Leadership. Technology. Education.

Short Personal Bio

Professional Experience
Emergence GRP (nee MC Systems Consulting) Feb 1990 – Present Principal Consultant; Adjunct
Professor Napa, CA • 707-256-3100
Public and private sector consulting practice focused on organizational ethics, leadership development
and values-driven management practices. Numerous non-profit and public sector engagements,
including graduate leadership adjunct assignments in public sector leadership courses. Clients have
included: HT Hall Associates, Values Technology, Autodesk, Olivetti ATC, Custom Web Apps,
Ministry Healthcare, People, Inc., People Unlimited, Aadhya, Plexus, Pyramid. Example: At Autodesk,
helped to define the UNIX systems administration function and helped prepare move to SAP.
Values Technology Apr 1992 – Feb 2002, March 2005-August 2006 Co-Founder & Chief Technology
Officer Napa, CA • (831) 423-2526
Co-founded a unique technology and values/leadership management consulting firm, building
information technology platforms for organizational assessment, ethics- and values-driven
management. Personally defined technical and product vision, quality process, product design, business
development, and original research on organizational systems and values, enforcement and leadership.
As part of this also created a methodology for doing LSI (large scale integration) and merger
integration. This was used in organizations of up to 12,000 employees. Customers included Wallenius-
Wilhelmsen Lines, Clarica (nee The Mutual Group), Telus (nee Alberta General Telephone and
Edmonton Telephone), Siemens, ALCOA. As interin CEO for 14 months, VT went from being in the
red to being in the black for 14 months.
Saint Mary's College of California Adjunct Professor Moraga, CA (& online) June 2002 - April 2005
Developed the curriculm for and then delivered Module 5: Leadership in Action. It was considered by
many to be a pivotal module in the Masters degree in Leadership for the Public Sector. This module
took people from a solid understanding of their own values to a concrete and actionable personal
leadership plan based on their strengths and weaknesses.
SunWorld (formerly SunTech Journal), (IDG) / Advanced Systems June 1990 - June 1992 Director,
Test Center/Senior Editor San Francisco, CA.
Designed and built from ground up the SunWorld Test Center, where oversight included the
development of tests and reviews for SunWorld. In addition, I was a technical editor reviewing articles
for technical content, as well as reviewing new technologies and operating as an industry analyst,
including a regular column. I was integral in the growth, redesign, and transition of the magazine to a
monthly publication.
Verity, Inc. February 1989 - February 1990 Manager, Quality Assurance Mountain View, CA.
In charge of testing, direct report to VP of customer service. Created the Quality Assurance group.
Made the product release process more effective and quality oriented. QA duties included creating and
executing test suites, projecting resource needs, project management, hiring, debugging problems,
setting up manufacturing and shipping processes and quality control, and coordinating beta testing.
Frame Technology December 1987 - February 1989 Manager, Quality Assurance San Jose, CA.
In charge of testing, direct report to VP of engineering. Created the Quality Assurance group. This
included creating and executing test suites, projecting resource needs, hiring, debugging problems and
coordinating beta testing.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. May 1986 - December 1987 Software Quality Engineer Mountain View, CA.
Wrote tests to include window performance, UNIX file system call performance and UNIX command
performance. All tests were automated to facilitate regression testing and to introduce a consistent base
of testing. I coordinated bug verification efforts for various OS releases.
Profile
Summary of Professional Skills, Notable Interests, Experiences & Accomplishments
Technology
• Managed the transition of a set of values measurement tools from the PC to Web to increase the
ROI. It also increased the speed of delivery of services to the clients, while minimizing non-
productive impacts of administering the tools.
• Developed Values-based document analysis (PC and web-based)
• Creating effective online communities
• Leading the development and deployment of a web portal internationally and in 9 languages
which was used for personal and organizational leadership. Multicultural and international
travel experience
• Highly adaptable to new technologies and situations
• Developed the international versions of software applications including managing the trnslation
function
Leadership
• Key strategist for small, boutique-style consulting firm, worked with Global 2000 organizations
on issues of organizational culture and values.
