Blake Smith & Family 2007

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Occupational Interests

IS Architecture and Eliminating Business Communication Gaps & Inefficiencies.

Primary Business

Co-founder of VDN, Inc. [Greensboro, NC] and Inventor of Bidrunner.com [Go]: A commercial construction bidding application used by State and Federal Government Agencies, particularly useful for the advancement of minority firm participation in government highway and building contracts.
Patent Pending: U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial Number 60/616, 666 to Blake Smith, filed October 7, 2004.

Co-founder and Inventor of SecureRefer.Net [Hilton Head, SC] [Go]: Real Estate and Vacation Rental Application.

Education & Bidrunner Research

Lake Forest College [Go]: Bachelor of Arts, Economics, May 1985.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [Go]: On-going applied microeconomic research in the area of "Technology and Complex Social Networks," per Bidrunner., being compiled and analyzed for publication.
Harvard University [Go]: Regular invitee to "The Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks," KSG.

Organizations

Member of the Hilton Head ~ Bluffton Chamber of Commerce [Go]: 2006 National Chamber of the Year.
Member of the Central Church of God [Go]: Hilton Head Island, SC
Former Board Member of the Young Men's Education Network, Chicago [Go]: Promoting inner-city student responsibility and leadership, fostering academic excellence, and successfully providing an alternative to academic apathy and gang membership.

Hobbies

Fly-fishing
Classic Land Rover restoration & off-roading
International Sailing Federation [Go]: Personal Bio Page

Personal

Married [Samantha] 3 Daughters [Sydney, Ellie, Audrey]
Born: Wuerzburg, Germany 1960