The leading, hands-on expert in high school transformation, Ed Jones has been to a a score of EdCamps and heard from hundreds of the region's best teachers. Before turning to K-12 transformation, he worked in some of the nation's highest technology centers, and had his work recognized by the chief technology officer of DARPA (the US' leading technical research agency). Ed's made plenty of mistakes, volunteered too much, worked with courts and family service agencies, and run a small business. He's helped castrate pigs, harvest sorghum, survey land boundaries, and once climbed a 8-ft barbed-wire fence in a suit and tie.