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After a decade of building and managing a successful ISP, it’s time for new ventures. I created this site for prospective business partners and companies seeking my expertise.

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A bridge in history

This was one of my earliest blog posts on my personal website, published on January 8, 2003—right after I was unceremoniously let go from Hosting.com. That brand encompassed several successful ISPs like ours acquired by Allegiance Telecom around 2000.

The news came over the phone from a VP in our Boston office—not unexpected, given that I had spent the past few years on the other side of similar conversations, delivering bad news to dozens of employees. This was part of the great RIF—reduction in force—that had its own codename: Project Optimize. I was 38 at the time. Up until that time, I was all about building and growing businesses, not dismantling them.

Now, it was my turn to be optimized as one of the last employees left at the CTS data center. That phone call was my bittersweet (mostly bitter) ending to an otherwise thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime journey—back when the Internet as we know it was still under construction.

This early post marks a transitional bridge in my career, linking my years at CTSnet to the next chapter with DTL. I have some stories to tell! But perhaps I should start with when I met my first computer.