Researching the merging of Business, Technology & Ethics
History
Too make a long story short; After graduating from high-school early, I decided to go to work instead of college. First for other people (5 Years), then myself (5 years), and during that time, I got married. A few years later, we relocated to Maryland. I landed back in school (Hood College) because I wanted to complete that part of my life.
I have now completed my MBA with a concentration in Marketing (December 2009). It took me just about 4 years to complete from no degree to MBA. In the process I also completed an Associates in Business and a Bachelors in Business Administration with a concentration in Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management.
I’ve returned to get a Masters in Information Technology with a concentration in Information Security (Started June, 2010) and a Doctorate or JD ( Future Project ). Wish me luck.
In January, 2010, I started an umbrella project called “100 in 1 Year” which was my attempt to launch 100 websites in a year. By September, 2010, I had launched 83 websites which are now part of my small business in some form. The remaining 17 sites related to products and services that could not be launched without a large infusion of capital and attention that I could not provide. I knew in January 2011, I would become a father. Like clockwork, Maxwell Emerson Hatch came to us on January 3rd, 2011. Since then he has been a bundle of energy. You can read about his happenings on his own website.
While in school, I am taking care of Max during the day, working on my projects at HATCHideas.com, working on my MSIT at Hood College, planning ahead for a Ph.D. or JD, and looking for that one career I want for the next 20+ years.
Want more information? Read on.
Over the years, I have created hundreds of new products and services for employers, launched my own consultancy (which I closed when I relocated to Maryland, it was called SHOREtech Systems) and consulted for start-ups in various sectors and stages. This was usually done casually and in very early stages, such as R&D or theorycraft. I continue to stay abreast of business trends, technology advances, and ethics by way of 200+ news feeds, magazines, sites and academia.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve proposed concepts such as using Virtual Reality to treat phobias (which has become a reality more than 15 years after I first proposed the idea), I researched using fMRI technology to act as a polygraph which has also become a reality. I’ve proposed the idea that mitochondria could be used as a power source for nanomachines which has since been written about in research. I recently noticed a patent application on this topic.
I’m a Jack-Of-All-Trades consultant with a deeper concentrations in Business Development, Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Product Development. I enjoy troubleshooting and brainstorming issues and providing solutions that work.
When asked questions during interviews, the two areas of questions that always come up involves “stress” and “complexity” of work. To answer those questions, I typically say that I do not get stressed about work. It simply doesn’t happen, or at least, I haven’t hit any noticeable threshold. The complexity question is very subjective, so one person’s body-of-knowledge may not meet my expectation of complex. I may not know something, but I simply need the room and time to obtain the information which leads me to the big picture. Cosmology, Advanced Physics, and complex mathematics (there is that subjectivity again) may cause me to do research for extended periods to get the picture of what is being presented.
Some things I’ve done prior to returning to school in 2005:
In late 1997, I created the first free internet service in my two-bedroom apartment based on my experience as a user with services like AOL, CompuServe, @Home and others. The service, named “PortalPlus” allowed users to log in and receive advertisements. In exchange, they would get free internet access. I was hired by a company to provide technical support and presented the idea to them. They moved me within a few months of hiring to become a project manager and after nearly 5 years, the project stalled. They didn’t like partnerships, nor capitalizing large projects, so the service died while in wide release beta. During this time, I also turned the company around by scanning the environment for competitors, redesigning their in-house product, moving the company online, creating an intranet with end-to-end tracking, customer service, and inventory monitoring.
I was the project manager, not a programmer though so I brought in the programmer I worked with before I was hired. The client we created was a self-healing [meaning that if someone hacked it, we could push a new unmodified client at any time], real-time advertising client that received push ads based on demographics, psychographics and geographics. In other words, we could stream a relevant ad to a customer based on where they went on the net, what they liked [obtained through questionnaires presented in the advertising window], and location [obtained through registration data and Reverse-IP lookup]. Would could push text or graphic advertisements with animation or audio, and could insert public service announcements or priority advertisements at any time.
Jump forward a few years and you have my MailAmi, MailGuard and MailFire projects and services. I created a 99.999% effective anti-spam mail server [coded by the same programmer that created PortalPlus] which powered the first Anti-spam mail service which integrated white-, grey-, and black-, lists that were managed by user interfaces both proactively and reactively within the first few bytes of data in the handshaking process when a spammer attempted to communicate with the server. MailAmi was a hit, but no one wanted to pay for it because mail was free through ISP services. I periodically get requests to relaunch MailAmi and the MailGuard application.
MailGuard was our name for the mail server. It powered MailAmi and MailFire. MailFire was an anti-spam mail proxy service; The server allowed companies to have an external point of defense and blocked any direct communication with internal servers. The data was processed through a tunnel, so spammers could never directly interface with corporate servers. While the MailGuard servers were getting hammered by spammers and hackers, the company could continue operations.
During the following years, I provided consulting services to a few start-ups and small businesses. Consulted primarily in terms of which technology to adopt, which marketing efforts to pursue, and developed a few services both before and after the 10 years I’ve framed above. One such business was the “WeekendGreek” project which sought to create a Greek System of fraternities and sororities for the commuter and community college environment. It was basically the first social network, beating Facebook to market by 15 years. I’d still like to bring that to market.
After operating my company for 5 years I relocated to Maryland and started setting down roots. Instead of re-firing the engines of SHOREtech, I shuttered the business and returned to school. You can read about my education here. You can find out my interests here, read my blog here, or return to the front page here.
This brings us to the beginning of 2006… the remaining years are happening in real time.
