Dan Bricklin
Chief Technology Officer, Interland, Inc.

Chuck Benton
Chief Technology Officer, Technology Systems, Inc.

The early years...In 1981, Chuck Benton, TSI's founder, purchased an Apple computer to teach himself programming, and thus automate many of the mundane aspects of his job managing the field engineering office of a small flight simulator manufacturer. To make the task interesting, he decided to write an adventure game that parodied the dilemmas of the young single male. Thus was born what became 'Leisure Suit Larry,' arguably the first commercially successful, adult-oriented software ever. This was quickly followed by contract development of over a dozen titles (all much tamer), including 'Frogger,' BC's 'Quest for Tires,' and Disney's 'Donald Duck's Playground.'

Chuck and TSI were the first group to successfully interface to the SIMNET environment, the first to implement the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) network protocol, and the first to create a wide-scale PC based HLA (High Level Architecture) Implementation.

Today, under Chuck's innovation, TSI continues to expand and build upon today's technology to solve problems with custom, affordable solutions for the U.S. Military, National Science Foundation and Industry Leaders.

Chuck has helped pioneer many of the technologies that are commonplace today. He helped launch the PC industry, broke new ground in the development of network protocols, and has fueled technical innovations that have produced broad and far reaching impacts in national capability.

Chuck has helped pioneer many of the technologies that are commonplace today. He helped launch the PC industry, broke new ground in the development of network protocols, and has fueled technical innovations that have produced broad and far reaching impacts in national capability.

David Addison
Dirigo Design & Development
Portland, ME
(207) 347-7360

David Addison, Principal of Dirigo Design & Development, Inc. in Portland, is a seasoned Web developer whose firm delivers fully integrated solutions for the Healthcare, Nutraceuticals, and Cosmeceuticals industries. His web content management experiences span from Merant Collage and Notes/Domino to custom SQL driven and Macromedia Contribute solutions. David has an MBA from the California State University Craig School of Business.

Chris A. Caseiro
Verrill & Dana, LLP
One Portland Square
Portland, ME 04112
(207) 774-4000

Chris A. Caseiro is counsel to the firm and a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Group. Chris is a former engineer and was recently in-house patent counsel with a New Hampshire-based network technology company. He concentrates his practice on patent prosecution and analysis, trademark and copyright protection, and intellectual property licensing. Chris is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office. He has written and lectured on a variety of patent-related issues, including the protection of software-based inventions.

David P. Crocker
Attorney
158 Pleasant Avenue
Portland, ME
(207) 879-0708

David P. Crocker is a Portland, Maine, attorney carrying on a multistate and multinational practice in software, tech and intellectual property law with a particular emphasis on representing software developers and others in the IT industry. Mr. Crocker is the current President of MESDA, the Maine software and IT trade association and is a regular columnist for Interface Tech News and Interface Business News. Mr. Crocker is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law where he was production editor of the Maine Law Review and is a former law clerk for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He also holds degrees from Gordon College and the University of Durham, England.

Joseph DiStefano
Sephone Internet Solutions
81 Main Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
(207) 262-5040

Joe DiStefano is Co-Founding Partner of Sephone Internet Solutions in Bangor. With more than 20 years in software development, system Administration, business Development and project management and a key player in bringing centralized ticketing to a major ground transportation company in the late 80's and then as tasked to manage several development teams to build route scheduling and other operations management and reporting applications. Since its inception last year, Sephone has grown to employ 10 full and part-time positions in the Bangor area providing design, development, consulting and hosting to businesses in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, DC and the Bahamas.

Alyssa Dver
Author, Software Product Management Essentials
(508) 881-5664

Dver is the CEO and co-founder of Wander Wear Inc., a Boston-based company offering child safety products. In addition to running her own company, she is also vice president and Chief Marketing Officer of a publicly-traded Pennsylvania-based software company, SEDONA Corporation. She is a special sections writer for BusinessWeek magazine covering technology areas such as CRM and RTE as well as the author of a recently published book, "Software Product Management Essentials". Dver teaches product management and technology topics at local universities and through professional associations and she provides marketing consulting to a variety of small to mid-sized companies. She is a graduate of the Wharton School and is the parent of two young children ages 4 and 6 months.

