DAVID ALAN PENSAK DOB February 16, 1948 A.B. Chemistry, Princeton University, 1969 (Summa cum Laude) Thesis: Computer Aided Design of Complex Organic Synthesis Skills Summary 20+ years in computer security -- hardware and software 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 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. 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 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. 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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 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) Board of Editors J. Computational Chemistry (past) Technical Advisory Boards, etc. Past - Sun Microsystems Present – Director - Delaware Innovation Fund (also Treasurer) Founder and CTO – VI Laboratories LLC (anti-piracy and anti-tampering software) 6/2008 |