A seasoned business strategist, architect and software technologist with a talent for selecting and applying technology to solve business problems, is now providing business and technical consulting services. Understands business, especially the software products business, and how software architecture and technology can either enable or inhibit business success.Experienced in assessing technology for M&A and patents and how well a potential acquisition is likely to satisfy business expectations and fit in with existing applications and technology.I began my career as a mathematician, trained to abstract the essence of a situation. As such, I can rapidly conceptualize technology and its applications, and as a former graduate lecturer at Johns Hopkins, can communicate complex topics so they are readily understandable. Have been the corporate representative, project leader, committer, and speaker to technical organizations such as GUIDE, OMG, OASIS, and the Eclipse Foundation, and have been a member of several corporate architecture boards.Specialties: Business strategy, technology assessment for M&A, system and software architecture, service oriented architecture, web services security, open source development, data modeling, knowledge representation, and extended set theory.Technologies I've used on recent implementation projects include the Spring Framework, Web MVC, and Spring Roo, Tomcat, MySQL, HTML5, JBoss Drools, R , and numerous Apache projects including Solr, Lucene, Tika, and Nutch.