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Vice President Development

Location:
Camano Island, WA
Posted:
October 26, 2012

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Stephen D. Dukes Public & Private

Boards

President

Imaginary Universes, LLC. Aumne (former)

TZEE Corporation (former)

Camano Island, WA w: 360-***-**** Genband (former)

United States m: 360-***-**** Interra DVT (former)

f: 360-***-**** iZOMO (former)

Magma (former)

************@****.***

SNAP2 (former)

Boards and Advisory Boards

Technical Advisory

Board and Advisory Board Positions - 1993 to present:

Boards

Member of Corporate Directors Group

Broadcom

Former board member of seven public and privately held companies, with experience serving on

ivi

Audit, Compensation, Executive and Governance Committees

Microunity

MIPS Technologies

Chair and/or Member of several Technical Advisory Boards for public and privately held companies

NanoNerve

Oliver Solutions

Member of the International Engineering Consortium Executive Council

PatientKey

Renka

Work History Specialized Vascular

Swarm

Verivue

Imaginary Universes, LLC.

Camano Island, WA, United States Feb 2000 - Present

President & CEO

Expert Witness

Mr. Dukes is President and Chief Executive Officer responsible for management and direction of a

group that advises companies on strategic developments and investments in existing and new

advanced technologies in cable, enterprise, network gaming and telecommunications. Specific roles Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

include boards of public and privately held companies, advisory and technical advisory boards, Goodwin Procter LLP

consultant, expert witness, limited partner in Francisco Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and SVB Strategic Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Investors Fund, LLC., merger and acquisitions, and temporary CEO and CTO positions. Consulting Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP

and expert witness client list consisting of 38 companies. Vinson & Elkins LLP

Willke Farr & Gallagher LLP

Pathfinder Partners

San Francisco, United States Feb 2010 - Present

Professional

Chief Technical Officer & Fellow

Recognition

Responsible for technology assessment, monitors directions and trends in technology, researches

rapidly developing technology, mapping technology to government and military requirements,

IEEE Fellow

intellectual property assessment, and feasibility of technology for specific applications. Works with

Pathfinder Partner Fellows to assess technologies and correlate features and functions to

requirements to specified by government and/or military entities.

Society Affiliations

Aumne, Inc.

Lisle, IL, United States Nov 2009 - Oct 2010

IEEE

President & CEO OSA

SCTE

Chief executive responsible for development and operations of Aumne's security software for SMS/

SIAM

text messaging, MMS and encrypted voice. His responsibilities will include planning and execution

of corporate growth strategies, strategic business development, software development team and

global tactical deployments. He provides executive management and oversight for new

opportunities, product development and commercial markets.

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Former Technical

MediaOne

Advisory Boards

Englewood, CO, United States May 1998 - Jun 2000

Vice President, Digital Broadband Technology Ambric

ARRIS

Vice President of Digital Broadband Technology responsible for MediaOne's migration from analog

Athena Technology

to digital development, deployment, technology due diligence for investments and acquistions, and

Atrato

direction on business strategy decisions.

Blue Sky Research

Responsible for management and budgets for digital technology development, including

Broadband Physics

OpenCable strategy and migration

Cadant

Managed development of headend simulcrypt interface for open, DVB conditional access

Ciena

and removable security system

Cedar Point Communications

Directed development of DOCSIS and DOCSIS extensions for cable modems for high

Cisco Systems

speed data and Voice over IP

Coactive

Developed and directed the concept of the integrated CMTS that supports the

coaXmedia

convergence of voice, data and video applications into a single platform

COM21

Responsible for directing and managing development of operating systems, APIs, and

Capacity Networks

middleware for digital settops

Dotcast

Responsible for directing development of a technical strategy for deploying HDTV,

Equator Technologies

Interactive TV, and VOD platform

FatPipeU

Member of CableLabs DOCSIS Certification Board, charter to certify cable modem and

Genband

qualifty CMTS systems

InfoLibria

Interactive TV

Interra

Interventures

MCNS Holdings, LLC. Juniper Networks

Lakeview Software

Englewood, CO, United States Feb 1995 - May 1998 Lemur Networks

ManyStreams

CEO

Mediacell

Chief Executive Officer responsible for management, budgets and development of MCNS Holdings Midstream Technologies

LLC. investment consisting of Cox, Comcast, TCI and Time Warner Cable focused on: MPEGLA, LLC

Data Over Cable Systems Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) with over 140 M cable NPoint

modems manufactured OVP Venture Partners

Downloadable, Renewable Security System (RSS) for voice, data and video applications RGB Networks

over cable Security Broadband

MicroUnity silicon development for settop, cable modem and renewable security SecureMedia

Stexar Corporation

TeraWave Communications

The Ascent Group

TCI Technology Ventures

UIOC

Englewood, CO, United States Jan 1995 - May 1998 Vyyo

Ward Labs

Vice President, Technology

Vice President of Network Technology and Vice President of Technology responsible for TCI's 3 to

5 year broadband network development, technology due diligence for investments, field and lab

testing, and re-franchise strategies.

