With experience in all aspects of technological company management including founding 5 companies, successfully taking one of them public, and swimming with the venture capital sharks.  

I have a uniquely useful background to help a small company formulate and realize their vision. My forte is looking beyond the immediate tactical problems that plague a struggling enterprise, to see the strategic possibilities that are achievable.  I like ‘thinking outside of the box’ to see what the ordinary business consultant will never see.

I also have had 47 years of business experience in technology-oriented enterprises.  I can relate to the problems an entrepreneur has because I have been there and done that several times over. Having been in the same situation before, I can relate to a client company’s struggles with cash flow problems, receivables financing, finding capital, planning for rapid growth and hard times, looking ahead toward exit strategies, structuring the enterprise for succession, and many more strategic issues.

In summary, I am ready to mentor a small business entrepreneur in all the things that make that job less than successful, while cherishing the spark of creativity that makes it more successful than ever.

June 1993 to Present

Strategic consulting and development for small companies needing a growth plan for the future.

November 2005 to December 2006

SCORE is a volunteer arm of the Small Business Administration, dedicated to helping small business become successful

November 1987 to September 2005

President and CEO, Great American Connection, LLC.  A third party Long Distance provider with thousands of customers in Georgia and Tennessee.  The company is now dormant.

December, 1984 to May 1993

President & CEO, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC. Principal technical architect of the Voice Perfect product line of voice processing systems, including the highly respected Voice Perfect Receptionist voice mail system.

December, 1984 to May 1993

President & CEO, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC. Principal technical architect of the highly respected Voice Perfect Receptionist voice mail system.  Developed both electronics hardware and major systems software components.

January, 1980 to October, 1984

Chairman, DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATES, INC. Lead a development team to successful creation of Ethernet-based Statistical Multiplexing processor used in the DCA Network product line.

Also acquired venture capital funding for the company, and lead the Initial Public Offering team (company listed as DCAI on NYSE).

August, 1972 to January, 1980

Founder, DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATES, INC. Created the Statistical Multiplexing Network product line.  Acknowledged pioneer in terminal networking.

Branch Manager, APPLIED DATA RESEARCH, INC. Developed first PDP-10 data communications networks.  Also pioneered in advanced data communications protocols using statistical multiplexing.

Director, Small Computer Applications Lab, Georgia Institute Of Technology.  Developed instructional and experimental support environment for minicomputer-based laboratory instrumentation.

Operations Engineer & Instrumentation Engineer, Brookhaven National Laboratories - Accelerator Division. Developed accelerator instrumentation using PDP-8 minicomputers.  Also developed high-energy physics (cosmic ray) electronic instrumentation.

1954 - 1962

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Batchelor of Science – Electrical Engineering

1964 to present

Member of American Association for Advancement of Science

July 1958 to May 1961

Enlisted in U.S. Army – Rank of Sp4 – Safety Clerk – United States Air Defense Command – Ft. Meade, Md.

Play duplicate bridge

Reader of history and historical novels

Active in political discussions

Visit grandchildren (in north Georgia) once or twice a month.

Named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 1983.