The Business, Technology, and Trends of the New Space Economy.New Space Economy (NSE) is a leading online publication covering the dynamic commercial space industry. Our mission is to provide in-depth analysis, news, and insights on the business, technology, and trends shaping the future of space exploration and commerce.Research for NSE started in 2019, the online publication was established in 2021. As of July 2024, over 3000 articles have been published, with new articles added daily.Audience demographic: space industry professionals; technology enthusiasts; investors and entrepreneurs; policymakers and government officials.https://newspaceeconomy.ca

Non-fiction covering business and technology topics. My current focus is on the Space Economy.Editor for https://newspaceeconomy.caMy first article "A Survey of Dynamic Routing Methods for Circuit-Switched Traffic" was published by the IEEE Communications Magazine in 1987. My first book "A Small Business Guide To Doing Big Business On The Internet" was published by Self Counsel Press in 1996. The book was a best seller in Canada and was translated to Portuguese and Spanish.

Professional services for: technology and business strategic planning, program and project management, advisory and mentoring roles.My favorite books include: "The Little Teal Book Of Trust" and "The Little Black Book Of Connections" by Jeffrey Gitomer; "Structured Analytic Techniques For Intelligence Analysis" by Richards Heuer, "Hacking Sales" by Max Altschuler, "Open Source Intelligence" by Michael Bazzel, and all the PMI books listed in the CTC Program Manager role.

Responsibilities included establishing and managing: goals, stakeholders, governance, priorities, roll out, risk identification and mitigation, budget, reporting; leadership, coordination and oversight for associated projects. Program scope included migration of: data warehouse, data marts, ELT, reports, multi-vendor toolchain, devops, disaster recovery, backup and restore, business processes, and users, from an IBM Netezza EDW to a hybrid Hadoop data lake; and associated business change management.My favorite books included the following: from the Project Management Institute "Guide To Business Analysis", "A Guide To The Project Management Book Of Knowledge", "Agile Practice Guide", "The Standard For Program Management", "Governance Of Portfolios, Programs And Projects", "Managing Change In Organizations", "The Standard For Portfolio Management"; and "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" by Tom White.

Responsible for: security audits, security policies and procedures, responding to security elements of customer RFPs, contributing to the marketing messaging related to security.

Epiphan Systems Inc.("Epiphan") develops, markets and supports an innovative line of VGA/DVI/HDMI video display frame grabbers, multi media display broadcast streaming systems, multi media display recording systems and accessories.Epiphan's technology provides ideal solutions for capturing, compressing, transcoding, recording, broadcasting, streaming, display and printing of virtually any video source.Epiphan products are used in a wide range of applications such as education, Pro-AV events, training, simulation, medical imaging, computing, security, and transportation applications, where capturing, processing, recording, sharing and replay of high resolution VGA/DVI/HDMI displays and other audio video source outputs are critical to effective communication.

Responsible for the physical security IT portfolio for Digital Services and Real Property Organization (DSRP) of the House of Commons Administration. Clients included Corporate Security Office (CSO), Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) and Corporate Security Directorate (CSD). Business scope included: defining and establishing effective working processes and trusted working relationships with (and between) clients; identifying, launching and providing oversight for new client IT projects; providing oversight for ongoing client IT maintenance activities; and establishing a strategic planning process and IT roadmaps for clients. Technology scope included commercial and custom enterprise systems for: managing assets, staffing, finance, information, communications, networking, desktops, cybersecurity and physical security.My favorite books were "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, "Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)" by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest, "Business Relationship Management" by Ernest Brewster, "Organizational Theory and Design" by Richard Daft, and "Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Teal Book of Trust", by Jeffrey Gitomer.

Responsible for providing technical and team leadership to drive planning, implementation, and roll-out of the Lead to Win (LTW) Global Cybersecurity Resource (GCR) Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) project. The service was defined, implemented and deployed. Operations and sales procedures were established. Partnerships with business and technology organizations were established. Pilot customers were secured and were turned live. Results from testing and pilot activities were used to refine the service offering and product roadmap.Project scope included: strategy, competitive landscape analysis, technology selection, project management, system integration, testing, open source project establishment and management, workflow procedures, staff mentoring, day-to-day operation of a CSOC and associated SaaS security services for small to medium businesses. The initial CSOC service delivered was a honeypot-based “Hacker Alerting Service“.Project technology scope included: development of a security appliance based on Raspberry Pi 3 and custom 3D printed case, Apache Metron, Dionaea, Cowrie, OSSEC, Mender, OpenVAS and Machine Learning. The project was focused on using, creating and contributing to key enabling open source technology. The platform was deployed on AWS cloud services.During pre-deployment testing, our solution proved it's worth immediately by detecting malware on a GCR visitor’s Android phone. The Global Cybersecurity Resource is a not-for-profit organization run by Carleton University’s Lead to Win program. The organization is mandated with increasing the IT security of Ottawa region small and medium sized businesses, increasing the availability of qualified security staff, and driving economic development for existing and new companies.My favorite books were "Enterprise Cybersecurity" by Scott Donaldson et al, "Vagrant: Up and Running" by Mitchell Hashimoto, and "Ansible for DevOps" by Jeff Geerling.

