A Strategic Focus on Telemedicine

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Wow! Today I am starting as the first Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Intelehealth. I am humbled by Neha Verma‘s trust in me to help Intelehealth improve access to primary health care and lower costs for national health insurance programs via telemedicine methodologies and technologies. I’ll be focused on four core activities for the organization […]

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Hire Me! ISO a New Job Now

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I am sad to say that USAID is dying.  I am watching in horror as 25 years of my life is crushed by this new Administration. Yet, I am not one to wallow in the past. What’s done is done. I must move on. I did so in a way that came naturally to me. […]

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Hire Me! ISO: A New Job in October

I’m proud to announce that USAID/Zambia is hiring a Zambian Digital Development Advisor to replace me. This is an awesome development. It shows the Mission is committed to digital development for the long term, and they will have a staff person able to dive into the minutia of ICT4D on a daily basis. A clear […]

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A New Day with Deloitte

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Four years ago, my family and I rolled into North Carolina unhoused, unemployed, and unhappy after my Philippine dream job fiasco. There is nothing quite like losing your job, house, car, and school, and then fleeing a country to put you into a professional funk. Then my wife found at job at Duke, I found […]

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3 Lessons Learned From My Philippine Failure

What happens when you bet your career on an illusion, and lose. In December 2016, my family and I packed away our Washington, DC lives, sold everything, said goodbye to everyone, and embarked on a grand adventure: moving to the Philippines for a dream ICT4D job. Less than 4 months later, we were back in the […]

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