Director, Software Development at Lenovo
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Director, Software Development at Lenovo
- Past
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- Co-founder, CTO at Switchbox Labs, Inc.
- Principal at Brute Squad Labs, Inc,
- Principal Engineer at Sendmail, Inc.
- President/CEO/Founder at Brute Squad Labs, Inc.
- President/CEO/Founder at MovieCentral.com
- Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Worldtalk Corporation
- Director, Research and Development, Deming Internet Security Division at Worldtalk Corporation
- President/CEO/Founder at Deming Internet Security, Inc.
- Vice President and General Manager at ConnectSoft, Inc.
- Senior Engineer and Project Manager at Boeing Corporation
- Education
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- Washington State University - College of Business and Economics
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Bob Dickinson’s Summary
Serial entrepreneur with a proven track record. Executive management experience in engineering, sales, and marketing. Executive management experience in public and private companies. Significant background in architecture and design of complex security and communications technologies. Over 20 years programming experience (wide variety of platforms and languages). Inventor on US Patent 6,609,196 "E-mail firewall with stored key encryption/decryption".
Bob Dickinson’s Experience
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Director, Software Development
Lenovo
(Public Company; LNVGY; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
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Co-founder, CTO
Switchbox Labs, Inc.
(Consumer Electronics industry)
March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)
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Principal
Brute Squad Labs, Inc,
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Founding Principal of internet and software technology startup. Brute Squad Labs was acquired by Sendmail Inc. in early 2004, then re-formed in early 2007 to do continuing work for Sendmail in addition to pursuing interests in other emerging technologies. Responsible for all aspects of operations, in addition to being a core technical contributor.
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Principal Engineer
Sendmail, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — January 2007 (3 years 1 month)
After joining the company by acquisition, productized core ACE/XXL technology into Mailstream Manager product line, which served over a million end users and created a multi-million dollar revenue stream within the first year of availability. Have since served as primary architect and technical manager for the product line, and evangelist for those technologies.
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President/CEO/Founder
Brute Squad Labs, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 3 months)
Founded company to build cross platform, scalable content processing technology. Created Advanced Content Engine (ACE) platform and purpose-built policy language (XXL). Negotiated sale of company to Sendmail, Inc. for significant cash and stock compensation.
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President/CEO/Founder
MovieCentral.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Founded dot com company. Raised $750k in seed capital from Venture Foundry and several angel investors (including Tim O’Reilly). Managed all aspects of development and implementation of web site that used collaborative filtering technology to recommend the best movies for a particular user. Service was launched, well received, and growing fast, but funding environment made it impractical to continue (i.e. the bubble popped and our baby was thrown out with all that bath water).
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Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Worldtalk Corporation
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; WTLK; Computer Software industry)
December 1997 — November 1999 (2 years )
Led development of product and technology strategy and served as principal architect. Performed assessments of outside technology of competitors, partners, potential technology acquisitions, tools vendors, etc. Communicated product/technology strategy both internally (to employees) and externally (to analysts, etc). Participated in speaking opportunities at industry conferences including the Burton Group Catalyst conference, the RSA Data Security conference, and various Electronic Mail Association (EMA) conferences, where I consistently received high ratings on speaker evaluations. Assisted sales team in closing high profile accounts. Served as VP of Engineering for several months during transition of that position. Left when Worldtalk was acquired by Tumbleweed Communications (NASD: TMWD) for $227mm, at which time the WorldSecure line of products created by my orginal Deming team were Worldtalk's sole product offering.
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Director, Research and Development, Deming Internet Security Division
Worldtalk Corporation
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; WTLK; Computer Software industry)
November 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 2 months)
After joining the company by acquisition, led development of the WorldSecure family of client and server Internet messaging security products, including co-development with Entrust Technologies and Security Dynamics Technologies and support of outside localization efforts. Managed day-to-day operations of remote development facility in Bellevue, Washington (approximately a dozen employees).
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President/CEO/Founder
Deming Internet Security, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1995 — November 1996 (1 year )
Founded Deming Internet Security, including securing initial revenue stream and recruiting the team. Achieved profitability and positive cash flow from the outset with no debt or equity financing. Recorded $1.6mm in revenue in the first twelve months of operation. Formed strategic partnerships with RSA Data Security and VeriSign to promote Deming as the leading supplier of secure email technology. Formed joint development and marketing relationships with Microsoft and Qualcomm in support of security add-on products for their respective email products. Less than one year after founding, negotiated the sale of Deming Internet Security (via merger) to Worldtalk Corporation in a deal valued at $6.9mm in cash and stock.
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Vice President and General Manager
ConnectSoft, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1991 — November 1995 (4 years 6 months)
Initially served as VP of Engineering, growing staff from 6 employees to 25, recruiting engineering management, and growing consulting revenue from $600k to $4mm in one year. Later served as VP and General Manager of 70 person division of ConnectSoft, growing revenue from $250k to $10mm in 18 months. Also served as one of two inside members of Board of Directors and participated in preparation for IPO.
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Senior Engineer and Project Manager
Boeing Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BA; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
June 1988 — June 1991 (3 years 1 month)
Promoted from entry level developer to senior engineer and project manager within one year (total of three significant promotions). Selected to participate in the Boeing Management Development Program, where I received extensive management training. Primary architect and implementor of revolutionary quality analysis and tracking system (QRS) in several divisions of Boeing.
Bob Dickinson’s Education
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Washington State University - College of Business and Economics
BA , Business Administration , 1984 — 1988
Option in Management Information Systems, minor in Computer Science. Graduated with honors (Cum Laude). Recipient of Alumni Foundation scholarship and Chevron Endowment scholarship.
- Activities and Societies:
- President of Business Information Systems Club (BISC), member of Student Senate, one of two student members of the WSU Admissions Committee, Varsity Athlete (Crew).
