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"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." Unknown My mission is to unite these two worlds. With a home base in Minneapolis, I’ve worked around the world to lead enterprises into next-generation technologies: from hardware to virtualization, from infrastructure to cloud, from Enterprise to SaaS. I speak both geek and human and am often tapped to deconstruct the ‘magic of software’ in ways that any buyer will understand. I’m hardened in startup land where I play a strategic and technical leadership role that brings the voice of the Customer to the Company and the voice of the Company to the Customer. It’s a front line, guerilla approach that forms the connective tissue between the Customer and Product, Sales, Leadership, Support, and Marketing teams. My passions are discovering customer problems, architecting product-market fit, and evangelizing solutions. Specialties: Business Leadership, Start-up and Growth Strategy, Pre-sales Engineering, IT Architecture, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Evangelizing Great Ideas, Software Development, Public Speaking, Seminar/Webinars, Technology Training, Consulting Methodology