Resume

Executive Manager • Information Technology

Twenty-nine year track record of success in cutting edge Internet systems and applications, including applied research and development for the US Government and over twenty years working with innovative new technology companies.  Expert ability to combine market / financial research with knowledge of technology, trends to develop, and implementation of sound and profitable business strategies.

Accomplished manager with international experience spanning the USA, Hong Kong, China, Japan and the Philippines.  Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Managing Director / CEO
Jade Connections, a subsidiary of Jade Networks International, was established as a technology consulting and trading company with presence in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Manila. Product focus for the trading side of the company is consumer electronics, information technology, and computer networking (see www.jadeconnections.com). Built and tested an Internet Telephony (VoIP) infrastructure (Asterisk based). Currently formalizing a VoIP services costing / pricing model for China based factories. Current sales efforts focus on Philippines call centers (VoIP providers, telcos, and consultants), and UK consumer electronic product resellers (through direct UK representative).

Managing Director / CEO
Established Jade Networks International as an Internet services company focused on the design and implementation of highly integrated and scalable web sites.

• Responsible for ongoing product / business development and competitive market research.
• Design, implementation and deployment of the Jade distributed application framework for web based applications.   This distributed and highly scalable framework allows for the integration of web and messaging applications into a unified service offering.
• Currently designing and building first Jade collaborative / purpose driven web community. This new environment integrates tools and practices from a range of disciplines including social networking, publishing (document workflow), project management, collaborative team building and management, and Internet communications. The first alpha release went online in early 2009 (www.regainamerica.com).
• First Jade site released at the end of September 2005 (www.pinoytalk.com).

Managing Director / CEO
Director for the IMA group of companies.  IMA customers included Fortune 500 and large government organizations worldwide.  Key areas of responsibilities included market research, product development, and daily operations.  Established the first Hong Kong office, in May 1994, providing core product development, technical support, sales, and production.

• Grew annual revenue from zero to almost US$ 2M in the first two years of operation, without external funding.
• Guided the company through a successful private funding placement in 1999 (US$ 2M).
• Chief architect for the Internet Exchange Messaging Server, a high-end server email platform. 
• Managed over 15 software product releases, including sales collateral and web updates.

Manila, Philippines, December, 97 February, 03

Established IMA Philippines to provide English language technical support and technical writing capabilities.  The scope of the office was later expanded to include software development, web site design, and marketing / sales functions.  Key accomplishments:

• Established SEC registered company in 1997 - grew from zero to over 50 staff within two years.
• Total management responsibility, including operations (network and office), staffing, administrative (including accounting), technical (support, development, sales, and technical writing staff), and legal.
• Established international call center facility in March 1998 to directly serve North American customers.

San Francisco, California, USA, January 93 - May 94

Founded International Messaging Associates (IMA), a new Internet software company specializing in electronic messaging solutions.   The IMA gateway products for cc:Mail became the de-facto corporate standard solution in their market.

• Chief architect for the Internet Exchange for cc:Mail product, the first Windows based MIME compliant gateway for Lotus cc:Mail.
• Involved with the IETF working group responsible for developing the MIME Internet standard, now the basis for all structured messages used in Internet electronic mail and the World Wide Web.

Consultant
Chief architect for Siren Mail, a MIME-compatible email client for UNIX workstations (both X-Windows and ASCII based).

Consultant
Worked with the local AT&T staff and researchers at Bell Laboratories in the development of a fax based personnel data submission system.  This system allowed personnel managers at the various AT&T facilities to be able to submit standard forms via fax.   Once received, the systems would automatically extract the pertinent information from the received image, integrating this with a backend database system.

Consultant
Worldtalk (formerly Touch Communications) was one of the leading messaging companies providing OSI (X.400) based server solutions.

• Provided the initial technical training and assistance for the Technical Support group on Internet email technologies.
• Quality Assurance and testing for the Touch SMTP gateway.
• Wrote the Touch SMTP gateway manual and related documents.
• SMTP gateway and related modules program development and testing.

Consultant - Control Data Corporation
The Technology Information Systems Program at LLNL provided technology support for the US Air Force Logistics Command, among others.  Was employed by CDC as a consultant to the TIS program.

