My childhood curiosity led me to a career in software. Here are my thoughts on the work I do and technology in general.
Presentations/Appearances
Tech, Power, Equity: Innovative Leadership for the AI Era
Invited speaker for the inaugural Voice4Equity’s Tech, Power, Equity Conference in Phoenix, AZ. January 23, 2025.
Beyond Skynet: Embracing AI as a Collaborative Tool
Presented October 22, 2024, at the Arizona SciTech Institutes STEM & Innovation Summit
Podcast Conversation on “To the Edge and Beyond”
Edge Cloudification Transforming Retail – Podcast
All posts tech-related
Achieving Enterprise Agility at the Retail Edge
At any conference, you start to feel fatigued near the end of the day. Between the sprawling session locations, the constant engagement, and the sometimes overwhelming number of people and…
Better code with inner source
I was a member of the Software track committee for GHC, which meant that by attending the conference in person, I was also responsible for chairing a session. Session chairs…
IoT For Social Good
How many times have you encountered technology in the real world, and wondered what the purpose was? It seems to have been deployed just because it could be. I know…
Smart Contracts using blockchain
One of the emerging trends in computing that everyone talks about, but can seldom articulate, is blockchain. What is that, you ask? If you’re like me, and haven’t done a…
Living on the Edge
With the growing number of intelligent devices (and by “intelligent” I mean: An internet connected device running some form of software that collects and performs actions on data), bringing intelligence…
Hey, Google!
The second session I attended during GHC was a workshop entitled: Getting Started with Actions on Google. Presented by Surbhi Chaudhry, Mandy Chan, and Aylin Altiok, this workshop focused on…
(IoT) Mirror, Mirror on the wall
My Grace Hopper conference schedule this year was largely driven by my interest in learning as much as I can about all things Internet of Things (IoT), retail, and edge…
GHC 2019 Opening Keynotes
There is a comprehensive run down of the opening keynotes for Grace Hopper 2019 available via the #GHC19 Daily Download. What follows are my personal reflections on the opening keynotes…
Ode to digital lovin
zapp and roger were visionaries. why would i say such a thing? let me break it down for you computer science style… “Computer Love” was released in 1986. if you…
information overload
isn’t it crazy how you can become attached to inanimate objects as though they were living breathing things? this past weekend i finally got around to building my new computer…well,…
Things that interest me
- Open Data
- Tech in Government
- The Technology Divide