Founding member and President of LATERAL.systems serving as Chief Technology Officer in architecting novel Indoor Food Growing System Platforms. He is driving new economic development momentum in advancing the social good of growing sustainable foods with emerging technologies.Technology board advisor at Urban.Systems targeting smart cities to rural communities. Develops strategic alliances with technology partners to advance resilient and sustainable communities addressing economic development in smarter mobility solutions and smart agriculture. Ed is experienced in leading strategic research and emerging new technologies from consumer to mainstream enterprise industry adoption with a rich and long history in driving new disruptive innovations. His background includes business development, corporate strategic planning, workforce leadership, international technology evangelism, to include leading software and hardware engineering development of research platform prototypes to seed future products.Serving the Oregon State University and local high school as a STEM advisor. As a US Army veteran raised in a rural community has influenced his ambitions in advancing promising technologies into the public sector in serving urban and rural farming to include economic development of agriculture forward towns. Ed enjoys motorcycle riding, wine tasting, golf, fishing and what the Pacific Northwest and the deserts of Arizona has to offer.
Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software Development, and 24 others.