I lead the engineering team for one of the largest and most influential giving platforms in the world, and that's not even the most interesting thing going on at GlobalGiving. It's a privilege to work with people so committed to transforming philanthropy itself by making it easy and safe for anyone to directly support the kind of local organizations around the world that make the biggest difference in people's lives. Most people aspire to make a positive difference in the world someday. Here I can be a small part of that every single day and learn from the very best how to do even more.

GlobalGiving is the largest, global crowdfunding community, connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country. When offered the chance to join Global Giving and give back while doing what I love, I jumped on it. What an amazing thing to see the technology we developed and evangelized in Sun's Java Center make such a difference in lives all over the word.

I ghostwrite educational email courses for busy AgTech founders who want to build personal brands.🚜 | O'Reilly author (RFID Essentials)

I provide mentoring to clients of our local startup incubator, specifically on topics related to technology whether that technology is a core part of their product or a supporting technology needed to run their business. Starting in August of 2018 this will be a volunteer, rather than a paid position, to help give back to WTEC. It has been a privileged and an education to be a part of so many exciting new companies.

Frame (Now Nutanix) allows you to run any application in a web browser. Frame powered my previous startup, Bright Canopy. By bringing Bright Canopy into the Frame product portfolio, we now have the resources to serve more people with virtual world products like Bright Canopy (Second Life, OpenSim), and through other Frame products to serve people with design and creative applications like AutoCad and Photoshop. I truly believe Virtualized, on demand, graphics processing is the future, and Frame is the company shaping that future and delivering it to consumers, businesses and educational institutions.

Bright Canopy is a startup which allows people to experience rich virtual worlds right in their browser without buying expensive hardware. Bright Canopy become a part of Frame in November of 2015.

Lived and worked in beautiful Nevada County, CA near lake Tahoe playing with embedded C++ programming for Linux-based video devices. A very low stress environment in one of the most beautiful resort areas in the world. AJA is a recognized leader in video capture and processing hardware, and I worked with some of the best people in their fields.

My role was to provide leadership for the application architects of Airline Solutions and to help craft and validate the technical vision for a global organization providing critical software support for Airline Travel. I drove the technology roadmap in support of quality, increased revenue and reduced cost for both Sabre and for Sabre's airline customers. I directly managed 5 architects and held a mentorship and oversight role for over a dozen product team architects who, in turn, drove nearly 150 products. I defined the technical roles and career development plans for our organization, identified emerging technology priorities and drove adoption through influence, collaboration and demonstrated value rather than enforcement. Together, we found ways to encourage and promote standards without impeding tight deliverable deadlines.

I was a customer relationship manager for one of the most innovative travel software companies in the industry. I served as the primary point of contact for my company's largest customer. My role included defining goals and tracking execution of new products and enhancements as well as tracking ongoing maintenance for the existing product. I facilitated communications with the customer, negotiated external and internal priorities, and managed internal execution and delivery in a matrix organization.

Provided thought leadership, solution architecture, sales engineering support and industry and client relations work surrounding the new technology incubator at Sun Microsystems for radio frequency id (RFID). I am a recognized expert in the field of RFID.

Delivered to Sun's customers mentoring in software development methodology, requirements gathering, design patterns and J2EE platform patterns. Served as methodology and architecture coach for Inception and Elaboration and Construction of several projects. Helped to define and establish a customized Software Development Methodology for our clients centered on principles from Sun's implementation of the Unified Process.Many clients including:one of the best known cross-shopper travel portalsone of the largest airlines in the worlda major automobile manufacturerI have helped Sun's clients save money and increase revenue as lead architect through the full lifecycle of several major system launches, including a complete rearchitecture of one of the highest value travel websites in the world.

Developed various utilities and fluff in C, Java, C++ and x86 assembler. Including "Door" programs for Renegade and other BBS systems and the Disclone "ghosting" utility for IDE drives.

12/00 Delivered as lead developer an n-tier, web enabled, loan origination system integrated with an existing AS/400 system for a client in the student loan industry.

10/99 Delivered as developer, (Confidential Name) Prototype object-oriented, platform independent, process control system development tool to Micro Chemical Inc. Written in Java. Includes multiple user-interface types (GUI, console, binary) selectable at runtime and pluggable scripting languages (Beanshell and JPython) also selectable at runtime. Implements a Prototype Pattern which allows the user to clone configured components. A Singleton Arbiter guarantees a single parent to the graph representing physical devices. 12/98 Delivered as developer, Data-Pro(tm) OLAP and Exception Management product to Micro Chemical inc. Written in Java with a Swing GUI using multiple Sybase and Informix DBMSs and deployed on Linux, WinNT and Win95/98. This product uses an implementation of the Strategy Pattern to allow users to define Management Exceptions. A Chain of Responsibility structure finds a Management View to display the Management Exception. The View Manager is a Singelton.

Delivered to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado River, Yuma Area Office as part of a contract with Anteon Consulting Inc.:02/98 Azsched Water Planning application to University of Arizona under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation. Written in Java.12/97 "Standard Operating Procedure for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System Lower Colorado Region" describing in detail with illustrations the procedures to be followed in control and monitoring of Imperial Dam, it's supporting structures and the other water control and monitoring systems associated with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region. 09/97 Sutron Data Language control code for the remote telemetry units associated with the Gila Headworks and Diversion as well as the All-American Canal at Imperial Dam. Including modifications to the Human Machine Interface HMI.

Delivered wireless client for Pro-Control(tm) batching system to Micro Chemical Inc. Written in C for QNX 2.x and MSDOS. Implemented a simple, asynchronous, checksumed packet protocol over radio modems for supervisory control of a beef cattle, feedmill batching, control system. Deployed in front-end loaders in an industrial environment at 12 sites. Also contributed to the Electronic Cattle Management system which employed RFID to track individual animals.Responsible for enhancements and maintenance of Pro-Control(tm) system. Written in C for QNX and deployed and more than 65 feedyard sites as a mission critical control system.

10/94 Delivered TrustProcessor(tm) trust banking system for Banccorp Systems as part of a team of six. Written in C and RPG III for MSDos, Novell and AS400 systems. With the exception of enabling RPG code on the AS400, the system used a single code-base for all platforms.