Greetings all,<\/p>\n
So, as mentioned at the Program Coordinators’ blog post on the 2018 application process<\/a>, I’m applying to be a Program Coordinator.\u00a0 You can see a rundown of what the Program Coordinator role is on the Official Resources page about Program Coordinators<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve decided to be fairly public about this process, because there is not a compelling reason for me to not publish my application.<\/p>\n I sent in my Wave 2 answers yesterday, and I’m publishing both the Wave 1 and Wave 2 answers on my personal blog here.\u00a0 You can find Part 2, the Wave 2 questions and answers, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ll have some sidebar commentary next to my answers as well, to provide context for people not as involved in the inside baseball of the Regional Coordinators and Program Coordinators.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am Regional Coordinator of the USA – North region, and have been RC since February of 2016. \u00a0I\u2019ve been successful in this role – we have maintained our L2 core, have good acceptance rates to large scale events, and have maintained a healthy and functioning judge program in the North region.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am one of the primary contributors on the Exemplar team. \u00a0I handle the address collection for Exemplar every wave, providing information to Regional Coordinators and managing addresses on a worldwide scale. \u00a0Starting with Wave 12, I will be producing <\/span>Exemplar Tokens<\/span><\/a> for every judge in the world that gets an Exemplar nomination. \u00a0This is a large scale project, and I have timelines and operational plans for managing art direction and production and distribution of over 3000 tokens.<\/span><\/p>\n [cets_callout_box style=’yellow’ align=’right’ title=’Context’]So, what was my plan here?\u00a0 I wanted to do a few things.\u00a0 I wanted to demonstrate my experience, and talk about recent things that demonstrate that I’ve stepped up on a larger program scale than just running regional things.<\/p>\n The Program Coordinator role tends to connect into a lot of project work, so that had to be the primary thing I focused on.\u00a0 There is also a substantial diplomacy aspect.\u00a0 Also, judges judge.\u00a0 So demonstrating I’m a quality judge is important.<\/p>\n I kind of gloss over the diplomacy a bit, with a throwaway comment about the “issues related to the fall Program Coordinator selection” – I won’t go into more details here, the whole situation is not public and should not be.\u00a0 This is mostly here so that the people involved (the Regional Coordinators and Program Coordinators on the selection committee) remember my involvement, for good or ill.[\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I keep innovating on smaller projects, especially ones that involve a physical thing that goes to judges. \u00a0I started making <\/span>Flash Feedback<\/span><\/a> tokens, which I distributed at GPs I attended for about a year. \u00a0This is growing into a plan from Edwin Zhang to distribute these to all GPs worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I provide support to a number of other projects, from Judge of the Week to the Prerelease Announcement Helper and Leaflet from the Customer Experience Project.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last year I was one of the very small team that made an attempt to start up Level 3 Maintenance, along with Alfonso Bueno and Ivan Petkovic. \u00a0This was a substantial amount of work – much of it ended up not being used, but it was an example of me getting deep into a project that I felt had program-wide importance.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have a strong history with the judge program. \u00a0I have: <\/span><\/p>\n
\nWhy should you be a Program Coordinator? Please list your past accomplishments related to the judge program that you believe have prepared you for this role.<\/b><\/h2>\n