Managing Partner
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Managing Partner at InnoVest Group
- Past
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- Executive Staff at CSC
- Director at Northrop Grumman (Previously Litton PRC)
- Senior Manager at MCI Communications
- System Analyst & Developer at Verizon Federal Network Systems
- Education
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- The George Washington University
- The George Washington University
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David H. Dastvar’s Summary
David H. Dastvar
Phone: 1 + 703-250-0399
US Mobil: 1 + 202-497-8848
UAE Mobile: 971-50-105-7305
Email: hd@theinnovestgroup.com
david.dastvar@gmail.com
www.theinnovestgroup.com
Mr. Dastvar has over 29 years of experience in global Information & Communication technology (ICT), US federal government, and Department of Defense (DoD) markets as Engineer, PM, Capture Manager, Business Development, and Executive. He has worked for CSC, Northrop Grumman, MCI Communications, and Verizon. He has hands-on experience in:
Business Management
- P&L Management
- Business execution
- Capture management
- Key customer accounts management
- Business planning
- Global business - China, Middle East & Eurasia
- M&A
- Performance monitoring
- Market penetration
- Business unit strategic direction
- Re-engineering
- Cost controls
- Capital planning & investment control (CPIC)
Program & Project Management
- Government & commercial projects
- ITO / BPO / BOT
- Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
- Operation management
- WAN / LAN / NOC
- Infrastructure
Commercial & Government Business Development
- Develop a positive relationships with clients by understanding their priorities
- Identify & qualify programs - global & federal
- Strategic market analysis, customer interface, positioning with the Client
- Key liaison between the clients / requirements & business units
- Business units BD coordination including executives, capture managers, & technical teams
- Business opportunity competitive assessment
- Bid strategy & teaming
Client & Corporate Communication & Collaboration
- Leadership concerning business issues & trends
- Communicate with corporate management & all levels of the business unit
- Lead development of vision, goals & initiatives
- Communicate the business vision & plans throughout the organization
- Build excitement around the planned changes
David H. Dastvar’s Specialties:
- P&L management
- Systems Integration
- Management Consulting
- Marketing & sales – US & International
- Capture Management
- Business planning & execution
- Business strategy for China, Middle East & Eurasia
- BOT / ITO / BPO
- Planning & budgeting
- Government Contracting
- Outsourcing
- Strategic planning
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- Security
- Infrastructure
- Unified Communication
- Virtualization
- VOIP
- Data Center
- e-Government
David H. Dastvar’s Experience
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Managing Partner
InnoVest Group
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1996 — Present (12 years 8 months)
Mr. Dastvar is business unit manager for 375Million US & 190Million International business pipeline. His responsibilities include:
- P&L management
- Business planning & execution
- Growing profitability & gross margin
- Capture management
- BOT / ITO / BPO
- Business strategy for China, Middle East & Eurasia
- Capital planning & investment control (CPIC)
- Corporate planning & budgeting
- Cost reduction
- Marketing & sales
- M&A
- Performance monitoring
- Re-engineering
- Strategic planning
He has developed and implemented business partnerships with major US companies to capture global business opportunities in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), and Eurasia region. The projects are in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Jordan.
He is responsible for strategic planning, partnership, and overall branch governance. He synthesizes the long-term goals and objectives to shape corporate vision for future. -
Executive Staff
CSC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1986 — November 1996 (10 years 2 months)
Mr. Dastvar Performed business development, program management, capture management, architecture development, and center of excellence management relating to the capture and performance of major government and commercial programs. These involved evaluating new business opportunities, initiating and directing marketing activities, and contact with government and commercial clients. He directed numerous client technical forums for business development purposes
Clients included the Treasury, IRS, Army Reserve & National Guard, Dept of Veterans Affairs, Justice, Army, FAA, Dept of State, Financial Institutions, Hughes, General Dynamics, BP, ARAMCO, Merck, and Verizon. He was responsible for proposal, teaming, and red-team for multiple opportunities.
