CONTEXT, MEANING, AND ACTION
Experience
Three+ decades of critical-path experience in Silicon Valley and internationally at Apple (10+ years), SRI International, RSA Security, and multiple startup ventures as Sr. Engineering Manager, Special Projects Manager, Technology Leader, Director of Development/QA, and Researcher
What?
"It's Big Meaning not Big Data" -Alan Kay
Invention awareness and longer term processes and development approaches.
Understanding context specific ubiquitous language for positive change and empowered development processes.
New domains of linguistic action and Media Convergence.
Applied semiotics and the production of integral meaning.
Disciplined Trust
Why?
"Expert behavior requires an exquisite sensitivity to context and an ability to know what to commit to."
- Hans Weigand, ACM 2006
I've worked in a wide spectrum of contexts with top management and in the development trenches to produce great organizational, technical, and product success. I've also experienced what causes projects and companies to fail. I have internalized serious lessons regarding the fundamental necessity of coherence, transparancy, and integrity to durable technical and economic success.