Dennis Alan Van Dusen
6910 Ridgewood Avenue
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
(301) 656-9090 (direct)
(301) 237-9090 (cell)
(301) 907-9390 (home)
dennis@dvandusen.com
Significant Accomplishments
Management
CEO, CTO of several startups and small businesses. CEO of business incubator.
Managed technical activities during formation of commercial divisions of defense contractors.
Managed complete computer system solution developments for customer organizations in a wide variety of commercial business
areas. Negotiated design, development, and maintenance agreements with subcontractors and vendors.
Mentor to numerous small businesses. Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum Washington-Baltimore.
Educated: three advanced degrees in computer science with business orientation.
Specific Experience
Database Analyst and Developer:
Broad experience with project management and review: Reviewed existing systems to determine requirements, scope and plans:
Performed systems integration, systems analysis at Peat Marwick, IBM Systems Integration Division, Oracle Complex Systems
Corporation, GE Information Services, Schlumberger, DynCorp, Centech Group, and e-Effort as technical lead or systems
integration manager. 10 years experience in Federal government systems projects. 14 years in document control and tracking
systems in health care, oil exploration, federal contracts compliance, grants management, and accounting.
Broad experience with design tools: Model systems in standard modeling tools: Have 14 years heavy experience in Oracle
Designer, 1 year with Systems Architect, plus experience in 6 other CASE or UML tools.
Generate modules and reports using Oracle’s Developer*2000 or other standard development tools: 14 years experience with
Oracle Forms both as manager and developer; first developed a forms generator in 1979 for use on a government project. Broad
experience with other design tools.
Broad experience developing systems based upon databases: Develop client/server and/or web interfaces: Developed websites for
MCI, Re-Certify, e-effort, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, and others.
Document enhancements to existing databases: 15 years with Oracle databases, plus many years working with hierarchical,
relational, and object databases on wide range of platforms.
Design, build, implement, and test network, database, and application level security: Designed and implemented compartmented
security mechanism for Department of Energy SCARDI system and Department of Justice Office of Domestic Preparedness Data
Collection Toolkit website systems.
Design, build, and test database triggers and procedures to implement complex processes: Designed and built over 500 pl/sql or
other stored procedures for DOJ, DOE, e-effort, Corps of Engineers, etc.
Integrate new and existing software and programs: Designed and built Relational Directory System for Oracle in 1989 for
integration of office tools and files into a document control, version control, and centralized routing/tracking and storage
management facility. This facility integrated at file system level with all office applications, performing on the fly data conversion
between applications and platforms, and providing programmable workflow between functions. Redeveloped system to provide
same function for Oil Exploration to Shell, Arco, and Schlumberger (now a product.)
Design, build, implement, and test World Wide Web capabilities: Built enterprise level applications for MCI (1-800-MUSICNOW), DOJ (LLEBG, ODP), DOE (SCARDI - Struts, 150 JSP, 190 Servlets, 200 sql or pl/sql procedures), Re-Certify (150 JSP,
400 Oracle forms), e-effort. Technologies included Struts, j2ee, Oracle 9iAS, Oracle Forms Server, Oracle 8/8i/9i RDBMS,
bugzilla, etc.
Provided ongoing developmental services: Provided continued system support and maintenance for several systems for more than
1 year each. Fixed problems ranging from storage reallocation to major redesigns, from script errors to channel hardware errors.
Implemented performance enhancements such as form triggers, pl/sql rewrites, movement of function to other platforms, changes
in communications protocols (protocol redesigns for large networks), etc. to improve databases and systems.
Update current system documentation to include changes: Managed/wrote documentation for several projects.
Technical Lead:
Reviewed the design, development, implementation, and testing of models and systems: Performed/managed review function for
design reviews, code reviews, integration reviews; and management reviews including blue, green, and red teams for 20 years.
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Mentored and guided many individuals on many development teams.
Presented to users, management staff and other user-oriented activities to ensure a successful analysis of proposed systems, to
further define system requirements and to ensure successful implementation of the new system components. Presented systems as
product designs, R&D projects, customer proposals, user tutorials, etc. for many projects.
