Resume

 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Empowering Leaders Standing in the Gap with practical IT tools to inspire an awakening of brokenness & abiding worship. Asked to found an organization as operations manager, repealing the first bathroom bill in Fayetteville, AR, undoing a 7 year plot in Springfield, MO, to put pastor in jail for 6 months, seeing amazing transformations in San Antonio and Houston as highlighted in the God Is Not Dead 2 Movie!

Trained and transitioned Google Apps for 400 users and optimized equipment to save Williamsburg Christian Academy a projected $35k a year. Help Desk support for an entire school of PC, Apple and Linux users while upgrading fiber optic gigabit network. Created a SalesForce CRM, Congressional scorecard and defended website for the antiterrorism firm Act for America.  

Trained Presidential Inaugural Receptionists to successfully resolve public relations crisis calls. Co-managed Family Foundation’s staff for technical training, voter guide distribution, doubling the social media presence, producing first-ever value voters YouTube voterguide, receiving 83% of Christian vote for VA values candidates.

As a US Congressional Campaign Manager, brought together Jews, Mormons, Evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, mentally disabled, and deaf into a dynamic team.  As a Congressional Campaign Manager coordinated a media blitz with TV, online, radio, outdoor, print and earned media to win 23,000 more votes than any previous GOP 8^th District.

 

EDUCATION

Capella University (Minneapolis, MN) (2013)

Degree: Masters of Science

Major: Information Technology 

Awarded MS in lieu of PhD in IT after comprehensive examination of 100 pages secured passage from one reviewer & rejection by two others objecting primarily to the use of the Bible. Coming from a similar wounded background as the professor in the God’s Not Dead Movie, the chairman of the scientific merit review board stated that Bible had no place in the business school and all appeals to complete the PhD were exhausted and rejected. All course work was completed for a PhD in IT Information Assurance Certified by NSA and Homeland Security. Total Forgiveness by R.T. Kendall has been continually been reviewed as a result and the credential from religious discrimination has been more significant than the PhD.

 

Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA) (2009)

Degree: Master of Arts

Major: Political Management with emphasis in Counseling & National Security

 

Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, NJ) (2004)

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major: Communications

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING, & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

• Troubleshooting live web streaming with over 80,000 unique viewers for The Response Day of Prayer.

• Conceived a new media strategy including You Tube Video Voter Guide with 89% of target audience block voting.

• Systems Administration, Research and Budgeting classes, US House Training Center, DC.  

• Leadership Institute: Technology, Writing, Public Relations, Advanced  Public Speaking Training, VA.

• Trained faculty, staff and students on virus prevention, security, computer trouble shooting, networking, MS    Office, video production, video projectors and Google Apps.

• Developed a notification system for daily summarizing the threats on the blogs each morning, so US Representatives could craft the message before it emerged in the mainstream media.

• Known as “MD the fix-it-doctor” for willingness and ability to “fix anything,” from vehicles to PC’s.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

National Black Robe Regiment/Hispanic Action Network- Dallas, TX

Technology/Operations Manager February 2014- Present

Asked to found a exponential results organization, standing in the gap to pioneer solutions and train others culminating in 6 million voter guides making history in 2016.  As operations manager, repealing the first bathroom bill in Fayetteville, AR, undoing a 7 year plot in Springfield, MO, to put pastor in jail for 6 months, seeing amazing transformations in San Antonio and Houston as highlighted in the God Is Not Dead 2 Movie!  All this while leading a team to develop the most comprehensive list of churches in the United States with international reach.

 

 

Emmer for Congress-Otsego, MN

Technology and  Outreach– December 2013-February 2014

Coordinated technology and interns to achieve over 67% percent of the vote in the precinct caucus straw poll.

 

Mark Scherer – Cambridge, MN                                              

Personal Assistant —June 2013 – December 2013

• Computer and automotive technical assistance.
• Took temporary position developing InternationalBlessing.com to complete degree final project requirements. 

 

Faith and Freedom Coalition- Arlington, VA                                             

Virginia Political Director –April 2013 – June 2013

• Coordinated volunteers to interactively distribute nearly 5000 voter guides and invitations in one day.
• Nearly doubled the social media outreach for the Road to Majority Conference. 

Allen for US Senate and Virginia Victory–Richmond, VA        –                                          

IT and Social Conservative Director– February 2012 – November 2012

• Recruited over 700 volunteers, pastors, and ethnic leaders for voter registration, phone banking and door knocking.
• Trained employees and interns on data-mining, CiviCRM, Drupal, Google Refine, and Microsoft Mappoint.
• Spearheaded the translation of Spanish, Korean, and also made key inroads into the Vietnamese outreach
• Produced walklists, tele-townhall lists and de-duped big data with open source ETL tools like Talend.
• Coordinated the building of faith and social conservative outreach prospect lists within my portable CiviCRM. 
• From the Virginia Chicken Festival to the Williamsburg Pastors Association, energized with banjo and violin. 

