BENDING THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

I specialize in designing methods and software solutions to improve decision-making. Many of my ideas draw on my studies in physics and space-time philosophy in college and graduate school, which convinced me of the importance of time and change in understanding the world... Early in my career, I concentrated on supporting operational decisions by businesses and government agencies. I developed a database and analytics solution to improve process control in a semiconductor fabrication plant; a scheduler that optimized the flow of work on a factory floor; and an intelligent network management assistant that helped NASA engineers manage the custom computer system used to checkout, test, and launch Space Shuttles. These last two systems used simulations to test and refine allocations of resources to work tasks and diagnostic hypotheses about network anomalies... Author, Speaker, Management Consultant, and Start-up Executive. I help organizations make and execute critical decisions in an..