Craig Deforest
Senior Director Of Custom Programs at Academic Programs International (API)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Deforest is a senior director who designs and scales custom learning and partnership programs that align industry talent needs with applied research, currently leading Custom Programs at Academic Programs International. With 13 years of experience across higher education, international exchange, and workforce development, he has a strong track record of creating revenue-generating B2B programs and optimizing sales operations through CRM and process improvements. At Northeastern’s Roux Institute he built cross-sector collaborations in healthcare, construction, fintech, and supply chain to translate employer problems into research and training solutions. He repeatedly delivered rapid revenue wins and contract renewals by integrating proposition development with global operations—skills honed during his leadership at CIEE where he grew portfolios and exceeded targets. Based in Boulder, Craig combines program strategy with hands-on project management and a curiosity for data-driven decision making; he also brings an unexpected background in heliophysics coding that speaks to his analytical range.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Public Management, Bachelor of Arts, Public Management at University of Maine
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Github Skills (66)
gnuplot10
pdl10
perl9
orbital-mechanics8
python8
backend8
autoloader8
astronomy8
alien8
ndarray8
solar8
gradient-descent7
ruby7
numerics7
scientific-computing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drzowie/Alien-Gnuplot
Mar 2013 - Feb 2017
Alien::Gnuplot - a perl container for acquiring the external Gnuplot library
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years
acquiringgnuplotperlalien
drzowie/transform
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Coordinate transformations and data resampling, in Python/NumPy
Contributions:131 commits, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
pythonnumpypython-numpymulticorenumba
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