My first job was an unpaid internship as a COBOL programmer for the Government of PEI in the summer of 1977 while I was in high school. This became a paid internship for Sperry Univac (now Unisys) while I did my computer science degree at Acadia University. After two years with Sperry Univac, I realized that I preferred to work for myself, so started a consulting company doing contract programming at three times my prior salary.

Over the years, I have worked as a programmer, network manager, systems analyst, JAD facilitator, and consultant for a variety of organizations, including IBM, Boeing, Flagstar, and the Australian Army. Most of my consulting was with the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense in the redesign of information systems to support logistics. In the mid-2000s, I led $3 million project assessing the Cisco Networking Academy program at the request of John Chambers.

In 1984, I joined Prof. Rick Burns in starting a software company providing order scheduling systems to paper mills. The software was written in FORTRAN and ran on the IBM. I have been part of five other start-ups. The largest of these was Courseload. If you are using etextbooks at Indiana University (i.e., Unizin Engage), you are using software I help create in 2008; Unizin acquired Courseload in 2015.

Much of my professional work has been volunteer service to our professional association, the Association for Information Systems. I served as the Co-Chair of the 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems, and then three years as Vice President for Conferences. I served as the President during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have received four awards for public service.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I helped launch Project Hope, which has put more than 500 Indiana small businesses online and provided internship opportunities to more than 200 students. Project Hope is a joint initiatve of the Kelley School of Business, Ivy Tech, and the Indiana Small Business Development Center.