“While at File & ServeXpress, Ben was pivotal to our initiatives to identify new product and market opportunities, modernize our branding and messaging, and envision our next generation user experience. I found Ben had an uncommon ability to tailor his recommendations based on our particular situation - the industry we were in, our technical position, and timeline we had to solve the problem. He was always thoughtful in his counsel, and I relied on him when I had to make a final decision on a number of very subjective issues. Ben first earned my respect when he recommended we use an alternate technology to implement our next generation platform that his firm wasn't as experienced with. As a consulting shop, that's not a common move, but Ben knows that building trust is essential to long term success. He respected our budget and time pressures as much as we did - pushing us to invest more in some cases but in many others to make a decision and move on. Ben also participated in higher level strategy discussions with our firm and demonstrated a knack for knowing the right questions to ask - and what we should be focusing on to make a decision. He advocated for important positions but was never strident or overbearing. He was one of my most trusted outside advisors during my tenure at FSX.”
Ben Slavin
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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I've built a reputation as a respected technical leader with broad experience across the…
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University of Maryland Nutrition and Food Science's Margaret Slavin recently found that patients taking prescription medications for acid reflux had…
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If you are in the Baltimore area on Saturday May 4th, please join me for the opening of Make Studio Baltimore’s newest exhibition PRIMO. This is a…
If you are in the Baltimore area on Saturday May 4th, please join me for the opening of Make Studio Baltimore’s newest exhibition PRIMO. This is a…
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I joined LEVICK from a small internet startup with no crisis communications experience other than what I experienced firsthand. Richard Levick had…
I joined LEVICK from a small internet startup with no crisis communications experience other than what I experienced firsthand. Richard Levick had…
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University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Club, Board Member; Consulting Club, Member; Net Impact, Member; New Markets Growth Fund, Associate
Honors and Awards: Dean’s Fellow both 2007 and 2008; First Place at 2006 CIO Forum; Entrepreneur’s Favorite at UMD VCIC 2007 and UMD VCIC 2008
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Activities and Societies: Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, Officer; Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, Researcher; Residence Life Association, Resident Assistant
Honors and Awards: Bilak Fellow; Heinz Fellow; Fessenden Honors in Engineering Certificate; Richard Madden Scholar; Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society; Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
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Mechanical Modeling of Failure in Surface Coatings
SPIE International Symposium on Smart Structures & Materials/NDE
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Real-Time Django
DjangoCon
The web is live. APIs give us access to continuously changing data. We discuss ways to get real-time data into your app, how to handle data processing and what to do when you get thousands of updates per second.
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Science Website Winner
Web Excellence Awards
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Blue Marble Award - NASA Environmental Quality Award
NASA
Awarded by the Environmental Management Division (EMD) of the NASA Headquarters Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI) for work on the 2016 International Space Apps Challenge.
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