Paul Ruffin, Advisor

36+ year business management and IT professional with a background in international and information sciences specializing in business development, management systems and technology integration. As a business analyst and enterprise system adept at solving problems and integrating technology into current business in a cost effective and reliable way.

25-year emphasis in business modeling, architectures, telecommunications, disaster recovery and business development. business environments I have worked in include banking, real estate, mortgage health & social services, international trade, manufacturing, construction, public and education.

In 1980 he was the designer, technical engineer and marketing innovator of the current reporting and tracking systems used today to publish comparison charts on the activity of the primary and secondary markets of real estate finance, streamlining information for public use. Grew syndication to 6M weekly readership.

1983 thru 1991 he also pioneered innovations in database management and systems by engineering function based infrastructures and processes for management and business development for industries involved in international medical, shipping, construction, manufacturing and the non-profit sectors.

1992, Earthwind Companies, Inc. was formed as an IT solutions company, providing based solutions and the development of applications over the internet and on with full service hardware support which included telecommunications systems and telephony services. 1996 pioneered virtual computing and ITaaS and ITaaU environments, including cloud and virtual private networks in one of the nation’s first data centers powered by solar, wind, and geothermal energy.