webinar,
November, 2010.
· “What Undergraduates Say About
Technology: Results from the 2010 ECAR Student Study,” EDUCAUSE Annual
Conference, Anaheim, CA, November, 2010.
· “Teaching the American West: The
Importance of Region in the US History Survey,” Western History
Association Annual Conference, October 2010.
· “The
ECAR 2009 Student Study,” EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Annual
Symposium, December 2009.
· “What Undergraduates Say About Technology:
Results from the 2009 ECAR Student Study,” EDUCAUSE Annual Conference,
Denver, CO, November, 2009.
· “Sovereignty and Tribal College
Education,” Oglala Lakota College Instructional Affairs Retreat, May,
2006.
· “Indigenous Research and Teaching
Frameworks,” Oglala Lakota College Faculty Development Conference, April,
2006
· “Faculty Development and Student Retention at
Tribal Colleges,” Oglala Lakota College Faculty Retreat, April 2005
· “’Marking the Vicissitudes of Peril and
Pleasure’: The Cooked Books of Army Wives,” Western History
Association Annual Conference, October, 2003, Fort Worth, Texas.
· “The Importance of Native American History and a
College Education,” Oglala Lakota College Radio Program, March 2003, KILI
Radio, Porcupine, South Dakota
· “Absaroka, Home of the
Crows,” Race and Ethnicity in the American West, Nov. 2001, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Guest Lecturer, Lincoln, Nebraska
· “A New Look at the Fetterman Massacre,”
Lincoln Corral of Westerners, Nov. 2001, Lincoln, Nebraska
· Mari Sandoz: Sioux Historian Ahead of Her Time,”
2001 Western Literature Association Annual Conference, October 2001, Omaha,
Nebraska.
· “These Were the Sioux Women: Mari Sandoz’
Respectful Portrayal of Gender Roles,” Mari Sandoz Heritage Society
Annual Conference, March 2001, Chadron, Nebraska.
· Featured Speaker - National Focus Users Group (FUSE) Convention
1988, 1991, NorEast FUSE Convention 1987, 1988
Grants and Awards
· Winner of 2009 Wyoming State Historical Society Award
for best non-fiction book
· Selected for 2007 National Endowment of the Humanities
Summer Seminar “The American Indian and Ethnohistory”
· Author of winning Archibald Bush Foundation $150,000
Faculty Development Grant awarded for 2006-2009 for Oglala Lakota College
· Instructor of the year finalist, Oglala Lakota
College, 2004, 2005
· 2002-2003 Hazel V. Emley
Graduate Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
· 2002-2003 Regents Tuition Fellowship, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln School of Graduate Studies
· 2002-2003 Colonial Dames Fellowship,
· 2002 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate
Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska
· 2002
· 2001 Dov Ospovat
Award. Presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History
for the outstanding graduate student paper in a research seminar.
· 2001
· 2001
· 2000-2001 Research Grant-in-Aid, Center for
· 1999-2000 Research Grant-in-Aid, Center for
· Council of Logistics Managers “Roundtable
Excellence Award” 1995
· Metatec Corporation “New Product Innovation”
recognition 1995
· Information Handling Services “Spot Recognition
Award” for Outstanding Project Contributions 1994
Selected Boards, Community Service,
Memberships
· 2004-present,
Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, Chadron, Nebraska
Board
of Directors, Endowments and Grants Committee
- Board member for non-profit historical society
responsible for over $4 million dollars in endowments and operations to support
a historical center on the campus of Chadron State College
- Grants and
Awards committee 2009-present;
responsible for reviewing grant applications and awarding grants according to
endowment definitions
- Center
Committee – 2004-2008;
responsible for developing grant award process and fiduciary oversight of
operations of Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center
· 2009, Board
of Trustees, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska
Trustee,
3rd District
- Winner in a statewide election. Board has legal, fiduciary,
and ethical responsibility for over $6 million annual budget. Resigned due to
relocation out of the Nebraska 3rd District.
· Western
History Association, 1999-present
· Coordinating
Council for Women in History, 2004-present
· Friends of
the Intertribal Gathering, Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska, 2003-4
· Bridges to
Buttes Scenic Byway State Committee, 2002-2003