Architect, Manager, Mentor, and Strategist with over 20 years of experience using information technology to solve problems and develop opportunities. Strong expertise in a wide range of technologies and service delivery structures. Adept at managing and motivating groups of talented, creative, and passionate technology professionals.

I get results by developing and maintaining an inspiring and supportive, team-orientated culture. I cultivate open communication, creative thinking, and scientific rigor.

I enjoy working with technologies of all types and relish the opportunity to investigate a new system or paradigm. Yet, I’ve come to appreciate that there are few things as richly satisfying as being part of a team of bright and passionate people who are working together to craft better solutions and build better systems. It’s a joy to contribute to the world this way.

I’m also a husband and proud father, who loves books, movies, and great architecture (which here means buildings).

Have you ever ventured into a great building and felt lost in what seems like a maze? Then later, after having been in the building a few times, wondered why it ever seemed so baffling? The building, or more accurately your sense of the building, was transformed by your understanding of it.

When you comprehend something it feels like that thing has become simpler. You have found the patterns that give it a comprehendible form. Before you understood it, it seemed that understanding might require memorizing an endless string of unconnected details. Then you saw the patterns.

The patterns of a design are like maps. They should replace the fear of getting lost with the excitement of exploration. If something is designed well, its patterns are inviting, and exploration is rewarded. A good design is easy to comprehend. Your mind can easily traverse it and zoom in and out of its details. Its twists and turns quickly become predictable and reassuring.

In the world of technology, what Buckminster Fuller boldly calls beauty, is more often referred to as elegance. When a design is elegant the complexity it encompasses is masked by its form. This elegance is beautiful. It’s also valuable. Easy comprehension facilitates rapid and reliable evolution.

When it comes to technology solutions, the beauty of an elegant design does not result from embellishments. It’s the beauty that comes from following the “form ever follows function” precept of the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan.

So, when I’m working on a solution I concentrate on its function, but when I’m finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it still needs work.