Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of LATERAL.systems LLC formed in 2021. Our goal is to develop a viable business startup in delivering a platform approach targeting Novel Indoor Agricultural Growing Farming Systems. Our mission is to enable generations of farmers by accelerating the intersection of promising modern technologies to advance sustainable production of food.Our emphasis is in the development of agriculture software/hardware frameworks and resilient solutions to advance microbiome research, aquaponics, aeroponics, hydroponics and soil regeneration in addressing climate change in the reduction of energy, water and waste.

Member of the Board of Directors and Senior Vice President of Regenerative Strategic Emerging Markets. Current contributions is establishing technology strategies for regenerative agriculture in addressing data intelligence as an emerging AI vertical.See https://opencommons.org/Regenerative_Agriculture for an emerging ReGenAG effort.URBAN.SYSTEMS is a trusted “incubator” for local, state and federal governments in how to upgrade smart technology to support the needs, desires and expectations of their citizens, helping to “scale” interoperable components through private and public collaborative partnerships.

Past-President and CEO MichelBook EstateChairman of the BoardMembership and Marketing Committee ChairpersonLead a exclusive private golf country club, a gem located in the middle of Oregon Wine Country in the heart of McMinnville. Partnership and hiring with PGA certified General Managers in addressing day to day operations. Survived extremely difficult and unprecedented times in the golf business during the COVID-19 pandemic.Responsible for developing successful membership strategies, services and fee structures. Creation of an ambassadors program to onboard and welcome new members in bringing back "Pride in Membership". Develop marketing outreach programs based on community and membership demographics.Efforts resulted in growing membership to 509 members strong representing a 11.7% compounded annual growth rate over the last 5 years with record overall revenues.

Served as a Senior Research Director with Intel Labs Advance Research Group leading a highly diverse talented engineering team composed of hardware, software and FPGA engineers in building future research prototypes to accelerate promising future technologies. Managed a multi-million dollar prototyping team built from the ground up over an 8-year period across geographies (Oregon and Guadalajara, Mexico). A rich and long history in building innovative inventions from autonomous driving simulators, IOT research platforms, wearables, multi-array vision systems, drones, micro-servers, Lohi neuromorphic and quantum compute research platforms.In 2001, as a corporate technical advisor to Intel’s executive vice president, assisted in the formation of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group (SSG) resulting in a 1500 software engineering organization broadening Intel’s open-source software relevance influencing Intel silicon features development specifically enabling and defending the Linux community to include delivery of solution blueprints with Intel’s corporate marketing organization.Since re-joining Intel back in 1989, held numerous roles including strategic business development, chief of staff, management of major executive account alliances, operations management, technology evangelist, and Information Technology manager. Personally influenced and driven Intel corporate strategic initiatives from advancing Intel platforms into the data center to launching innovative consumer products. Performs annual resource and budget planning with spending responsibility in managing multi-million dollar annual budgets.

Software Product Services (SPS) technical support and installation services for VAX/VMS, Ultrix, Personal Computers and Network product lines. Designed and developed database applications to track internal field service delivery.

Responsible for corporate computing operations and performed software development. Software development projects include: Medical imaging microcode development, military tank simulator, hardware analytic software tools and optical disk storage device driver development. Designed customer tracking database application.

Managed CAD computing resources supporting Intel 432 VLSI microprocessor engineering design groups that later produced the Intel 960 and Pentium processor family. As a self-taught software engineer, developed software to automate silicon Design Rule Checking (DRC), Circuit Verification for VLSI Design and Schematic Entry.