Founded Purple Forge in 2008, and as its CEO, bootstrapped the business based on revenue and achieved over $1 million in sales. Strategic partnerships were established with marquee service providers and customers, including IBM and TELUS.Purple Forge was an award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of community engagement and self service solutions. Purple Forge helped our customers increase their community engagement, gain insights into unmet needs, and reduce service delivery costs.Our customers included: governments, venues, telecommunications service providers, financial institutions, healthcare and membership-based organizations. Purple Forge's Smart Service Solutions and CORI platforms offered a comprehensive set of features that spanned web, mobile, wearables, social, location based services, iBeacons, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. My favorite books were "Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com", by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler, "Scaling Up" by Verne Harnish, and "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore.

Cybersecurity services for medical clinics, legal offices, banks and educational institutions: perimeter penetration testing; and internal assets vulnerability assessment.All clients were based in the United States and all services were delivered remotely.Cybersecurity services were performed based on industry best practices and using a combination of best in class open source and commercial tools.I was completely shocked at how wide open to compromise *all* of the businesses that I assessed were. The most egregious vulnerability I found at every business was the ability to access the administrator account on every Windows XP desktop over their internal networks with no special tools or exploit.

Founded Liquid Computing in 2003, and as its CEO, Identified business opportunity, developed the business plan and raised over $44M in venture financing over three rounds. Secured over $2M in non-dilutive loans and grants. Built a multi-national world-class team, board and advisors. Delivered award winning product to market trials. Established a new Gartner market category which was identified as a "Top 10 IT Technology" for 2008. Established strategic relationships with marquee vendors and customers. Won initial sales.Liquid Computing delivered a new computer system called LiquidIQ to meet the needs of the High Performance Computing and Enterprise market. LiquidIQ was an Interconnect Driven Server that delivered a set of managed computing and communications resources. It could be configured with software commands into one or several cluster configurations, shared memory or cache coherent server regions, providing attractive lifecycle economics, performance, scalability and availability.Liquid Computing was addressing the fundamental problem that many companies face, which is an overabundance of underutilized server capacity, and a need for reduced IT costs and more flexible IT infrastructure resources. The solution was designed so that customers could use a “building-block” approach to increase system capacity and performance as needed. Additional compute, I/O and networking modules can be added in service without complex cabling or system availability constraints.My favorite books were "Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth" by David G. Thomson and "Making Technology Happen" by Denzil Doyle.

Project Leader, Carrier IP Business, 1999-2002Established new cross-functional business team to attack a $9B IP core router market. Transformed a research project into a market-leading product. Established go-to-market plan. Built aggressive delivery-oriented team. Secured top tier lead customers. Delivered first product to market trials. Managed multi-national team of 390 and annuals budgets of $90M+.Project Development Leader, Multi-Service Data Product Development, 1998-1999Senior Manager, Wireless Product Development, 1994-1998Senior Manager, Optical Product Development, 1993-1994Manager, Optical Product Development, 1990-1993Manager, Optical Product Management, 1989-1990MSS, International Standards Representative, 1987-1989

Researched and authored technical reports providing strategy and technology roadmaps in the following areas: CCS7 network sizing; residential services; dynamic circuit switched routing; billing strategies for new services; network operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning architectures and strategies. Reports drove network deployment and evolution planning initiatives within Telecom Canada and British Columbia Telephone, including CCS7 network deployment plan.Also responsible for office networking and computing services. Provided planning, deployment and end-user support.

Code monkey responsible for developing an assembly language based application for a proprietary video scan converter that was based on the 8051 microcontroller.First I had to build my own tools: coded (in BASIC) a macro assembler, simulator and loader. Then I developed the 8051 assembly application using my tools. I still laugh knowing that 8051 assembly code is still actively in use today. Unfortunately the Apple IIe I wrote the code on is no longer state of the art.

Code monkey, mainly FORTRAN77 code on a DEC VAX, and 8080 assembly to enhance a custom image processing system. Worked in the dimly lit basement of the Sir Charles Tupper Building.My favorite book was "8080A / 8085 Assembly Language Programming" by Lance A Leventhal.

Helped students with assignments. Graded assignments and tests.COBOL and FORTRAN are still relevant today.