Arthur Fink
Arthur Fink Consulting
10 New Island Avenue
Peaks Island, ME 04108
(207) 766-5722

Arthur Fink is a consultant on Peaks Island specializing in usability, user interface design, and involving users in the system design process. He also has broad experience implementing database applications for order processing, insurance, hospital messaging, material requirements planning, church management, and other areas. Arthur explains that he, "teaches the classes I really want to take". These have included workshops on "Designing and Refining Graphic User Interfaces", "Computer Assertiveness training", "Computers and Religious Values", "Art and the Spirit", and "Being Lazy and Absent-minded ... and a Great System Developer". He is now preparing a series of workshops on "Listening".

Richard P. Gabriel
Sun Microsystems
Dreamsongs

Richard P. Gabriel received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He has been a researcher at Stanford University, company president and Chief Technical Officer at Lucid, Inc., vice president of Development at ParcPlace-Digitalk, a management consultant for several startups and Sun Microsystems, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

He currently is a Distinguished Engineer and chief scientist of a small laboratory at Sun Microsystems, researching the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large systems as well as development techniques for building them. He is Sun's open source expert, advising the company on community-based strategies. He is also President of the Hillside Group, a nonprofit that nurtures the software patterns community by holding conferences, publishing books, and awarding scholarships.

He helped design and implement a variety of dialects of Lisp. He is author of three books ("Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems," MIT Press, "Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community," Oxford University Press, and "Writers' Workshops and the Work of Making Things," Addison-Wesley Press), with two forthcoming in 2003-2004 ("Innovation Happens Elsewhere: How and Why a Company Should Participate in Open Source," (Morgan Kaufmann), and "Leaf of my Puzzled Desire," (Dreamsongs Press)). He has published more than 100 scientific, technical, and semi-popular papers, articles, and essays on computing.

He is the lead guitarist in a working rock 'n' roll band and a poet.

Peter Lee Getman
MicroArts Corporation
655 Portsmouth Avenue
Greenland, NH 03840
(603) 430-1110

Peter brings over 15 years of marketing and entrepreneurial experience to MicroArts. With his boundless energy, Peter motivates and enables the entire MicroArts team to achieve the extraordinary. Peter's primary responsibility is for the day-to-day client operations of MicroArts. “We provide a high level of service to a small number of clients.” His passion is taking the horse in the #3 position to win a two horse race. Peter has presided over 200 brand launches in the high-tech market over the past fifteen years. “We’ve globe trotted and it’s been an invaluable experience, but now our focus is to team up with hot companies back home.” As a NH native that spends every winter at his Maine ski home, Peter's objective is to build MicroArts into the premiere creative agency in the New Hampshire and Maine marketplace. As an entrepreneur at heart, Peter had a successful marketing business prior to joining MicroArts in 1988.

Doug Green
Green Design Furniture Co.
267 Commercial Street
Portland, ME 04101
(800) 853-4234

Douglas Green became an industrial designer after an early career in traditional furniture making, after an earlier career as a pre-school teacher. In 1990, he invented a unique system for constructing furniture that became the catalyst for the founding of Green Design Furniture Company, which manufactures and markets his designs to a national audience by catalog, internet and his Portland retail store. He receive a patent for his invention in 1996. Doug Green grew up in Scarsdale, New York. He earned a BA at Bowdoin College (English) and a MID in industrial design at Pratt Institute.

Green Design Furniture Co. Established 1993 12 Employees (9 in production, 2 in sales, 1 in operations) Product Line: Over 80 designs for furniture for living room, dining room, bedroom and office. All pieces are made of solid cherry and ship via FedEx 2 day delivery.

William Green
Sun Microsystems
1617 Southwood Drive
Nashua, NH 03060
(781) 442-2524

William Green is a Senior Technology Engineer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Java and Web Services Organization. Over the past 5 years, Bill has worked with a number of large scale enterprise customers on their internet strategies and architectures, most recently focusing on Security and Network Identity issues.

