About the Author
Summary:
I have only one agenda. I have only one goal. I want desperately to use whatever time I have left in this world, to point anyone I can come in contact with, to Jesus Christ. You and I could be destined to share eternity with each other. Imagine the extreme joy we will come to know, as we taste what it means to truly love each other, with no self-serving motive behind any of it. To that end, why not start now? Why not start here?
You won't ever hear me ask you for money. If ads appear on this site, it is not because I had anything to do with it, nor do I ever want any benefit from it. This is not a venue for commerce, unless it is to be the commerce of hearts. This is not a pickup site, or a place for creepy lurkers, looking to get lucky. Instead, it is a place for the broken to find healing. For the hurting to find relief. And for the wounded, who keep embracing that which ultimately causes us harm, to lose interest in it and discover the freedom of letting it go.
Jesus is not just my Creator, He is my re-creator. I made a mess of my life and seem to find every choice the wrong one. But those trends have started to change. And as He remakes me, I am becoming something else, something different and better. That process is nothing I can take any credit at all for. But I can testify, that if it can work with me, it can work with you. I started writing as a way to serve. I wanted to chronicle my journey from blindness to the brilliant light of His love. There is no condemnation here, but there is redemptive love here. The kind of love that would not be content to leave us where we were, when where we are going is so much better. And all of that starts here and now.
If you need me, reach out. If I can help I will. But I can keep silent no longer, and I can keep still no longer, His love just won't let me do that. So I say; Let the community of His love begin …
If You Wanted to Get to Know Me Better …
Introduction:
Welcome to my primary BLOG Library. In this venue, I write about religious issues and how to improve your life based on practical Christian techniques I have used in more than 50 years of searching after the Lord. The one constant I have learned is the wiser I become, the more I realize I do not yet understand. It is a paradox that we only find relief and victory when we surrender our efforts, our will, our decisions, and our desires over to God. Then His victories become our peace.
Personal:
Since the age of eleven when I was miraculously healed of Leukemia, I have been composing music and writing lyrics of a spiritual nature. I have always been creative and love to mix creative arts with technical capabilities such as creating original music videos, or just putting together new ways to see a family photo album. I am an active member of the SDA church although I believe we do many things incorrectly.J I have been married for over 35 years, raised three children two of which live in L.A. pursuing a careers in the entertainment industry as a comedy writers and photographers. My oldest lives at home helping us out and working for more than a decade in business planning. To relax, I love spending time at the beach and in the water, pretty much any water, pools, lakes, oceans, rivers, you get the idea …
Education:
I attended college at Southwestern Adventist University, Texas Christian University, and Florida Metropolitan University where I maintained a GPA of 3.85 out of 4.00. I was nominated to the Who's Who in American Universities and graduated with 2 formal degrees; a B.S. in Management Science, an A.S. in Computer Science, and the equivalent of an A.A. (90+ credit hours) in Communications Radio-TV-Film. Since college, I have attended continuing certification courses from premier vendors such as Microsoft and ORACLE; as well as internal company certifications from Lockheed Martin and Gartner Group
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Work Experience:
· My work experience began right after college at Martin Marietta Information Systems (now Lockheed Martin) where I joined the team as PC developer. This was brand new cutting edge technology at the time, and our group was one of the first to show the value of PC's to the business enterprise.
· After nine years, I was recruited to Gartner Group in Stamford CT where I joined the team as a senior management consultant. My practice centered on advising corporations how to implement a technical architecture strategy to maximize the value of infrastructure investment and develop critical HR assets.
· After spending some time with Gartner, I realized the Internet would be the next major "wave" in American business and so I elected to join GST Internet as the Vice President of Operations. GST was a west coast roll-up of dial capability, WEB site development, and consulting. I gained valuable experience at GST and began to see the potential of hosted applications or as they are known better today - application software as a service. GST was eventually purchase by Sprint.
· I joined Interliant Inc as the senior vice president of Operations and was part of a pioneer development team working with IBM/Lotus and Microsoft to develop the middleware necessary to begin offering software over the Internet. I was a part of going public and purchasing many other companies to roll into our organization greatly increasing our reach and service line. Interliant was eventually purchased by Navisite.
· After cashing out of Interliant, I have been operating my own personal consulting firm entitled Nelson Data Systems working in different capacities for a small number of clients such as Quovera Inc., Universal Studios, Central SDA Church, and BGC Limited in the Bahamas. And for the last ten years I have been working for the major banks in our country, helping them transform large core systems for the future.
