Dave Saunders

Current

• Creator and owner at YourSocialBrand.com
• Certified Nutrition Educator and Holistic Health Practitioner at DBA GlycoBoy
• Owner at Nemock, LLC

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Past

• Board of Advisors at Connectivit-e
• CXO at Audiopoint
• Sr R&D Manager, Next Generation Media Gatways at Lucent Technologies

• CTO, Co-Founder at Ehive, LLC
• Product Line Manager, Access Software at Ascend Communications
• Director of Engineering at InterCon Systems Corp

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Dave Saunders’s Summary

I'm the owner and creator of http://www.yoursocialbrand.com which I developed to help others stand out and develop business online through the many forms of new media available.

I enjoy meeting people, and developing relationships with creative, smart, and successful individuals who share in my interests and passions.

Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/davesaunders

If you would like to join my network, use the following email address.
email: dave@davesaunders.net

Dave Saunders’s Specialties:

Personal Branding, Social Media, Internet Marketing, SEMA: Search Engine Market Analysis, Web 2.0, small business startup, market strategy, copywriting, public speaking

Dave Saunders’s Experience

• Creator and owner

  YourSocialBrand.com

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Social media marketing training aimed at small business and home-based business owners. Teaches how to stand out online and apply simple social media strategies to develop more clients and referrals.

• Certified Nutrition Educator and Holistic Health Practitioner

  DBA GlycoBoy

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)

  GlycoBoy is dedicated to the education of clients in the latest research in nutrition as well as the principles behind health and wellness to help them and those they love to obtain and maintain optimal health.
  o Lead team producing over $1 million a year in gross sales
  o Regular lecturer at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Maryland
  o Host of the nation-wide call-in show The Sunday Night Wellness Call
  o Currently serving the United Kingdom, US, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

• Owner

  Nemock, LLC

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

  October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

  Nemock, LLC is dedicated to the incubation and encouragement of start-up companies and corporations. It was originally created for technology and product management services.
  o Developed technology plan for web infrastructure to complement traditional political campaign efforts
  o Served as Chief Technology Advisor to Congressional campaign (Melissa Martin for U.S. Congress in the 8th district of Virginia).
  o Developed technology plan for long term health care referral service startup as well as business plan elements to link technology infrastructure to sales model
  o Developed technology plan for public Internet kiosk billing and usage
  o Created reseller channel, wrote contracts for and signed two resellers for Internet kiosk sales and value-add offerings
  o Developed technology outreach program for youth volunteerism and entrepreneurship

• Board of Advisors

  Connectivit-e

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2003 — December 2005 (3 years )

  Connectiv-e develops and sells public-use computers, or Internet Kiosks, which are easily customized for any application service, and boasts quality hardware with approximately three years of R&D.
  o Provide business, product, and technology development advisement.
  o Provide instructions to venture funding projects
  o Oversaw an installation of Internet kiosks in selected malls in partnership with the ISP inter.net.

• CXO

  Audiopoint

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2003 — August 2003 (8 months)

  Audiopoint is the email-by-phone provider for Earthlink and is currently developing new application services for ASP deployment.
  o Developed primary claim for Patent application for Audiopoint. This patent was accepted.
  o Restructured product delivery model and created new sales outreach programs for new product line.
  o Account manager for major customers
  o Established new reseller model for hosted voice recognition platform to ISPs and carriers
  o Established patent development for existing intellectual property

• Sr R&D Manager, Next Generation Media Gatways

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 10 months)

  During my two years with Lucent Technologies, I led a local software development group in Herndon, VA, and off-site staff in CA and NJ after Lucent’s acquisition of Ascend Communications.
  o Led internal relationships in developing a combined Element Management platform for the Lucent Media Gateway, SoftSwitch and other Lucent products.
  o Led architectural development of Next Generation Lucent Media Gateway for command and control functions (OAM&P), providing complete control plane functions for entire system operation
  o Specified security architecture of Next Generation Lucent Media Gateway—passed review by Bell Labs security review panel, which is currently under review by CERT
  o Led development and “card bring-up” of key logic card for Lucent Media Gateway
  o Led development and “card bring-up” of high capacity modem card for an APX 8000 product
  o Directed security and facilities for local Lucent office of approximately 60 people.

• CTO, Co-Founder

  Ehive, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  December 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  I co-founded e-Hive while continuing to serve at Lucent to provide aspiring startup ventures with business plan development and software and hardware engineering plan development consultation.
  o Developed Incubation Guide for use with “Boot Camp” for new incubation clients
  o Developed business plans for five incubation clients
  o Co-developed eHive incubation branding strategy
  o Was invited to speak at several area technology and business development events

• Product Line Manager, Access Software

  Ascend Communications

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ASND; Internet industry)

  January 1996 — January 2000 (4 years 1 month)

  I led the Product Management group for the InterCon software product line during acquisition by Ascend Communications in 1996. Led new software product management branding and sales efforts for the embedded software operating system, known as "TAOS."
  o Led branding and introduction of embedded operating system (know as “TAOS”) to internal staff and all major customers world-wide
  o Served on the CCITT ITU standards committee for the development of AO/DI (Always On Dynamic ISDN) and acted as the lead technical and business contact for the AO/DI effort during development and standardization
  o Led product management and design for the “Intragy Access” Internet software product
  o Provided training for new software and processes to internal technical support, sales and marketing groups and to major customers
  o Developed new ISO 9001 software lifecycle process
  o Led transition team for product integration from InterCon Systems to Ascend Communications

• Director of Engineering

  InterCon Systems Corp

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  December 1990 — January 1996 (5 years 2 months)

Additional Information

Dave Saunders’s Interests:

horseback riding, writing, hiking, gardening, professional networking, international travel, skiing, reading

Dave Saunders’s Groups:

Member Capital Toastmasters I ,
Member of the American International Association of Nutritional Education (AIANE),
Diplomate Nutritional Education and Health, Humanitas International

•    LinkedSEO
•    Networlding
•    Facebook.com
•    Personal Branding Network
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    ThoseinMedia
•    BizBash—Event Planners Gather
•    Greater DC Cares Volunteers
•    JAYCO Global Entrepreneurs
•    Tweeple
•    Ascend Alumni
•    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
•    WASHINGTON DC CONNECTIONS
•    Lucent Technologies Alumni Network
•    VisualCV
•    Klemmer & Associates
•    The Social Networking Lifestyle
•    Samurai Network
•    Fans of Digsby
•    Web20iGo
•    Twitter Power for Business
•    GTD User Group in Washington DC Metro Area
•    Top Recommended People
•    Attraction Marketers
•    Powered Up Networking
•    New York Entrepreneur Week

Dave Saunders’s Honors:

Area 23 Governor, Toastmasters International (2009-2010)
President, Capital Toastmasters I (2008-09)
Toastmasters Advanced Leader Bronze Award
Toastmasters Competent Leader Award
Toastmasters Advanced Commuicator Bronze Award
Second Place Winner: Toastmasters International Speech Contest, District C (2008)
First Place Winner: Toastmasters International Speech Contest, Area 31 (2008)
Toastmasters Competent Communicator (CC)
Toastmasters Advanced Communicator Bronze (AC-B)
VP Membership, Capital Toastmasters I (2006-07)
VP Education, Capital Toastmasters I (2007-08)
Cover story, Washington Techway Magazine, June 12, 2000
Published, Networking Times Magazine, June/July 2005
Published, Networking Times Magazine, March/April 2006
Outstanding Writing Award, Society of Technical Communications, 1995