jac

I’m a business technology consultant living in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information about my work life, see my profile on LinkedIn or my business web site.

Much of my career has been involved in building and modernizing communications networks. At BellSouth I was involved in upgrading 40-year-old ’step-by-step’ and ‘crossbar’ switches to digital switches, and at SITA/EQUANT I led the implementation of a global circuit-switched network, and then one of the first VoIP networks in the world. In the last ten years I’ve been active in managing software development, web services, project management, regulatory consulting, and social networking consulting and training. I’m interested in the potential impact of social networking technologies, and the thorny issues around the fault line between privacy, network management, and access to personal information.

In 2004 and 2005 I served as the Chairman of the City of Atlanta’s Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee.

I am a big fan of smartphones and their ability to improve quality of life. Just as mobile phones freed us from the office and the search for a pay phone, smartphones free us from computers, give us as much (or as little) access to our friends as we want while on the move, and make it impossible to get lost. Scott Adams is right – we are now cyborgs.

When not working, I’m either studying, working on the house, or serving as concierge, maitre d’hotel, and doorman for the most spoiled cat in Atlanta. From time to time you can find me out indulging in my interest in transportation history, or hiking in the Grand Canyon.

I’m married to Danah, and we spend as much time as we can on what one friend dubbed “. . . the best porch in Virginia-Highland.”

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