My Professional Journey
Teacher | Researcher | Funder | Director | Consultant
Teacher | Researcher | Funder | Director | Consultant
Edward Dieterle, Ed.D.
Founder and Managing Director
With almost 30 years of experience in education as a high school teacher in Prince George's County Maryland, university instructor at Johns Hopkins University, social science researcher at SRI International and Summit Consulting, program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and executive at ETS, I specialize in providing comprehensive research and management consulting services to organizations and universities in the field of AI and education. I am passionate about revolutionizing the way education leverages AI and related educational technologies to meet the needs of students, educators, and administrators today and the future.
I hold a doctorate in Learning and Teaching from Harvard University, a master's degree in Technology for Educators from Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Throughout my career, I have served on a number of committees and technical working groups, such as the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology, New York City Public School's iZone Research Advisory Council, Microsoft Corporation's Partners in Learning National Projects Advisory Board, and Learning Forward's Professional Development Redesign Technical Working Group.
Professional Learning Journey
Throughout my career, I have held various roles that have shaped who I am today and how I can support support clients. Each phase brought unique challenges and opportunities for growth and development.
As an ETS Executive Director, I engineered an R&D proposal system and leveraged connections in industry, government, academia, and philanthropy to generate a $30M+ revenue backlog and an $80M+ diversified revenue pipeline. I implemented a community of practice to upskill staff, increase proposal win rates, reduce costs, and better manage engagements to exceed the needs and expectations of clients.
As a Division Director at Summit, I oversaw profit and loss, formulated go-to-market strategies, managed operations, contracts, business development, and communications. I built and led a team of 30 professionals to conduct program evaluation and support testifying experts, government officials, and legal counsel. Utilizing econometric methods and machine learning, we developed an automated valuation model, quantified outcomes, and presented findings effectively. Our efforts resulted in successful recoveries of $20B.
At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as a Senior Program Officer, I managed a $4M annual budget for personalized learning research and evaluation. Through strategic partnerships and investments, I explored innovative methodologies, technologies, school models, markets, and policies to make personalized learning a reality for more K12 students in the U.S. Collaborations with researchers yielded significant advances in how student engagement can be measured through algorithms.