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National Medal of Technology

Pegasus Rocket

Pegasus Rocket

Dave was a member of the Pegasus team led by Dr. Antonio Elias and was awarded the 1991 National Medal of Technology by President Bush. The National Medal of Technology is an honor granted by the President of the United States to inventors and innovators that have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology.

Global Healthcare Exchange

Global Healthcare Exchange

Dave was instrumental in turning CentriMed into the wind to make it a viable contender in the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) space and created excellent returns for all investors, founders and employees.

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Jason Daingerfield, Web Developer, SkillSurvey (colleague)
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“I knew within the first 20 minutes of meeting Dave that working for him would have a profound and everlasting affect on my career. I was amazed not only by his vision for the future of the company, but also of his vision for the career development of his direct reports. Most managers take an organic approach to employee development, letting their people learn through interactions with co-workers and day-to-day experiences. Dave is proactive, taking the time to get to know his people, finding out what makes them tick and building upon their strengths everyday. He understands better then anyone that a crucial element of success when ramping a company, is ramping individual employees.” January 14, 2008

 

Tom Leifer, Principal Consultant, QI Path (colleague)
worked indirectly for you

“I am very lucky to have worked with or under Dave on several projects. The depth and range of his knowledge and experience on technical, business and organizational subjects is almost frightening. His ability to assemble visionary components into operational business propositions is rare and extremely valuable. Every interaction with DAve has been a valuable learning experience for me.” July 6, 2007

 

Mike Loucks, Systems Engineer, Orbital Sciences Corporation (colleague)
worked indirectly for you

“I worked with Dave at Orbital Sciences Corporation, and have relied on his advice and innovative thinking for over 14 years. Dave is an outstanding technologist. I can always count on Dave to be up to date with any new or upcoming technology and to have not only insight into the details of these technologies but connections to others in the field. His advice is excellent, and he always has a keen eye towards the strategic positions inherent in any venture. My career was greatly enhanced by the time when I worked for and with Dave. His leadership skills helped me to break through any fears I might have of dealing with new and unknown (to me) technologies, and his no-nonsense approach to problem solving rubbed off on me and continues to serve me to this day. Dave is a key ally for anyone trying to be successful in high technology fields. I consult with him regularly, and consider my affiliation with him to have made a great positive impact on my career.” December 16, 2007

 

Bruce Bacon(colleague)
reported to you

“Dave has a unique understanding of how cutting edge technology latches to business. Through its application, Dave is able to create competitive advantages. Additionally, he has a full understanding of the process required to take concepts from the drawing board through to production level products. By leveraging these capabilities, companies can get a jump on the competition.” March 3, 2006

 

Cori Ewing, Production Manager, Centrimed/GHX (colleague)
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“Dave has been a great leader and mentor to me and others. As one of his earliest hires at Centrimed I had the opportunity to watch him successfully build that company from the ground up from startup to successful sale. I have yet to meet anyone with Dave’s breadth of knowledge and complete business skill set. I highly recommend Dave for his experience and integrity.” January 11, 2008

 

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Summary

Best and Brightest - Strategic Technologist and Leader grounded with excellent operational skills.

 

Dave has been successful at whatever he sets his mind to, early in his career he was leading computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle, Pegasus Rocket and Spacecraft Programs developing artificial intelligence applications, compilers, protocols, and complex real time systems. Dave has opened several divisions and facilities, learning the ins and outs of building a company from scratch. Dave has been very successful starting and developing concepts from the idea to commercialization, raising money, listening to customers, learning and tweaking the product and roadmap all along the way by using the knowledge gained from working with many disciplines and industries including software, hardware, internet, e-commerce, telecommunications, healthcare, wireless, publishing and many more. As Dave progressed from a pure technology role to executive leadership in operations and technology, adapting the internet based business models, venture capital and globalization of business was easy compared to the rocket science related problems of his past. Today, Dave has been working with entrepreneurs and developing several companies over the past several years and is looking to work with a venture capital, investment banking or private equity company on either an assignment basis or as part of the team. Also, a multi-national corporation or the right start-up could be of interest as well where the challenge and the people are key.

