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Current Employment |
| 12/04 – present |
PostTechnical Research – Founder & Principal, responsible for business strategy & consulting content for PTR, a technology trends analysis & strategy consultancy that focuses on the exploration & integration of emerging technologies into both new & established software product streams, concentration is on pharmaceutical & healthcare segments (N.B. – FutureSense Research was renamed to PostTechnical Research in 2/2006.) |
| 04/05 – present |
Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Visiting Scholar, research on the management & deployment of very large
Engineering systems, development of a book on the relationship of organizations,
Technology & how people work, project work & team teaching with other MIT
faculty |
Previous Employment |
| 12/03 – 12/04 |
EMC Corporation– Technology Vice President-Collaboration, Chief Technology Officer-Collaboration Product Business Unit, Member of Operations Staff- Content Management Software Group, Member of Virtual CTO Office, responsible for the development of technology strategy for the Collaboration Product Business Unit, including concepts for future product evolution, product & platform architecture, technology trend awareness & competitive analysis & strategy, responsible for coordinating this work with Marketing, Services & Sales channels, as well as broader technology liaison within the corporation & with partners & customers (Documentum acquired by EMC Corporation 12/2003) |
| 12/02 – 12/03 |
Documentum, Inc. – Vice President - Collaboration Technology, Chief Technology Officer - Collaboration Product Business Unit & Member of Corporate Operations Staff, Responsible for the development of technology strategy including overall product architecture & platform strategy, product planning & concepts, technology trend awareness & analysis & competitive analysis & strategy for the business unit, responsible for the integration of this work with Marketing & the Sales channel; also responsible for broader technology & strategy concepts & analysis in the company as a whole (eRoom acquired by Documentum, Inc. 12/2002) |
| 7/02 – 12/02 |
eRoom Technology, Inc. – Chief Technology Officer & Member of Executive Staff, responsible for the companies technology strategy including product architecture, product planning platform strategy and integration efforts, as well as development of concepts to extend the company’s product design, and as always, work with marketing, sales customers and analysts to ensure eRoom’s technology “health” |
| 11/01 – 7/02 |
FutureSense, LLC – Principal & Founder, responsible for the development of concepts to structure consulting practice & for developing & carrying out this practice. Focus is on development & alignment of a company’s business & technology strategies, and on the simplification of these strategies so that they provide value to the company & its value-chain (working part-time at Agile Software from 1/02-4/02 with the support of Agile’s CEO to restart my consulting business) |
| 11/00 – 4/02 |
Agile Software Corporation, San Jose, CA – Chief Technology Officer & Member of Executive Staff, responsible for overall product architecture (J2EE/EJB based) as well as technology strategy and evolution across the corporation, work with Development, Marketing, Sales & the Executive Staff as well as customers & Analysts to ensure the technology “health” of the company |
| 3/99 – 11/00 |
Upstream Consulting, Emeryville, CA – Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, responsible for development of a consulting business model and acting as principal consultant to clients for business and technology strategy engagements, acted as principal consultant in over 50 engagements with companies ranging from pre-funding start-ups (through Venture Capital firms and incubators) to established companies such as BEA and IONA Technologies, primary focus was development of Web and internet based business & technology models that worked in the real, not the “new” economy |
| 8/95 – 3/99 |
Riverton Software Corporation, Cambridge, MA - Chief Technologist, responsible for the architecture & detailed design of current & future products as well as product development strategy, product set was object-based business analysis, design & application generation tools including Web & Internet based design & deployment options, responsible for creating & maintaining relationship with Microsoft for product usage within MS development environment |
| 8/83 - 8/95 |
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA - Consulting Engineer & Technical Director, held a large variety of positions including:
- Database Architect for Corporation, responsible for initial design & architecture of DEC’s relational database product (Rdb) now owned by Oracle Corporation
- Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence, responsible for design & implementation
of AI based products, management & budgetary responsibilities for groups of 4-65 employees
- Technical Director, Document Management & Workflow Products, responsible for design & implementation of document management & workflow products, management & budgetary responsibilities for a group of ~30 employees in the US & ~35 employees in Holland & Italy
- Technical Director, Corporate Software Integration, responsible for large systems integration projects at customer sites including:
- Chief Technologist, C4 program, General Motors
- Chief Architect, 767 Bill of Materials project, Boeing
- Chief Architect, Business & Information Process Project, MD-11, Douglas Aircraft
- Technical Director, Object-Based Software, responsible for design & implementation of object-based products including CORBA & DCOM based products
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| 9/78-8/83 |
Normandeau Associates, Incorporated, Bedford, NH - Chief Scientist & Manager of Technical Data Processing for NAI, an environmental & socioeconomic consulting firm, responsible for developing the environmental modeling and corporate decision support practice, managed a group of 8 IT professionals |
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*further employment history upon request |
Additional Professional Activities |
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Currently developing a book for MIT Press (editor assigned), working title is Technology, Organizations & the Evolution of Work. Expected publication date is Spring, 2007. |
| 9/89-6/93 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Visiting Scientist, Leaders for Manufacturing Program & Laboratory for Collaboration Science. Research on relationship of technology & organizations (part-time) |
| 1/90-12/93 |
Member, Committee of Visitors, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., member of the group responsible for review of funding procedures & effectiveness at the CISE Directorate, also served on many funding review panels for information management, artificial intelligence & Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs |
| 9/86-6/93 |
Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Visiting Scholar, Computer Science Department & Knowledge Systems Laboratory. Research on nonstandard reasoning & intelligent knowledge base (in residence, 3/87-9/87)
United States Patent 4,899,290 - System for specifying and executing protocols for using iterative analogy and comparative induction in model-based computation systems. February 6, 1990
United States Patent 4,905,162 - Evaluation system for determining analogy and symmetric comparison among objects in model-based computation systems. February 27, 1990 |
Education
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Ehrenddotorat Wissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, DFR. 1973. Mathematics. Dissertation entitled: Eine Logik für das Ableiten der minimalen grundlegenden Annahmen für mehrfache Modelle (A logic for the derivation of minimal basic assumptions for multiple models).
