Ms. Finn has invited me to join this group, and I'm glad to
know of it! I've been working with Freenets and Community
Technology Centers (and educational/campus/library networks
before that) for literally decades now, so I feel like I
practically know you all already by the grey hairs you sport
from working on high tech with low budgets! 
You can see a bit about my background here: htt
p://resumes.hotjobs.com/shava23/shavanerad2006
I am, in fact, looking for work in the Boston area. A gig
at a local commercial IT services company (which I was
attracted to due to their focus on steep nonprofit discounts
and such) has turned into a consulting gig because they've
decided they don't need someone at my level this year.
Ain't it a pip when you do a business analysis for
someone and vote yourself off their island?
So if anyone has any leads into nonprofit/education tech or
socially responsible high tech/startup jobs in the Boston
area, please do tell.
I recently returned to the northeast from the pacific
northwest, but Cambridge is about as close to home as I've
ever had. I was here from 1978 to 1989 -- formative years
from 18-30. I was a software engineer at DEC, a VMS guru at
MIT, and ran the Eugene freenet for some years.
Then, as my son says, "My mom used to be an engineer,
but then she went over to the dark side and now she's in
marketing." 2000 marked my transition into non-beeper
jobs as I became a single mom with a six year old. Now
Joseph is 13, and I am again beepable. I am happy to work
the geek side of management, or the management side of
geekiness.
When the Portland Business Journal nominated me for Woman
Entrepreneur of the Year, I giggled three days straight. My
CEO in Portland referred to me as his "imitation
capitalist." But I play well in Fortune 500
boardrooms, which is great both for major donor development
(where I honed my talent) and for enterprise tech sales (a
much easier job).
Having worked as a street musician in Boston in the late
70's (and adopted by a combat zone street gang at the time),
and coming from a family with roots in blue collar
intellectual culture (union), I am a comfortable social
chameleon, which is a great asset to many institutions that
range from Brahmin donors to homeless clients.
Although my tech's a little stale in places, it's
sufficiently broad and deep that in less than a month
working with a Microsoft partner, I was able to do a case
study presentation this week involving small
business tech, and only had to defer one question to the MS
rep (and that involved licensing details).
If you want to see some of what I write about in my spare
time, check out http://shava.gather.com/
(an interesting blogging community site, set up for writers
and readers of the basic over-30 NPR listener demographic).
Happy to be here!
Shava Nerad
shava efn.org
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