Dan Baigent

Current

• Senior Director, Corporate Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Past

• Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems
• Technical Portfolio Manager at Sun Microsystems
• Systems Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems

• Corporate Sales Engineer at Parcplace-Digitalk
• Engineering Manager at Ultradata, Inc

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Education

• San Jose State University

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Industry

Computer Software

Dan Baigent’s Summary

1997-present: Sun Microsystems:
- (2005-present) Sr. Director of Corporate Development
- (2003-2005) Director of Engineering, Desktop Solutions
- (2000-2003) Portfolio Mananger, Corporate Strategy and Planning
- (1997-2000) Sales Engineering Manager, JavaSoft sales

1996-1997: Corporate Sales Engineer, ParcPlace-Digitalk

1991-1996: Engineering Manager, Ultradata Corp

Dan Baigent’s Specialties:

Software engineering, software sales, corporate development, business development, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations

Dan Baigent’s Experience

• Senior Director, Corporate Development

  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Sr. Director of Corporate Development for Sun Microsystems' key Strategic Alliances managing broad-based executive engagements and CEO-level alliances for key Sun partners

• Director of Engineering

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 5 months)

  Director of Global Engineering efforts around Sun's Linux Desktop product, the Java Desktop System (JDS). Directed efforts of development in the US, Ireland and China as well as the cross-divisional coordination of Sun's software portfolio. Also managed the key partnerships with external vendors such as SuSE/Novell, external developers and customers and was a key contributor to the visual and usability designs of the early releases of JDS.

• Technical Portfolio Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  September 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 5 months)

• Systems Engineering Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  February 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 8 months)

• Corporate Sales Engineer

  Parcplace-Digitalk

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)

• Engineering Manager

  Ultradata, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1991 — January 1996 (4 years 10 months)

Dan Baigent’s Education

• San Jose State University

  BSBA , Marketing, Cybernetic Systems , September 1983 — June 1989

Additional Information

Dan Baigent’s Groups:

San Jose State University Alumni Association

•    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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