These are the hands of a man.These are the hands of a strong man, a kind man, a gentle man. These are the hands that shaped many lives, they held my mother, they held me, they held my children. They…
Getting It Back – The road to condition
This is me, in 2009, 6.5 years ago. That’s the tip of The Tooth, a wonderful outcrop of rocks at the peak of The Tooth of Time in the Philmont scout reservation, Cimerron, NM, USA. After 10 days and 89…
From B2B To P2P, Faster Payments
I’ve watched the business-to-business , person-to-person, and account-to-account payments industry from an insider’s perspective over the last 20 years. Moving through time from commercial online banking, to retail online banking, to mobile banking, to digital banking – payments is…
Trends and the Shift in retail banking: Sales and Investments
The retail banking market has come out of the financial crisis with a new outlook on how to engage new customers and how to retain and cross sell others. The shift to omni-channel, multi-channel whatever is something that has been…
Running with attitude – the right attitude
I ran cross country in high school. In my senior year I was the fastest runner, leading the team. If I knew then what I know today I would have been a better leader and ran even faster. Cross country…
Thoughts on Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”
Reading the review in the NYT of the lost novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee it was obvious to me what was going on, at least in my mind or point of view. In fact I had just…
My recap of TAG Fintech 2015
Some thoughts from this years TAG Fintech 2015 (Technology Association of Georgia). I’ll look back on my tweets to help me: Lots of great analogies during the final session about Bitcoin – in summary it seems that beyond the hype…
New Gig – ACI Worldwide – Farewell TIS
So this is my last day at TIS (though I’m on Vacation) and my journey starts with ACI tomorrow morning with “Challenger Training” – then a week of sessions and keynotes and parties at the ACI Worldwide International Sales Conference.…
Hanukah
One of my Christian friends sent an email asking about Hanukah. He is a fraternity brother and I jokingly replied that it was like all holidays “they tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat” He incorrectly thought it was…
About.me – new online biography
So I’ve seen About.me in a few situations, usually among the people in my professional graph that are creative and technical. I finally put one together and it was an interesting exercise. I tried to take a different approach –…