If you are interested in hiring me as a consultant, visit my company website as it is being developed:
@CrucialTK I'm listening to my child speak to dolphins in their native language. By dolphins I mean me, and by language I mean screeching. — JamesHatch
History
Too make a long story short; After graduating from high-school early, I decided to go to work instead of college. First for other people (5 Years), then myself (5 years), and during that time, I got married. A few years later, we relocated to Maryland. I landed back in school (Hood College) because I wanted to complete that part of my life.
I have now completed my MBA with a concentration in Marketing (December 2009). It took me just about 4 years to complete from no degree to MBA. In the process I also completed an Associates in Business and a Bachelors in Business Administration with a concentration in Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management.
I’ve returned to get a Masters in Information Technology with a concentration in Information Security (Started June, 2010) and a Doctorate or JD ( Future Project ). Wish me luck.
In January, 2010, I started an umbrella project called “100 in 1 Year” which was my attempt to launch 100 websites in a year. By September, 2010, I had launched 83 websites which are now part of my small business in some form. The remaining 17 sites related to products and services that could not be launched without a large infusion of capital and attention that I could not provide. I knew in January 2011, I would become a father. Like clockwork, Maxwell Emerson Hatch came to us on January 3rd, 2011. Since then he has been a bundle of energy. You can read about his happenings on his own website.
While in school, I am taking care of Max during the day, working on my projects at HATCHideas.com, working on my MSIT at Hood College, planning ahead for a Ph.D. or JD, and looking for that one career I want for the next 20+ years.
Want more information? Read on.
Over the years, I have created hundreds of new products and services for employers, launched my own consultancy (which I closed when I relocated to Maryland, it was called SHOREtech Systems) and consulted for start-ups in various sectors and stages. This was usually done casually and in very early stages, such as R&D or theorycraft. I continue to stay abreast of business trends, technology advances, and ethics by way of 200+ news feeds, magazines, sites and academia.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve proposed concepts such as using Virtual Reality to treat phobias (which has become a reality more than 15 years after I first proposed the idea), I researched using fMRI technology to act as a polygraph which has also become a reality. I’ve proposed the idea that mitochondria could be used as a power source for nanomachines which has since been written about in research. I recently noticed a patent application on this topic.
I’m a Jack-Of-All-Trades consultant with a deeper concentrations in Business Development, Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Product Development. I enjoy troubleshooting and brainstorming issues and providing solutions that work.
When asked questions during interviews, the two areas of questions that always come up involves “stress” and “complexity” of work. To answer those questions, I typically say that I do not get stressed about work. It simply doesn’t happen, or at least, I haven’t hit any noticeable threshold. The complexity question is very subjective, so one person’s body-of-knowledge may not meet my expectation of complex. I may not know something, but I simply need the room and time to obtain the information which leads me to the big picture. Cosmology, Advanced Physics, and complex mathematics (there is that subjectivity again) may cause me to do research for extended periods to get the picture of what is being presented.
Some things I’ve done prior to returning to school in 2005:
In late 1997, I created the first free internet service in my two-bedroom apartment based on my experience as a user with services like AOL, CompuServe, @Home and others. The service, named “PortalPlus” allowed users to log in and receive advertisements. In exchange, they would get free internet access. I was hired by a company to provide technical support and presented the idea to them. They moved me within a few months of hiring to become a project manager and after nearly 5 years, the project stalled. They didn’t like partnerships, nor capitalizing large projects, so the service died while in wide release beta. During this time, I also turned the company around by scanning the environment for competitors, redesigning their in-house product, moving the company online, creating an intranet with end-to-end tracking, customer service, and inventory monitoring.
I was the project manager, not a programmer though so I brought in the programmer I worked with before I was hired. The client we created was a self-healing [meaning that if someone hacked it, we could push a new unmodified client at any time], real-time advertising client that received push ads based on demographics, psychographics and geographics. In other words, we could stream a relevant ad to a customer based on where they went on the net, what they liked [obtained through questionnaires presented in the advertising window], and location [obtained through registration data and Reverse-IP lookup]. Would could push text or graphic advertisements with animation or audio, and could insert public service announcements or priority advertisements at any time.
Jump forward a few years and you have my MailAmi, MailGuard and MailFire projects and services. I created a 99.999% effective anti-spam mail server [coded by the same programmer that created PortalPlus] which powered the first Anti-spam mail service which integrated white-, grey-, and black-, lists that were managed by user interfaces both proactively and reactively within the first few bytes of data in the handshaking process when a spammer attempted to communicate with the server. MailAmi was a hit, but no one wanted to pay for it because mail was free through ISP services. I periodically get requests to relaunch MailAmi and the MailGuard application.
MailGuard was our name for the mail server. It powered MailAmi and MailFire. MailFire was an anti-spam mail proxy service; The server allowed companies to have an external point of defense and blocked any direct communication with internal servers. The data was processed through a tunnel, so spammers could never directly interface with corporate servers. While the MailGuard servers were getting hammered by spammers and hackers, the company could continue operations.
During the following years, I provided consulting services to a few start-ups and small businesses. Consulted primarily in terms of which technology to adopt, which marketing efforts to pursue, and developed a few services both before and after the 10 years I’ve framed above. One such business was the “WeekendGreek” project which sought to create a Greek System of fraternities and sororities for the commuter and community college environment. It was basically the first social network, beating Facebook to market by 15 years. I’d still like to bring that to market.
After operating my company for 5 years I relocated to Maryland and started setting down roots. Instead of re-firing the engines of SHOREtech, I shuttered the business and returned to school. You can read about my education here. You can find out my interests here, read my blog here, or return to the front page here.
This brings us to the beginning of 2006… the remaining years are happening in real time.
If you are interested in hiring me as a consultant, visit my company website as it is being developed:
HATCHideas