Prior to Sun, Bill spent 5 years at Sybase, Inc. in their Web Development, Database Support and Sales Organizations. Before that, Bill was a Product Support manager and performed pre- and post-sales duties for 11 years with Du Pont Newspaper Systems. His favorite activities include golf, skiing and drawing editorial cartoons for his local newspaper.

Dana Hutchins
Image Works
541 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
(800) 324-6243

Dana's passion for more than 25 years has been using technology to make communication more effective and more compelling. He does this through his technology consulting and development company, Image Works where he applies a balance of experimental openness and "prove it to me" skepticism to the application of new technology. His methodological mantra is: build better behavior probing protocols and prototypes.

"New technologies are like new territories to explore. The best way to find your way is with a local as your guide. For me, that's young people. They see the possibilities and problems very quickly. Our work with kids is giving us valuable insights into what works, what doesn't and why on the web and elsewhere. Now we are applying those insights in powerful ways for our clients."

Anne Kennedy
Beyond Ink
82 Middle Street
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 771-0395

With three decades' experience in marketing communications, Anne Kennedy founded Beyond Ink in 1997 to create an advertising and public relations agency focused on search engine marketing. Certified an Internet Professional by Novell, Inc., Anne is on the Board of Directors of MESDA, Maine's Software and IT trade association, and a member of the Public Relations Society of America. She frequently writes and speaks on web marketing and online communications, and is publisher of Beyond Ink's industry digest SEO Newsnet.

Beyond Ink provides online market and website analyses, ROI tracking and search engine marketing, as well as strategic Website planning and copywriting for the Web. Working closely with web developers, Beyond Ink adds critical insight into designing for search engines and user satisfaction according to best practices in search marketing.

Frank J. Koch
Process Strategies, Inc
PO Box 104
Walpole, ME 04573
(207) 563-2221

Mr. Frank J. Koch is a Principal and co-founder of Process Strategies, Inc., a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Transition Partner that provides that provides software process management consulting services. He has more than twenty-five years of software engineering and consulting experience, with an emphasis on the management of software development. He has worked with major companies and government organizations in the United States and overseas in the aerospace, technology, telecommunications, defense, research, financial services, and retailing industries. He has consulted in such areas as software process assessment and improvement, software portfolio analysis, strategic planning, information systems architecture, and project management. Mr. Koch is an SEI-authorized Lead Assessor for CMM and CMMI appraisals and is an authorized instructor for CMMI training.

Ken Lloyd
Fairchild Semiconductor
82 Running Hill Road
South Portland, ME 04106
(207) 775-8100

Ken Lloyd is the director of corporate knowledge management at Fairchild Semiconductor headquarters in South Portland. The KM group develops and supports the corporate data warehouse, executive information systems, and business intelligence solutions including an executive dashboard.

The Knowledge Management department also supports Enterprise Content Management. The public Fairchild Internet site is sourced entirely from Documentum in a module that used to be known as web content management. Factory operating procedures, product design documents, and many other types of documents across the corporation are stored in Documentum, in what used to be called document management. The KM group also uses source code control extensively for the lifecycle management of Java and Perl code developed and supported by the group.

Mr Lloyd holds a master's degree in organizational management and a B.S. degree. He and his wife Jane are patrons of the arts in Maine; Ken is a jazz guitarist in his free time.

ABOUT FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR:
Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) is a leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets. Fairchild's components are used in computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive applications. Fairchild's 10,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world.

Matthew Olson
Taxware

Matthew Olson is a Caribou, ME resident and works for Taxware, a division of govONE Solutions. He is the program manager for TaxSolver, a Sales and Use Tax compliance program used by Fortune 500 companies. He has also served as IT manager for ATX Inc. and has extensive experience in public speaking and software development.

Kurt Rosenfeld
Corporate Technologies
3 Burlington Woods Drive
Burlington, MA 01803
(781) 273-4100

Kurt directs Corporate Technologies' strategic drive in the Business Information Integration marketplace.

