ROBERT H ZAKON www.Zakon.org Robert@Zakon.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ WORK SUMMARY ------------ CTO & Director of Creative Technology Solutions, Zakon Group, 2001-Present Sample Clients: Cyber Defense Agency, Clean Air Task Force, AMC, MITRE Sample Projects: OpenConf, intra/extranets, e-commerce, architectures Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO), SoftZoo.com, Inc., 1999-2001. E-commerce consumer software portal and ASP Principal Engineer & Internet Evangelist, MITRE Corp., 1992-1999 Multilingual Computing, Intelligence Systems, Internet Technologies, Information Security, Knowledge Engineering, User Interfaces Director, Distributed Decision Making Research Lab, Weatherhead School of Management, 1990-1992 Independent Consultant, 1988-1990 ------------- KEY STRENGTHS ------------- Strategic Technology Initiatives Advanced Technology Research Rapid Prototyping & Programming Team Building & Management Emerging Technology & Market Assessments Cross-Organization Collaboration Training, Development, & Mentoring Client Needs Analysis Strategic Corporate Planning Multicultural Sensitivity Systems Integration & Administration Simple & Creative Solutions ------------------------ SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS ------------------------ Set the vision and led the development and operations of a consumer software portal and ASP, while at the same time building up a new organization, raising venture capital, hiring and managing senior and junior team members, overseeing and evaluating service providers, and ensuring coordination and collaboration across all corporate sectors. As a Technical Ambassador, spent one year at MITRE sites around the world educating engineers and managers on emerging technologies and facilitating collaboration with their corporate counterparts. Led the deployment of a multi-national network for the sharing of open sources among the intelligence components of various countries. Brought in to jumpstart this stalled program with responsibility for both the design and implementation of the network and information infrastructures, and lead technical discussions with government officials of participating and interested countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, UK). Integrated the first machine translation system with the Web, pre-dating similar Internet capabilities by more than three years. This capability has been deployed and used worldwide for over six years. Designed and developed one of the first corporate intranets, MITRE's Information Infrastructure. Designed and deployed the highest wireless network (WiFi 802.11) in the Northeast US. --------- EDUCATION --------- Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, 1986-1992 M.S. Computer Engineering & Science B.S. Computer Engineering major with Psychology and Philosophy concentrations The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ ----------------------- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ----------------------- - Senior Member, IEEE - Board of Advisors Member, First Run Angel Group - Organizing Committee Member & Web Advisor, ACSAC (Security Conference) - Chairman, SIGNIDR V (Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval Conference) - Co-Chairman, User Interface Symposium - Coordinator, Foreign Language Technology Symposium - Review Committee Member, IWIPS (Internationalization of Products and Systems) - Author of Hobbes' Internet Timeline, published in hundreds of magazines, books, and web sites - Presenter at over 20 conferences, symposia, and invited keynotes, including the WWW (W3C) Conference, Eastern Communications Forum, and NATO Information Systems Management Conference - Author of over 30 technical papers and briefings ranging in topic from information security and Internet technologies to multilingual computing and policy - Book reviewer for O'Reilly & Associates and MacMillan Publishing ------ AWARDS ------ Recognition Award, OSIS International – secure multinational VPN "Your efforts have resulted in a solution that allows International ... access securely using low-cost commercial technologies in an innovative manner" Recognition Award, BCS – first bilingual (English/Japanese) Intelink extranet "Your contributions … are indicative of the type of behavior that adds value and reflects well on MITRE" Director's Distinguished Accomplishment Award, WebMT – first web integration of machine translation "Despite an extremely aggressive schedule, and a limited budget, The ... Team rapidly defined, designed, and deployed" "Working with initially vague requirements, the indefatigable … Team worked long hours to ensure an excellent product which received customer praise" Director's Distinguished Accomplishment Award, MITRE Information Infrastructure (intranet) Program Achievement Award, Intelligence Community Open Source Coverage & Capabilities Database Special Recognition Award, NASA Spacelink Interface Study "Your contributions were outstanding and performed under difficult conditions, including short turnaround time and limited funds. Your participation was critical to the success" -------------------------- SELECTED TECHNOLOGY SKILLS (at least 2 years cumulative experience) -------------------------- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 2000, Solaris, HP/UX, A/IX, UNIX, Macintosh OS Add-ons: Terminal Services, Citrix MetaFrame, Citrix NFuse, SSH, X Window, Motif Languages: Perl, PHP, C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, AJAX, Shell Databases: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HyperCard WWW: HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, DHTML, RDF, PICS, SSL, CGI, Unicode, Apache HTTP, ... Security/Network: firewalls, PKI, biometrics, routers, Netscape (iPlanet) Proxy, digital signatures, encryption, RSA, content switches, VPN, smart cards, DNS, wireless, Wi-Fi / 802.11 Antiquated: WAIS, Gopher, PLWeb, Ultrix, VMS, Sun/OS, Pascal, BASIC, Assembly Applied Concepts: multilingual computing, machine translation, language identification, computational linguistics, information retrieval, thin-client computing, multicasting, unicasting, credit-card processing, rapid prototyping, human-computer interface, usability, computer-support collaborative work, content management, extreme programming, digital libraries, artificial intelligence, mobile code and agents, e-commerce, information organization/taxonomy, knowledge engineering, cognitive science, load-balancing, fault-tolerance, visualization -------------- Additional information and project showcase available at www.zakon.org