➡ I accept almost all connection requests but very rarely reply to messages, I get way too many and do not have the time required to reply. I do read them and if it's interesting or compelling in some way we can have a chat.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀I've had a fortunate career in that every position I have held has given me an opportunity to grow and improve my technical and leadership skills. There have been a few lows (trying to write code sitting in a tiny room of a small ship on the North Sea while violently seasick) and many highs (the sweet taste of success after the first deploy of a 10x performance boost) but very little boredom. I've spent a great deal of time designing, developing, and implementing software applications of all sizes on a variety of platforms. As a principal consultant I have worked closely with government agencies and companies large and small helping not only to solve problems but also to find and understand what issues were keeping them from working effectively. On some projects I worked as principal consultant, with very little help. I would organize kick-off meetings, gather requirements, create and present statement of work proposals, design, develop, and deploy client/server/database code and then train the end users and support the project moving forward.On other projects I hired teams of 5-10 developers to assist with the software development portion of the project. I was forced to learn quickly how to communicate technical architecture,goals, and design decisions as well as how to organize and motivate smart people.This experience proved valuable as CTO at Vetsource, where I was tasked with building a team and a complete system from near scratch. This meant building a network, server and operations infrastructure, hiring software developers, support staff, and a good system administrator. It also meant drinking from the fire hose as we went from startup to our first sale and grew like crazy (and still growing!).