King County Leadership

Experienced, enterprising, and passionate Senior Leader of technology organizations with a distinguished career comprising more than eighteen years transforming enterprises, building high performing and healthy teams, and innovating at start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Strong, established reputation for delivering quality products and services while enforcing strict budget controls. Visionary, collaborative, and goal-oriented with demonstrated experience planning, developing, and implementing bleeding edge technology solutions to address business opportunities. Outstanding ability to develop innovative and creative solutions for platform capabilities that meet existing and future market needs and increase the value of current products. Adept at crisis management, troubleshooting, problem solving, and negotiations; always striving for ‘win/win’ scenarios. I strongly believe in putting people first and developing colleagues through positive motivation & mutual respect that attracts and retains highly focused, diverse talent; structuring them into teams that deliver results and savings while fostering an environment of humility, thought sharing/partnership, and individual leadership/engagement/intrinsic drive. Highly technical with a solid business acumen.

Specialties: Active Directory and Exchange Expert. MCSE, MCSA, MCP Exchange. VMware, SDLC, Agile, SQA, Release Management, SOA, Technology Management, Enterprise Architecture, and network infrastructure.

Abdikarim Elmi is a Transit Chief Operations at King County and is based in Seattle, Washington. He has worked as Operations Manager at Universal Trasportation & Translation. Abdikarim studied at University of Washington between 2012 and 2014.

Seattle Asian American and Filipino community leader, political activist, organizer for the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP); organized for justice after the assassination of her brother, Silme Domingo

Cyndi Schaeffer is a Chief of Staff at King County and Adjunct faculty at Western Washington University, City University and is based in Snohomish, Washington. She has experience at City University and Bellwether Community College Finalist and has worked as Adjunct Faculty at Western Washington University, Administrator and Workforce Development On-Site Manager at Social & Health Service Department, and Assistant Regional Administrator and Supervisor at DSHS - Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Cyndi attended Antioch University between 2008 and 2012, U W Milwaukee, and University of Wisconsin-Stout between 1981 and 1983.

Dan Bernard is a Communities of Opportunity (COO) Employment Manager at King County and is based in Seattle, Washington. He has worked as WorkSource Business Liaison at Workforce Snohomish, Manager of Employer Partnerships at Pacific Associates, and Environmental & Community Affairs Specialist at Starbucks. Dan attended SDSU and Aspen Institute 2013 Greater Seattle Sector Skills Academy.

Chief Procurement Officer and Supply Chain leader with over 25 years of experience in global strategic sourcing and procurement in multinational organizations and the public sector. Results oriented leader focused on process improvement, cost savings, people development and organizational optimization. Experienced in developing and leading \'best in class\' supply chain organizations. Achieves significant bottom line results in sourcing and procurement utilizing proven strategies including TCO, Lean and analytics.

Specialties: Recruiting and developing talent; building new and restructuring existing sourcing organizations; global strategic sourcing / category management; outsourcing; process re-engineering & procurement technology implementation; price & cost analysis; negotiation; supplier relationships. Driving higher value through spend and/or process analytics, implementing process improvements, people development and advanced strategic sourcing strategies. Procurement systems implementation including SAP SRM, Oracle, Ariba and SciQuest.

Dudley-Moore Ramona are a Chief Of Operations at King County and are based in Seattle, Washington.

Dylan Brown is a Member Board of Directors at Multi-Service Center, Chief Of Staff at King County, and Chair at Pierce County Advisory Committee for Youth Violence Prevention and is based in Federal Way, Washington. He has worked as Baseball Coach at Federal Way Buzz, Assistant Baseball Coach at Bonney Lake High School, and Legislative Assistant at Washington State Republican Party. Dylan attended GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY between 2013 and 2013, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville between 2011 and 2013, and Pierce College between 2009 and 2011.

Jack Jackson is a Security Chief at King County and is based in Greater Seattle Area. He has worked as Relationship Manager at Guardsmark Inc. and Criminal Justice Adjunct Professor at Columbia College. Jack attended John Jay College and Jacksonville State University between 1995 and 1997.

John Bouie works at King County Metro Transit and a Supervisor at King County Metro Transit and Transit Chief of Operations at King County and is based in Renton, Washington.