About Me

With over 40 years of software engineering experience, I have seen all the modern trends in the technology industry. When I started as a software engineer, I started with the IBM PC. The PC was a disruptive force in technology. People were skeptical of it because it was something that had to be learned to be used. At the time, you had to use what were called floppy disks that held 1.2MB’s of data, which was a lot of hassle because it was so negligible amount of data.

To use the computer meant you had two floppy drives, one held the software and one held the data. And then the software. Some of the early ones were WordStar, Lotus, and DBase II. Learning the software was necessary for users, and some software was complicated. This is where I began my journey as a teacher. The company I worked for was called “Computer Tekniques”. It sold computers and sold an add-on piece where I would teach clients how to use this software.

Over the next 10-years, I learned all I could about programming, hardware, and software as well as how to teach people to use this technology. The next disruptive force in technology came about in 1991 with the internet being open to the public. It took off slowly and by 1994, there were about 3000 sites. After that, the number of sites grew rapidly. Again, I had to teach people how to use the internet and how to sort things out. Keep in mind that this was the wild west in that some sites were safe and some were dangerous to use.

Another disruptive force of the 90s was the fledgling force called Neural Nets. This was the beginning of the AI. I first became interested in AI when I worked for Seagate in the early nineties, when we used neural nets to predict the failure of drive parts.

Also in the 90s, I started writing copy for software magazines, at the time, really before the internet got going. That is where I got my start with professional copywriting.

Jump ahead another 10-years and Amazon created Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now the disruptive force is cloud computing. Again, as a software engineer, I had to learn to use cloud computing and teach others on how to use it.

During this time, I started writing for a website called Blogcritics.org. There, I wrote over 1100 reviews, opinion pieces, and news highlights. There I would write from 600 words to over 2000 per piece. I did this for 10-years.

In the 2010s, AI grew. Not the AI that we know now, but things like virtual assistants. Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google assistant. Deep Learning and Deep Fakes started to emerge.

I have been working with the latest incarnation of AI since 2022. So I have been teaching people this since 2021. Because of my vast experience teaching people and the fact I have written so much, I can fully relate to writers and their concerns.

So today, as a consultant, my goal is to train non-technical people, particularly writers, marketers, and copywriters, to use the new technology that is contently coming out to enhance their careers.

So I hope you’ll come join me and let me help you learn how to use all this technology that is coming out — Tom