Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I'm a technomadic adventurer, living on the road full time in an uber tricked out solar powered travel trailer that is an ideal remote home office. I live a life of following my passions, being free, being inspired and experiencing as much as I can.

I have diverse and wild skills in project management, training, social media, event organizing, technology, software development and taking on novel intense challenges that don't have handy job titles. I'm driven by exciting projects that inspire me and can change the world.

I've been a location independent small business owner and software industry entrepreneur for nearly fifteen years, with extensive experience in full scale application development for a wide variety of client industries.

Technology, leadership and being self-driven come naturally to me.

Work History

• Two Steps Beyond
• Partner
• May 2007 to Present

• Strategic Analysis - Focusing on business prospects or pure technology.

  Market and Technology Analysis - Broad and deep surveys of current and potential future technology and industry trends.

  Web Strategy - How to best build a cost effective online presence. When and how to embrace “Web 2.0″ paradigms.

  Technology Consultation - How to best integrate new technologies, with a particular focus on mobile technology.

  Enthusiast Marketing & Community Building - How to turn your customers into emotionally engaged enthusiasts.

  And anything else cool and interesting :)

• VeArd Computer Research
• President
• January 1994 to Present

• Family owned and operated custom software development, provide rapid application development on the web and business consulting. Main clients include the Army Medical Command Resource & Budget, Maine Health Alliance, LifeSpire and other medical, government and retail organizations.

• Nevada Campaign for Change
• Deputy Field Organizer
• October 2008 to November 2008

• Full time volunteer for the Nevada Campaign for Change, a key battleground state for the Obama for America campaign. Ran the Fallon Nevada Field Office, with direction from the regional director out of Carson City. Facilitated canvassing, volunteer recruitment, training, turfing, data entry, phone banking and everything else required to run a rural campaign office.

• HearPlanet
• Launch Specialist
• November 2008 to June 2009

• We were brought on to craft and execute a strategy to launch mobile software startup HearPlanet. We handled all the marketing, evangelism, PR, and press outreach - as well as event planning for Macworld and even managing the beta release and testing program.

  The HearPlanet launch at Macworld 2009 was a spectacular success, and within a week we had beaten the likes of Yelp and CitySearch to rise into the top three travel applications in the iTunes App Store. The HearPlanet Launch Mobile Expo and Party Bus became a very unique fixture hoovering outside the Moscone during the event, drawing in lots of buzz and attention to the application.

  Now that the launch is complete, we are continuing on as consultants advising HearPlanet in an ongoing fashion.