Family Foundation (Virginia Division of Focus on the Family) –Richmond, VA

Technology and Pastor Outreach Coordinator- June 2009 – January 2012

 

• Conceived a new media strategy: You Tube Video Voter Guide, 89% of target audience block voted.
• Tripled social media membership with new media ads.
• Responsible for Help Desk and database maintenance as well as new media outreach.
• Upgraded, inventoried and optimized all computers.
• Performed creative cost-conscious repair of server, network hardware, workstation and printers.
• Developed technology plan for re-banding, website redesign; synchronized web/legacy databases.

 

Williamsburg Christian Academy-Williamsburg, VA

Director of IT Department and Trainer-August 2010 – November 2011

 

• Refurbished and maintained over 140 Microsoft, Apple and Linux computers for over 325 users.
• Facilitator for faculty and student training on networking, security and collaborative innovation.
• Proactively transitioned from Exchange 2003 to Google Apps with Postini Security for uptime through hurricane.
• Performing a complete network overhaul at a cost savings of $2000 as compared to the school’s contractor.
• Researching organizational value chain analysis for long term interactive education planning.

 

Sias Graphics and Sias Family Limited Partnership- Grandy, MN

Technical Assistant-January 1990 – June 2009                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

• Technician trained to travel to over 14 nations and 48 states for used equipment repair business.
• Mentored to replace the system administrator and built high performance stock trading computer suite.
• Known as ‘MD the fix-it-doctor/ for willingness/ability to fix anything in construction, wiring, etc.

 

Act for America-Pensacola, FL       

System Administrator-March 2008 – September 2008

 

• New York Times best-selling author and terrorism survivor, Brigitte Gabriel, recruited me to move an office from Virginia to Florida.  Moved existing computer system and set it up with the latest security technologies for fighting terrorism. Confronted the threats and attacks which had repeatedly brought down AFA’s website. Worked AFA through a complete system transformation—from a new website and secure forum to creating a SalesForce secure IP and total CRM cloud solution.

 

• Extensive research to develop a long-term plan for preventing terrorist disruptions.  Implemented LowJack for Laptops, biometric thumb drives, cloud computing, alternative operating systems, plus software, host intrusion detection and hardware firewalls.  Extensively trained long-term staff in Help Desk solutions by ensuring that AFA could sync many disorganized databases and confront emerging threats.

 

Senator Nick Rerras- Norfolk, VA

Systems Admin & Volunteer Recruiter- November 2007 – January 2008

 

• “I highly recommend Mr. Marlon-David Sias for any campaign or marketing related position. He has an outstanding work ethic, is very dependable, and has a high level of integrity. He understands political campaigns very well and performs well under pressure. Mr. Sias is a team player and works well with people. He will make an outstanding contribution to any organization that he joins. The more you get to know Mr. Sias, the more you will find that he is a man of many talents.”

 

Center for Excellence in Education-McLean, VA

Technology and Research Coordinator-January 2008 – March 2008

 

• Developed a Firefox web-browser research application suite.
• Created a Technical Manual for fundraising researchers.
• Repaired social media presence and developed the perimeters for website redesign.

 

US House of Representatives- Washington, DC      

Director’s Assistant and IT Researcher- February 2005 – August 2007

 

• District Director’s Assistant, trained staff and interns on use of computers and communications equipment.
• Surrogate speaker and field coordinator with US Senate Campaign, defined by violin/banjo inspiration and GOTV record.
• Educated by the US House of Representatives Training Office in Systems Administration, Budgeting and Research.
• The best at defusing and fielding phone calls in the district, US Rep Kennedy’s Director said.
• Ensured the daily protection and information redundancy, responsible for deleting sensitive items and transferring over 100 GB of data to the new member’s Congressional office, served the new member and the former, developed a notification system for daily summarizing the threats on blogs each morning, so the member could craft his message before it emerged in the main-stream media.  Served new American citizen population, facilitating Congressional casework.  Acquired, reformatted and networked all equipment staff, between two locations, saving taxpayers more than $10,000.

 

Groettum for Congress-Hibbing, MN                       

Congressional Campaign Manager-August 2004 – December 2004          

 

• Earned BA while serving as the Congressional Campaign Manager, improved media blitzes with TV, radio, outdoor, print and earned media. campaign set the record for fundraising, received 23,000 more votes than any previous MN-8th GOP Candidate, PC and email account repair, developed an email and self-dialing database.