Toby Nixon

Current

• President at Washington Coalition for Open Government
• Senior Standards Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation

Past

• State Representative, 45th District at Washington State House of Representatives
• Principal Engineer and Standards Committee Representative at Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.
• Senior Product Engineer at Datamaxx USA Corporation

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Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Recommended

15 people have recommended Toby

Connections

447 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• WCOG

Toby Nixon’s Summary

Toby uses his unique blend of technical and relationship management skills in all of his endeavours to bring together people with diverse viewpoints to reach consensus and work toward common goals: over 30 years in the computer industry designing and developing communications products; management of technical standards organizations and processes; service in the state legislature and political organizations; officer and board member in many non-profit industry, charitable, community, and educational organizations; and leadership in church, including church-government relations.

Toby Nixon’s Specialties:

Influencing technical standards, public policy, legislation, and regulations; systems analysis; organization and process management; communication protocol design

Toby Nixon’s Experience

• State Representative, 45th District

  Washington State House of Representatives

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Legislative Office industry)

  January 2002 — January 2007 (5 years 1 month)

• Principal Engineer and Standards Committee Representative

  Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  March 1984 — January 1993 (8 years 11 months)

• Senior Product Engineer

  Datamaxx USA Corporation

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

  March 1979 — March 1984 (5 years 1 month)

Additional Information

Toby Nixon’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• WCOG

Toby Nixon’s Interests:

Network-connected devices, smart homes, open public records, open public meetings, elections, government accountability, politics, religion, choral music, homeowners associations, environmental protection, conservation, property rights, gun rights

Toby Nixon’s Groups:

Washington Coalition for Open Government, Citizens for Accountable Elections, Eastside Republican Club, Heart of America Northwest, Republicans for Environmental Protection, Youth Eastside Services, 45th District Republicans, UPnP Forum, UPnP Implementers Corporation, IEEE, NRA, Washington Arms Collectors, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Kingsgate Highlands Homeowners Association

•    The Official IEEE Group
•    Republican Liberty Caucus
•    Microsoft Employees
•    NRA Member
•    Friends of Scouting
•    NFIB members
•    UPnP Forum Member
•    Hayes Alumni Association
•    Sunshine Week
•    Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
•    Republicans for Environmental Protection
•    Washington Coalition for Open Government
•    Mainstream Republicans of Washington
•    Washington Electeds For Government 2.0 (WEGov)

Toby Nixon’s Honors:

Freedom's Light Award, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, 2006
Hanford Clean-up Hero Award, Heart of America Northwest, 2006
Guardian of Small Business, National Federation of Independent Business
Cornerstone Award, Association of Washington Business
Champion of Free Enterprise, Associated Builders and Contractors of Washington
Award of Recognition, Libertarian Party of Washington
Champion of Liberty, Republican Liberty Caucus
US Patent 7,082,200, Establishing secure peer networking in trust webs on open networks using shared secret device key
US Patent 6,584,185, Telephone abstraction layer and system in a computer telephony system
US Patent 5,694,457, Method of supporting uniform addressing of telephone numbers
US Patent 5,475,743, System and method for processing telephone numbers
US Patent 5,012,489, Method for Sending a Plurality of Data Channels Over a Single Communications Line
Canadian Patent 1,283,230, Automatic Call Routing Device