About

Welcome! If you’re looking for a more formal introduction, please feel free to read my curriculum vitae. On the other hand, if you aren’t looking for a resume, then I’ll just say that I’ve been hanging around cyberspace since it used 1,200 baud modems to connect 1Mhz computers together over a fledgling Internet. My first experience with technology was hardwiring my Model I with a whopping 128K of memory.

I started up this site around May, 2005. It’s hosted on my PowerMac server and WordPress keeps everything running smoothly. BOSS logic is a domain with a lot of personal history. I was a co-founder of the company back in the early 1990’s just as NEXTSTEP was about to be released. During BOSS’s original four year lifespan I moved to California, ran my first large scale development project, met my wife and watched as an idea turned into Netscape and the world wide web was invented.

The name “BOSS logic” has some fun personal roots as well. It has nothing to do with “manager logic.” I think the slightly older generation might remember “boss” in the context of slang… “Cool man, that’s boss!” Well, there you have it — this is BOSS logic, the cool stuff. I don’t hear it used much anymore, but it’s still in the thesaurus as “exceptionally good of its kind.”

That tagline has a lot of meaning for me as well. My career started in engineering over 20 years ago with a strong emphasis on classical skills. Working in the defense industry and on a number of large-scale information systems (mostly in the financial and evidence discovery fields) proved to be excellent experience. Sometime later the web became the hottest thing and, along the way, a lot of companies found they could benefit from solid, established engineering techniques — something that seemed to be in sharp demand, particularly as the web grew into a global phenomenon.

It’s been nearly a decade since I started turning my classical training and experience into marketable mentoring, team-building and program management skills. Teams I lead uniformly perform well and remain productive, collaborative and energetic even when under pressure and challenged.

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This site is my personal weblog. I started it so that I could jot down ideas, share some thoughts and have a convenient place to develop various book concepts. You’ll find a great deal of my more marketable skills available at my employer’s site, or you might be interested in seeing a few excerpts from my various book projects (I promise to post more soon). You’ll also find a lot of more or less ranting and tidbits of technology that I stumble across.

The weblog is run on a WordPress server that I host myself (mostly because I want to be able to customize it considerably). Take a look around, and if you like what you find subscribe to the RSS feed or keep reading on the FAQ. For those of you interested in how I’ve customized the site, here’s a list of the plugins I run: