About

Welcome to notsocommoncents,

Your front row seat to the often-tragic comedy we like to call Corporate America. We’ll seek to bring a bit of common sense analysis and insight to the world of business. In other words, a fresh perspective on business.

Notsocommoncents launched in 2005 with good traffic but our focus in the site died as Brandon and Mikal joined their respective companies. Now 3 years later we’re back in business with Justin as a co-author. Please note the opinions of this blog are our own and are in no way reflective of our companies.

About the authors:

Mikal Lewis is a Product Planner at Microsoft working on Media and Entertainment. Joined Microsoft in 2005 as a Search Media Analyst that year and through Ad Astra and other initiatives he co-authored a ThinkWeek paper on Search which was read and reviewed by Bill Gates. In 2007 he became a Product Planner working on Windows Media Center in the midst of  the Win7 development cycle.

As an author on notsocommoncents he seeks to break the fast news analysis to bring insights and probing thought to business trade publications, case studies, books, and the longer cycle news – with an emphasis on Tech. From Baltimore – living in the Seattle area with his dog Thelonious Monk, he has an MBA from Florida A&M University.

Justin McDowell is an Enterprise Architect at Jabian Consulting working on delivering large scale technical architectures and infrastructure architectures that have resulted in significant business and IT transformation. Prior to joining Jabian, Justin was with Accenture (NYSE:ACN), where he provided IT Strategy consulting services to Fortune 500 clients such as Merck & Co., Inc, The Dow Chemical Company, and American Express.

As an author on notsocommoncents he seeks to offer opinionated analysis of the mash ups occurring in business, technology and their disruptive effects on companies that do not innovate.  Justin is from Cincinnati and lives in the Atlanta area with his wife. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S in Physics from Florida A&M University.