Background

My career has taken me through manufacturing, management consulting and higher education, mostly in senior leadership roles. I trained in operations research, and the questions I’ve kept coming back to are how organizations actually work and how to make them work better. That has meant redesigning business processes, building simulation models to test changes before making them, and bringing new technology into institutions that had long done things one way.

Writing

I bring that same curiosity to writing. My articles focus on three areas: finance and the economy, retirement planning, and business process improvement. On the economy, I look at U.S. fiscal policy, debt and the broader financial system. I try to separate the signals that matter from the noise in the daily headlines. On retirement, I write about how to plan for an uncertain future, including how a plan holds up through a recession or market downturn rather than only in good years.

Business process improvement is where my professional experience shows most clearly. I write about how organizations adopt new technology, why some changes succeed while others stall, and what it takes to redesign a process instead of just automating the old one. I covered the modeling side of that work at length in my book, Simulation Modeling Techniques for Effective Business Process Re-Engineering.

Whatever the topic, my aim is the same: clear analysis grounded in data and experience, written for thoughtful readers who don’t want the jargon. I hope you’ll find something here that’s useful in your own work or planning, or that simply gives you a new way to look at a familiar question.

Photography

Photography is the other half of Fuller Chronicles, and it’s where I slow down. I shoot landscapes, travel and street scenes, usually with a Fujifilm X100VI or my iPhone. Both are small enough to keep with me and quiet enough not to change the moment I’m trying to capture. Landscapes reward patience and light. Travel shows me how other cultures live and see the world. Street photography is about noticing the ordinary moments most people walk past.

When I edit, I try to show a scene the way it actually looked. I keep adjustments light, sometimes using a classic film-style look, and I stay away from heavy effects or AI tools that invent detail. To me, the picture should be honest about the place and the moment.

I also enjoy holding the finished photograph. I print my favorites myself, and some are framed on our walls at home while others have gone to friends as gifts. The images in this gallery are the ones I most want to share. I hope a few of them make you want to go see these places for yourself.