David Nason

Current

• Board of Directors at Seattle YMCA
• Member at Keiretsu Forum
• Advisory Board at West Sound Technology Association

• Founder at Nason.net Consultancy

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Past

• CTO at Conenza, Inc.
• Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer at eAcceleration Corp.
• Vice President of Product Development at iNuntius, Inc.

• Chief Technology Officer at Medius, Inc.
• Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist at xSides Corporation
• Board of Directors at International Youth Hall of Fame
• Vice President of Development at Packard Bell NEC
• Vice President of Development at Ark Interface
• Vice President of Research & Development, Founder at Software Grove Corporation
• Manager of Advanced Technologies at Scott & Scott Systems, Inc
• Technical Director, Multimedia Division at Microsoft Corporation
• Research Scientist, Project Manager at Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Personal web site
• Patent portfolio page
• PDF resume

David Nason’s Summary

Executive Leader with extensive experience ranging from early-stage companies to large multi-national corporations; with proven abilities in information technology, strategy and infrastructure, software design and architecture, information security, procedures and practices, intellectual property protection, trouble shooting and problem solving, as well as project organization, business operations, technical vision, leadership and evangelism; with proven success in creation, implemention, and execution while establishing a strong leadership culture required to create competitive advantages and achieve corporate objectives.

24 U.S. Patents and 10 International Patents Issued, numerous additional Patents Pending.

Industry:
Executive Office
Computer and Network Security
Computer Networking
Computer Software
Information Technology and Services
Internet
Management Consulting

David Nason’s Specialties:

* Executive Leader with demonstrated success developing and executing strategic plans and business development, and directing technology initiatives to high levels of performance and profitability; *

* Senior Technologist with extensive experience designing and managing software development lifecycles from inception to delivery of world-class product; in-depth/hands-on knowledge of software development processes, methodologies and best practices. *

David Nason’s Experience

• Board of Directors

  Seattle YMCA

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Member

  Keiretsu Forum

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Investigate start up companies via research, review, and due diligence. Interact with other members in multiple locations. Invest in companies. Support the Keiretsu Forum charitable foundation.
  Keiretsu Forum is an investment community of accredited private equity investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors.

• Advisory Board

  West Sound Technology Association

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

  West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) is a non-profit, tax exempt 501c(3) educational organization and technology cluster dedicated to increasing public awareness of issues affecting technology professionals, improving education through the effective integration of technology, increasing skills and the availability of opportunities for technology professionals, and enhancing cooperation between business, community, and educational leaders for the adoption of technology as a tool to stimulate economic development.
  
  The Advisory Board was formed to provide a forum for consultation and deliberation with the community, assure continued input to management decision-making, and help expand public awareness about WSTPA, its mission and resources.

• Founder

  Nason.net Consultancy

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — Present (7 years )

  ▪ Strategic and Technology Planning and Due Diligence
  ▪ Patent and Intellectual Property Development and Analysis
  ▪ Technology Product and Project Management
  ▪ Infrastructure and Systems Architecture
  ▪ Emerging Technology Evaluation
  ▪ Agile Software Development and Project Management
  ▪ User Experience and Product Management
  ▪ E-commerce and Web Development
  ▪ Outsource/Subcontractor/Vendor Management
  Nason.net provides Executive Consultant services - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) - to small and medium sized companies and non-profit organizations, advancing the company's vision, strategy, intellectual property, software and architecture, performing advanced technology assessment and research, technical due diligence, fund-raising and evangelism, and business development assessments, as well as providing start-ups and other high-growth organizations with strong skills in the strategic, tactical, and management aspects of technology and the technology planning and management expertise required to build and execute a technology-based business plan.

• CTO

  Conenza, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

  ▪ Developed vision, objectives, and strategies for technology development
  ▪ Defined and implemented international product strategy
  ▪ Evangelist in fundraising, marketing, and business development
  ▪ Led enterprise-wide software development organization including on- and off-shore personnel (Seattle, Bangalore)
  As CTO I provided strategy for all technology developments, led product development, software engineering and testing activities, and determined IT and security policies, focusing manpower on high-level goals. I led the development of the Conenza Community Platform for enterprises, using the most dynamic and compelling Web 2.0 features. The Conenza Community Platform offers a wide array of benefits - from policy compliance, flexible permissions controls and enterprise systems integration to administrative tools that give enterprises direct control over their enterprise/alumni site content, and marketing strategies that engage the full range of stakeholders. I implemented best-practices expertise and Agile software development to create a trusted online community where professional and personal connections, collaboration and business opportunities thrive, driving successfully to complete production and delivery to Conenza's first two customers, both Fortune 1000 companies.

• Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer

  eAcceleration Corp.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

  ▪ Chief operating officer managing matrix organization
  ▪ Established vision, objectives, and strategies for technology development
  ▪ Chief technologist defined and implemented international product strategy
  ▪ Developed technology strategy
  ▪ Developed and prosecuted intellectual property portfolio
  ▪ Led the research team in new technology invention and development
  ▪ Established world-class real-time customer and technical support organization
  As COO, I managed and directed the operations of the matrix-style organization towards its primary objectives, including revenue and sales growth, established eAcceleration's vision, objectives and business strategies for all technological developments, and managed the operation of all departments, including product development, sales and customer support, to ensure alignment with customer and market needs. As CTO, I provided strategic direction, led product development, project management, software engineering and testing activities, determined security policies, analyzed new technologies and ran competitive analyses, focusing manpower on high-level goals. eAcceleration's current flagship product is a comprehensive suite of security applications, including anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, spam and popup blockers, and firewall. Other projects include: HDRCapture photography/imagery software, and SuproCity social-networking site.

• Vice President of Product Development

  iNuntius, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  ▪ Developed technology strategy for new VoIP (SIP) product
  ▪ Created new strategic alliances and contract relationships for nation-wide VoIP roll-out
  ▪ Defined and implemented product strategy for international roll-out of UM technologies
  As executive consultant and Vice President of Product Development for this technology startup company, I led teams of talented engineers, business professionals and industry visionaries with extensive experience in successfully launching and deploying new technologies and products. iNuntius is an award-winning developer of cost-effective, powerful and elegant communication and unified messaging (UM) solutions. iNuntius' high-performance Voice-over-IP (VoIP) enhanced message and communication solutions include email, voicemail, faxing, paging, and short text messaging to empower consumers by allowing them access to messages, content, and information from any device and location. iNuntius' success in VoIP resulted in acquisition by its largest customer, Voicecom.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Medius, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  ▪ Co-founder and inventor of core technology
  ▪ Architected the embedded-platform application
  ▪ Developed technology and intellectual property strategy
  ▪ Designed Partner SDK supporting development on Windows and Linux
  As a founder and Chief Technology Officer of this technology startup company, I was the principal architect of Medius' patent-pending real-time Critical Decision Systems. I built and led the research and development teams that created the Medius Software Platform and the SDKs that enable our partners and customers to roll out applications and services. Medius' patent-pending technologies include multi-sensor fusion, image processing, feature extraction, and threat assessment. Medius' highly portable and flexible technologies were developed for and presented for sale to automotive tier-1 vendors.

• Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist

  xSides Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2002 (4 years )

  ▪ Invented, developed, and patented core xSides technologies
  ▪ Co-founder, company and IP spin-off from Packard Bell NEC
  ▪ Developed technology strategy
  ▪ Developed and prosecuted intellectual property portfolio
  ▪ Architected the cross-platform and embedded clients
  ▪ Invented and patented secure display and I/O technologies
  ▪ Designed secure XML transport layer
  ▪ Architected secure microkernel and enterprise security products
  ▪ Evangelist in fundraising, marketing, and business development
  As a founder and Chief Technology Officer of this technology startup company (http://www.xsides.com) spun off from Packard Bell NEC, I am the inventor and principal architect of xSides Corporation's unique and proprietary display technologies and the author of its intellectual property portfolio. As the CTO, I built and led the research and development teams that created the xSides software platform and the SDKs that enable our partners and developers to roll out applications and services integrated into the xSides platform. The xSides platform is a patented technology that takes control of the screen display away from the installed operating-system and provides the highest level of screen priority and security to customers' offerings, helping them create a more convenient and secure channel for the delivery of corporate communications, applications, Web-based services, and protected digital content. In addition to being the technologist on the Executive Team, I was the evangelist.

• Board of Directors

  International Youth Hall of Fame

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years )

  The International Youth Hall of Fame is a community, asset-building program that uses youth acknowledgement as the vehicle to bring families, friends, neighborhoods, schools and communities together to see, acknowledge and celebrate the best in all our kids.