Guided the performance of Oracle 7, 8, 8i, and 9i database management administration activities: Performed DBA activities on
Sun/Linux (6 years), Windows (15 years), mainframe/Macintosh/other (10 years).
Project Management:
Reporting: As Project manager, reported to COTR/CIO in all levels of management reporting structures for DOJ, DOE, and many
commercial or local government projects. Performed as consultant, project manager, marketing manager, CxO, investor, etc. on
many projects.
Leading: Supervised more than 250 employees in various capacities. Interviewed, hired, reviewed, promoted, incentivized, and
fired many individuals. In several cases, provided assistance inside and outside of work to individuals where needed. Acted as
mentor to several individuals and many companies over many years.
Obtained Results: Teams have succeeded in innovating and implementing solutions in several technical areas. New products, rapid
deployments, major service offerings, and significant installations have been delivered.
Technical Marketing and Sales:
Proposals: Wrote proposals, product strategies, business plans, contra designs, sales presentations, white papers, technical reviews,
sales strategies, technical sales strategies, and marketing plans. Presented to development teams, sales teams, management,
purchasers, review panels, executives, end-customers, venture capitalists, etc.
Reviews: Reviewed sales, development and research efforts, projects, divisions, businesses, and investment opportunities either
for management or due to personal involvement.
Sold: Systems, products, and projects to government, commercial, and individual customers. Presented funding proposals to
architecture committees at GE, IBM, Schlumberger, Oracle, and Texas Instruments. Presented to Board of Directors for financial
reviews at Texas Instruments and smaller companies.
Law:
Writing and Assistance: Clerked in several areas of law, from interview to mediated settlement and jury verdicts.
New Technology Development
Designed, developed, presented, installed, productized warehouse management and exploration asset control system for oil
companies now handling many terabytes of data at each of several major oil companies.
Lead architect for Nippon Hoso Kyokai public broadcasting audio/video control system in Japan. This system has been in
continuous operation without any failure or downtime since 1991 and now controls over 5,500 devices in 11 cities and on 2
satellites. The PC / LAN based control system is not expected to fail for at least 20 years. It is the most critical enterprise device
control system for the largest broadcast company in the world, and must react to every error event within 100 msec.
Implemented Satellite Multimedia Delivery prototype system for internet like services via simplex broadcast channels.
Designed (Chief Architect) Security Management System product and implemented tiered synchronizing database for rapidly
storing and analyzing many thousands of network events per second using inexpensive database servers.
Designed the Personal Problem Solver series of software which was sold under the name VISICALC.
Developed website and full system for credentials management website, including large database (400 tables), website pages
(200), inter-site and inter-system interfaces, and management systems (400 forms).
Developed website and full system for R&D project evaluation for DOE and OMB. The system included 150 JSP pages, 170
servlets, 300 Oracle database scripts, and was completed in 40 days, under budget.
Implemented CASE model, forms, and database for one of the first E-Commerce sites - 1-800-MUSIC-NOW CD sales internet
web site.
Community Service
Leads as Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore.
Provides Pro bono Legal assistance.
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Patents Applications
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENTERPRISE SECURITY MONITORING AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
(Unpublished)
The invention provides a system and method for providing network-based security services. The invention enables a customer to
select policy implementations for automatic distribution, installation, and configuration management onto the customer’s network.
The invention also improves the way that security events are collected, analyzed, and responded to. The invention yields an
improved security management paradigm to deal with a multi-vendor environment with poor standards, providing streamlined
methods for the installation and configuration management of networked devices, collection and analysis of important security
event data from different device types, and the ability to quickly and efficiently respond to policy breaches when necessary.
METHOD OF DOING BUSINESS AND SECURITY INSTRUMENT (Application 20030208397)
Disclosed are a method of doing business and a security instrument. An exemplary method includes creating an equity pool with a
plurality of equity interests; and compensating an associate, who has completed a milestone of a project, with a portion of the
equity pool. An exemplary security instrument includes an equity pool and a security interest in the equity pool.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE WORK MANAGEMENT (Unpublished)
The invention provides a system and method for managing the specification, submission, review, and acceptance of project effort
by remote, networked contract workers.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
e-Effort, Inc. Chevy Chase, MD
(January 1992 – Present)
e-Effort primarily provides contract consulting services.
