Some things take a long time to become obvious. After 25 years in enterprise technology, the threads of mechanical engineering, youth mentoring, and Florida's marine economy pulled together into Full Throttle Marine — a premium mobile marine service and Next Wave operator program in Tampa Bay.
Father, husband, and tech leader helping companies transform through AI and data. Mentoring the next generation of engineers and entrepreneurs in Florida.
Expanding Your Staffing Business Through Strategic Service Innovation As client expectations evolve and demand for comprehensive talent solutions accelerates, staffing firms face a critical question: how do we expand beyond traditional placement models to deliver true end-to-end value? I recently co-led a webinar with Erika Scanlin, President of EG, exploring how staffing firms can strategically
On Friday morning, at 2:49 AM, the alarm went off. This was a few minutes before the rest of the team woke up. The night before, we all set our alarms for 3 AM to ensure that no one overslept. There was a great adventure that lay in store and I wanted a few extra
When enterprise prospects kept asking for our SOC 2 report, I made it my personal mission. Drawing on my healthcare compliance experience at McKesson and GHX, I researched solutions, campaigned internally, and rolled up my sleeves to develop our policy framework. We achieved SOC 2 certification in 2025 over a period of about 9 months. Security reviews that once took weeks now take days, and enterprise doors that were closed are now open. My advice? Start early, choose the right partners, and don't be afraid to do the work yourself. The insights are invaluable.
This journal entry feels obligatory. I consistently wrote these notes to myself throughout the summer break as part of my morning ritual; I couldn't miss the last one. Coffee & journaling was the way I started my day most mornings throughout the summer break. I think of the time in the morning as my time.
Words cannot describe how amazing this time has been. But, let's try. As I sit here, early in the morning on Saturday July 30th, 2022, I can't help but to think to myself that this time has been a once in a lifetime type of experience. Today is day 43 of a 44 day sabbatical
Saturday July 23rd - Friday July 29th 2022 This week's headline. Recharged & ready. Day 36 - Saturday July 23rd: Out with the Old Today I spent a little time setting up for my return to work. Next week, I will be starting back to work in a full time capacity at Brightmove. It really
Saturday July 16th - Friday July 22nd 2022 This week's headline. A rich life. Day 29 - Saturday July 16th: Boca Raton Beach Day After the concert in Boca, we spent the day in Hillsboro Beach. We had a nice breakfast beachside at the Hillsboro Beach Cafe, coincidentally right next to the Hillsboro Beach Fishing
Saturday July 9th - Friday July 15th 2022 This week's headline. A plethora of activities. Day 22 - Saturday July 9th: Nest Key & Some Offshore Fishing Half way there! Today marks the halfway point of this 44 day break from my work life. I feel a tremendous mix of emotions. Thankfulness, joy, gratitude, love,
Saturday June 25th - Friday July 1st 2022 This week's headline. Week 2 of the summer respite with the family. Day 8 - Saturday June 25th: You won't believe it. More Offshore Fishing for Mahi! We had a great day offshore again on Saturday. John caught around 20 mahi and towards the end of the
Friday June 24th, 2022 Kimbit & Spencer, the dolphins, stole the show, but the Sea Lion Show was a close second.
Thursday June 23rd, 2022 Today, John did what John does. He caught a bunch of fish :-). John Hurff is a mahi catching machine. I have a feeling we'll catch many of them over the summer. For dinner, we enjoyed another one of our local favorites - The Lazy Lobster.
Wednesday June 22nd, 2022 I made a command decision this morning. I bought tickets to the Major League Baseball game tonight in Miami versus the Colorado Rockies. The Marlins aren't very good this year, but the boys always loved going to see Ranger baseball games when we were in Texas. This will be our first
Tuesday June 21st, 2022 Today was a bit of a rest day. We played so hard in the sun on Sunday and Monday, we took some time on Tuesday to simply rest & relax. We chilled out! But as you'd expect from those who are addicted to the salt life, we found a way to
What the heck is technical debt? Technical debt creates overhead and friction on an organization and stifles innovation. This article provides some simple ways to identify, measure and reduce technical debt. What Is Technical Debt? Technical debt is not a direct cost in financial terms, but rather a concept. Simply, technical debt creates overhead as
What does the term digital even mean? In today's context, it is cliche and it's used repeatedly as a way to describe a company's culture and operating model. The term is also often used as a target and aspirational state for a transformation - a digital transformation. For starters, in order to successfully transform from
What is the current state of your digital union? Below, are some simple questions that can have very complex and profound answers for your digital business. In the journey to digital maturity, I'd recommend you start by making the investment to study and baseline your environment first by asking your organization these questions. A simple
An overview of some simple ways to get started on your company's digital transformation journey and becoming a Digital Dragon. Establish Top-Down Support From Executive Operating Team Collaborative support from the top is rocket fuel for a company on the journey to becoming digital. Create a council or digital community of practice made up of
Note: These are some of my personal views on how to get to the cloud (economically). It's not intended to be an indictment of the cloud. In fact, the cloud is amazing. But with great power comes great responsibility. AWS, Azure and GCP have transformed the way in which technology services are consumed. I'd like
A podcast episode with my friend & business partner on dealing with jerks & bullies that are customers, and some thoughts on running a business with high integrity. https://recruitercast.com/s1e7
Check out this podcast episode with my friend and business partner, David Webb, on starting a business. https://recruitercast.com/s1e2
Between March and June 2019, while in the role of Data & Analytics Platform Leader, I led an effort to migrate one of McKesson's large enterprise data warehouses to the cloud. In August 2019, I delivered this presentation to a group of approximately 100 technologists in the Phoenix metroplex around the 90 Day Journey to
This is a project is for technical demonstration purposes only. For more information on WTKM, please visit the website or check out the GitHub repo. Overview WTKM is a set of ideas, tools, architectures and techniques for performing analytics on healthcare data sets. WTKM attempts to answer important healthcare questions, like will you survive your
https://vimeo.com/238845420 While CTO as Clearsense, I deployed the DriveScale SCI solution into our own cloud. Clearsense is a smart data organization based in Jacksonville, Florida that is re-imagining and simplifying data analytics to help healthcare organizations realize measurable value from their data. Our world-class team combines extensive data science expertise with clinical and operational heritage to
https://youtu.be/v8PuSVhJWXA Check out this article and the associated videos where I discuss using Hortonworks at Clearsense. DRIVING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE Clearsense is seeing great results with its initial algorithms for code blue (cardiac arrest) and sepsis prediction. The team is looking forward to developing solutions around reducing costs