• Vice President of Development

  Packard Bell NEC

  (Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years )

  ▪ Architected Packard Bell NEC Navigator product line - shipped over 50 million copies
  ▪ Localized software products in 28 languages
  ▪ Developed mechanism using compact database to flexibly support all locales, including multiple-language, from single product release
  As Vice President of Development for Packard Bell NEC's User Interface Division (formed by acquisition of Ark Interface), I was the principal software architect of their well-known product offerings, including Packard Bell Navigator, CallCenter, and Planet Oasis. Our products shipped on more than 50 million machines in 5 years, in 28 languages on 6 continents, selling in retail outlets worldwide and bundled on 3 major OEM brands. Packard Bell NEC (and Ark Interface) products were compatible with all Windows platforms, and were designed to include the most cutting-edge technologies: COM/DCOM models, SAPI-compliant voice recognition and text-to-speech, TAPI support, XML communications, and transparent Internet connectivity. My role as Vice President of Development included research into new technology and product ideas; from developing new ideas through relationships with other organizations to creating and prototyping new ideas in our labs.

• Vice President of Development

  Ark Interface

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 1993 — April 1994 (6 months)

  ▪ Architected Ark Workspace and Ark Kidspace - retail “shrink-wrapped” products
  ▪ Architected Packard Bell Navigator product line - received critical acclaim worldwide
  ▪ Developed technology and intellectual property strategy
  ▪ Established technical exchange and interaction with strategic partners worldwide
  ▪ Established system design, software process and practices
  ▪ Acquired by Packard Bell NEC
  In my roles as Chief Engineer and Vice President of Development, I was the principal architect of Ark Interface's well-known product lines. Brand-specific products, such as Ark Workspace, Ark Kidspace, Packard Bell Navigator, Epson FocalPoint, and NEC's Kidspace and Deskspace took full advantage of the power and technology available in modern personal computer systems. Ark's retail products were highly successful in the market, in part due to the rigorous compatibility testing they received prior to release. Using C++ and basing the products on a strict set of objects and object management primitives greatly enhanced and simplified the platform transportability and localization efforts. After acquisition by Packard Bell Corporation, I built the small design and development team into a world-class development division. In my role as Vice President I organized the development operations strategy and built key corporate partnerships. Acquired by Packard Bell NEC in April 1994.

• Vice President of Research & Development, Founder

  Software Grove Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1994 (1 year )

  ▪ Co-founder and inventor of core technology
  ▪ Real-Time chat and email communications system
  ▪ One of the first internet systems to interface with VoiceMail systems
  ▪ Developed technology and intellectual property strategy
  As the architect and developer of Software Grove Corporation's popular Messages product line, I designed and developed a family of user-friendly, graphical applications. These electronic mail and realtime chat products, accommodating a broad, horizontal market spectrum, were developed on the PC using Microsoft Windows. Subsequent releases included versions running on the Macintosh, TabletPC, Windows CE-compatible PDA, and Unix-XWindows. As a founder and Vice-President of Research and Development at Software Grove Corporation, I established the company's product design and development strategy until the company and its intellectual property were sold in 1994.

• Manager of Advanced Technologies

  Scott & Scott Systems, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1993 (3 years )

  ▪ Developed technology and product strategy
  ▪ Established new strategic relationships for technology adoption
  ▪ Managed research and development organization
  ▪ Architected Windows and AIX applications for worldwide distribution
  I designed and developed Scott & Scott's power engineering products, including Distribution Primary Analysis and Graphics (DPA/G), Contingency Analysis, and Optimal Switching Analysis: a family of interactive products designed for engineers to be used for short- and long-range planning, design, simulation and operation studies of electrical distribution systems. These highly graphical products were developed on the PC using Microsoft Windows and subsequently ported to the Unix platform. In my role creating the Advanced Technologies division, I established the company's first research organization, developing new products and expanding the existing product line onto new, high-end platforms such as IBM's RISC 6000 series and InterGraph's workstations. These new products were designed and developed to create a real-time interactive electrical distribution analysis system networking Unix/Motif and Microsoft Windows products with SCADA systems.

