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Paul Redfern
Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships

Paul develops Center strategies, contributes to long-range planning, writes and edits proposals, manages post-award communications, deliverables, and reporting, and fosters external partnerships and campus collaborations. Additionally, he oversees internal and national events, writes and edits research publications and reports, and serves on high-performance computing committees and advisory panels. Previously, Paul managed marketing communications for CAE-Link (now CAE), a global leader in flight and public safety simulation. Before that, he was an education specialist at IBM and developed training and internal communications programs for Kraft. He has also worked as an industry marcom consultant, been an invited speaker for Fortune 500 companies, and consulted on models for effective university partnerships.

Send email or phone 607-227-1865.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic planning and partnerships
• Branding/website design/content management: federatedcloud.org
• Corporate relations: 70+ partnerships developed; Cornell's largest single agreement ($20M)
• Proposal editing/writing: Aristotle Cloud Federation ($8.2M); CC* Networking ($376K)
• National report writing: "Final Report: 1st NSF DIBBs PI Workshop"; "XSEDE Cloud Survey Report"
• Case studies: "Simulating carbon-cycling enzymes"
• Event planning and web design: DIBBs17.org
• Marketing communications: New Faculty Flyer
• Media relations/news release writing: NSF invests in cyberinfrastructure institute to harness cosmic data
• Public affairs
• Special projects for senior leadership: "Analysis of Online Learning at Cornell and the Ivies"
• Instructional Systems Design (ISD) and training
• Video production
• Industry consulting: product marketing, training and communications

Education

• Postgraduate Studies, Newhouse School, Syracuse University
• MS Communications, PennWest University
• BA English & History, Grove City College

Awards

• Exceptional Performance Awards, Cornell
• Smithsonian/Computerworld Laureate Award, Cornell
• Farnborough International Airshow Best of Show Award, CAE-Link
• Photography Award, Arnot Arts Festival

Teaching Experience

• Engineering Workshops: Effective Presentational Speaking; Writing for Engineers, CAE-Link
• Guest Lectures: Communications Design and Production, Elmira College
• Lecturer: Media 454; Media Production 660, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
• Public Affairs Workshops: Producing Effective Public Service Announcements, USDA
• Instructor: Civilization 151/152, Grove City College

Community Experience

• HPC Technical Computing Advisory Panel, Hyperion
• Communications Committee, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
• Government Affairs Lead, El Salvador Sister City Project
• Board of Directors, Center for Technology & Innovation
• Student Host, Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships Program
• Refugee Resettlement Sponsor
• Youth Athletics Coach

Family Tree

• Summary/Narrative
• Redfern: An Almost Historic Name (article on my uncle who was the first pilot to solo the Caribbean Sea on route from North to South America the same year Lindbergh flew to Paris)

Op-Eds/Letters to the Editor

• Want a war? Fill out this form (USA Today Network Pressconnects)
• Fracking would industrialize town (Albany Times Union)
• 'Survivor,' and our lives today (New York Times)