I'm in the process of de-emphasizing my business involvement and "actualize" my commitment to thinking globally and acting locally to make the earth a more just, safe, understanding and compassionate place for humans and other life forms to live on. During my "paid working career", I served as the lead executive in software engineering or architecture for a number of software companies. For over twenty of those years, my primary business home was at EC Wise, where we specialized in data privacy and security, product development, and data/software integration services. Additionally I continue to serve as CTO for Click Deal Buy! and fractional VP of Engineering for Pivot Payables. (these take up about a quarter of my time). Between 1989 and 1999 I was VP of Product Development a B2B commerce play in Silicon Valley and VP of Engineering/Software Architecture for a leading mid-market ERP vendor. As a result of my experience I know a lot about online commerce (I can call myself its midwife) and accounting systems as well as data processing in multivariate forms. Before starting my first IT consulting firm in 1985 (!), I was a city planner and regional economic development executive in Lansing Michigan, where I was also involved in a number of community based businesses and initiatives (food coops, housing non-profits, etc). Together with my wife of forty years we raised two children, one is an attorney, the other a laboratory scientist.