Innovative and Cost Effective IT Consulting

Services for Education Technology and Beyond

Jon Hickam is the president, principal consultant, and benevolent dictator of Red Globe Inc.

Jon has a B.S. in Anthropology with a minor in mathematics. After his undergraduate studies, Jon had a temporary position monitoring networks on the night shift in a local telecom company that accidentally turned into an IT job.

Jon worked at New Global Telecom in Golden, Colorado, in various software development, architecture, product development, and management roles from 1997 to 2003.  In 2003, he founded Red Globe Inc. and has been consulting independently since then.

In the last few years, Jon has worked closely with various state and local Education Agencies, the Micheal and Susan Dell Foundation, and the Ed-Fi alliance to address business intelligence, data interoperability, and data quality issues in K-12 education.

Jon works for clients all over the world from his home office in Hotchkiss Colorado, a small community in the North Fork of the Gunnison valley on the western part of the state that is known for delicious fruits, a thriving arts scene, and agreeable standard of living.  “Red Globe” is one of his favorite local peach varieties.

Projects & Skills

Professional Experience

Project Lead

Project lead for an open-source data validation tool that is pre-integrated with the Ed-Fi operational data store (ODS).

Strategic Project

Strategic project to help define requirements and identify solutions for ODS data validation challenges on behalf of the Ed-Fi Alliance.

Technical Strategy and Leadership Consultant

Technical strategy and leadership consulting for nonprofit organizations in the renewable energy and environmental conservation industries.

Support Systems Provider and Network Configuration Leader

Providing support systems and network configuration technical leadership and software development for a US-based telecom carrier that is starting to sell services internationally.

Architect/ETL Developer/Database Developer/Analyst

Architect/ETL developer/database developer/analyst on a project for an environmental publication to extract subscriber information from various legacy systems, clean the data, and export to Salesforce.com.

Single Technical Resource

Single technical resource on an Ed-Fi implementation project for a large school district, including designing/building/testing/deploying extensions, server configuration, team city and octopus configuration (ongoing as of August 2021).

Architect/Sr SQL Server Developer/ETL Developer/Analyst/Report Writer/DBA

Architect/Sr SQL server developer/ETL Developer/analyst/report writer/DBA for a regional health care provider’s data warehouse that enabled automated compliance reports and advanced analytics that eliminated 200 + hours of manual work every month.

Data Architect and Co-implementation Manager

Data architect and co-implementation manager for a state Ed-Fi implementation. Responsibilities included data mapping, designing data extractions against the ODS, designing/building/implementing extensions, documenting state Ed-Fi standards, coordinating Ed-Fi implementation with multiple School Information System (SIS) vendors and multiple Local Education Agencies (LEAs), and general technical leadership through design, build and test stages.

Technical Lead/Business Analyst

Technical lead/business analyst on a large international telecom carrier’s initiative to upgrade their switching and support systems infrastructure for an international wholesale business unit, with responsibilities that included authoring an RFI and RFP, vendor analysis, project management, and architectural oversight. Overall project budget in excess of $10 million USD.

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A first class manager and mentor who was able to translate the most complex of projects down into easily manageable components. John brought an initially failed project to completion both under budget and before allocated completion date.

Chris MarshHealthcare Assistant

Jon stood out as a model for what we all realize the ICT industry needs much more of - tech-savvy leaders/communicators using structured, people-first approaches. We were pleased and fortunate to have him with us for a long, difficult and ultimately successful programme.

Dan BishopBehavioural Change Leadership

Jon provides everything from big picture perspective to nitty gritty analysis that you can trust.

Gretchen KingManaging Editor, High Country News

John is a skilled expert in all things database and network related.

Barton EllerCEO Paonia Soil Co.