Bindle was founded in June 2020 on the premise that an emerging technology - verifiable credentials - could, at long last, fill one of the remaining holes in the Internet’s infrastructure: the lack of an identity layer.Our first application, a COVID-19 "health pass”, proved the commercial viability of verifiable credentials while also delivering an essential tool to help reopen the economy: private and portable proof of health. Hundreds of health care institutions issued vaccination and test credentials on Bindle and hundreds of enterprise customers used Bindle to verify these credentials - including The Chicago Symphony, Dartmouth College, Dead & Company, The Kennedy Center, San Diego State University, and The White House Correspondents Dinner. Within 18 months of launch, Bindle became the largest private deployment of verifiable credentials in the United States.We are now expanding the platform to help society navigate the coming explosion of AI-driven misinformation, disinformation, deep fakes, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Within the next few years, we believe it will be difficult to know whether you can trust the websites you visit or the texts and emails you receive. Similarly, sites and apps will have a very difficult time discerning humans from bots and “good” bots from “bad” bots. In this new world, verifiable credentials - specifically “proof of personhood” and “proof of identity” - will be critical in the fight to keep the Internet trustworthy and useful. While it may seem unimaginable today, you will soon be required to constantly prove that you are human and that you are who you claim to be. We have two offerings:Our verifiable credential platform (Bindle-branded or white-labeled)Consulting services - for more customized deployments Bindle is led by successful serial entrepreneurs who have also held executive product and technology roles at AOL, American Express, Samsung, and Time Warner.

Oversee integration projects with our largest, most vital clients. Manage and maintain multiple codebases for improvements and compatibility.Serve as primary liaison from development to customer service, triaging all case escalation.

Manage customer support team for Second Street products consisting of UPICKEM contests, Deadline Deals gift cards and coupons sites, eBlastEngine email marketing tools and myCapture photo sharing and sales. Our customer base includes more than 2000 local media and internet businesses. Including relationships with CBS, Clear Channel, Cox Media Group, McClatchy Interactive, Gray TV, LocalTV LLC, Freedom Communications, Gannett, Interactive One, Saga Communications, Heartland, Lee Enterprises, and Scripps among others.

Manage Upickem, eBlastEngine and MyCapture product lines for Second Street.Upickem offers online contests mainly targeted for use by media companies. eBlastEngine is a targeted email marketing tool. DeadlineDeals allows for local media companies to grab a slice of the market that Groupon and Living Social are taking.800+ customers span the media universe from the Chicago Tribune, CBS TV, Clear Channel radio, Gray TV, etc.

94West is a startup effort. Our first product is the Java GUI designer done right, BuoyBuilder™. Our current project is Valet, a great new application launcher that Guy Kawasaki has blogged about. Check them all out at www.94-west.com. I am pretty much responsible for everything but writing code at this point - marketing, web site design, product management, customer support, sales, bottle-washing and beer tasting.

Managed team of product managers, developers and IT staff to produce multiple products, hosted and deployed, for the newspaper industry

Oversaw internal IT needs and public facing web hosting efforts. Network security. Managed team of network and IT engineers for 24/7 coverage of mission critical systems.

Oversaw multiple product lines across two campuses in Michigan and Florida.

Managed the IQue Editorial System from its infancy to being installed in more than 1000 newspapers around the globe

Installed and trained desktop publishing systems in more than 30 small to mid-size newspapers around the world. Instructed users in newsroom and classified pagination systems based on QuarkXPress. Guided these papers through the frequently difficult transition to pagination.