David wrote his first computer program while a high school student in New York
City in 1959. He graduated from the School of Engineering at the City College
of New York with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree in 1965.
In 1969, he joined the IBM Corporation in White Plains, NY as a research
analyst. During the next 24 years, he held a variety of positions including
Senior Systems Engineer, PC Office Systems Integration Manager, PC Services
Development Manager at the IBM laboratory in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands,
Document Interchange Protocol Architecture Manager, and Senior Open Systems
Interconnect Planner at the IBM Laboratory in Rome, Italy.
During his IBM career, he received numerous awards, including being elected to
attend three IBM Systems Engineering Symposiums. He was responsible for
bringing a forerunner of File Transfer Protocol to the commercial market and
received an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for conceptualization,
design, prototype development, market planning and announcement
of IBM's first PC e-mail client which sold over 250,000 licenses.
Leaving IBM in 1993, David and a partner developed an on-line subscription
based news service on the Prodigy platform called 'Big Blue Alumni
International' which ultimately brought over 2,000 retired IBM employees
together on the service. In late 1994, BBAI was moved to the web and by
mid-1995 the company had developed and was hosting several web sites.
David is an experienced Linux system
administrator, does advanced database design and programming
and is fluent in all the modern Web languages: Perl, PHP, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS.
Being a problem-solver, he enjoys using his analytic skills to help customers define their
application and database needs and to implement those solutions on their web
sites.
David and his wife Nancy have two grown daughters and four grandchildren. They reside in Keller, Texas.
In his copious spare time, David loves solving the daily NY Times crossword puzzle,
listening to classical music, reading hard science fiction, cooking and enjoying good
food and wine with family and friends and traveling (the picture above was taken at a winery in New Zealand in January, 2009).
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