1EdTech Consortium Membership Executive Board

Curtiss Barnes has over 30 years of experience in the education industry and expertise in a broad range of enterprise and instructional systems supporting education's core missions. He has held roles at universities, technology start-ups, large enterprise businesses, and courseware and publishing companies.

Curtiss holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Clark University.

Dr. Keith Osburn is the Chief Information Officer and Deputy Superintendent for Technology Services at the Georgia Department of Education. Spending the early days of his career as a Chemistry and Physics teacher, Dr. Osburn was introduced to the world of technology and soon found his passion in its value to improve education. With over three decades of service in education, he advocates for technology’s potential to revolutionize education. Now, as the CIO, Dr. Osburn has outlined an aggressive five-year comprehensive plan to modernize the agency’s technology infrastructure and data collection processes to help usher in 21st-century practices that will ensure the availability of modernized equipment to support teachers’ and students’ classroom and learning needs.

Under Dr. Osburn’s leadership, the agency has embraced technology standardization, especially 1EdTech’s interoperability standards, and has been the industry leader in leveraging CASE. These efforts earned the Georgia Department of Education the coveted Platinum Learning Impact award in 2018 for this work and the Silver Learning Impact award again in 2022.

He is a strong advocate for all of Georgia’s K-12 technology workforce, helping them grow to understand and embrace their critical and importance role as technology leaders. Setting this vision has helped Dr. Osburn usher in several new and innovative programs to support their growth, including a new Emerging Technology Leader mentor program, training over 200 digital literacy ambassadors, providing cybersecurity training to every public school district in Georgia, and creating the first-of-its-kind state-wide professional learning environment and online community to enable schools and district leaders a platform to collaborate and share ideas regardless of their location in Georgia.

Marc Nelson is the Vice President of Platform Product Management for Savvas Learning Company. At Savvas, Marc leads a talented team committed to delivering innovative solutions for K-12 teachers, students, and administrators. Marc’s 25+ year career has been devoted to the thoughtful application of technology to inspire, engage, and personalize learning at scale. Savvas’s flagship learning management system, Savvas Realize, provides over 1100 standards-aligned core curriculum programs and powerful features built to improve teaching and learning. Savvas Realize reaches millions of teachers and students each day by offering plug-and-play interoperability with top classroom tools and industry-leading integrations.

Annie Chechitelli has spent the past two decades innovating with educators to expand access to education, meet the quickly changing needs of learners, and empower students to do their best, original work. As the Chief Product Officer at Turnitin, Annie oversees the Turnitin suite of applications which include academic integrity, grading and feedback, and assessment capabilities.

Prior to joining Turnitin, Annie spent over five years at Amazon where she led Kindle Content for School, Work, and Government and launched the AWS EdTech Growth Advisory team, advising education technology companies on how to grow their product and go-to-market strategies with AWS.

Annie began her career in EdTech at Wimba, where she launched a live collaboration platform for education which Blackboard ultimately acquired in 2010. At Blackboard, she led platform management, focused on transitioning Blackboard Learn to the cloud.

Annie holds a B.S. from Columbia University and an M.B.A. and M.S. from Claremont Graduate University. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and three children and is an avid tennis player.

Dr. Daryl Diamond has had a diverse and impactful career in Broward County Public Schools, starting as a high school mathematics teacher before transitioning into Instructional Leader of Curriculum to launch Broward's Virtual School. Later, she served as Assistant Director at Sheridan Technical College and Principal at Sheridan Technical High School. As Director of Innovative Learning, Daryl oversaw Instructional Technology, Instructional and Digital Materials, and Library Media Services, working with end users and suppliers to infuse instructional technology into the classroom. In this role, she led the district’s collaboration with 1EdTech (then IMS Global) and served on its Board of Directors from 2019-2021. As Director of Planning, Implementation, Transition, Adoption, and Continuous Improvement in the Information and Technology Division, Daryl returns to 1EdTech's Board. Having worked at the intersection of K-12 Academics and K-12 Information and Technology Departments, she is deeply passionate about enhancing the day-to-day experiences of educators, administrators, and learners by connecting everyone to the best possible digital learning tools.

Linda Feng is currently Vice President of Architecture at D2L (Desire2Learn), a leading learning platform company at the heart of the largest transformation to modernize education and the Future of Work. At D2L, Linda serves in a senior leadership role, reporting directly to the chief technology officer and being accountable for strategic planning for technology alignment, innovation leadership, strategic partnerships, data strategy, scalability, and more.

Ms. Feng comes to D2L from Unicon, where she focused on providing strategic consulting to leading institutions, major publishers, and edtech companies related to integrations and learning analytics. She has helped design infrastructure and data processes for large-scale learning analytics implementation and provided subject matter expertise for major publishers and edtech companies related to implementations involving 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global) standards, such as Learning Information Services, OneRoster, LTI, and Caliper. Most recently, she has helped several educational institutions to design and build an analytics pipeline using AWS as well as Google Cloud Platform with Canvas Data and Canvas Live Events.

