Katie Beaumont is the Administrative Assistant in the Connect Ohio office where she serves as eceptionist and provides administrative support for the executive director and other staff members. In addition, she is responsible for facilities management and assists with special events.

Prior to joining Connect Ohio, Katie worked for Godman Guild Association’s T.E.E.N Program where she most recently served as Administrative Coordinator/Grants Manager. In this role, she was responsible for developing and implementing program processes, managing the program’s budget, and ensuring compliance with funding sources. Before her tenure at Godman Guild, Katie served as Regional Field Organizer for the ONE Campaign where she coordinated events and volunteers within a five state region and developed training tools and resources for grassroots outreach.

Katie has earned a B.A. in English and African-American Studies from The Ohio State University.

Heather Delany serves as Connect Ohio's State Operations Manager for eight regions that consists of 28 counties within the southern and western portion of the state. Heather implements community-specific aspects of Ohio’s statewide strategy, manages strategic and key stakeholder relationships across multiple industries and client types at the local levels, and facilitates GIS-based Inventory Assessment of existing broadband infrastructure and service availability within the territory. Heather actively manages the Every Citizen Online program in the southern territory and builds and maintains relationships with broadband providers on a community-level to obtain coverage information and act as a liaison between providers and residents desiring broadband access.

She joined Connect Ohio in 2008 and served as a project manager, where she developed project planning processes, administered project plans, managed workflow and time lines, and documentation in support of all community planning initiatives. In this role, she also assisted with grant writing, event coordination and other projects.

Heather has more than seven years experience in the banking and securities industries and formerly worked in project management and as a project life cycle analyst for JPMorgan Chase in Columbus. She also served in sales for The Ohio Company, a Columbus brokerage firm.

She attended North Central Technical College and Columbus State Community College. Heather is also a licensed Ohio realtor.

Lyndsey Kleven serves as the Public Relations Intern for Connect Ohio. Lyndsey’s duties include assisting the public relations specialist and office staff with coordinating events, building public awareness of Connect Ohio and the Every Citizen Online program through social media and traditional media formats, identifying story concepts, providing follow-up to media inquiries, compiling project reports, and organizing program databases.

Lyndsey is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication

Nicole Smolic is Connect Ohio’s project coordinator. She administers project plans, manages workflow and timelines, handles reporting for grant programs, and supports databases and related web application platforms. Nicole maintains project processes for Connect Ohio’s Every Citizen Online program, managing program procedures and communications between Connect Ohio staff and the nearly 100 sub-recipients involved. She also assists with special event and meeting coordination, preparation, and content.

Prior to joining Connect Ohio in 2009, Nicole served as a legal assistant for the law firm of Moscarino & Treu in Cleveland and previously was the producer for The Learning Lunchbox Program and Family Guide, an educational documentary series produced by Outreach Communications.

Nicole holds a B.A. in Telecommunications from Bowling Green State University.

Jon Welsh serves as the Data Validation Intern for Connect Ohio. Jon’s duties include traveling to communities across the state to locate, document, and validate signal strengths at local deployment sites. Jon polls consumers and community leaders and manages broadband inquiries to ensure that reliable and the most up-to-date data is reported for Ohio’s broadband mapping initiative. Jon also supports the Ohio office with administrative and office duties to promote broadband data collection, validation, improvement, and communication.

Jon is a recent graduate of Ohio University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Information Technology Systems. Jon is a member of Phi Kappa Tau. Before joining Connect Ohio, he held a position at Ohio University’s Environmental Health and Safety office.