 

Core Competencies

CHAIRMAN / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Board & Company Formation, Capital Acquisition (VC, PE, Angel), Technology Commercialization, Product Strategy & Positioning, Evangelism, Investor Relations, Founder Management & Team Development, Restarts


CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Product Roadmap & Strategy, Channel Development, Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Selling, Intellectual Property Management


CEO / COO / GM

Complete company start-up, growth & operations, Staffing Development, Compensation Plans, Culture Creation, Operating Procedure and Policy Creation, Corporate Program Management


CTO / CIO / ARCHITECT

Strategy, Architecture, Development, Artificial Intelligence, SAAS, Web 2.0/3.0, Application Service Provider, E-Commerce, Transactional, Real-Time Systems, Internationalization & Localization

Style & Ideals

      Success = ExecutiveTeam.Execution ( Vision + Leadership + Capital( Human, $$$) );

 

  • Team:  One plus one equals three…great minds create great ideas; avoid pitfalls using lessons learned and harness the best of the best.
  • Knowledge: People with broad multi-disciplinary backgrounds have a wealth of raw material to create superior strategies, plans and innovation.
  • Strategy: Develop a deep understanding of market drivers; create a vision that is understood by all – update it often based on market feedback and reality checks.
  • Execution: Market timing can sometimes be in your favor; the other 100% is nimble, highly efficient, and focused execution at all levels.
  • Desire: A passion to win no matter what the odds are.

 

Work History

GreenFly America

Westminster, CO, United States
Jul 2006 - Present
CEO 

GreenFly America "GreenFly" changes the communication paradigm from communicating with a device - to communicating with a member of a professional or personal social network and gives each user personal freedom of how, where and when to communicate with someone. This technology works across all devices, mobile and broadband networks, does not require any knowledge of particular members' personal information, preferences or contact details, and does so in a fully authenticated, automated and spam-proof method.

Idaptic, Inc.

Westmisnter, CO, United States
May 2009 - Present
Chairman 

Idaptic is a unique and next generation business process automation technology to be delivered through a SAAS model and is under development for a company launch in 2009.

Graphic Software, LLC

Westminster, CO, United States
1984 - Present
President & CEO 

Private Company working with local entreprenuers to build and advance technology development in the Colorado area focusing on software, telecommunicaitons, green energy and natural products. Areas of focus include:

- Formation & Planning
- Financial Forecasts
- Capital Raising
- Product Strategy
- Sales and Channel Development
- Operations oversight

Currently working with several private startups.

 

Skill Survey

Westminster, CO, United States
May 2004 - Feb 2006
Chief Operating Officer 

Took a mom & pop consulting product practice $500K, restarted and retooled it to venture fundable business model. Raised $2.7M in funding and is viable today.

Global Healthcare Exchange

Westminster, CO, United States
1999 - 2002
CTO & Vice President Operations  

Architected and Directed the build out of a world-class international healthcare e-commerce and content portal (CentriMed) and was sold to the Global Healthcare Exchange in 11 months for ~$80M. Was key man for the sale and operations and GHX is a viable ongoing business today.

NetDelivery Corp

Boulder, CO, United States
1996 - 1999
CTO 

Built web based push technology product (publish/subscribe) for 1st founder on time and in budget; repositioned company and invented Electronic Delivery Management and was key man to secure contracts and/or investments with IBS, Canada Poste / Bank of Montreal and UPS which generated $15+ million in revenue and investments (Chief Technology Officer).

Evolving Systems Inc

Boulder, CO, United States
1994 - 1995
Chief Architect III 

Chief Telecom architect in Artificial Intelligence based provisioning systems, established Boulder, Office of Evolving Systems. Successful rollout of AI based load balancing and provisioning system for GTE, still in use today.

Orbital Sciences Corporation, Fairchild Defense Electronics Business

Boulder, CO, United States
1989 - 1994
Project Manager 

Leading scientist, project and program manager for ground and space based programs and a Co-founder of Orbital Science's Space Technology Lab. Developed and commercialized the Pegasus rocket system and other spacecraft platforms. Developed low cost spacecraft platform Pico-Lab, inventor of the communicaitons protocol OX.25 and other systems in use today.

United Technologies Corp.

Slidell, LA, United States
1983 - 1989
Lead Engineer 

Lead engineer for United Technologies USBI division for NASA's Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Assembly and Checkout System (ABACS) responsible for software and hardware systems. Systems developed were in operation for over 20 years. Developed real-time ethernet based protocols, lead engineer and inventor for the ATLAS run time system and had sign-off authority on the return to flight safety for ABACS related system issues.

Education

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, LA, United States
1984
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Green Building, Mentoring, Entrepreneurship

Skills

Business Startup

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10+ Years Experience, ( Last Used <1 year ago )
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Concept to successful sale, all aspects of establishing a business, commercialization of technology, product roadmap, market communications, sales plan and sales force creation, public relations, investor relations, capital acquisition, and ultimate merger or sale.