MarKel's professional experience is driven by his passion to innovate and create value using the power of the Internet and Digital Media. Joining the professional workforce in the mid-90's, just as the Internet was going mainstream, he won two competitive internships one with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the other with GE Aviation. After leaving GE Aviation, MarKel continued his career as a web development consultant working for Sophisticated Systems, Inc. building 1st generation websites for the likes of Nationwide Financial Services, Bank One, and the State of Ohio. As his career progressed, MarKel was asked to lead the organization's eBusiness Practice, and eventually was promoted to the role of Chief Information Officer. Prior to the turn of the century, MarKel became President and CEO of his own company. However, the company was short lived as capital began to dry up affected by the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. And in response to the economic decline, MarKel joined CBC Companies to help re-engineer the technology that powered their flood zone determination business. A few years later in 2004, MarKel joined Franklin University as their Director of Web Development where his primary responsibility was to shape the future of the University's learning management system, both domestically and abroad. In March 2013, MarKel briefly left the University to become the Chief Information Officer for the Columbus Metropolitan Library but returned to the University in 2014 to help spearhead their Strategic Initiatives business division. MarKel holds an Associate of Science degree in Business Administration and a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, KY and a Master of Business Administration degree from Franklin University. He holds professional certifications in Project Management, ITIL, Six Sigma, and Agile. And is a graduate of EDUCAUSE's Learning Technology Leadership Institute.

Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives @ As the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, MarKel is responsible for researching, planning, executing, and following up on the marketing and distribution of key Franklin capacities to outside partners. He works in close cooperation and coordination with all of the University departments involved in the fulfillment of contracts obtained. And is tasked with building market share for these key capacities through locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing academic partnerships and business relationships. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Columbus, Ohio AreaChief Information Officer @ As Chief Information Officer, MarKel was responsible for the strategic planning and operational support for each of the Columbus Metropolitan Library's 22 branch locations across Central Ohio. Highlights of his tenure with the Library include: setting the vision for the innovations introduced in two of the Library's newly renovated branches (Driving Park and Whitehall); completing the Library's migration to a new ERP, Polaris; and inverting the organization's technology support model to improve the reliability of key Library services made available to the public. From March 2013 to January 2014 (11 months) Director of Academic Information Services @ MarKel served as the Director of Academic Information Services. In this role, he led the technology organization responsible for creating and delivering cinematic productions, custom web applications, and educational games. The job was a blend of technical expertise and business strategy where MarKel serves as the Chief Architect, engineering solutions using primarily Java (J2EE), PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML running in an Apache, Red Hat Linux, JBOSS, and mySQL environment. On the business strategy side, MarKel was an integral part of the University's online growth initiatives. Running an organization that fluctuated between 15 and 20 FTEs, MarKel was tasked with executing the Academic Information Technology strategy across all of the University’s 39-degree programs distributed across its 3 Colleges. This work included managing priorities and expectations across both Administration and Academics through guided governance; working closely with the University’s Executive Leadership team to ensure that resourcing levels are appropriate to deliver the expected work; and developing his organization in anticipation of where the University is moving to compete in the market place. From December 2004 to March 2013 (8 years 4 months) Founder @ At GotGame Media, MarKel invented a predictive modeling algorithm and social network that helped college coaches around the nation find and recruit high school athletes that would have the greatest impact on their respective sports programs. His work as the Founder of this organization was focused on building out a scalable web crawling/screen scraping infrastructure and ETL programming interface that collected and fed data into the organization's data warehouse. Technologically, the organization leveraged PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML running on Red Hat Linux and Apache with mySQL serving as the underlying database technology. Additionally, as Founder, MarKel gained invaluable experience in fundraising. Working primarily throughout the state of Ohio, MarKel traveled extensively to each of the state's entrepreneurial signature programs, supported by the Ohio Department of Development, presenting to receive grants to help extend the needed funding to build out the invention. And while the program eventually ended, MarKel was able to successful win $100K in grants to help validate the idea for commercialization. From November 2008 to May 2012 (3 years 7 months) Chief Information Officer @ From May 1997 to April 2001 (4 years)

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration @ Franklin University From 2006 to 2007 Bachelors of Science, Computer Science @ Thomas More College From 1993 to 1997 Seneca High School From 1989 to 1993 MarKel Snyder is skilled in: Higher Education, E-Learning, Public Speaking, Teaching, Instructional Design, Learning Management Systems, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Web Development, Information Technology, Website Development, CSS, Social Networking, Curriculum Development, User Experience