Dr. David B. Weems Sr., PhD, LPC-A
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Technology Leadership & Infrastructure
Dear Technology Leader,
Elijah Smith of ISI Hoops offered to place this introduction in your hands, and I am grateful for it. I am the founder of Whaley2Weems Consulting LLC in Odessa, Texas. In one sentence: I help infrastructures be created.
For five and a half years, from September 2020 to March 2026, I served as the cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer of Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD, a rural West Texas district of 2,800 or more students and 540 or more staff across seven or more major facilities. I grew the technology department from 3 people to 14 and ran more than 60 platform integrations with the ERP and student information system as the system of record. I wrote the nightly sync that put staff credentials into the district's door-access system. I built passwordless Wi-Fi from the student information system after no vendor could answer the question. I moved the fiber backbone from 1-Gig to 10-Gig across every campus, designed the server rooms in seven new buildings, wrote the district's first cybersecurity strategic plan, and led the technology portion of two bond programs that both passed. When vendors brought artificial intelligence into the building, I made the deployment decisions myself: student-safety flags went to counselors first, and one surveillance specification was read rather than trusted, which saved the district about $900,000.
That work rests on three kinds of training. My doctorate from Clemson University is in rhetoric, communication, and information technology design. My graduate work also covers strategic communication and technology, and psychology and counseling; I hold a Texas counseling license. Before public education I ran real-time downhole data systems for directional drilling operators in the Permian Basin, where a system that fails costs money by the minute. And for 21 consecutive years I have taught computer psychology, sociology, and communication at Odessa College, so I know how people actually learn a new tool.
Whaley2Weems Consulting does three things for schools and campuses: it designs and builds the identity, integration, network, and device infrastructure a district runs on; it writes the governance, training, and funding paperwork that keeps that infrastructure defensible; and it brings partners to the table when the job needs hardware, from classroom displays to campus audio-visual systems. I serve as National HBCU Territory Executive Consultant for Virtual Technologies Inc. (VTI/InFocus), where I built a deal-origination pipeline across 109 historically Black colleges and universities.
The pages that follow list my credentials, my district record, my broader experience, and work samples you can open from this document, with links to my company site, my public profile, and a TCEA 2026 interview that LocknCharge's James Symons arranged. I would welcome a conversation about what your campuses need created. My direct line is on the left.
Respectfully,
Dr. David B. Weems Sr., PhD, LPC-A
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Whaley2Weems Consulting LLC