Lawyer. Academic. Electronic Discovery Guru. Natural born teacher. Chief Compliance Officer. Consultant. Managing Partner. Entrepreneur. Technotherapist.

These are the ways in which I have been described, introduced, and evaluated as a professional over a career spanning almost 30 years. Shouldn't I be choosing one role by now?

For me, they are one. 

My mission is to ensure that organizations use technology effectively to improve access to reliable information. 

We know that the world has made signficiant transitions over the course of history: from the stone age to an agrarian society; from agrarianism to the industrial age. The post-industrial age has also been called, quite rightly, the information age. Information of all kinds drives our world today; our social interactions, our governments, our economies, and our future.

The impact of these transitions - perhaps upheavals is a better word - has been accelerating over time, to the point where small changes in technology can now move the world, like Archimedes' fulcrum, in an instant. Think of how the smartphone has changed our patters of communication. How Facebook has changed our attitudes towards privacy. How the GPS has changed our ability to envision maps of the world  and link those maps to people, resources and businesses.

Our ability to manipulate information in digital form has caused the world to move forward in a direction that is largely uncharted. And yet we are moving toward that future more quickly than we can possibly control. For that reason I believe it is of fundamental importance that we think about how information is identified, formatted, organized, managed, accessed, shared and retained. For the first time in history, the vast store of human knowledge is rapidly changing from human-readable to machine-readable form. The implication: the design and management of information technology is essential to the secure future of humanity.

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