Michael Harold is a Co-Founder and CTO of GoKnown, LLC, a technology startup building a real time, distributed ledger technology for general purpose computing. Having spent more than 35 years in the computer industry, Michael has experience as an inventor, corporate strategist, architect and analyst. He has been recognized as a visionary inventor and technology pioneer in multiple markets including Distributed Ledger (DL) computing, Mobile Media Casting, Enterprise information Archiving and Search (EIA), Cloud Computing, Last-mile Web Acceleration, Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). His notable inventions include N-bit encryption and compression, decentralized peer-to-peer computing (a precursor to blockchain and distributed ledger computing), mobile media casting, mobile out of home “touchless” device management, decentralized cryptographic data storage and key management and real time distributed ledger (i.e., mesh network) computing. He is known for having pioneered the world’s first web-based, global supply chain EAI solution for FedEx and is a recognized inventor of mobile media casting and smart TV technology with patent licensees that include Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Roku and others.See Experience and Patents for details.Harold is also a novelist, poet and visual artist. Writing experimental literature under the name Michael Aro, books include five novels, five volumes of poetry and two chapbooks (Google "Michael Aro books"). His work has been published in The American Poet, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Identity Theory, Smokebox, Harvey Bialy's bialystocker.net, Steve McCaffery's North American Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics, Unlikely Stories, In Posse Review, The Burningword Literary Journal and in the Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind Anthology by Unlikely Stories and the Dirty, Dirty: Anthology by Jaded Ibis Press. He has read and presented at venues that include &Now, AWP, the New Orleans Book Fair, The Maple Leaf Bar and McKeown's Books and Difficult Music. He is a recipient of multi-media awards, grants and fellowships. His visual art is contained in private, corporate and university collections.
Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Software Development, Product Management, Enterprise Software, and 42 others.