Learning Strategist & Education Innovator
20+ years of industry & nonprofit experience in innovative service & product development and deployment
Alfred is dedicated to rethinking the high school experience as Head of Educator Excellence at XQ Institute .
At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), Alfred led a human-centered design project for an integrated Project Based Learning (PBL) teacher experience to support 300K members. As Director of Innovation, he was also responsible for developing BIE.org (Over 1M visitors/year) and PBLU.org (Over 50K members) to support and advance PBL for teachers and leaders. He co-developed BIE's flagship PBL 101 Workshop (15K participants/annually) and co-authored the PBL 101 Workbook.
Prior to joining BIE, Alfred taught math and physics at High Tech High where he used his engineering background and industry experience to design classroom projects (See archive) and educator workshops. Alfred started his career with Andersen Consulting doing business/internet consulting and later joined a Bay Area venture fund, CreateLabs.
CONSULTING & ADVISING
PERSONAL SIDE PROJECTS
PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES
Novak Leadership Institute Speaker
Missouri, 2018ACTE CareerTech Vision Talk
New Orleans, 2015UIX: Prototyping the Future Speaker
San Leandro, 2014SXSWEdu Speaker
Austin, 2013PBL World Australia Keynote
Sydney, 2013International PBL Symposium Speaker
Singapore, 2012CELL: PBL Institute Keynote
Indiana, 2010 & 2011Texas High School Project Speaker
Dallas, 2006