About Michael Clark

Michael Clark has been traveling the technology landscape for the better part of 25 years now.

He started his journey in academia, learning to think first about the human, social, economic, and historical side of the technology equation, before moving into early positions in systems administration and operational support.  Those first jobs in turn led to more serious infrastructure engineering and management engagements, and to a variety of increasingly complex technology projects that took him from the U.S. to Germany to Canada and back again.

Michael has spent over two decades now in a variety of enterprise IT settings, first in academic computing, and then in the medical devices manufacturing sector, before moving on in the mid-90′s to the financial services industry.  He has built, managed, and developed large, nationally-dispersed teams of technicians and equally distributed, enterprise-scale technology infrastructure installations.  For the last five years, he has focused entirely on developing enterprise platform architecture solutions and strategies.

Michael is now continuing his engagement with technology in new ways: by offering up his perspectives in this blog from time to time, and by leading an independent technology consultancy that seeks to provide information, assessments, and guidance to enterprises looking for new perspectives, creative thinking, and sensible solutions.

He is also working on a series of essays on the prospects and promise of sustainable technology in the enterprise IT context.

Michael lives in the hill country northwest of Boston, where he took the photographs used throughout these pages.

Summer 2009