Board Member at Professional Adoption and Community Services
January 2009 - August 2012
The Mission of Professional Adoption and Community Services, Inc., (PACS) is to sponsor the Hawaiian concept of "hanai" globally.
To that end we facilitate and unconditionally embrace the child's needs for a healthy and secure home with a family who will provide love, nurturing and the opportunity to grow. Through education, support services and humanitarian efforts that empower, we serve to strengthen the bond between child, family and community.
President at Planman Consulting North America
October 2005 - March 2010
Leveraged prior business relationships into the central role in forming and managing the North American business unit of Planman Consulting, New Delhi, India, offering diverse services including BPO, HR consulting, publishing, Bollywood film, and business education.
- Frequent speaker at conferences on digital conversion projects and copyright.
- Engineered a profitable partnership between Planman and Content Conversion Specialists, Hamburg, Germany and adoption of new technology from CCS which increased Planman's production capacity more than 10-fold.
- Managed consortium of 3 companies from India, Germany, and the USA to win a prestigious contract with the National Library of New Zealand.
- Managed consortium of 4 companies from India, Germany, New Zealand, and the USA to win a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with the Singapore National Library Board.
- Orchestrated a long-term relationship as the Asia-Pacific service center for the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).
- Write technology column for Planman's Business and Economy magazine (circulation 100,000).
CTO / VP of Engineering at iArchives
July 2000 - September 2005
Pivotal player in building startup application service provider from ground up to $4 million annual revenue in 4 years from initial capital budget of less than $500,000. Top executive authority for technology direction, product strategy, and software development processes. Manage an annual budget of $1.3 million and as many as 11 software engineers and support staff. Aid sales staff in business development, sales, and marketing. Participate in development and deployment of workflow management, image processing, and OCR technologies.
Treasurer / Member of the Board of Directors at A University for Children
January 1995 - September 2005
Direct business and financial department with oversight for financial control, business development, business procedures, and regulatory compliance for this private, non-profit, K-12 school.
* Built school from the ground up on a minimal budget; led growth to a peak of 80 domestic and international students, staff of 15+ accredited teachers, and revenues of nearly $450,000.
* Secured elusive accreditation for the maximum term twice by both the State of Utah and the Northwest Regional Association of Schools and Universities.
Senior Development Manager at Novell
November 1997 - November 2000
Managed teams comprised of 35 engineering, security research, and product development staff in the United States and India through 4 concurrent projects. Hired and retained top-flight engineering staff. Wrote and reviewed security architectures and designs.
* Project managed requirements-to-market launch of new SecureLogin (single sign-on) product in 6 months and under budget. Became one of Novell's top 10 revenue products.
* Managed development and implementation of foundational security protocol (SSL/TLS) on products and services on multiple platforms. Cut costs for design, implementation, testing, and maintenance by unifying software and process across all platforms.
* Senior member of company-wide project team tasked with evaluating and selecting new defect tracking and source code control systems to replace inefficient legacy systems.
* Championed team training in CMU/SEI's software development processes resulting in 25% fewer defects in code developed by the team.
Consulting Engineer at Novell
November 1989 - July 1997
Lead role in architecture, design, and implementation of security services for Netware and Netware clients. Technologies included authentication, SSL/TLS, single sign-on, and controlled modular cryptographic services. Evaluated security and architecture. Developed software for security products, Netware operating system, and network management services. Mentored junior software engineers and QA engineers.
* Developed tests to prove Netware's readiness for C2 security certification. Rigorous certification process resulted in heightened security awareness among core OS engineering team and remediation of several product defects.
* Liaison between Novell and HP teams to port Netware from Intel to PA-RISC hardware. Resulted in processor-independent version of Netware for multiple hardware platforms.
* Developed and launched client and server-side quality assurance tests and test automation tools for Netware 3.11. Contributed to the most successful release of Netware ever.
Consultant at Digital Divide Data
April 2010
Provide technical sales and business development consultancy as well as expertise in workflow, digital conversions, and software development. DDD wishes to leverage my extensive network of international librarians and newspapers publishers for future business opportunities.
o Chaired mid-year IFLA Newspapers Section conference in New Delhi, India.
o Organize joint NDNP and IFLA Newspapers Section conference August 2011 and IFLA Newspapers Section conference April 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
o Respond to NDNP tenders for 2010 awardees.
o Co-chair first digital libraries mini-track at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
o Co-author with Ed King of the British Library a digital conversion project management paper (to appear in DIGLIB).
o Responded with CD Imaging (Singapore) to a 4-year Chinese, English, and Malay language newspaper digitization contract for Singapore National Library (on behalf of CCS and Digital Divide Data).
Consultant at CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH
April 2010
Employed by CCS to provide technical sales and business development consultancy as well as expertise in workflow, digital conversions, and software development. CCS wishes to leverage my extensive network of international librarians and newspapers publishers for future business opportunities.
o Chaired mid-year IFLA Newspapers Section conference in New Delhi, India.
o Organize joint NDNP and IFLA Newspapers Section conference August 2011 and IFLA Newspapers Section conference April 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
o Respond to NDNP tenders for 2010 awardees.
o Co-chair first digital libraries mini-track at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
o Co-author with Ed King of the British Library a digital conversion project management paper (to appear in DIGLIB).
o Responded with CD Imaging (Singapore) to a 4-year Chinese, English, and Malay language newspaper digitization contract for Singapore National Library (on behalf of CCS, Digital Divide Data, and DL Consulting).
Consultant at DL Consulting
January 2010
Employed by DL Consulting to provide technical sales and business development consultancy as well as expertise in workflow, digital conversions, and software development. DL Consulting wishes to leverage my extensive network of international librarians and newspapers publishers for future business opportunities.
o Chaired mid-year IFLA Newspapers Section conference in New Delhi, India.
o Organize joint NDNP and IFLA Newspapers Section conference August 2011 and IFLA Newspapers Section conference April 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
o Respond to NDNP tenders for 2010 awardees.
o Co-chair first digital libraries mini-track at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
o Co-author with Ed King of the British Library a digital conversion project management paper (to appear in DIGLIB).
o Responded with CD Imaging (Singapore) to a 4-year Chinese, English, and Malay language newspaper digitization contract for Singapore National Library (on behalf of CCS and Digital Divide Data).
Chair, Newspaper Section at IFLA International Federation of Libraries and Associations
August 2009
Chair of IFLA Newspaper Section
Entrepreneur in Residence at CONNECT
August 2007
Volunteer with CONNECT as an entrepreneur in residence to mentor, coach, and advise startup company executives.
CxO at Global Connexions
2007
Owner at Global Connexions
January 2006
Facilitate and educate clients and others in inter-cultural communications and global virtual teamwork through seminars and workshops developed from experience with international business, global software development, multi-cultural teams, and extensive travel. Seminars and workshops have been presented at conferences and for companies and universities in Canada, Germany, USA, India, Ireland, and Singapore.
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