Im a seasoned technologist with over 27 years of experience leading uncharted IT and e-commerce initiatives at Intel and FedEx, currently committed to improving the short-term and long-term survival and growth prospects for online businesses through a variety of avenues, including challenging the status quo on online technology and trends through my #1 Amazon bestselling book - Escaping SEO and Amazon - that sheds light on the real-world online challenges, and offers a vision and solution for small, local, and independent businesses to succeed online despite the threat from global marketplaces. Among other things, I have volunteered as an Executive Committee and Board Member at SCORE (PDX chapter); I currently volunteer as a Business Counselor and Workshop Instructor at non-profits such as SCORE and public libraries; Im the Global Sales Marketing Director at CatanDogs Global; and Im also the Technology and Marketing Partner at various businesses.