About Me

Personal mission: “To be of meaningful help to ‘my people’ who I define as ‘Over-Educated Westerners’.”

NOTE: After more than 40 years working to make money and wealth for others (and occasionally myself) I have decided to delegate that stuff and spend my time making a difference.

My latest project: Questions for Colleges (Q4Colleges.com) – What if faculty and staff at colleges answered the kinds of questions they ask applicants:

What is your mission? How did you come by your values? Discuss an ethical issue. Tell a story that changed how you think or feel. Or demonstrate critical thinking by asking a question your institution should be asking itself, and then answering it honestly.

We want to be a catalog of the people students go to college to meet.

Ongoing: No Shortage of Work (NoShortageOfWork.com) – Promoting the idea that even when you’re not doing something for pay, do something anyway.

Ongoing: Humongous Shortage of Work (HumongousShortageOfWork.com) – self-parody site promoting: “No learning without grades. No work without pay.”

Interest: Game Design – Gamifying the Job Search, Game Design as Life Design

Interest: Job Market (Observation: Inefficient markets reward creative effort in ways efficient markets do not.) Creative ways of hiring: Article in Science, Interview. Creative ways of finding work: Article in Science, Personal Story. Interview: Job Hunting is Like Dating (but is it a seduction or a search for true love?)

PLEASE READ MY PERSONAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT to learn more about what you can expect of me, good and bad.

Professional background:

• Manager – Head of the Quantitative Trading Group at Maple Securities, USA, Inc.
• Founder: Brooke Allen Information Systems, Inc., Bravo Alpha, Inc., MANE Fund Management, Inc.
• Co-Founder: Education Technology Center, Inc., APL PI, Inc.
• Author – Numerous short stories, two plays, and a book in progress.
• Hobbies – Computer Programming, Amateur Radio, Travel, Networking, Burning Man
• Family Man – Wife: Eve, Sons: Davis and Glen