Douglas Freed
Vice President For Enrollment Management, Communications And Marketing
Alma, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Freed is a strategic, data-driven enrollment and communications executive with over 15 years of leadership driving measurable growth across diverse higher education settings. He has repeatedly reversed declining enrollment trends—most notably delivering a 60% enrollment increase at Henry Ford College, making Wayne State the top transfer destination in Michigan, and generating double-digit prospect growth through integrated marketing and CRM-driven campaigns. Skilled at reorganizing teams and processes, he builds high-performing, cross-divisional units that win awards and promote staff into expanded roles. Douglas combines hands-on operational work in admissions, financial aid, and retention with savvy external partnerships and vendor ecosystem management to diversify lead generation and improve yield. Uncommonly for a senior enrollment leader, he also contributes to open-source software projects—ranging from Irssi scripts to networked infrastructure tooling—bringing practical backend and DevOps problem-solving to his data and systems approach. Based in Alma, Michigan, he leverages strong communication and change-management skills to translate complex analytics into compelling recruitment strategies and institutional branding.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Public Relations and Organizational Communication, MA, Public Relations and Organizational Communication at Wayne State UniversityBachelor's degree, Political Science - Communications, Bachelor's degree, Political Science - Communications at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Github Skills (53)
debugging10
debug10
python10
scripting10
package-development10
plugin-development10
testing10
configuration-management10
proxy10
c-programming10
c1110
perl10
networking10
network-programming10
c1710
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
irssi/scripts.irssi.org
Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
Script Repository for Irssi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributes to scripting for the Irssi IRC client, implementing features and fixing bugs. They developed a script for authenticating to QuakeNet's Q service and a script to print CAP lines. Significant work was done in `trigger.pl`, adding new features for advanced message filtering and modification of existing functionalities. They also fixed a bug in `trigger.pl`. There are also several improvements to `bansearch.pl` and `timer.pl`.
irssi
OpenRC/openrc
Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
The OpenRC init system
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 43 commits, 32 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the OpenRC init system by addressing several critical bug fixes and enhancements. They fixed double-free errors related to pidfile management and resolved compiler warnings. Additionally, the user improved system detection and runlevel handling, specifically addressing issues related to stacked runlevels and signal handling within the rc system. These modifications improved the system's stability, corrected potential memory leaks, and enhanced system functionality.
init-systemopenrcdbusirc-serverinit
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