Cole Dillon

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About Cole Dillon

An expert in Higher Education Financing and the Founder and CEO of Student Loan 411. Since 2013, working with student loan borrowers nationally, helping them to manage their student loan debt through lower payments and loan forgiveness, discharges for total and permanent disability or school closing, rehabilitating defaulted student loans and eliminating government garnishments and intercepts. Having learned about the student loan crisis while serving as the Chief Information Officer at a state university, Ce has become one of the leading voices to prevent excessive student loan debt rather than trying to fix excessive debt. Customers share their experience here -http://bit.ly/sl411testimonials • Executive with 25 years experience of leadership. Worked to develop and execute both business and IT strategies in alignment with sales objectives. Successful in software manufacturing, mobile data and higher education environments during all cycles of business, including high growth, downturns and acquisition integration.• Turned around IT department at CSU, where there had been little capital investment for more than 10 years with no new budget and less staff; accomplishments included implementing new fire wall; implementing network filter; network bandwidth shaping, increasing internet service and availability by more than 40%; provided training for every staff member; and replacing entire edge network which is more than 20 years old. Public Speaking: Hall Chair DataCenter Dynamics 2012 Conference, short course for NABJ-Chicago - Social Media for Journalists; panelist -2012 CIO Survey Forum Harvey Nash; Keynote Address-Technology Summit, CSU, College of Education, Keynote speaker-CPS Continuing education, Keynote speaker-Central Networks Scholarship luncheon. Keynote speaker - Bronzeville Scholastic Academy Graduation. Specialties: student loan debt, degrees & jobs, leadership technology, strategy, innovation, public speaking, motivational speaking.