David HM Spector

Current

Developer / Technology Consultant / Writer / Due Diligence Expert at Zeitgeist Information Systems

Past

Co-founder at NELA Partners, LLC
Managing Director at Bear Stearns
Founder & CTO at DropZone Networks, Inc.

CTO at Trading News
Chief Technologist/Consultant at Sharp Decisions
Vice President at Citigroup
Vice President at JP Morgan
Software Conultant at Digital Equipment Corp
Software Engineer at Datability Software Systems
Systems Programmer at New York University

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Education

New York University

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David HM Spector’s Summary

David HM Spector is an innovator, developer, writer, consultant and entrepreneur specializing in iPhone/Mac OS X applications, Web Apps, and social network applications.

Career Highlights:

At JP Morgan he created and led the Internet Services Group that placed the firm as the first bank in the world on the Internet in 1991 that awakened Wall St. to the power of the then-unknown “world wide web.” At his direction, the firm helped fund the development of the Mosaic Browser (later renamed “Netscape”) which helped launch the “dot com boom” and, among other innovations, he and his team delivered JP Morgan’s RiskMetrics value-at-risk modeling package via the Internet in 1994 which transformed the risk modeling business.

At Citigroup he worked in the Long Term Advance Development group and advised the senior management team on eCommerce and technology strategies.

He's written for C|Net's Tech Republic, InformationWeek, Fortune, WIRED and various other publications both online and in traditional print media.

From 1999 - 2004 he was the Linux in the Enterprise columnist for the O’Reilly Network and also the author of Building Linux Clusters, the definitive guide to scaling Linux for scientific and enterprise applications published by O’Reilly & Associates (July 2000).

He is a contributor to a number of Open Source projects including RIFE (www.rifers.org) and SourceForge for which he contributed the portability patches that allowed the popular Open Source project management system (and all of its derivatives such as GNUSavannah and GForge) to be used outside of VA Software.

As 20+ year veteran of the IT industry, he is a speaker at industry events ranging from the 802.11Planet WiFi/Wireless conference to local software groups such as the New York Software Industry Association and the New York Metro chapter of the Information Systems Security Association.

David HM Spector’s Specialties:

Social networks, Web2.0, security, wireless networking, infrastructure & application development (in C/Java/Obj-C/Perl/PHP/Ruby/Python, etc), MacOS X and iPhone development, intelligent agents, writing, technology analysis and technology due diligence for VC firms

David HM Spector’s Experience

Developer / Technology Consultant / Writer / Due Diligence Expert

Zeitgeist Information Systems

(Internet industry)

January 1983 — Present (26 years 11 months)

My clients have included financial firms, technology firms, Venture Capital firms, and technology and business publications, including:

4Profit, LLC
XEODesign
Markinekt

Dow Jones
NASDAQ
Citigroup
Lucent Technologies
Salomon Brothers
Sun Microsystems
Microsoft
Secure Decisions

DFJ Gotham
DFJ Atlantic
SAS Partners

C|Net / TechRepublic
CMP Publications
O'Reilly & Associates / O'Reilly Media
WiReD Magazine
InformationWeek
Fortune
Co-founder

NELA Partners, LLC

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

November 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 9 months)

NELA Partners is a Web2.0 development company specializing in next-gen mobile social applications.
Managing Director

Bear Stearns

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BSC; Investment Banking industry)

September 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Founding member of the Business Support Group that re-made the support systems for the major lines of business at Bear Stearns. Helped strategize, define and implement support teams; developed technical standards and processes for problem resolution. Lead the initial team that delivered trading floor to back-office support to all of program trading at the firm. Developed an integrated team system to coordinate actions of operations and systems architecture teams up through desktop support giving the business unit a single point of contact for management and resolution of all issues.
Founder & CTO

DropZone Networks, Inc.

(Wireless industry)

January 2001 — December 2005 (5 years )

CTO/Founder of wireless networking start up specializing in a new form of Wireless network infrastructure based on a new form of wireless access point - the DropZone Pod - that is battery operated, solar charged and can be deployed, quite literally anywhere.

DropZone pods support multiple network interfaces (801.11a/b/g/n, WiMAX, cellular, environmental sensors, etc) and can be used to deploy both wireless Internet access as well as intelligent application fabrics where the network itself is the application grid.

DropZone Networks was the featured Wireless Startup at DEMOMobile 2004 and one of the RedHerring 2004 Top-100 Startups.
CTO

Trading News

(Financial Services industry)

November 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 7 months)

CTO of Internet Startup specializing in technical analysis of stock data using a custom designed technical analysis platform.

The TradingNews/M4 Logic system was capable of performing real-time analysis on all stocks in the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ markets and returning highly actionable technical indicators that could be traded against.

These alerts were delivered to customers via the web and via direct feeds to partner sites (such as RagingBull.com) that allowed both professional and day-traders to use them as trading triggers in real\-time on-line trading systems.
Chief Technologist/Consultant

Sharp Decisions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Developed strategy and developed/managed client relationships for one of NYCs largest technology recruiters
Vice President

Citigroup

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Senior VP in long term advanced development group advising executive mgmt team about Internet technologies
Vice President

JP Morgan

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPMC; Banking industry)

1992 — 1996 (4 years )

Vice president for Technology @ J.P Morgan & Co. Responsible for UNIX Advanced Development; I developed the business plan and lead the group that in 1991 placed JP Morgan & Co. as the first bank in the world on the Internet. As part of my research budget, we helped fund the development of the Mosaic browser at UIUC which later became Netscape.

In 1994 my team also delivered JPM's RiskMetrics product via the Internet which 1) was the first time that any financial firm used the Internet as a product delivery vehicle, and 2) changed the way that all firms calculate Value at Risk (this was later spun of as an independent firm "Risk Metrics Corp").
Software Conultant

Digital Equipment Corp

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1989 — April 1992 (2 years 5 months)

I was one of the top software consultants for DEC's financial services practice in NYC. My extensive experience in distributed heterogeneous systems enabled me to help DEC sell/deliver many engagements, products and services to clients they otherwise would not have been able to service.
Software Engineer

Datability Software Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

July 1989 — December 1989 (6 months)

Worked on the development of Macintosh terminal emulators for the Datability line of LAT-compatible terminal servers
Systems Programmer

New York University

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

December 1983 — July 1989 (5 years 8 months)

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David HM Spector’s Interests:

Professional: Writing, Social Networks, Intelligent Agents, Web2.0 applications, programming Personal: Amateur Radio, Cooking, Photography, Writing

David HM Spector’s Groups:

Life Member, ACM (www.acm.org)
Member: IEEE (www.ieee.org)
Member: USENIX (www.usenix.org)
Member: SAGE/LISA http://www.sage.org/)
Life Member: ARRL (www.arrl.org), MacSB, Jerry's Retreat