• Leadership Development, Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
• Developed Cultural Alignment process for large scale interventions including tools and process
for understanding cultural issues in the merger/acquisition due diligence process. Developed an
organizational intervention methodology for measuring culture in organizations that blended
technology with organizational development
• Assisted in raising funds for business ventures
• Responsibilities in the past have included budget, personnel, training and supervising staff. My
focus is in an environment of collaboration while maintaining a sense of efficiency and
effectiveness. Experienced in budgeting, personnel, quality control processes, and training and
supervision of staff, including the management of both local and virtual teams in the
development of technologies and software quality.
Education
• Developed curriculum for a Masters level course in values-based leadership
• Related activities have included working on my non-profit research, teaching leadership in the
MA in Leadership in the Public Sector (Saint Mary’s College of California), writing and
speaking
• Extensively researched and presented on technology, knowledge management, management,
leadership, systems thinking, values, and intellectual capital including industry and academic
conferences. Written and edited over 30 publications.
• Significant research on issues of systems thinking and values.
Education
PhD, Management Systems & Sciences – University of Lincolnshire & Humberside (Lincoln School
of Management: Center for Systems and Information Sciences), Focus in Systems, Organizations and
Values. Dissertation Title: “Systems Thinking and Human Values: Towards a Practical Organizational
Intervention Methodology.” (September 1994 - November 1997). (Grad: Feb. 1998)
M.Phil, Management Systems & Sciences – University of Hull (September 1993 - September 1994)
MS, Cybernetic Systems – California State University, San Jose (August 1988 - May 1992) Emphasis
in Software and Organizational Development.
BA, History – Santa Clara University (September 1982 - June 1986)
Post Graduate Work / Teaching
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Hull, (1998)
Adjunct Professor of MA in Leadership in the Public Sector, Saint Mary’s College of California,
(2002-2005) Designed and taught online curriculum for Module: Leadership in Action.
Skills
Professional Skills
• Leading technology initiatives
• Managing of international software development projects from start to finish, including the
oversight of multilingual, multicultural capability
• Managing of portals and web applications
• Managed local and off-site development resources
• Defining, designing and deploying web applications used internationally.
• Managing of Quality Assurance
• Systems Administration
• OS:
* Windows: 98-200/XP
* FreeBSD: 4.x, 5.x; SCO/Xenix, SunOS/Solaris
* GNU/Linux: SuSE, Fedora (RedHat), Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire (nee Lindows)
* MacOS: through 10.x
• DBMS:
* MySQL, Informix ,MS Access, SQL (some)
• Hardware:
* IBM PCs and Clones, Mac (most flavors), Sun Workstations,
* Linux and UNIX Workstations and servers
* Other Systems: IBM 370, DEC 2060, PDP/11, VAX. Routers, networking, Internet
• Languages/Scripting:
* Knowledge of: C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, FORTRAN, Assembly Language (80x86, PDP-10, PDP-20),
Java, Ruby on Rails, Postscript, HTML, CSH, BASH, some Perl and PHP
• Software:
* Extensive knowledge of web applications, Windows, MacOS and Linux applications packages on
different platforms such as industry standards Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel as well as Open
Source packages Open Office, GIMP, wikis. Other tools include: weblog/blog apps (many) CMS such
as Drupal and Plone; LMS such as Blackboard and aTutor, community development tools. Other online
tools such as AJAX, Mashups, portals.
* Heterogeneous networking and interoperability, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, networking, wireless, some
VPN
* Debugging of router and firewall issues.
* Functional understanding of information assurance, security and privacy.
Notable Interests and Experience:
• Leading the development and deployment of a web portal internationally and in 9 languages.
• Home network of Linux and Windows systems. VPN/WAN connection (Hamachi) that includes
Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• Currently working/co-creating a web application where the front end is on VPS (virtual private
server), backend is running (currently) on one system in the US (my LAN), and the
development and deployment is being done in the UK on a Mac.
• Creating identical environments on different systems (Linux, Windows, Mac)
• Values-based document analysis
• Written over 30 publications
• Multicultural and international travel experience
• Creating effective online communities
• Related activities have included working on my non-profit, teaching leadership in a MA in
Leadership in the Public Sector (Saint Mary’s College of California), writing and speaking
Interests
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