The e-Effort incubator has also assisted other electronic commerce startups and has developed the e-Effort website for accepting,
submitting, and managing remote work (a virtual workplace). Conducted business reviews, including detailed review and
assistance with business models, market analysis and planning, management reviews, financing approaches, presentations to
venture capitalists, etc. These reviews resulted in published reports and / or investments in the businesses. Assisted enterprises in
improving operations, strategy, and fund raising.
Chief Technical Officer
Responsible for all aspects of technology for e-Effort and for the incubator client companies.
Served as Blue and Red Team member for various proposal efforts of other companies and partners. Significant involvement in
Proposal Red Team effort for Database Administration and Operations Sustainment at the US Customs National Data Center for
one major contractor, including rewrite that fostered a win.
Implemented application level security and data level security for several database systems and web applications.
Database Administrator
Responsible for all aspects of database administration, architecture, design, and development for Internet based applications.
Utilizing components of the e-Effort system as standalone sites, designed and led the development of a website for skills tracking,
verification, and credential management. Placed the system into production with paying customer traffic. System was designed for
high speed web access and high volume, with OLAP facilities.
General Managment
Conducted business reviews, including detailed review and assistance with business models, market analysis and planning,
management reviews, financing approaches, presentations to venture capitalists, etc. These reviews resulted in published reports
and / or investments in the businesses.
e-Effort Contract and Venture Assignments, with role:
(January, 1992 – Present)
e-Effort Venture – Incremensa (formerly
Imagine-IT)
(2005 - 2012)
Start-up developing an intellectual property concept mapping and valuation system. Architect and database designer.
Wrote Patent description for system and business process.
e-Effort Contract – CTIS, Inc.
(2011)
Managed productization effort for client. Successfully served as project manager with staff of 13 to redo the user interface
for existing large scale medical application in a very short timeframe. Project was completed on time, with significant
changes made to more than 150 java server pages, style changes, and development of additional function.
e-Effort Assisted Venture – Dynasty Hospital
Accreditation, LP
(2004 – 2006)
Developed Hospital Accreditation Management System using Oracle 10, J2EE, and DreamWeaver technology for Chinese
company.
The system was to provide an educationally oriented continuous improvement facility for small to medium hospitals in
China. Hospitals and their staff will answer questions that lead to trend analysis and assessment of the overall hospital
quality and will receive education regarding best practices as part of this accreditation data collection process.
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e-Effort Assisted Venture - Allegent Technology
(2002 – 2005)
Allegent Technology developed an IT enterprise security management solution that improved an enterprise’s ability to
rapidly respond to security threats and minimize financial damages associated with downtime. SolventView represents a
new breed of solutions needed to manage an enterprise's continual process improvement program for computer security.
Architected system for comprehensive monitoring and configuration management designed for enterprise IT health and
security. It is an infrastructure for scalable and extensible system monitoring, analysis, and control. Different applicationlevel plug-ins perform monitoring and management tasks for specific network elements and report based on user-defined
rules. They also utilize the information generated by these agents for many purposes, including analysis and correlation,
trend reporting, alert response, and information archival.
Principal author on Patent application for system.
e-Effort Contracts - Department of Energy,
Justice Projects, TMR, Inc., REI. Inc.
(2001 – 2002)
As the project manager and technical lead for the Department of Energy’s Deputy Secretary's Quarterly Reporting System
project, implemented an analyst level project management and reporting system in nine weeks. Gathered and analyzed
requirements; managed development team; architected, designed and developed database and application code,
programmed new java application to generate custom MS Word report including complex graphics. Performed software
installation and management, unit and integration testing and deployment in the test systems.
As project manager and technical lead for the Department of Energy’s SCARDI project, implemented a complete end-toend R and D project evaluation system in five weeks. For the Department of Justice’s Local Law Enforcement Block Grant
Program, directed the development of portions of the grants management application. Gathered and analyzed requirements;
managed development team; architected, designed and developed database and application code. Performed software
installation and management, unit and integration testing and deployment in the test and production environments.
