SocraticExperience.com, a secondary school for parents seeking a warm, motivating, high performance virtual educational experience for their children, specializing in creative, intellectual, and entrepreneurial students whose needs are not being met by conventional schools.

Founder of the Academy of Thought and Industry, an innovative Montessori-aligned high school with campuses in SF, NYC, Austin, and St. Louis.  They are managed by Higher Ground Education, the leading Montessori network in the U.S.

Twenty-eight years creating innovative K-12 programs and schools, based on Montessori, Socratic, and entrepreneurial principles, including an inner city school at which minority females gained four years of critical thinking skills in four months (on a test that correlates with SAT and IQ); a Montessori middle school in Palo Alto where the average 8th grade SAT for students was higher than the average private school senior; a school for gifted children where middle schoolers passed AP science courses; MVHS, a rural New Mexican school ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S.; and KoSchool in Austin.  My book, The Habit of Thought:  From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice summarizes my approach.  All of my schools are based on the cultivation of respectful, civil, authentic intellectual dialogue.

This led to FLOW, a non-profit devoted to promoting entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, co-founded with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.  My second book, Be the Solution:  How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with Mackey, Mohammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, and others summarizes our approach.

Because global poverty is the biggest of all problems, FLOW led me to focus on bringing better law and governance to the global poor.  As a consequence, I began working to create Special Development Regions and e-government in  Honduras, Senegal, and other regions around the world.

I'm passionate about entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, with personal interest and experience in education and law/governance.  I write on these issues at Medium.

Michael Strong

MetLife Legal Plans

- Created CiCd pipelines, infrastructure and workflows to secure developer operations
- Managed Data orchaestration workflows ensuring validity and transport of data across the company
- Created secure, stable, and fast batch loads and api interfaces between client service centers and back end infrastructure, as well as between AWS and Azure for database communication.
- Worked with Cloudwatch logging, EKS, ECR & EC2, Appflow, S3 data lakes, Glue, Lambda, and IAM policies to create applications and functions within MetLife for dataflow and data transport needs
- Managed updates to core Kubernetes system to ensure that backend services remain constantly available and business digital functions are maintained and run smoothly

Analytics Engineer

Google

- Manage Google Knowledge Graph Data pipelines for optimal user experience. 
- Ensure data pipelines deliver valid and effective info for user queries.
- Work with broader team to enhance and create more efficient pipelines

Data Pipeline and Python Engineer

Expanse Online

- Taught Python and Programming to students online and internationally
- Developed comprehensive Python curriculums for students of all levels
- Focused on developing Python skills with OOP, readability, and efficient code

Python and Programming Educator

MetaVi Labs

- Proposed and designed MetaVi's CI/CD to monitor their website
- Worked closely with the founder, learning about MetaVi's cancer drug testing
- Demonstrated independent programming capability through CI/CD and API integration

Software Engineering Consultant

MonDel Homes

Website Management, Google Ads Manager, Website Design

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Launchpeer

Marketing Specialist

Original Path

I manage a team in the creation of a website, where we provide high school students resources to learn about alternatives to traditional school, learning materials for their independent study, and a community of support in pursuing alternative education.

I host socratic dialogue calls to teach kids to think critically and communicate peaceably about big ideas. I have also written extensively about the value of alternative education, I have done interviews with other prominent advocates of alt ed, talked on local radio stations about stimulating better education and serve as a writing mentor for many kids learning to excel their literary abilities.

Lead Editor

The Leading Liberty Podcast

I work as an independent contractor for The Leading Liberty Podcast, where I handle Tax Management, File Storage, Social Media Pages and many other tasks.

I have reached thousands of people on the facebook page I run there, and I maintain a perfect daily record of posts subject to the owner's desires. Many posts have media I myself created for the success of the page.

I also manage many tax-sensitive files, giving ease of consolidation, organization, and accessibility to any and all who would need to access such files in the future.

Independent Contractor

Baer Engineering & Environmental Consulting, Inc.

I managed the blog and social media here, writing keyword-rich, google friendly blog, several of which had thousands of hits. I managed social media to ensure our company looked refined, smart, innovative and effective on Facebook and other social media platforms. I managed our website to keep it in top-tier efficiency.

I helped draft several marketing presentations, for both internal and external audiences. I helped express difficult and complex solutions and systems to people with little knowledge of environmental engineering, as well as helping explain functions within the company to other members & coworkers. 

Additionally, I planned an entirely new lighting system for the company to be environmentally friendly, cost-effective and applicable to a new and changing office space, helping employees work as effectively as possible. This was a part of planning new office layouts, in order to provide a strong environment for people to work in.

Social Media Specialist

Apogee Results

I worked on a variety of projects in SEO and keywords, ensuring that linking profiles matched up and did not confuse google algorithms, as well as maintained PPC ads for maximum efficiency of spend in Google Adwords.

Additionally, I managed email lists for our clients, helped create Google-friendly and applicable blog posts, reviewed website metadata, and gained in-depth knowledge getting businesses to thrive on search algorithms.

Digital Marketing Intern

Data & Analytics engineer with experience in AWS Lambda, EKS, EC2, Containerization, Kubernetes, Ci/Cd, Linux and data orcahestration. Currently managing backend engineering needs and data systems at MetLife.

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