Visit Each Project by Selecting the Link or Adobe PDF icon
Doubling the Value of Oil Sands' Reserves, 2012-13
Proposing "Oil Float Rights" to backstop an insurance industry
“Float Rights” are to backstop selected risk instruments in addition to “Liquid Right” to extract resource
Producers can leverage underperforming Liquid Rights - no longer depend on shipment of the physical resource
Creates market incentive to create 100% clean (non-polluting) extraction of the physical resource
Restructuring TransOceanic Air Freight Costs, 2011
Improving NAFTA/EEC “sales/ship cost ratio” using French overseas territory mail rates
Inventing “sales/ship cost ratio” to address Euro order cuts because of shipping costs (often 50% of order)
St.Pierre et Miquelon (10km off Newfoundland coast) ships mail to France/EEC at French domestic rate
Business Model: Restructuring U.S. Veteran Combat PTSD Care, 2008-2014
My real world MBA - Proposing a new veteran triage insurance partnership
Inventing "audiological drugs" and potential mobile treatment to compete against lifesciences cartel
Executing my plan to open-source USPTO claim to help veteran customers whilst breaking patent cartel's stranglehold
Networked into Congress & White House by 3 amazingly honourable U.S. veteran champions
Sovereign-backed Insurance Strategy evaluated by U.S. leadership as a fiscal cliff measure
Here, using the neat business model kit made by Antwerp-based www.boardofinnovation.com
Creating Novel Competitive Strategies
Building Brand Mindshare, 2012-13
Multi-Generational Emotional Touchpoint Strategies
Inventing the idea of "Influence Inflection Points", using Water/Marine Gear Industry as an example
Developing a new model to study purchasing transitions across generations
Identifying where to demonstrate genuine Emotional Touch-Point regard at key Influence Inflection Points
(new for 2014) Building private influential brand share at Social Clefts
Strategizing Market Entry to North Dakota's Bakken Shale Play
For a job application to SEI Industries
Creating my own model to study the market, to identify where to enter the market
Creating Innovation ROI (IROI) Metric to evaluate early adoption success
Selecting McLean and McHenry Counties as the entry-point
Truly Original Thinking
Sacred Values Joint Mapping Database, 2010 - 2014
Seeding a Community-led Initiative to Map Valuation Zones for Joint Mining, Oil & Gas Projects
There have been complaints that intangible cultural values are not scientific
Assigning commonly agreed values to intangible issues removes them from "intangibility"
Makes them scientific and technical, and therefore useable in managing review applications
Creating joint win-win applications from parties that, right now, often oppose each other
Protecting Brand Reputation Across Europe, 2011
Solving a 6-Year-old “Hoop” Design Flaw in 2 minutes
The flaw caused assembly failure, putting an expert/thought leader at risk during an Arctic solo expedition
Despite a history of complaints about the part, there did not appear to be an error in the part
This was puzzling to me, so I got on the workbench and “wore” the fabric assembly
While "in the zone", finding the flaw: a complex flexible double reverse 4-bar linkage...
Using Multi-Dimensional Thinking to Teach Physically-Challenged Student to Kayak Roll, 1996
Gull River Centre, Minden, Ontario
My best whitewater experience ever, teaching a teenager whose arms were twisted
Successfully taught student after coaches and national athletes gave up
What I did was become his body to figure out how and where to move it to guide his actions
This involved projecting myself into his body space...
ESViSiPA: Extra-Solar Visitor Piggyback Arrays, 1993/4 & 2004
Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) with practical application
Noticing that the Delta-V of Near-Earth Objects is a valuable resource
Proposing an Intra-Solar Transport System ranging to the Oort Cloud/heliopause at 180 AU
With mass transfer points where orbits cross, and emplacement arrays to efficiently seed the system...
...with micro-satellites & mapping transponders for NEO Detection, science studies & resource mining
My "GE Light Bulb Coating" Experience, High School
Referencing Guy Kawasaki's story about "harnessing naïveté"
In high school machine shop class, we were instructed to create 6-sided salt and pepper shakers
Using an ancient manually-operated milling machine, limited by the manufacturer to mill a max of 6 sides
I asked my teacher if I could make a 7-sider. He laughed and said it was impossible...
Business Ventures
Founder / Innovator, 2012-13
Mychor Treatments [Management of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) Bat-Killing Virus]
Proposed rearing bats in artificial, mass-produced HVAC-managed hibernacula (hibernation caves)
Estimated Cost: $15,000 8-month lab test, then a 2-3 year field study [PDF has Business Case Estimate]
But major university prospect stonewalled requirement to sign commercial NDA . . . so instead, open sourced IP
Alerting private caving & veteran champions as one estimated outcome is 6,000+ HVAC bush technician jobs
Founder / Innovator / Managing Director / Deep Dive Strategist, 2008–2014
WarriorHealth CombatCare
Disruptive tech (Audiological Drugs) and trancheable global Cognitive Combat Insurance industry for PTS
Developed demonstrably novel and rigorous science hypotheses to make cognitive care a computing/wireless industry
First to identify insurable financial spread, ways to finance, and how tech improves valuation of spread
Built novel insurance pricing model – evaluated by US leadership as a fiscal cliff measure
Founder (Product Manager/Marketing & Business Development), 2006–2007
Our Community Parking Co-op
For-profit public/private tax venture supporting United Way by managing public/social agency properties
Strategy: minimize Net Income to alter competitive environment and lower client cost structures
Despite social mission and higher net revenue, social agencies preferred higher cost, lower risk services
Founder (Project Manager/Marketing & Business Development), 2001-2002 & 2007–2008
StakBLOC Affordable / Modular Shipping Container Apartments
Likely the first in the world to propose a venture, 1 year before Euro market leader tempohousing (email exchange)
A decade before BC Hydro's "Home of the Future" Shipping Container Showcase at 2010 Winter Olympics
Identified the means to create large-scale projects with profitable "mixed" social rate/market rate system