John R. Patrick, DHA, LLB Biography
- Title:
- President of Attitude LLC and former Vice President of Internet Technology at IBM
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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“Many voting machines rely on Windows 2000 software which has not had a security update from Microsoft since 2010. A known bug in the voting machine software causes votes to be read but not be counted. Some voting jurisdictions have fixed the problem and others have not. In Election Attitude, I recommend a voting solution using mobile devices, the Internet, and blockchain technology. The solution is not in place yet, but many believe a secure, private, and verifiable system can be built. Anti-Internet voting activists believe Internet voting is a bad solution. They compare Internet voting to a perfect system we will never have instead of comparing it to what Businessweek called a ‘Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete’ voting system.”
“Businessweek Said Today’s Computer Voting Is Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete,” Attitude LLC, Sep. 30, 2016
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Founder, Attitude LLC, Jan. 2002-present
- Vice President, Internet Technology, IBM, 1995-2001
- Founding Member, World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1994
- Vice President of Marketing, Personal Systems Division, IBM, 1992
- Former Vice President of Operations, Computer Integrated Manufacture Business, IBM
- Former Chief Financial Officer, IBM Business Units
- Education:
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- Doctor of Healthcare Administration (DHA), University of Phoenix, 2014
- LLB, Law, LaSalle University, 1973
- MS, Management, University of South Florida, 1971
- BSEE, Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1967
- Other:
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- Twitter handle: @johnrpatrick
- Member of the Board, Keeeb, Inc., Nov. 2015-present
- Member, Biomedical Research Institute Advisory Council, Western Connecticut Health Network, Jan. 2010-present
- Trustee, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Oct. 2009-present
- Founding President, Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, Jan. 1990-1995
- Founding Member and former Chairman, Global Internet Project
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery
- Member, The Internet Society
- Member, American College of Healthcare Executives
- Mentor, Blueprint Health
- Doctorate thesis titled “The Effect of Cardionet Home Telemonitoring for Congestive Heart Failure Patients: An Observational Research Study,” 2014
- Named one of the 25 Most Intriguing Minds of the New Economy by Business 2.0
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