He has a wealth of industry experience spanning strategic, technical and commercial. As an IT executive, he was Vice President of Product Architecture for a major financial services firm; later he was head of IT for a leading 1,000-employee professional services firm. Prior to his IT roles, he was an Engineer and Senior Consultant for two leading vendors servicing clients in the USA and UK.

Kurt has a patent in collaborative technologies, has addressed international groups numbering in the thousands, and served as board member of a local university to advise on their technology curriculum.

About Corporate Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is a leading enterprise systems integrator and value-added reseller. In addition to its expertise in Business Information Integration, Corporate Technologies has a strong track record providing products and services related to security, storage, systems and support. The company’s Technology Interoperability Lab enables it to conduct extensive product evaluation and replicate a customer’s environment.

Chris Russell
Encapsule Systems
170 Berryfield Road
Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-7773

Chris Russell dreams of a day when everyone can program their computers as easily as a child assembles LEGO block models. Chris is the founder of Encapsule Systems, Inc. and inventor of the Hyperworx platform. Chris holds a BS ECE from UMASS Amherst and enjoys composing electronic music and hiking with his wife and two Siberian Huskies.

Scott Simons, AIA
Scott Simons Architects
15 Franklin Arterial
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 772-4656

Scott Simons has over twenty years of professional experience and is involved in all phases of project development, ranging from strategic master planning and conceptual design to construction documentation and administration, including extensive project management experience. He is well known for his innovative solutions to complex projects and brings a unique design approach to all the firm's work. Prior to starting Scott Simons Architects he was a Principal with Orcutt Simons and a Senior Associate of the Portland Office of Sasaki Associates. Before that, Mr. Simons had his own practice in New York City for seven years where he completed a wide range of work including commercial, institutional, and residential projects. He has been a "design critic" at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, City College of New York, and University of Maine in Augusta.

Scott Simons Architects is a ten person multi-disciplinary firm providing architectural, landscape architectural, planning and interior design services for a broad range of clients. The office is organized as an open design studio, with all members of the design team are involved at all stages of every project They extend this working method to interactions with our clients, encouraging them to share their ideas and suggestions at every opportunity. They use an "alternatives" based approach, providing several possible solutions to each problem at every step along the way.

Mark Waite
Launch Momentum
PO Box 6007
Falmouth, ME 04105
(207) 797-4550

Mark Waite is an engineer who knows how to build high-technology businesses and market complex, innovative products. He co-founded Launch Momentum with Dan Martin to help the Maine technology community transform ideas into successful businesses. His role at Launch Momentum is to evaluate potential business opportunities, and provide strategic business development and marketing expertise that will propel company growth.

Mr. Waite has more than 20 years of experience in the business, engineering, and marketing aspects of technology company development. Prior to starting Launch Momentum, Mr. Waite co-founded semiconductor company Extreme Packet Devices. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development during EPD’s start-up, he was instrumental in establishing corporate structure, developing and executing the product marketing plan and business development strategy. In 2000, Extreme Packet Devices was sold to PMC Sierra for $415 million.

Prior to EPD, Mr. Waite held engineering, marketing, sales, and management positions with Toshiba America Semiconductor, Ring Medical, Analogic Tau-tron General Signal, and other technology companies, and has worked with technology concerns in Europe and Japan.

Mr. Waite received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Technology from the University of Maine in 1982 and is a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Mr. Waite serves on the development committee for Ingraham, the Portland-based agency that provides community service programs to Maine. He also serves on the Stewardship Commission of Holy Martyrs Catholic Church in Falmouth, Maine. In addition, he is a board member of The Lobster Institute, the Orono-based agency focused on lobstering as an industry and as a way of life.

Christopher York
Blue Ox Technologies
PO Box 135
Caribou, ME 04736
(207) 498-2632

Christopher York resides in Caribou, ME. As a Microsoft Certified Professional, he is an experienced developer for Visual Basic, Access VBA, and SQL Server. He has worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and as manager of the consulting division of a financial software company serving Fortune 500 clients. In addition he has written articles for Compute!, ANALOG Computing, and Interface Monthly magazines. He is the founder and president of Blue Ox Technologies Ltd.