{"id":137,"date":"2026-09-07T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:26:28","slug":"work-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/?page_id=137","title":{"rendered":"Work Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Experience<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lehigh University Committees and Leadership<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/work-experience\/#lehigh-university-committees-and-leadership\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lehigh Information Systems Steering Committee &#8211; Current<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance Committee &#8211; Current<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh University Crisis Management Team &#8211; Current<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh LTS Diversity and Inclusion &#8211; Chair (2020-2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh Leadership Academy (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CISO Search Committee &#8211; Co-chair (2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Systems Engineering Team Manager Search &#8211; Leader (2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh Pragmatic Leadership (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Higher Education Committees and Boards<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/work-experience\/#higher-education-committees-and-boards\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/internet2.edu\/services\/amazon-web-services\/\">Internet2 AWS Service Advisory Board<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Current<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spaces.at.internet2.edu\/pages\/viewpage.action?pageId=154766601\">Internet2 NET+ CSTAAC &#8211; Cloud Services Technology Architecture Advisory Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educause.edu\/community\/cloud-computing-community-group\">EDUCAUSE Cloud Computing Community Group Co-Chair<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 2021-2023, Emeritus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educause.edu\/community\/communications-infrastructure-and-applications-community-group-steering-committee\">EDUCAUSE Communications Infrastructure and Applications Community Group Steering Committee<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Current<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/internet2.edu\/cloud-forum\/\">Cloud Forum<\/a>\u00a02020, 2021, and 2022 Planning Committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/internet2.edu\/2022-technology-exchange\/\">Co-chaired developing the Internet2 Technology Exchange Conference 2022 Cloud Track<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SIGUCCS Mentoring program (Mentee 2018, Mentor 2019, Mentor 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public Conference Presentations<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/work-experience\/#public-conference-presentations\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KINBERCON 2025:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kinbercon2025.sched.com\/event\/28os2\/trustworthy-ai-tools-and-frameworks-for-responsible-ai?linkback=grid\">Trustworthy AI Tools And Frameworks For Responsible AI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Forum 2025 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/internet2.edu\/cloud-forum\/2025-cloud-forum-schedule\/cloud-forum-2025-abstracts\/#abstract14\">Lessons learned from Architecting, Deploying, and Managing a Secure Research Cloud<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Forum 2025 (Conference): Led Workshop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/internet2.edu\/cloud-forum\/2025-cloud-forum-schedule\/cloud-forum-2025-abstracts\/#workshop\">Cloud Security Maturity Model Workshop: Advancing Your Institution\u2019s Readiness<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internet2 Technology Exchange Conference 2024: Creating AI-Powered Chatbots and Research Concierge Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internet2 Technology Exchange Conference 2024: Lessons learned from Architecting, Deploying, and Managing a Secure Research Cloud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internet2 Technology Exchange Conference 2024: Panel &#8211; Where in the Cloud Are We? A facilitated discussion about the state of Cloud in research and education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internet2 Technology Exchange Conference 2024: Panel &#8211; Security in the cloud: research, monitoring, automation, compliance and more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data Center World 2024 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/outages\/incident-response-lessons-learned-from-a-data-center-fire\">Lessons Learned from a Data Center Incident<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Forum 2021 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/cloudforum\/cloud-forum-2021-agenda\/\">Lessons Learned from AWS Student Data Lake POC<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Forum 2021 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/cloudforum\/cloud-forum-2021-agenda\/\">Avoiding \u201cNetworking\u201d in Your Cloud Adoption Strategy (Workshop)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EDUCAUSE 2021 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/annual-conference\/2021\/agenda\/cloud-computing-community-group\">Cloud Computing Community Group<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EDUCAUSE 2021 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/annual-conference\/2021\/agenda\/voice-and-unified-communications-architecture-and-design-best-practices\">Voice and Unified Communications Architecture and Design Best Practices<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EDUCAUSE 2020 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/annual-conference\/2020\/agenda\/modernizing-campus-safety-and-mass-notification-systems\">Modernizing Campus Safety and Mass Notification Systems<\/a>\u00a0October 27th, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EDUCAUSE 2020 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/annual-conference\/2020\/agenda\/it-and-facilities-engagement-strategies\">IT and Facilities Engagement Strategies<\/a>\u00a0October 27th, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud Forum 2020 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/cloudforum\">Monitor AWS with Grafana 7<\/a>\u00a0September 11th, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lehigh Valley AWS Meetup (Meetup):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Lehigh-Valley-Amazon-Web-Services-Users-Group\/events\/270143548\/\">September Meetup: Securing Data in AWS with James Monek<\/a>\u00a0September 9, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NERCOMP 2019 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/special-topic-events\/nercomp-annual-conference\/2019\/agenda\/using-agile-methodology-for-it-infrastructure-projects\">Using Agile Methodology for IT Infrastructure Projects<\/a>\u00a0March 20th, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NERCOMP 2019 (Conference):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.educause.edu\/special-topic-events\/nercomp-annual-conference\/2019\/agenda\/luapps-software-anytime-anywhere-on-any-device\">LUapps: Software Anytime, Anywhere, on Any Device!<\/a>\u00a0March 19th, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Reviewer\/Editor Contributions<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/work-experience\/#book-reviewereditor-contributions\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axelos.com\/store\/book\/itil-foundation-itil-4-edition\">ITIL v4 Foundations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work Experience Lehigh University Committees and Leadership Higher Education Committees and Boards Public Conference Presentations Book Reviewer\/Editor Contributions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesmonek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}