My name is Eric D. Brown. consultant, doctoral student and this is my home on the web. This website/blog contains random thoughts of mine as well as information about my consulting practice, academic work and resume. Feel free to browse around and give me a shout if you’d like to chat.

I consider myself a generalist with experience in many areas of business and technology. I am currently on my own working as a consultant helping clients to align technology, strategy, people and projects.

I started my career as an engineer and quickly moved into leadership and management roles when I realized I would never be the world’s best electrical engineer. I’ve held many different positions, from front-line technical roles (Consultant, Engineer, etc) to leadership roles (Director of Technical Services for North & South America, Director of Technology Management, etc) and have a broad base of experience managing large multi-functional teams. I have experience in the fields of project management, product management, business unit leadership, team leadership, customer service, technical support, training, training development, software and hardware implementation, software development and management consulting.

After 12 years working for others, I decided to step out on my own as a consultant and am currently engaged with a few clients in the Dallas area. I’m slowly building my consulting practice one client at a time and hope to be doing this for a long time to come. As mentioned above, my services focus on helping clients align their technology, business objectives, people and projects to create sustainable value and competitive advantage.

In addition to my consulting work, I’m working on my Doctor of Science in Information Systems from Dakota State University with an area of focus on knowledge management, technology strategy, technology selection, organizational behavior and human capital management in information systems.

If you know of anyone needing help in the areas of project management, technology management, technology selection and implementation or any other areas of information technology, I’d welcome any consulting opportunities that you might know of. If you’d like a more in-depth look at my background, feel free to review my resume and/or cover letter.

I currently live in a Dallas TX suburb with my wife Tracie and our 2 chinchillas.

About this Blog:

Updated - May 16 2008: I’ve changed my design yet again. This one looks like one I’ll stick with for a while…the colors are Orange and Black (to honor my Alma Mater - Oklahoma State University and I’ve added some ‘cool’ technology (see the accordion over there?).

This is the 3rd incarnation of my blog and hopefully I’ll stick with this version for a while. I started my blog as a way to share my thoughts on wide ranging topics from Information Technology, Organizational Behavior, Project Management, Strategic Planning and many many more.

My original blog was titled “Connecting Technology, Strategy and Execution” and it eventually morphed into “Aligning Technology, Strategy, People and Projects” to provide a more accurate description of what my blog, consulting practice and academic research is all about.

This blog is running on LAMP, Wordpress, and the Thesis Theme and uses Accordion 2.0 from Stickmanlabs to run my dynamic menu.