My Credentials

My Affiliations

I am calm, caring, curious, intellectual, open-minded, professional, evolving, gay, and a geek; a coach, a leader, a musician, and a brother, uncle, colleague, and friend, experiencing the same messy, complicated, and challenging world as everyone else.

I have 35+ years of professional experience in the software industry. My first job after college was as a software engineer in a computer center in the aerospace industry. I have had operational leadership roles in internal and external customer support, business planning, product release management, licensing, and CRM and other business applications operations. I’ve also had formal and informal project and change leadership and governance roles in implementing business applications, mergers and acquisitions, relocating a company, and major organizational changes. I was a VP of Operations for a short time. My last role in the industry was Senior Director of IT Operations at a software company.

I became a coach to help other people be happier and have more fulfilling professional and personal lives. I have an intense geeky interest in tools, frameworks, and other bodies of knowledge that help humans understand how we show up and interact with ourselves, each other, and the Universe. In my coach training I learned the Energy Leadership™, and Positive Intelligence® principles and frameworks. I continue to follow and add to my knowledge with topics in psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality (mostly Buddhism). It all helps me to more deeply understand and find meaning in my own thoughts, feelings, energy, and life, and to be able to help others with the same.

I am a geek. Somewhere around 8 years old I destroyed my father’s electric train set to find out how it worked. I was obsessed with the US Space Program and loved all Irwin Allen’s science fiction books, movies and TV shows. I built mock space-ship flight cabins in my closet, in a crawl space, and a section of our garage. I was very strong in math and science starting before high school. Mr. Spock was and is my hero. I earned an engineering BS degree in applied math and computer science.

I am a choral singer, starting at age six in school and church and continuing in performing and leadership roles almost without a break to the present day. I’ve been a singing member in the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus since 1996.

Navigating the real and imagined fears and loves in being gay added significant drama, suffering, spice, and joy to most of my personal and professional life.

With some hindsight, I can say that care has been at the core of many of my personal and professional challenges and achievements. I have struggled with opening, understanding, and showing and knowing my heart. I am grateful to those people who have helped me to finally see and believe in it.

I have lived and worked in the Boston area since 1992.