Across four decades, I developed and leveraged π₯ππ§π©π£ππ§ π₯π§π€ππ§ππ’π¨ to help establish new computing platforms as π₯π¦ π§π’π€π΅π° industry standards.Through these programs, I accelerated the success of object-oriented application frameworks in the 1980's, Windows in the 1990's, .NET in the 2000's, and cloud computing in the 2010'sβthereby adding πππ‘π‘ππ€π£π¨ of dollars to my employers'β bottom lines.In the early 2000s, I relocated to Busselton, Western Australia. There, I gained Australian citizenship (dual with US) and founded a tax-exempt non-for-profit community foundation, the Busselton Challenge. The Challenge had many accomplishments, including raising A$240,000 in just six months to save the Busselton Jetty, for which only $15,000 had been raised in the previous decade. Also, it organized and funded the initiation of a "Computer Repair and Networking" course at the local high school, whose graduates then accelerated the community's adoption of computing and the Internet.The Busselton Challenge was funded in part by George A. Spix, a fellow Microsoftie. So, when George founded a new education-focused, tax-exempt not-for-profit in late 2023, he as kind enough to ask me to run it, so I joined the Spix Foundation as Co-CEO with George's brother Bob Spix.
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