Productivity guy, web geek, entrepreneur…I try to help people to use technology as a vehicle rather than an obstacle to getting stuff done.

My background? For the past seven years I’ve a run niche technology business in DC that delivers productivity training, document design, and document automation in Microsoft Office. It’s actually pretty cool making an impact on national and international projects with clients like NIST, NTT/DoCoMo, HP, the FBI and such.  If you need a beautiful proposal or kickass spreadsheet, let me know.

Wanting to have a larger impact, my team recently launched AwayFind, a web application that helps people to escape from their email so they can do real work or enjoy their vacations without the interruption of email.  Since then I’ve been doing a lot of speaking around the country about email productivity and social media productivity, while generally just trying to get the word out.

When I’m not working, some of my other passions are swing dance, running, and photography.

Oh, I also founded Bootstrap Maryland and co-organize Ignite DC.

You can follow me on Twitter, find more on LinkedIn, read a more formal bio, or get in touch at jared at technotheory.