Introduction

All of us search for meaning in our careers and hope that we've made a difference in the world around us. Sometimes this comes because we set specific goals and labor to achieve a worthwhile result. Othertimes we just work hard and try to do our best, serendipity takes a hand, and something special happens that goes far beyond our expectations.

In this weblog I hope to share thoughts and links to thought leaders who I believe are making a difference for those of us in the IT community.

This is an exciting era where the technologies and methodologies available to us are helping us to truly build systems that serve business needs and allow us to build and support business processes that are responsive to the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace. What for me is even more exciting is that these tools are available even to smaller companies and organizations, helping to level the playing field and allowing them to reach their customers and deliver levels of service that were unthinkable just a few years ago.

When we can apply these technologies in organizations that are sincerely seeking to improve the world we live in, whether it's healthcare, an organic food supplier, a developer of earth-friendly energy sources or whatever, then we have amplified the benefit of these technologies many fold.

If one idea I share or point people to strikes a cord, then this blog will have been successful.

Over the last few years I've been involved with a variety of technologies that have kept my passion for data alive and provided opportunities to continue to grow into big data, cloud platforms and back into programming using Python, a language I'm learning to really enjoy.