Personal Interests

Places I have been include:

• Most of the United States, both working and playing, from high school in Boulder, Colorado to San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Monica, New York, Charlotte,  NC, Atlanta, GA many others places as way points.

• I am currently living in Winter Park, Florida, a Norman Rockwell type of small American town with brick streets and a down train station that will take you to Tampa, Miami or New York.

• British Columbia,  Canada: working,  living on the water, exploring, kayaking and going to Simon Fraser University.

• Lesotho in Southern Africa: surrounded by South Africa working and exploring while in the middle of a civil war.

• Philippines: helping bring internet to Mindanao.

• Japan

• Korea

• Brazil: Living on the beach in Macae north of Rio de Janeiro for 7 years working on open source software, teaching yoga and mountain biking in the coastal Mata Atlantica, swimming and body surfing,  these days living on a farm in Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais, and city living in Belo Horizonte.

• Europe: biking solo for 4 months through the Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland.

I have been and continue to be active in civic activities as well, such as the Rotary Club International in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I spend as much time in Brazil as possible with my wife's family.

I also speak Portuguese with my wife, having become fluent in the during the 7 years I lived in Brazil.

I also enjoy learning how to apply the technology of the Internet of Things  and AI and think about what they will do to our culture in the future.

But in the end: my wife is right, I do love to work. I love solving complicated business problems with great people and businesses like NetSuite and the companies and entrepreneurs.

Working with the NetSuite community of Oracle NetSuite, partners and NetSuite existent and future customers has been and continues to be the most rewarding and exciting work I have done.

My wife would tell you that my primary interest is work, but that is not completely true.

I have had an amazing life full of opportunity and travel. Each opportunity has lead to a new level of understanding about how important it is to focus on basics:

• Family,

• Understanding the present,

• Paying attention, 

• Keep learning,

• Stay positive,

• Keep smiling and 

  • Share

Some of the activities that have helped me to reach this place in life are:

• Working from a young age and saving money to be able to do interesting things such as:

• at 16 years old traveling alone for 4 months in Europe on a bicycle speaking French and German while peddling through Germany, France, Netherlands and Switzerland,

• rock climbing, ice climbing and kayaking throughout the Rockies, California and Canada,

• mountain biking,

• sailing and wind surfing, body surfing - anywhere I could, and my latest passion -

  • playing guitar, piano and learning violin.