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With over 30 years of experience in the tech industry, I am the Founder and Principal Strategist of Ascendient Strategy, a consulting firm that advises Fortune 100 CEOs and senior executives on how to leverage technology as a strategic asset, how to maximize business value from investments, and how to align focus their organizations on enabling their strategic goals. I have a proven track record of creating and implementing large-scale solutions and solving complex problems for global, complex, and privacy-regulated environments across various sectors, such as financial, e-commerce, manufacturing, government, and military. I am also a CITA-Distinguished Architect, a Mensa Member, and a podcast host of "Sh*t I Learned The Hard Way", a show about lessons hard-learned and wisdom hard-gained in the tech world. I am passionate about sharing my insights and expertise on technology trends, adoption, and value realization with diverse audiences, from CIOs and IT executives to architects and engineers. I am a thought leader and a speaker at conferences and panels, mixing technology best practices with humor and storytelling. My mission is to grow the global realization that technology's value is enabling business success.