Architect/Analyst/DBA/Programmer for other web-based projects that involved design and rapid development of large
web-based information management systems.
e-Effort Venture – Remote Work Management
(1999 – 2001)
Start-up developing system for managing the specification, submission, review, and acceptance of project effort by remote,
networked contract workers.
Principal author on Patent for system.
e-Effort Contract – Intellectual Property
Categorization Management
(2001)
Developed architecture and product description for adaptive, clustured intellectual property (patent) categorization, search,
and retrieval for industry leading categorization provider.
e-Effort Assisted Venture – Certification Co.
(1999 – 2001)
Developed Credential Management System using Oracle 8, IBM WebSphere, DreamWeaver and NetObjects technology
for certification, credential verification, and continuing education.
The system provided a secure environment in which the individual created their personal profile detailing their
achievements, requirements and personal preferences and took accredited courses or viewed content from other providers.
It allowed on-Line registration and purchase of selected courses and content with all necessary administrative monitoring
and management of users by groups, employer, association, etc.
e-Effort Contract - Mogee Research & Analysis Associates
Consultant
(1999)
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Mogee Research & Analysis Associates (MRAA) provides custom patent analysis and consulting services for R&D
management, technology licensing, patent portfolio management, competitive intelligence, public policy, and economic
development. They conduct analyses at the level of technologies, organizations, inventors, states and regions, and
countries. Their patent-based indicators help measure the amount of technological activity, life cycle stage, technological
significance, commercial potential, and corporate technology strategy.
This project was performed for the In-Q-It (now In-Q-Tel) venture capital firm owned by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The purpose of the project was to determine technologies that the intelligence community needed to speed the realization
of in order to make intelligence gathering more efficient. We were given eight base technologies to extrapolate from, and
our task was to utilize research papers, patents, web searches, gap analysis, and expert interviews to determine metrics for
when the technologies would be available, who was likely to realize the technology (companies and countries), and other
factors.
e-Effort Contract - The Centech Group
(1998 – 1999)
Consultant - Project Manager for Corps of
Engineers FRED Task
Under the Information Systems Modernization Program, the Corps of Engineers was reengineering its key business
processes and THE CENTECH GROUP supplies Information Technology Products and Services, Program Management
and Logistic Support Services, and Engineering and Manufacturing products and Services. They are also a provider of
domestic counter terrorism preparedness products that support Nuclear Biological and Chemical Protection Requirements.
Under the Information Systems Modernization Program, the Corps of Engineers was reengineering its key business
processes and developing automated systems to support those processes. The ultimate goal of the ISMP was to establish a
corporate database to provide shared data for managing Corps programs and projects. To accomplish this objective, the
Corps determined a need for a single, authoritative source of data that was integrated, accurate, accessible, relevant, and
"near" real time to be used for decision making and for requirements reporting at all levels.
Consultant - Project Manager for HCFA Data warehouse
Task
(1998 – 1999)
Assisted the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to improve the accessibility of information available to their
partners and stakeholders. The Information Architecture component of HCFA’s ITA was to enable an information delivery
environment that employed an integrated, cost-effective approach to make essential information available to HCFA
knowledge workers, external customers and partners. Data warehousing was to be a key feature of the IA component. Our
task was to provide an independent, objective evaluation, i.e., post-implementation review, of its current data
warehousing/information delivery approach, prior to extension of this approach.
e-Effort Contract - WorldSpace Corporation
Consultant
(1997 – 1998)
WorldSpace was founded to provide direct satellite delivery of digital audio and multimedia services to the emerging
markets of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The WorldSpace satellite
network will consist of three geostationary satellites.
Technical manager for developing a multimedia broadcasting capability enabling WorldSpace receiver owners to
download large media rich web content directly into their personal computers.
e-Effort Contract - Innova
Consultant
(1996 – 1997)
Innova was a television satellite broadcasting service involved with interactive games and multimedia transmission to
viewers.
e-Effort Contract - Schlumberger-GeoQuest Data Services, Inc.
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Schlumberger - GeoQuest is the world's most technically advanced supplier of geoscience, engineering, drilling and data
management software products and services in the exploration and production industry.
