Rowland has dedicated his life to information technology. After having received an accelerated electrical engineering degree at the age of 20, Rowland got his start as a computer engineer for such giants as Apple Computers (at the time the first Mac was introduced) and WYSE Technologies (at the time their first mini computers were introduced). Rowland first took on the "business school of hard knocks" in 1990 as the founder of CompuSolve, a computer services company in San Jose, CA and then again in 1993 as founder and Chief Editor of the first high tech news magazine for Hawaii and the Pacific Basin, PC Currents. Rowland emerged as an e-commerce visionary in 1995, at the age of 29, when he conceived and began development of the first ever turn-key e-commerce software solution, ecMerchant™, which won numerous accolades from major high tech publishers such as Ziff-Davis and E-Commerce Guide. Rowland also contributed to the public domain as the author of an early freeware product, ActiveCGI™, which facilitated server-side web application development on the Windows platform before the emergence of Microsoft's ASP or Allaire's ColdFusion. Other pursuits of Rowland include Internet course writer and lecturer for the University of Hawaii at Manoa and guest speaker for numerous Internet-related functions. Currently, Rowland works as an independent software consultant in Southern California and remains involved with ecMerchant™.