Entrepreneur with 12 years experience in IT. The last three years managing healthcare data for Highmark Blue Cross / Blue Shield. Former startups include FOJ, Inc., TimeBucks.com, LocalBucks.org. Focused on team recruitment and aligning team priorities with value creation. Specialties include social networks, data management, early stage entrepreneurship.

Senior Director, Systems Engineering
ServiceNow

Former Lead Architect, Cloud Services -- Advanced Development at Hewlett-Packard
Proven leadership abilities with multi-million dollar budgets; excellent organizational, execution, recruiting and mentorship skills

Contributed from start with three successful startups through IPO or acquisition.

Specialties
distributed systems, architecture, performance, virtualization, cloud and utility

20+ years information technology experience in design, integration, project management, programming, and system development methodologies; the last 12 years in architectural leadership roles.

*Identity, Privacy, Reputation Systems, and Social Networks
*Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
*Heterogeneous system integration (EAI)
*Transaction Management in Loosely Coupled Systems

Principal Architect of Microsoft's BizTalk Process Orchestration.
Principal Architect of Microsoft's Highwire offering.

Specialties

Mathematical foundations of concurrency: process calculi, category theory; programming language semantics: denotational and operational semantics.

Programming language design; distributed systems; network protocols.