Welcome to my web site.  This site is my ongoing project intended to inform visitors about my professional abilities and ways in which my services can help to create business value.

I am a strong believer that it is possible to more rapidly establish higher levels of trust in information online than in the physical world.  My approach for this web site is to leverage the capabilities of the world wide web, whenever practical, to support my self-assertions with linked proof points.

Being a top down thinker who likes to begin by understanding concepts before addressing the details, my introduction provides insight into the essence of my personality.  If you are familiar with Myers-Briggs' personality classification system, I am an ENTP - "Rational Inventor", with the following attributes:

• Creative problem solving;
• Ingenuity and ability to improvise;
• Innovation and impersonal analysis;
• Generate new and innovative approaches to solving problems;
• Implement my innovative solutions to improve business results;
• Ability to improvise and operate in a spontaneous way;
• Confident to achieve things not commonly accepted as possible;
• Work best with a succession of stimulating, high energy projects that expand business opportunities;
• Seek professional and personal power, and opportunities to interact with influential people; and
• Entertaining and inspirational public speaker.

	Industry leader for Trust-enabling e-business solutions;
	Twenty-year veteran of the IT industry and among its recognized innovators;
	IBM Certified Security Consultant, specializing in trust, PKI, authentication and electronic signatures;
	Pioneer in electronic commerce and the use of virtual communities for cultivating trusted business relationships in a networked environment;
	Product manager of innovative new applications based on emerging technologies, including Web-EDI;
	Lecturer and writer on the subject of “Doing Business on the Internet”; and

	“Trusting Information – Not the Source”, presentation sponsored by The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and IBM in 2002;
	“Trusting Information Beyond - Public Keys”, RSA Security Conference, San Jose, February 2002;
	"Beyond PKI:  Toward a Comprehensive Trust Model for Emerging B2B e-Markets, Entrust SecureSummit 2001;
	“Trust:  The business case for privacy in B2B e-marketplaces”, Zero-Knowledge Privacy by Design Conference, 2000;
	“Trust:  The foundation for value in B2B e-Marketplaces”, Ventro Leadership Forum, 2000;
	“Beyond PKI:  Toward a comprehensive trust model for B2B e-Marketplaces”, SecureWorld 2000;
	Conference presentation: "Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs): Securing transactions in an evolving PKI environment", e-Security 2000;
	Conference presentation: "A PKI Primer:  What every good corporate lawyer should know about today's most advanced approach to security on the Net”, NetLaw 2000;
	Corporate presentation:  “Business Solutions Enabled by PKI –  How to identify a killer application for PKI”, 1999;
	Conference presentation:  "Beyond the Web: Doing Business as a member of Virtual Communities", 1996;
	Lecturer:  "Marketing on the Internet", 1996; and
	Lecturer:  "Doing Business on the Internet", 1995.

	“Innovative Trust-enabling Services”, whitepaper for IBM Global Services’ Enterprise of the Future initiative, 2003;
	Interviewed for “Trust: Opening up the opportunities of e-business”, by IBM’s Peter Andrews for Executive Tek Report, 2002, available at http://www-1.ibm.com/services/insights/etr_trust.html;
	Member of Editorial Advisory Board of CyberSecurity Advisor, a publication by Aspen Publishers;
	Paper:  "Assessing the business value of a PKI implementation", 2000;
	Paper:  "Trust: The Equity of the Digital Economy", 1998
	Article: "From Sales to Business Facilitation on the Internet", 1996; and
	Article: "Guard your technology investment", 1990.

	President's Planner, 1990 - 1995
	Partner's Planner, 1990 - 1995

	BYTE Magazine, 1993
	Customer endorsements, 1993
	Promotions and numerous special achievement awards throughout career.

	Employment:  IBM Canada Ltd., Cebra Inc.; Diversinet Corp.; Lotus Development Canada.
	Entrepreneurial:  Phase III Computing Inc.
	Education:  Bachelor of Commerce, University of Toronto
	Professional development:  IBM Security and Consulting courses; RSA Conference participation; IETF Meeting participation; Software Publisher's Association membership.

Published January 11, 1998; Modified May 26, 2003
Please note that some links lead to dated information.