Programs - UK Police, ULANA, MAC C2 IPS, SMSCRC, IDCU, DOSTN, AWIPS-90 (NWS), CDN, ISC, DPS, TCS, SCSS-TA, ARCAS, SMC, SBIS, ALMRS, USDA-Project 615, HIPS, STIP, GOSIP Gateway, FTS, TSC, General Dynamics, Merrill lynch and Hughes. -
Director
Northrop Grumman (Previously Litton PRC)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOC; Defense & Space industry)
January 1984 — October 1986 (2 years 10 months)
Systems Integration – Manager of communications Architecture for the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) automation project. Designed LANs, XNS higher layer protocols, Gateways, IBM channel emulators, and LAN COTS software products. He also performed requirement analysis and preparation of specification for LAN hardware and software and served as the chairman of the Source Selections Evaluation Board (SSEB).
Government RFP Development – managed communication specifications production and SOW for the Veterans Administration (VA) IDCU project. IDCU intended to modernize existing VA communication capabilities by procuring a new generation private packet switch network and replacing existing TymNet network.
Developed price comparisons on designing a packet switch network from grounds up versus using an off-the-shelf WAN and Piggy Bagging on it.
Responsible for capitol investment analysis, product and technology identification and BOM development. -
Senior Manager
MCI Communications
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1981 — January 1984 (3 years 1 month)
Mr. Dastvar was senior operations manager and performed requirement definition, traffic analysis, interface specification, systems design, and implementation for MCI-Mail packet switch X.25 network. He was NOC manager. He established daily operations policy, scheduled shifts, and coordinated upgrades with the development group. His group performed vendor evaluation, benchmarking, network design, operation management system HW & SW upgrade testing, and network debugging. He formed and managed a network “fire-fighting” group, which operated 24 hours a day. He also supervised the performance and acceptance testing of new network software releases, and controlled its distribution throughout the network. Mr. Dastvar trained operation personnel in packet switching and network operations methodology and procedures.
System Architecture & LAN Design Development
Wide Area Network (WAN) Engineering
Training Business Development -
System Analyst & Developer
Verizon Federal Network Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1979 — January 1981 (1 year 8 months)
Software Development – The project involved automating satellite ground stations using Tandem Nonstop II. He developed numerous applications and system modules on Tandem using TAL and graphic utilities and modified Tandem utility programs. He was involved in the integration, debugging and acceptance testing of the off-the-shelf software packages. He acted as the point of contact for Comsat hardware engineering group to aid in solving interface and data collection issues.
Systems Engineering – Performed analysis, design, and implementation of the Military Features Controller (MFC) to provide multi-level precedence and preemption capabilities to the commercial telephone switching equipment used on the Autovon network.
David H. Dastvar’s Education
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The George Washington University
BS , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- International Forums & Seminars
-- Transition from Oil-Based to Knowledge Base Economy
-- Effective deployment of IT Outsourcing (ITO) by US Technology Firms
-- Infrastructure Project Evaluation and Initiation
-- Effective Use of Technology in Developing Countries
-- Integrated Disaster Recovery
-- Government Asset Management & technology application
-- Project Due Diligence and Value Preservation
-- Represented USA in ISO/OSI International Standard
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The George Washington University
1977 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- International Forums & Summits
- Data center transition & migration
- Effective deployment of ITO / BPO by US Technology Firms
- Global Infrastructure Project Initiatives
- Technology & Industry Growth through Incubation & Technoparks
- Disaster Recovery for Financial Sector
- Government Infrastructure & Technology Asset Management
- Total Quality Management in ICT Implementation
- Represented USA in ISO/OSI International Standard Community (80’s)
Additional Information
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David H. Dastvar’s Groups:
- AFCEA NOVA – Information Committee Chairman
- Chairman of the Systems Integration Forum
- Chairman - Federal Agency Panel Committee
- The George Washington University (GWU) - School of Engineering (SEAS) Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer & Commercialization (CET2C)
- GWU SEAS National Advisory Council (NAC)
- Board of Director – US Bahrain Business Council
- Board of Director - Bahrain World Economic Summit
- Chairman - Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences – SME Development Committee
- Chairman - NVTC – International Committee – Middle East Working Group
- Executive Advisor, Management Committee, Wuxi Science & Education Industrial Park - China
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AFCEA International -
Northern Virginia Chapter of AFCEA -
ex-CSC Alumni
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