• Design and implementation of enhancements to the TIS Electronic Mail system, a mail client widely used within the U.S. Government.
• One of the principal architects for the Livermore Advanced Network Computing Environment (LANCE), an operating system independent environment used for the creation of distributed applications.
• Member of the program committee for the IFIP WG 6.5 International Conference on Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications.  Served as the chair for the IFIP WG 6.5 Task Group on Gateways.
• Actively involved with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology Workshops for OSI, MHS Special Interest Group.
• Design and implementation of a CDCMail gateway (Control Data project).

From February 1989 through June 1989, managed the ETA Systems on-site technical staff at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.  Responsible for working with the customer in resolving technical issues related to the supercomputer installation.

Software Engineer
The Wollongong Group (TWG) was the first company to commercialize the TCP/IP protocols and applications used within the research and government networking communities (ARPANET).  This network foundation was later to become the basis for most modern local area networks and the Internet.

• Design and implementation of networking software (TCP/IP) for the IBM 370 series computers running UNIX System V.
• TCP/IP network stack and application porting to XENIX (Microsoft UNIX for the Intel 286), Plexus (Z8000 based), and AT&T 3B5 minicomputers.
• XENIX kernel serial I/O driver enhancements for Systech serial expansion boards.
• Established and maintained corporate electronic mail gateway.

Consultant to AT&T UNIX PC (3B1) Project
Designed and implemented a software development environment integrating configuration management / change control with build / installation automation for the AT&T UNIX PC release.   This system allowed simple integration of software changes while at the same time ensuring build integrity and the ability to track module versions in released software.

Software Engineer
Software / System engineer for a pioneer startup UNIX microcomputer company.  Projects supporting the FTI 3000 and 500 UNIX computers included:

• SMD disk formatter design and implementation.
• Demonstration software for a new graphics system (predecessor to the modern color workstation displays).
• Worked with outside software vendors, developed software releases and performed software verification on compilers and data base systems.
• Assisted with solving problems related to the manufacturing of the FTI computers.

Software Engineer
Designed software for the graphical presentation of telemetry data for a project transferring telemetry data between Air Force bases.  Performed cost / performance trade-off analysis of various graphics terminals used on the project.

Digital Design Engineer - Ocean Surveillance Group

• Software design for MTR signal processing studies
• Design and implementation (hardware and software) of the ERAPS Command Generator (a microcomputer controlled radio transmitter)
• Maintenance and modification of the ERAPS Avionics chassis.

Technologies / Applications: TCP/IP stack, RSS, OpenLDAP, Sugar CRM, Spamassassin, Bogofilter, Postfix, Sendmail, Mailman, Kannel, Apache, SquirrelMail, phpBB, GroupOffice, osCommerce, Samba, Ipchains (Firewall), tc (traffic control), teql (line equilization), X, transparent proxies, SSL, VPN, Squid, AltiWare (AltiGen), TeleVantage (Artisoft), Asterisk, Jabber (XMPP), Drupal (5.x / 6.x)

Languages / Environments: C / C++, PHP, SQL, Unix Shell (sh, csh), Perl, Javascript, Pascal, Fortran, APL, awk, lex, various assembly

Standards: All Internet email related, most SNMP related, routing (BGP, EGP, etc), DNS, X.400, X.500, ASN.1, SMS, LDAP, SASL, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, DOM, Voice over IP (SIP/SDP/RDP), XMPP

Operating Systems: Most major Unix releases over the past 25 years, including most current Linux distributions.  Microsoft: DOS, Win 3.1, 98, ME, NT, 2000 (server / pro), XP, Citirx Metaframe 1.8

Tools: Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio.  Macromedia: Dreamweaver.  Adobe: FrameMaker, Acrobat.   Other: CorelDraw, Imendio Planner

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Date of Graduation: December 1980

All technical manuals and release notes for IMA Internet Exchange Messaging Server and gateway products (1995 - 2003) and IMA Web Site content.  Archive site with documents can be found at http://ima.jade.net

T. Kehres, Message Handling Systems Interoperability Problems Between 1984 and 1988 X.400, Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, pp 553-561, North Holland (1989)

T. Kehres, M. Westbrook, MHS Gateway Working Group Report, Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, pp 551-552, North Holland (1989)