I started my career as a software engineer and wrote code for a number of different industries (financial, automotive, home automation, cellular hardware, consumer electronics, government/defense). Early in my career I recognized that in addition to software design and development, I had the ability to concretely explain technology and development community dynamics to non-technical audiences.The second half of my career has been spent leveraging both my technical background, but more importantly my communications, leadership and community skills. I prefer to work in a role where I can use my broad technical knowledge to help 'bridge the gap' between engineering organizations and their customers (both internal and external). I enjoy working with organizations to help them capitalize on the huge advantage that comes with working properly with open source communities (and open standards), as well as applying open source principles & strategies to their internal development efforts.As part of my focus on open source communities & standards, I'm also active in social media outlets (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), especially with regard to determining how to best utilize these tools to increase productivity and add value to organizations.Specialties: Open Source, Strategy Development, Executive Leadership, Community Management, Social Media, Technical Liaison, Technology Evangelism, Technical Marketing, Agile & Scrum Methodologies