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  • December 13, 2020

    Digital Simplified

    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…

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  • December 12, 2020

    State of the Digital Union

    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…

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  • December 11, 2020

    Eating The Digital Elephant … uh, I mean Dragon

    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…

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  • July 2, 2020

    Why Does The Cloud Cost So Much? Maybe It’s Your Fault.

    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…

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  • February 9, 2020

    Dealing With Jerks & Bullies

    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

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  • January 12, 2020

    Thoughts on Starting A Business

    Check out this podcast episode with my friend and business partner, David Webb, on starting a business. https://recruitercast.com/s1e2

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  • November 24, 2019

    I Hope My Kids Lose In Sports, and I Know You Don’t Care.

    Over the weekend, I witnessed what I think is the worst our society has to offer. The parents on both sides of the game failed their children. We reinforced all that is bad in sports through a display of poor sportsmanship, bad parenting, lack of civility, disregard for honor and a lack of compassion. On…

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  • August 23, 2019

    90 Day Journey to the Cloud

    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…

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  • February 11, 2018

    Microservices, Fast Data and Healthcare

    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…

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  • February 1, 2018

    Technology Leader, Engineer, Husband & Father

    Who am I? I am a leader.  I am a cloud ninja.  I am a public speaker.  I am a scrum master.  I can help your organization tap into the promise of big data.  I can design, develop, implement and control real-time streaming predictive analytics platforms.  I can explain what data science is.  I can…

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