I helped introduce Red Hat Enterprise Linux to EMEA and APAC, with it's revolutionary 'subscription support' business model that allowed the company to generate ongoing revenue from open source software.

Failing spectacularly at a sports accessory startup. I still have left-over prototype samples to prove it.

"The Daedelus Project" was a class at University where the entire semester was a thought exercise about being stranded on an island and the need to build a plane capable of the 100 fligh back to the mainland-- it tought me practical problem solving, unconventional thinking, and the strength of teamwork.

• Vision
• Communication
• Commitment

• Winner for Best Game: US Computer Science Nationals 1986

Japanese History

The constant search for new technology and guiding the impact that tech can have for our clients is adictive.

I own a rare 1977 Vespa Rally200, and can play the guitar backwards.

Elon Musk

Practical economics for making a deal.

An ever-expanding garden/orchard in the backyard.

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

“All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”

The Unfettered Mind

by Takuan Soho

This book taught me how to take away the unnecessary parts of a given challenge. More often than not, many factors are noise or friction. Take away these empty motions, and what remains is the work to be done.

Physics

by Physics

My father's Physics book, which had all the original long equations. From this, I wrote my first primitive games on an Apple II knock-off in high school.

“The safe way is actually the risky way; what appears risky now is actually the safe way.”

~ John Bresse

“Find one in every car, you'll see.”

~ Miller

Punk Rock, Surf, Jazz

Repo Man (1984)