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Overview: (for those who prefer prose)
Private Sector: Throughout my multifaceted career I've enjoyed a wide range of roles. Starting in computer programming, progressing through technical management positions at a 1200 store national retailer and a Fortune 500 CPG manufacturer, then evolving into entrepreneurial ventures founding multiple startups, including two successful cybersecurity software companies with users in excess of half a billion, revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars and exits of about $40M and $20M respectively. I've been awarded three patents, most recently in cryptography, and have a proven track record of success as a product strategist, technology architect, and business advisor across diverse industries. My focus has been innovation at the intersection of business and technology, with strengths in identifying emerging trends—sometimes ahead of market adoption. I love living at the intersection of thinking and doing and I operate equally well at 50,000 feet and 5 feet.

Public Sector: It has always been important to me to be a contributory citizen. In high school I was the co-founder of the Student Action Committee negotiating with the School Board and working with the Superintendent for improvements in the public school system. At the same time, as the Chair of the City Council Youth Commission, I worked with the Council on public policy for youth engagement and I also worked at the Senate of Pennsylvania as a Page. Later, as an adult and graduate of Leadership Harrisburg, I went on to serve on various non-profits Boards and Committees supporting the arts, kids and coding, entrepreneurship, healthcare tech, and the PA House of Reps Emerging Technologies Task Force. Finally, most of my civic volunteerism has been with the Technology Council of Central PA, or on the Board of SWFL Tech, and other less-visible organizations all striving to help build tech ecosystems.

Overview: (for those who prefer bullets)
Career technologist, business executive, inventor, and advisor/coach/consultant.
Industries: retail, CPG, IT, education, learning and development, cyber-security, intellectual property...
Enterprise: IT staff and management in two national/global companies
   + McCrory Corp (1200 stores) and Hershey (Fortune 500)
Startups: Founder, Co-Founder, Shareholder in 4 equity-funded ventures: 1 dissolution, 1 exit-still-waiting and two exits (cyber-security) worth about $60M in aggregate.
   + Primary roles were head of product, IT, operations, or all three
Lifestyle: 4 lifestyle businesses. 1 dissolved, 1 pre-revenue, 2 that are highly profitable.
Innovation: Awarded 3 US Patents (2 in cryptography)
   + Thirteen software product launches
   + 2 psychometric instruments, models: Learning Molecule and Strategic Focus Alignment
Author: Topics: IT, Patents, Hydro-Geology, BioEthics, Psychometrics/Learning, and Cryptography.
Academia: About 6 years in and around K-12 and Higher Ed incl early years at Harrisburg Univ of Science and Tech and a year as an EIR at Univ Maryland Baltimore County.
Advisor/Coach: Advisor/Consultant/Coach to countless SMBs (from healthtech to fed contracting and wine to CBD and more) and two global companies (WeightWatchers and AVG).
Civics: Tech Ecosystem activist in PA (TCCP, CPAN, Startup Weekends, Founders Roundtable, Yellowcakes Magazine, PSU/HSY Commercialization Advisory Board, ExecuStar, CoderKids and more) and FL (SWFL Tech, Tech Alliance, and more)
Art: Marble sculptor (certificate/coursework Philadelphia, PA and Pietrasanta, Italy)

Some active side-ventures

Patent analytics data products for EDOs, IP law firms, universities, enterprises, and business magazines.

Simple, Speedy, Supple, Secure: today's best data encryption. (9x faster than AES256 while much stronger.)

Demo Video: UberCrypt Lite Version

Demo Video: UberCrypt Full Version

Unique sculptures made from marble, alabaster, and other rare stones. Some recent pieces:

Maelstrom... Contained?

Distinctly Inseparable

Making Waves

Selective civic interests

About the Techno-Socio Gap and what we can do about it. Perhaps the most important thing I've ever written.

Growing the tech ecosystem in southwest Florida.

Growing the tech ecosystem in south central Pennsylvania.

Community Foundation.

A global competition honoring excellence in new product and service development.

Some "Just for the Fun of it" Projects

Some tools for Duplicate Bridge play. 1,154,524 Bridge hands generated so far!

A tool for folks thinking about naming babies.

About once a month, my wife and I host a Documentary, Dessert & Dialog evening. We call it "3D Theater." Want to host one also? I have online tools to help you. Contact me!

UberCrypt is a novel symmetric key stream cipher with a fantastic random number generator. Give it a try!