Biography:
I am delighted to be working on the Enterprise Collaboration Track with Ismael, Susan Scrupski and Jevon McDonald. I live and work and Silicon Valley and help high technology companies and other organizations with their product and marketing strategies. Work on projects with them to get their wares and the word out. I have been doing this kind of work since 1989, got lots of Internet products into the market before the dot com bust. Since then I have been helping early stage companies in an advisory role. Keen interest in the area of social media and collaboration since I work in complex, cross functional teams, across the planet. I'm also an advocate for international cultural and language immersion education for Pre-K-8 children. I've been in business for a couple of decades, software, Internet. Anthropologist as a post secondary education, so nothing much surprises me, humanity-wise. Other Interests: Jazz afficianado, cinema of Europe,
Expertise:
Know how to get software built by engineers and to get salespeople to sell it....SaaS and Web 2.0 models included. Listening. Reading voraciously. Software. Product development. Hanging out with customers. Listening. Inherent observational training as an anthropologist, not technologist. Like to write. Rather good at market strategy. Will use buzz words as conversation starters only.