Welcome!
Thank you for visiting my personal Website. The purpose of this site
is to share information about my background, current activity and outlook/philosophy
with business associates, friends, and others with common interests. My
lifelong passion has been designing and implementing new systems that substantially
improve business operations and profitability.
Other systems that are a high priority to me are those that make a contribution
to our social welfare.
On the social theme, I have long been concerned with the adverse human
effects associated with the upsurge of the gambling activity over the entire
developed world. I am especially focused on creating and implementing a
large scale means to protect recreational gamblers from developing gambling-related
issues and thus enjoy the gambling experience more, rather than having it
develop into a harmful activity.
Worldwide, there are approximately 2.2 billion people who choose to
gamble. Of that number, a conservative estimate would be that there are
at least 150 million people who incur significant suffering due to their
own gambling issues. Some studies have shown that each such "problem
gambler" (a.k.a. "disordered gambler") negatively affects
the lives of 7-10 other people, that is, family, coworkers, friends and
others. It would therefore be reasonable to estimate that the lives of much
more than a billion people worldwide (one of every seven) are somehow
adversely affected by inappropriate gambling. I know of nothing else
that I have the capability to do, or contribute to, that would have a greater
positive social impact than to achieve some degree of success in ameliorating
this situation. Thus, I designed a "Safe Gaming System" to address
this high-priority, worldwide social issue.
There are powerful forces that oppose the implementation of solutions
to this pervasive problem. Unfortunately, many governments are partially
financed by gambling revenues and have become "addicted" to those
revenues. The collective gambling industry is one of the most powerful entities
one could possibly attempt to sway, especially considering that their revenues
are directly dependent upon the financial losses of their patrons. I certainly
do not paint the entire industry with the same brush. There are some remarkable
visionaries within the ranks of the gambling industry. However, in my experience,
the typical gambling venue manager's concern for increasing revenue and
net income far outweighs concern for the welfare of their patrons.
I hope you will spend some of your valuable time getting acquainted
with the details of this issue and my proposal to help the situation as
offered herein.
The Safe Gaming
System
After researching the substance and history of gambling-related problems
in great depth, and examining various potential scenarios to reduce the
occurrence of major gambling issues, my conclusion was that there is an
effective way to prevent people from unnecessarily suffering due to excessive
and/or inappropriate gambling.
The best solution applies technology and policy to gambling that essentially
adds "input controls" into all legal
gambling activities. That is, a "safe gaming" system that assists
in establishing and "sticking to" reasonable, personal recreational
gambling limitations for each individual who chooses to gamble.
The Safe Gaming System (SGS) offers and acquires pre-commitments for
the gambler to comply with the personal limiting parameters before actual
gambling activity is undertaken. It subsequently enforces those
limits during live gambling sessions.
The important point is to individually construct non-harmful "limits"
based upon the means and affordability of the individual, and then by agreement,
pre-commit to stay within those limits in real time.
The technical part is an information technology (IT) system that supports
this "safety net" process from initial registration through ongoing
supervision of limits and other agreed parameters.
Click on Introduction to SGS
to get more information.