Welcome

Welcome to my home on the network. This is my personal space where you can learn more about me and things that I have found useful in my endeavors. The photo on the home page was taken facing west from the Mineral Ridge Boat Launch on Lake Coeur d'Alene in Northern Idaho, a great place to watch bald eagles in the winter and vacation in the summer.

About Dave

Dave is currently a Business Planner for Corporate Ventures in the Hewlett-Packard Office of Strategy and Technology where he manages technology evaluations involving senior strategy and technology leaders spanning HP's business units. He also handles idea and patent submissions.

Dave is also a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science. His areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Software Engineering. His research focuses on Ant Colony Optimization and its application to combinatorial optimization problems.

Dave has worked in both product development and consulting, tackling a variety of technical and management roles while leading the creation and introduction of new technology to solve business problems. He led the development of innovative products and solutions, including HP OpenView Network Node Manager (a network management product incorporating automatic discovery of network elements and graphical display of network topology). He helped global organizations improve performance through effective use of information and technology, using the internet to improve business processes and manage knowledge. See his résumé for details.

Dave was named one of the top 25 communications visionaries by Communications Week for his work in network management.   "To be selected for this year's Top 25, industry leaders had to meet two tests.  First, they must have exhibited an ability to envision the future and move their corporation or organization toward that vision.  Second, they must also continue to have a vision of what the future will bring and be working to realize that vision." The artical appeared in Communications Week, November 1991.

Dave participated in Hewlett-Packard's K-12 Visiting Scientist program for several years, sponsoring an annual computer programming contest for high school students.  The contest grew from the city of Fort Collins to include Loveland and Greeley.  Later Dave teamed with the University of Denver Computer Science Department to co-sponsor a statewide competition.  Hewlett-Packard awarded engineering calculators to the winning team members. The article appeared in the Fort Collins Coloradoan.