Master of Science, Ohio University. 1972. Quantitative Methods
Bachelor of Science, Syracuse University. 1968. Zoology & Philosophy |
Selected Publications
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* further publications on request
Goulde, M., E. Brown, D. Hartzband, et al. 2006. Open Source Software: A Primer for Healthcare Leaders. iHealthReports, California Healthcare Foundation. Prepared by Forrester Research & PostTechnical Consulting. 3/2006.
Hartzband, David, 2005. If Search is the Answer, What’s the Question? The FutureSense Strategist. www.hartzband.com, 12/2005.
________________, 2004. Making better business decisions – The intersection of collaboration & program management. Technical Report, FutureSense Consulting
_______________2004, Business Communications Convergence – A Large-Scale Trend to Pay Attention to. Technical Report. FutureSense Research.
_____________2003. Work Process & The Evolution of Work. Technical Report. FutureSense Consulting LLC.
_____________ 2003. A Discussion of Business Process. Technical Report. FutureSense Consulting LLC.
______________ 2003. The Future Of Classification & Search. Technical Report. FutureSense Consulting LLC.
_________________ 2002. March Madness Revisited – The Relationship of Consulting Firms & Technology Companies. Technical Report. FutureSense Consulting LLC.
________________ 2001. Web Services Guide. www.entropyinsight.com also available from the author.
______________ 2001. Future trends in enterprise application development (including evolution of application servers). www.entropyinsight.com also available from the author.
______________ 2000. Are you a brand?. Technical Report. Upstream Consulting. 6/00.
______________ 2000. The evolution of market intelligence. Technical Report. Upstream Consulting. 6/00.
______________ 2000. The use of rule-based systems in eCommerce. Technical Report. Upstream Consulting.
______________ 2000. Realities of the eCommerce world. Warburg Pincus Portfolio Symposium. NYC, NY USA 4/00
______________ 2000. The market for intelligence. Technical Report. Upstream Consulting. 6/00.
______________ 1999. Welcome? To the future? Hypermedia & culture. Technical Report. Upstream Consulting.
______________ 1998-1999. The World of Business Components. Monthly Web column. www.riverton.com
______________ 1993. The interrelationship of habitat stability and organizational
memory. Symposium on Industrial Ecology. AAAS 93. Boston, MA U.S.A. 2/93.
_______________. 1992. The foundations of model ontology for information systems. Journal
of Intelligent Information Systems. 1(2).
_______________. 1992. Organizational memory and learning. Leaders for Manufacturing
Program Technical Report. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA U.S.A.
6/92.
_______________. 1991. The coevolution of organizations and technology. Digital Equipment Corporation Technical Report & Leaders for Manufacturing Program Technical Report. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA U.S.A. 9/91.
_______________. 1991. The PWII Model: A context for concurrent engineering. Technical Report. CE/CALS Program Office. Digital Equipment Corporation
Hartzband, D.J. & L. Holly. 1988. The provision of induction in data-model systems: II. Symmetric comparison. IJAR. 2(1):5-25.
Hartzband, D.J. 1987a. The provision of inductive problem solving and (some) analogic learning in model-based systems. Group for Artificial Intelligence and Learning (GRAIL), Knowledge Systems Laboratory. Stanford University. Stanford, CA, USA. 6/87.
_______________. 1987b. A discussion of inference and problem solving in the GNOsys knowledge model. Problem Solving Systems Group. Artificial Intelligence Technology Group. Digital Equipment Corporation. 5/87.
Hartzband, D.J., L. Holly, and F.J. Maryanski. 1987. The provision of induction in data-model systems: I. Analogy. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) 1(1):1-17. |
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