Consultant
(1992 – 1995)
Under full-time contract to lead team implementing asset and document control systems for two major oil firms, each
having multiple sites and platforms. The system is an easy-to-use, secure warehouse management system featuring
query-and-order capabilities. It stores and controls an exploration and production company's unique physical information
assets, such as films, cores, tapes, maps, drawings, journals, seismic surveys or well logs. This product is now called
'GeoQuest AssetDB.' The Client-Server system was implemented using ORACLE tools.
LawGrunts
(2009 – Present)
Wrote motions and petitions for cases in Family, Employment, Criminal, Real Property, Landlord-Tenant, and Constitutional law.
Writings included complaints, motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, discovery motions, pre-trial motions, postconviction
petitions, memoranda in support, and others. Clerked for appellate mediation, mediations, depositions, trials, and hearings. Clerked
for three law firms simultaneously. Won large settlement in one case unassisted, including conduct of entire plaintiff’s case and
mediation. Supporting practices of Doug Hartnett (DC, US), Omid Azari (MD), and Due Tran (MD, DC, VA) in various practice
areas by motions practice and trial assistance.
DynCorp, Inc.
Managing Principal, then Principal Consultant
(1995 – 1996)
Managed database projects and partnership efforts for Commercial Division of DynCorp.
Manager, Special Projects
(1996 – 1997)
 Planned and implemented Frame-Relay and ISDN router ‘extranet’ network for US Postal Service. Performed all network
and Windows NT administration for network management task.
 Project leader on World Wide Web Internet projects. Implemented Oracle database for use within WWW commercial sales
application for CD sales on-line. Implemented Web site for government information provider. Lead marketing effort to put
multiple industrial catalogs on-line on WWW.
 Technical manager for meeting planner multimedia Internet application.
General Electric Information Services
Manager, Advanced Applications Development
(1990 – 1992)
Manager, Advanced Applications Development. Recruited specifically to 'energize' the organization technically, to find applications
that fit the GEIS environment in new and interesting ways.
Oracle Complex Systems Corporation
Systems Integration Manager
(1989 – 1990)
Systems Integration Manager responsible for providing complete computer system solutions to customer organizations in a wide
range of business areas, including: petrochemical, pharmaceutical, state and local governments. Responsible for design of
architecture for Local Area Networks and microcomputer systems. Specified design, development, and maintenance agreements
with subcontractors and vendors.
 Designed New York City Department of Probations Records System.
 Designed, managed development of prototype of Relational Directory System (similar to Lotus Notes) for image and
document control; provided demonstration to over 40 companies and 350 customers.
IBM - Systems Integration Division
Advisory Systems Engineer
(1985 – 1989)
Lead architect, and proposal manager for major systems integration projects.
 Lead architect for Nippon Hoso Kyokai public broadcasting audio/video control system in Japan (achieved major win,
award, and Patent Disclosure). This system now provides control over 5,500 audio/visual devices in 11 cities and aboard 2
satellites. The PC / LAN based control system is not expected to fail for more than 20 years.
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Systems Engineer, proposal manager, and lead architect for banking communications system for the Union Bank of
Switzerland.
Lead architect, designer, and system engineer for an advanced peer-to-peer protocol converter for Bank of America and
United Airlines.
Provided New York Area IBM branches with technical selling and initial systems design support for PS/2, RT, AIX, and
OS/2 projects.
Architect for "contra" or mock competitive proposal for a securities trader system.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
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MIT Enterprise Forum: Chairman of Washington, DC and Baltimore chapter, involved in providing WashingtonBaltimore area companies with a forum for the presentation of new business concepts. Instigated set of series of entrepreneurial
forums at Georgetown University, UVA, and University of Maryland.
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Mentor to entrepreneurs in the Washington, DC area.
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Performed Pro bono legal work, including clerkship at Public Defenders office.
EDUCATION
David A. Clark School of Law, UDC
Juris Doctor, 2009
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Graduate School of Business
M.E., Information Sciences, M.S., Applied Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Computer Science
B.S., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
Orange Coast College
A.A., Business Information Systems
MILITARY SERVICE
United States Marine Corps
10% Service Connected Disability.
Avionics.
References Available Upon Request