It was groups of these “hackers” that formed the foundation of every technical device you see today. After getting my first paying job as a programmer in 1982, I created this online version of my resume. My objective was to document my entire career from start until retirement. The first version of this document was created on a BBS. Then it was moved to FidoNet, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, The Internet then the web. It is most likely the oldest, continuously available online document in the world.

A Message to the Reader

When I was young and naïve, I never would’ve imagined writing the following text. You, the reader, may consider it “sour grapes”. However, imagine spending approximately 120,000 hours of your life trying to achieve a goal and then being blocked right before the finish line. A hard-won victory turned into a waste of time. Realizing this when you don’t have very much time left.

A decision made some 30+ years ago has put me in a position where my life’s work—and I as a person—have been effectively erased by the relentless marketing hype of the billionaires who run the United States.

I am bewildered why Americans are following the lead of billionaires who openly say they want to take away your job. That is the stated goal. I mean, I am at the end of the road. But I have kids and I like to think they will have a future. Whereas I created a technology that works with people and creates jobs. Read these pages it’s all here. No hype, all proof that I am a credible resource. Unfortunately, I have passed my expiration date.

Thirty years ago, I created a product called Floater, sold by Floater Corporation. It was a personal finance program with a unique core: it was designed specifically for working-class people whose expenses exceeded their income. It analyzed payment due dates and used cash-flow management techniques—similar to those used by banks—to juggle payments to benefit the user. This was powered by what I called the Floater Artificial Intelligence engine. I used the term “AI” because it was popular in science fiction, but I never claimed the application did any original thinking. The engine learned the preferences of the user and, when decisions were required, relied on what the user would prefer. It was much closer to cybernetics than to what is now called AI.

Soon after receiving funding, my path crossed with the father of all tech billionaires: William Gates. It was Bill Gates who decided that there should be one software company—Microsoft. Most smaller software companies were crushed through Microsoft’s unfair competitive practices. If that hadn’t happened, the Floater AI engine would be 30 years further along today, and the current AI hype cycle might not even exist. But it did happen, and Floater AI vanished.

Approximately 13 years ago, I began working on a project to assemble my entire life’s work into a single platform called Reflex. Reflex contains an evolved version of the Floater AI engine. Reflex AI does not resemble the AI being pushed today. The only things they have in common are the letters “AI” and the fact that neither Reflex nor mainstream “populace AI” is actually artificial intelligence. Both are software applications taking vastly different approaches.

Reflex was built using a variety of techniques developed by original software engineers from 1982 to the present. Mainstream populace AI sits on top of a stack of old libraries combined with complex statistical mathematics. Neither model is actually thinking. Reflex AI utilizes an invention that teaches a computer how to understand human behavior. It does not rely on scraped data, does not simulate human thought, and therefore does not suffer from hallucinations. Populace AI, on the other hand, is built on scraped human data stored across the internet—data that was never intended for AI and must be heavily manipulated to fit accessible formats.

Imagine one of the original hackers who succeeded in commercializing an invention without venture capital or corporate hand-outs—driven purely by perseverance to make Floater a reality. Venture capitalists used to talk about an entrepreneur needing “skin in the game.” Imagine putting up your home and all your possessions, only to have it wiped out by a megalomaniacal billionaire. Imagine watching that billionaire structure a world where only other billionaires could succeed and raw intelligence was rendered irrelevant. That’s my world.

My point is this, OpenGooThropic (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) AI is an amazing thing. But it does not deliver as promised. Not at the current price/functionality, anyway. I’m sure eventually they will figure this out but right now it’s not ” ready for prime time”. However, GrayBelt AI is the salvation for OpenGooThropic AI. Using OpenGooThropic AI as a tool, GrayBelt AI makes it practical and affordable. Plus, GrayBelt is not “jumping on the bandwagon” like hundreds of other companies. We built the bandwagon before many of these founders were born!

Every entrepreneur has a pitch supported by claims that may or may not be true. Look at the real-life experiences outlined on this website. Do I have the credibility to claim that the technology I built is what I say it is?

A few sour grapes: How is it that the man crowned as the first trillionaire has also stated that empathy is a weakness, while others like me are canceled. Please read the contents under “karma”. The Layoff Support Network. I funded that effort with retirement money. I’m just saying, maybe you were not affected at the time, but I would bet your parents or someone you knew was. So how about paying it forward a little? My experience as a Special Education Surrogate Parent. Assigned by the court to represent kids with disabilities whose parents were too civil to fight the administrators blocking access to needed services. I could give them Hannibal Lector, but I always felt terrible after.

GrayBelt technology is worth more money than anyone understands. More money than should be allowed to be tied up in family wealth. I will commit at least half to using the technology through GrayBelt.org to create nonprofits that address inequalities. Not by making donations, but doing what I do best, figuring sh*t out. No BS. Look at my track record.