• Technical Director, Multimedia Division

  Microsoft Corporation

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1990 (2 years )

  ▪ Architected Macintosh and Windows multimedia applications, including Microsoft Bookshelf
  ▪ Designed Windows multimedia application toolkit
  ▪ Managed strategic relationships with fledgling CDROM industry
  ▪ Developed strategic and marketing strategy for multimedia (CDROM) software development
  As the Technical Director of Microsoft's Multimedia (CD-ROM) division, I spearheaded early efforts in multimedia development, designing and building Microsoft's multimedia tools and first interactive media titles, including Microsoft Bookshelf and The Multimedia Encyclopedia. As architect of the Multimedia division's developments on the PC and Macintosh, I created and led a development team with the mandate to design and build the next generation of "world class" multimedia authoring tools.

• Research Scientist, Project Manager

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1982 — 1988 (6 years )

  ▪ Researcher and architect of core components of Mach operating system
  ▪ Developed encryption and compression components of Universal Library project
  ▪ Managed technology and product strategy for Library of Congress project
  As a Research Scientist on the SPICE and Mach research and development teams I designed and developed components of the Accent kernel, the user interface, process control, and screen manager and their subsequent port into the Mach operating environment.
  The SPICE project, renamed the Mach Project in 1986, is widely considered the core design foundation of Microsoft's NT-based operating systems (Windows 2000 and Windows XP) as well as the basis of the NeXT computer. Mach's derivatives are still in use in commercial operating systems such as NextStep and OpenStep, and most notably, Mac OS X. Working with the Robotics Institute and the Library of Congress, I developed the encryption and compression routines for the Universal Library Project to provide Internet access to paper-based books and periodicals and other authored works.

Additional Information

David Nason’s Websites:

• Personal web site
• Patent portfolio page
• PDF resume

David Nason’s Interests:

My kids/family, Seahawks football (sigh), Mariners baseball (sigh!!!), YMCA Adventure (Indian) Guides, Little League (baseball and softball), computer graphics, computer security, new media, technical evangelism, emerging technologies, eclectic music, politics, skiing, and camping.

David Nason’s Groups:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery; http://www.acm.org/),
ACM SIGSAC (Special Interest Group on Security. Audit and Control),
ACM SIGCAS (Special Interest Group on Computers and Society),
ACM SIGACT (Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory),
ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction),
ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques),
IEEE CS (IEEE Computer Society; http://www.computer.org),
WSA (Washington Software Alliance; http://www.wsa.org),
WSTPA (West Sound Technology Professionals Association; Advisory Board Member; http://www.wstpa.org)

•    StreetTech
•    Executive Suite
•    Helping Friends Career Network (LI2HF)
•    High Tech Industry Executive Network
•    KIVA
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    Microsoft Alumni Network
•    Black Hat
•    Linked:Seattle
•    Information Security Community
•    Keiretsu Forum Northwest
•    Google Group
•    .NET People
•    Technology Leaders Association
•    Ex-MS
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Linked 2 Leadership
•    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
•    Microsoft Alumni (& Employees)
•    Ning
•    Packard Bell Alumni
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    MS Alumni
•    Microsoft Employees & Alumni Network
•    West Sound Technology Association (WSTA)
•    IT Volunteers Worldwide
•    Inventor and Patent Owner
•    Emerging Technology Leaders' Network
•    Web Executives
•    BCOZ SOLUTIONS

David Nason’s Honors:

24 US Patents + 10 Intl Patents Issued (see patent portfolio link above):

Method and system for maintaining secure data input and output, US:7007025,2006; EP:1031127,2005
Method and system for displaying data in a second display area, US:6966036,2005; US:6433799,2002
Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface, US:7340682,2008; US:6892359,2005; US:6677964,2004; US:6630943,2003
Secondary User Interface, US:6828991,2004; US:6661435,2003; US:6437809,2002; US:6426762,2002; US:6330010,2001; AU:0772369,2004; AU:0736654,2001; CA:2310759,2004; EP:1031127,2005; TW:490652,2002
System and method for software operation outside operating system control, US:6727918,2004
Alternate display content controller, US:6686936,2004; US:6678007,2004; US:6639613,2003; US:6337717,2002; CN:1130683,2003; TW:490645,2002
Parallel graphical user interface, US:6593945,2003
Parallel interface, US:6590592,2003
Overscan user interface, US:6310603,2001; US:6018332,2000

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