DAVID ALAN PENSAK

DOB  February 16, 1948
         
Education

      A.B.          Chemistry, Princeton University, 1969 (Summa cum Laude)
      A.M.         Chemistry, Harvard University, 1971
      Ph.D.        Chemistry, Harvard University, 1973
      Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University (N.I.H.) 1973-1974

      Thesis:  Computer Aided Design of Complex Organic Synthesis
      Advisor: Professor E. J. Corey

Skills Summary

      20+ years in computer security -- hardware and software
      30+ years scientific computing and visualization
      20+ years in corporate management structure
      15+ years of national and international exposure - government and corporate

Employment History

2008 - Contract Professor, University of Delaware School of Business

2007 - Fellow, George Washington University School of Law

2005 - Chief Technology Officer, Vi Laboratories, Inc.

2005-2006 – Senior Fellow, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

2002 – Corporate Technology Growth Champion – E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

Define and implement major new growth opportunities at the corporate level including new research initiatives, business restructuring and surplus technology monetization plus all responsibilities in assignment below.


1995-2004 - Sr. Research Fellow and Principal Consultant - Advanced Computing
Technology - DuPont  - (Equivalent external title - Chief Computer Scientist)
Retired 8-31-2004

Provide guidance for and manage advanced computer technology explorations and development.  Consult both internally and externally on computer security and computer architecture.

1993 - Principal Consultant - Advanced Computer Technology, E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

Provide guidance and leadership charting a course for, and implementing, a major restructuring of how computing is used in the corporation - includes telecommunications, parallel architectures visualization, decision support, use of Internet, simulation and modeling, and other topics.

1987 – 1993  Corporate Advisor - Computing Technology - DuPont

Had responsibility for planning, directing, and managing projects in computer   science and technology.  Advised management on emerging trends and  represented company in a wide range of external organizations

Sat on, or chaired, corporate committees on Open Systems, Data Security, Workstation Selection, Software Auditing, Technology Planning, Expert Systems, and Electronic Conferencing.
                                            
Represented DuPont on SPEC committee.

1985-1987  Research Supervisor, Central Research Department, DuPont (Expert systems, Artificial intelligence, parallel computer architectures)

Supervised research projects in above named areas.

Co-Director - Corporate Artificial Intelligence Task Force

Founded and co-managed initial efforts to bring expert systems into many areas of DuPont before they became fashionable.

1984  Special Assignment, Polymer Products Department, - DuPont

Evaluate Departmental research programs for opportunities for computerization and automated analysis.

1981-1983 Research Supervisor, Central Research & Development Department - DuPont

Supervised research programs in molecular modeling by computer, interactive graphics, computer assisted design of synthesis, structure activity correlation, pattern recognition

1980-1981 Research Group Leader - DuPont

1974-1979 Research Chemist - DuPont

1974-1976 Honorary Research Associate - Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (concurrent with DuPont position).

1969-1974 Graduate Research Student and Postdoctoral-Fellow, Harvard University

1969 (summer) Research Assistant - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (Generation and racemization studies of optically active organo antimony compounds.)

1968 (summer)  Member - IBM Graduate Summer Program, Trenton, New Jersey (Data Acquisition and Control Systems)

1967 (summer)  Research Assistant - American Cyanamid, Princeton, New Jersey (Development of phosphorothioate pesticides)

Research Interests

         Computer Security
         Structure - activity correlations
         Theory of catalysis
         Interactive graphics
         Programming language design and human engineering
         Artificial Intelligence
         Computer Architectures - Distributed and Coupled

Honors/Awards/Miscellaneous (partial)

1999 Advisor – Dept of Energy on Computer Security and Network Protection.

1997  Technical Advisor, Clinton Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

1996  Board of Directors - Delaware Innovation Fund  (Treasurer 2002- )

1994 Computer Advisory Board - Delaware Judiciary

1994 Advisory Board - Office of Technology Assessment (U. S. Government)

1994 Industrial Advisory Board - National Center for Biotechnology Information

1994   Plenary Lecturer - Executive Technology Summit (Society for InformationMgmt)

1993  American Chemical Society Awards Committee

1993 Lecturer – Tsinghua University (Beijing China), Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology, National Academy of Sciences (Beijing)

