Nonprofit Executive, Developer, Author, Speaker
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Executive Director at The Conversations Network
- Past
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- Co-Founder, CTO at GigaVox Media
- CEO at RDS Strategies LLC
- Host, Producer at IT Conversations
- Author/Publisher at RDS Press
- CTO, VP Engineering at NextMonet.com
- VP Engineering at Organic Online
- CTO, VP Engineering at GoodCompany.com
- CEO at CoSite
- CEO at Rational Data Systems
- Director, Computer Services at DuArt Film Labs
- Sound Mixer/Editor at DuArt Film Labs
- Filmmaker at Glen/Kaye Films
- Sound Recordist & Correspondent at NBC News
- Film Sound Recordist and FOH Mixer at IATSE Local 16
- Education
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- New York University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Recommended
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Doug Kaye’s Summary
Founder and Executive Directors of The Conversations Network (www.conversationsnetwork.org)
Developer of SpokenWord.org.
Founder of "IT Conversations" an Internet talk-radio network for techies.
Author of "Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services" (2003), and "Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services" (2002).
Doug Kaye’s Specialties:
Gray-hair experience in IT, radio and film/TV.
Doug Kaye’s Experience
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Executive Director
The Conversations Network
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
The Conversations Network is a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events. www.conversationsnetwork.org
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Co-Founder, CTO
GigaVox Media
(Media Production industry)
June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Developed (then sold) a system for automated podcast show-assembly and distribution.
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CEO
RDS Strategies LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — May 2006 (6 years)
www.rds.com
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Host, Producer
IT Conversations
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 10 months)
IT Conversations (www.itconversations.com) are recorded (MP3 audio) interviews with the movers, shakers, and gurus of information technology. They're a new production of RDS Strategies LLC, and we hope you'll enjoy them. Stream IT Conversations to your desktop or laptop, or download them into your MP3 player and listen to them while you drive, workout, or sit on the beach with that piña colada.
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Author/Publisher
RDS Press
(Publishing industry)
December 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 6 months)
"Strategies for Web Hosting and managed Services (John Wiley, 2002). "Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services" (RDS Press, 2003).
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CTO, VP Engineering
NextMonet.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1999 — June 2000 (1 year)
On-line sales of fine art, backed by CMGI and Knight-Ridder. Cool technology (and a great team) for yet another flawed dot-com. But we had a great time.
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VP Engineering
Organic Online
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
July 1998 — June 1999 (1 year)
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CTO, VP Engineering
GoodCompany.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 3 months)
One of the first online dating services, and based on terrific neural-net (artificial intelligence) technology. Our backers (a Philadelphia-based bank--go figure) got cold feet too early and pulled the plug before the official launch.
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CEO
CoSite
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1996 — November 1996 (11 months)
An early web-hosting and managed services company.
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CEO
Rational Data Systems
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1978 — December 1995 (17 years 4 months)
System software for OEMs including compilers and protocol-stack implementations (e.g., TCP/IP) and terminal-emulation software for OEM partners such as Data General, HP, Wang, and Xerox. Novell's authorized porting house for Portable NetWare--NetWare on Unix way back in 1992. Our systems-integration division built and managed huge networks for clients such as E.F. Hutton, First American Title, and Pacific Bell.
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Director, Computer Services
DuArt Film Labs
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
December 1976 — August 1978 (1 year 9 months)
Developed operating system and system software for frame-count queuing (film duplication and color-correction processing) and optical-printer control.
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Sound Mixer/Editor
DuArt Film Labs
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
February 1975 — November 1976 (1 year 10 months)
Post-production film sound. Transfers, optical tracks, mixing, ADR, editing, effects.
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Filmmaker
Glen/Kaye Films
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 1974 — February 1975 (1 year 2 months)
Producer/Director of documentary films
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Sound Recordist & Correspondent
NBC News
(Public Company; GE; Broadcast Media industry)
July 1972 — December 1973 (1 year 6 months)
Covered Senate Watergate Hearings (summer of 1973) and United Nations for Visnews/NBC International (now Reuters Television) as part of a two-man crew.
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Film Sound Recordist and FOH Mixer
IATSE Local 16
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
March 1970 — July 1971 (1 year 5 months)
House soundman for Curran Theatre, Masonic Auditorium, Kabuki Theatre by night and film sound recording by day (all San Francisco).
Doug Kaye’s Education
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New York University
Post-Grad , Film and Television , 1971 — 1972
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University of California, Berkeley
B.A. , Drama , 1966 — 1970
- Activities and Societies:
- B.A. Degree in Directing and Lighting Design
Roslyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Directing
Additional Information
Doug Kaye’s Websites:
Doug Kaye’s Interests:
New Media, Aviation
Doug Kaye’s Honors:
Podcasting "Person of the Year" 2005
Doug Kaye’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
