Over 30 years of professional experience, including 20 years in the field of applied software technologies. Founder of 3 companies, seated on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards. As Chairman & CEO of Cognetic Technologies, providing technical business planning, technology application consulting, and software development services to government and corporate clients. Industry lead, responsible for designing and developing the Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (PAAS), the federal government's first enterprise personnel accountability system. Most recently, marketing and implementing this same capability for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, Veterans Affairs and other federal departments and agencies. As a result, PAAS now has over 7M users, making it the NUMBER ONE accountability platform in the federal market space. Industry consultant for Navy's migration to Joint Information Environment and Joint Regional Security Stack (cybersecurity).Specialties: Government and corporate IT management and consulting, technical team building/leading, written and oral presentation, marketing, sales, software lifecycle financial forecasting and analysis, service oriented architecture, platform-as-a-service, cybersecurity, and cloud computing technologies and strategies, business start-up, service-disabled veteran-owned business management.