While at Unicon, she also served as Chief Privacy Officer, where she was instrumental in establishing privacy policies, overseeing privacy audits and assessments, and developing a privacy strategic plan aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and long-term goals.

Ms. Feng has authored articles as well as spoken at numerous education technology conferences, such as EDUCAUSE, ELI (Educause Learning Institution), 1EdTech's Learning Impact, and OpenApereo, on topics ranging from student data integration and data privacy initiatives to data pipelines and key innovations in learning analytics infrastructure.

Ms. Feng was formerly a senior product manager with Instructure, focusing on platform strategy and standards. Prior to Instructure, Ms. Feng had over 20 years of experience in database server and applications product development at Oracle, most recently serving as Software Architect in Oracle's Student Products Division. During that time, she served as co-chair of the IMS Global Learning Initiative Learning Information Services Working Group, helping to bring a new Enterprise interoperability standard to market. Ms. Feng has also guided numerous application development projects ranging from Oracle Public Sector Financials to Oracle Student Systems. Early in her career at Oracle, she successfully managed the development of Oracle's Spatial Data Option technology, integrating it into the Oracle 7 server architecture. Her work with this project earned her a patent for multidimensional indexing techniques present in Oracle's Spatial Cartridge today.

Warren Goetzel Ph.D., is the Director of Academic Technology and Engagement at the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Director of Faculty and External Engagement at the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U), Georgia Tech. In his roles he oversees Georgia Tech’s digital learning ecosystem including a portfolio of academic cloud services that enables teaching and learning online at scale. Dr. Goetzel is also responsible for assisting in the systemic exploration, development, adoption, and assessment of new and innovative educational methodologies and curricular models and furthering the Institute’s efforts in lifelong learning initiatives. He currently serves on the 1EdTech HED Executive Council and co-chairs Georgia Tech’ Educational Technology Steering Committee and Affordable Degrees-at-Scale Symposium. Dr. Goetzel has a Ph.D. and Ed.S. in Instructional Technology and Design, and master’s degrees in Library Media Technology and Science Education all from Georgia State University.

As the Chief Academic Officer at Instructure, Melissa Loble will build out the global academic strategy function to ensure the educator experience remains core to everything the company does. At Instructure, she has held executive leadership positions for over nine years in roles overseeing support, client success, services, community, partnerships and platform. She’s a champion for crucial customer-focused topics like data usage and privacy—her mission is to drive innovation in our customer experience and enable customers to leverage our solutions in engaging and effective learning environments. Melissa has spent 20 years in educational technology working for a number of technology suppliers and educational institutions, as well as teaching leadership courses on managing technology for educational change. She has a master’s degree in educational policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Within Microsoft Education product development, Mike is responsible for growth through EdTech product integrations and partnerships. As a passionate advocate for EdTech interoperability, Mike has helped Microsoft Education expand its compatibility with third-party technologies and strengthen its commitment to 1EdTech standards.

Mike has three decades of experience in product development and has spent more than half of his career focused on education technology. Before he came to Microsoft, Mike served in various leadership positions at Blackboard, impacting a range of products that reached over 100 million educators and learners. He also worked in engineering, product management, and product strategy roles at Oracle, focused on ERP and CRM platform technology. Mike has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Kimberly Moore, JD, is the Executive Director of Workforce, Professional and Community Education at Wichita State University. She is an innovative and entrepreneurial leader, focused on establishing collaborative business and industry partnerships, which lead to the development of skill-based learning and training initiatives, support employers and job seekers, and stimulate the state and local economy. Kimberly has more than 35 years of experience in developing and leading workforce and professional development initiatives in government, higher education, business, and industry. She was tasked nine years ago with developing and launching the first digital badge program in the state of Kansas. Since then, Kimberly has led the development of 100+ online, for-credit badges. Kimberly is a founding member of the 1EdTech TrustEd Microcredential Coalition. She is invested in employer/higher education partnerships and skill-based collaborations.

Jessica Preisig serves as the Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services in the School District of Pickens County. Mrs. Preisig provides leadership for a talented technology team dedicated to the continued development of a robust and secure digital ecosystem. Her department provides support for instructional technology, end-user devices, audio-visual technology, safety & security systems, IT infrastructure & services, and information systems & compliance. Jessica is passionate about working alongside the larger SDPC team to create an innovative and engaging instructional environment that empowers students for college, career, and life success.

During her 20 years as an educator, Jessica has served as a classroom teacher, instructional technology coach, school administrator and district leader. Jessica earned her initial undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of South Carolina prior to moving to upstate South Carolina, where she obtained an EdS in Administration and Supervision and will earn her doctorate from Clemson University.