Education I have a lot of college-level work but no degrees. I was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society by USC faculty in my Junior year and had a Magna Cum Laude level in all of my college work. I am 2 courses short of my B.A. in Sociology from USC and 3 courses short of a Th.B. from Multnomah University with no course overlap between the different degrees.My ProfileI am an entrepreneur. I help manage firms I help start. I have been involved more than 40 years in starting, growing and selling or closing over 25 businesses and non-profit organizations, primarily in communities of need both in USA urban settings as well as in developing countries. A couple have been glorious successes. A couple have been glorious failures, but most were mostly neither. I've always been part of strong teams. I've not done much alone that is worth noting.Skill sets Environmental scanning, Board policy and corporate strategy formulation, Brainstorming & Creative synergy, Snooping, Opportunity Spotting + Counterpart Identification, Netweaving, Networking & Walking Rolodex, Leadership and motivational management, Start ups, Sales and marketing, Synthesis of old ideas in new ways = synthetic creativity, Persistence - I am a plodder!VAST Power SystemsCurrent efforts are focused on a late stage start up RD&D company in combustion and pollution control technology. The firm is called VAST, an acronym for Value Added Steam Technology. VAST’s Vision is to provide affordable power so all people can flourish. VAST’s Mission is to serve God by profitably building more efficient combustion systems with exhaust so clean you can breathe it. VAST’s Goals are Clean Power + Good Stewardship. By achieving those goals, we'll honor the Lord, serve our stakeholders and fulfill our mission.Goals in pollution control technology include innovating a new method of combusting fossil fuels to virtually eliminate NOx, CO, and Unburned Hydrocarbons (aka “soot”) while increasing IRR on energy plants and equipment. Improved return on investments is achieved by lower capital expenditures (CapEx) & reduced operational & maintenance costs (OpEx) plus significant gains in efficiency & operational flexibility. Our current focus is the VAST® Grid Edge Technologies. These patented innovations Enable Renewable Power by backing up solar or wind microgrids to avoid blackouts due to renewable power's intermittency. We have received grants for 16 million core hours for CFD studies with Argonne & Lawerence Livermore National Labs to optimize our new gas turbine combustor design.