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 worked first on network upgrades, and later I managed network capacity and call routing for various parts of the state. 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. These days I most enjoy moving companies to the cloud, primarily by helping them convert to Google Apps. (I’m an admitted Googlephile. If it’s a Google product – iGoogle, Apps, Android – I tried it out as soon as I could get my hands on it. And I think Google Maps for Android is the coolest thing since the Saturn V rocket.)

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 photography or transportation history, hiking in the Grand Canyon or the Dales, cycling the Virginia Creeper Trail, or trying to bag the perfect Milky Way time-lapse.

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

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