1991 Board of Directors, American Research Institute

1991  Board of Directors, National Computer Graphics Association

1991 Invited Lecturer - National Computer Graphics Association

1990 Invited Lecturer - Electronic Imaging East

1990 Invited Lecturer - Council for Chemical Research

1989 Plenary lecturer - Chemical and Biological Information Working Group - Tokyo

1988 Invited Lecturer - ISR Conference on Scientific Visualization, Tokyo, Japan

1988 Visiting lecturer - University of Colorado (1 week short course on computer architectures and chemical calculation)

1988 Invited Lecturer, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Congress on Natural Products, Kyoto Japan

1987 Plenary Lecturer, ACIS Congress, Berlin, Germany

1987  Member, National Science Foundation, Strategic Planning Panel, Science and Technology centers

1987  Member, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy study panel on "The Role of Information Technologies in the Conduct of Research"

1987- Member, University of Delaware Research Foundation, Research Advisory Board

1986  Plenary Lecturer - Interchemie '86  Conference - Paris.

1986- Computer Advisory Board - Science (AAAS) Magazine

1986  Plenary Lecturer - Symposium on Computing in Chemistry German Chemical Society, Frankfurt (and follow on lectures at universities named above).

1985  Testified before United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science and Technology

1985  Utah State University Visiting Science Lectureship Series

1985  Lecturer and Technical Advisor, United States Government  Pavilion, EXPO'85, Tsukuba, Japan

1985 Lecturer - National Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1985  Plenary Lecturer - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry World Congress (Manchester, England)

1984 Plenary Lecturer, Conference on the Forefronts of Large Scale Scientific Computing, Washington D.C.

1983-84  Program Chairman - ACS Computers in Chemistry Division

1983-84  Planning Committee - Conference on Forefronts of Large Scale Computational Problems

1983-84  ACS Committee on Science - Subcommittee on Large Scale Modeling

1982  Chairman - Computers in Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society
                     Member ACS Committee on Chemical Abstracts
                     Member - Theoretical Chemistry in Industry Conference      
                     Planning Committee

1981  Member ACS Task Force on J. Computers and Chemical Information Science

1981 Instructor - QCPE course on Molecular Structure Modeling  (Bloomington, Indiana)

1980-86  General Advisory Board - Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange

1976 Member - Advisory Committee (National Academy of Science) for National Resource for Computing in Chemistry

1969 Everett S. Wallis Prize in Organic Chemistry, Princeton University

1965 6th Place National Westinghouse Science Talent Search

 

Professional Societies

         ACM (SIGART, SIGPLAN, SIGGRAPH, SIGMETRIC, SIGSAM, SIGARCH)
         American Chemical Society
         Sigma Xi
         National Computer Graphics Association - Director (1991-1995)
         American Management Association

Board of Editors

         J. Computational Chemistry (past)                     
         Computers and Chemistry (past)
         J. Molecular Graphics (past)
         Science (AAAS) Software Editorial Board (past)

Technical Advisory Boards, etc.

Past -

         Sun Microsystems
         Apple Computer
         Wavetracer, Inc.                              
         Raster Technologies, Inc.             
         Cydrome, Inc.                                  
         Stardent Computers                                               
         University Computing Services Corp.
         IBM Corporation
         Director and Founder Raptor Systems (now a part of Symantec, Inc)
         Executive V.P. DuPont Electronic Sourcing Network, Inc.
         Director and Founder – Authentica (now part of EMC)

Present –

          Director - Delaware Innovation Fund (also Treasurer)

          Founder and CTO – VI Laboratories LLC  (anti-piracy and anti-tampering software)
        

6/2008