Tom offers a uniquely broad perspective, great instincts, old-fashioned excellence in what he does, and uncommon values and integrity.

Yes, Tom has a great resume. Lots of consultants have a great resume. Yes, Tom understands technology. Lots of technical consultants understand technology. Yes, Tom is a great programmer. The world is filled with great programmers. Yes, Tom has deep business expertise. Lots of consultants have deep business expertise (though wisdom generally requires both age and first-hand experience — quantities that are somewhat less common among technology providers).

Tom rolls all these strengths together into an uncommon whole. When you hire Tom, you get the full benefit of more than three decades of wisdom, experience, deep technology expertise, programming, and business acumen.

Broad perspective

Tom's holistic perspective separates him from your many other choices. Tom offers a uniquely balanced approach of analysis, planning and execution, relationships, and vision.

Tom walks you through these four aspects of your challenge. He helps you analyze your situation, in order to plan and execute your solution. He helps you connect your plan to your vision, while ensuring that it strengthens the relationships that create and sustain your prosperity. He documents your requirements in suites of acceptance and unit tests, so that your solution does what you require — no more and no less.

Tom ensures that your solution works.

Great instincts

Tom gets what current offerings mean as well as how they work.

You can rely on Tom to separate what matters from what doesn't. While your competitors discover — the hard way — that a blog often brings out the worst in even their best customers, Tom gently guides you away from the traps. Why? Because Tom has been there before.

Tom has a long track record of recogizing significant advances, relating them to their human implications, and understanding their deep (as well as superficial) impacts. As a fledgling engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, Tom was building local area network hardware while the rest of the world was connecting terminals. Years before the Macintosh, Tom was inventing graphical user interface software used by Apple, Sun and Microsoft while the rest of the world was typing green characters onto black screens. Tom was building hypertext systems for scholars ten years before the first web browser was invented. Tom was deploying the first wiki at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, using code shared with him by its inventor (Ward Cunningham), years before Wikipedia was conceived.

"Hands-On" excellence

Tom is a "hands-on" guy. His wisdom about technology, business, and people is rooted in more than three decades of practical, get-it-done experience. He understands that sweeping abstract principles work best when they emerge from the successes and failures of concrete day-to-day execution.

Values and integrity

Tom's core values of relationships, integrity, and excellence mean that he is passionately committed to your success.

Tom is a "people" person, who thrives on the success of the people around him. Tom is a scientist and musician who is turned on by ideas, concepts, and their realization. Tom is disciplined and rigorous, an engineer who understands that, at the end of the day, even the most exciting new technology has to work.