Responsible for management and budgeting of TCI investments in MCSN Holdings,

Clients

LLC., MicroUnity and Magma

Managed and directed development team responsible for TCI's Next Generation Settop

ActionTec

Platform requirements with a RTOS and APIs

ARRIS

Managed TCI's efforts to establish second source manufacturers for settops, cable

Blackstone Group

modem and CMTS products

Cadant

Responsible for integration team focused on WinCE and Aperios with pJAVA and API

Cedar Point Communications

development for the advanced digital settop

Ciena

Management of team responsible for assessment of copy protection, network security,

COM21

processors, RTOS, 1394 interface, LMDS, PCS wireless telephony, servers,

Corpus

transmission systems, shared switching, NVOD/VOD, xDSL, HDTV formats, 256 QAM

Digeo

and IP Telephony

Extend Media

Technical due diligence of new potential acquisitions and technologies in next generation

Genband

platforms

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

GoBackTV

Goodwin Procter LLP

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The 3DO Company Hewlett Packard

Internet Photonics

Redwood City, CA, United States Jul 1993 - Dec 1994

iZOMO

Director, Advanced Network Development Juniper Networks

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Director, Advanced Network Technologies, responsible for assessment of network architecture and

Lemur Networks

interface requirements to 3DO's interactive client/server and settop platform designs.

Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP

Developed a network specification for 3DO's client/server model using 64 and 256 QAM,

Manystreams

8 and 16 VSB broadband, ADSL and 16-CAP network interfaces for settop, server

MicroUnity

technologies and virtual private networks and interfaces

Midstream Technologies

Responsible for collaboration on network interface designs for The 3DO game platform

Munchner Kreis

embedded in a Scientific Atlanta settop for the US West Omaha fiber trial

OneVideo

Developed a virtual network to tunnel 3DO games through cable and telephone networks

Panasonic

using hierarchical distributed storage and intelligent edge devices to offer network

P-Cube

gaming

PixelWorks

3DO's representative and contributor to the ATM Forum focused on development of

Sherwood Information Partners

AAL5 and SA&A

Silver Lake Partners

Participated on the Joint Engineering Committee of the EIA/NCTA, VESA Open Set Top

Sony

and IEEE 802.14

VanGuard

VectorMAX

Viambo

CableLabs Vinson & Elkins LLP

Willke Farr & Gallagher LLP

Boulder, CO, United States Feb 1990 - Jul 1993

Vice President, Advanced Network Development

Held several senior management positions, including Vice President of Advanced Network

Development responsible for financial budgets and management of development for network

architecture and integration of applications and services.

Developed and managed the research and development of the Regional Hub

Architecture, with tightly coupled, counter-rotating rings interconnecting multiple headend

and fiber to the fiber node; cable expended over $85B in capital to deploy in 1990s

Managed budgets and directed 60 consulting contracts for advanced network

development in the area of network architecture, wired and wireless telecommunications,

and multimedia

Managed and directed modeling of network designs for new services and applications for

future cable systems

Directed research efforts on cable hybrid fiber/coaxial networks for MPEG video and

advanced television formats

Managed research team on the transport and network interfaces for multimedia and data

applications over cable

Managed and directed CableLabs' on applied research on wireless PCS and wired

telephony over cable

Responsible for CableLabs' delegation to ATM Forum, Telocator, ANSI and T1

Committee, along with T1S1.5 Broadband Network Architecture and Video Services

working group focused on development of ATM

Boeing Computer Services

Bellevue, WA, United States Jan 1989 - Jan 1990

Telecom Analyst

Telecom Analyst for Boeing Computer Services responsible for technical planning of voice, data and

video for The Boeing Company's private domestic and international networks.

Evaluation, recommendation and negotiation with IXCs for The Boeing Company's

private long haul network

Responsible for product assessment and design of a private packet switching network for

The Boeing Company

Evaluated network technologies to support Boeing's private voice, data and television

networks

GTE Corporation

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Everett, WA, United States Jan 1977 - Jan 1989

Manager, Network Planning

Held numerous management and technical positions with GTE network engineering, short and long

range network planning. Responsibilities included broadband network architecture and topology

design, telecommunications, data communications design, standards, circuit switching, PABX,

packet switching and new services, e.g., video on demand and high definition television.

Responsible for Program Management and financial oversight of central office

conversions with $150M annual budget

Design of broadband networks, network optimization, architecture/topologies, standards,

and technology transfer

Network Architect of the GTE Cerritos Fiber/Video Test Bed, with a budget of $72M

Provided technical consultation to Tektronix, Boeing Computer Services, Intel, PG&E,

State of Oregon, Washington State University and Lake Washington School District on

network architecture and topologies

Evaluated new services/applications and assessed new revenue sources for network

deployment

Responsible for budgets and network planning of large central office switch conversions

Designed a 29 node private packet switching data network using Telenet TP-4000s and

TP-3010s for GTE-NW

Manager of GTE's $312M GTD-4600 PABX development responsible for resolving 126

of 129 problems

Assessed failure data for No. 2 EAX cards and components to quantify spares for the

central office switching system

Developed the platform for GTE's Corporate Engineering-In-Training Program

Participated on an 18 month Engineering-In-Training program

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, WA, United States

B.S., Mathematics

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Bachelor of Science of Mathematics-Numerical

Analysis, 1989

Industrial Training/Continuing Education: (11) management; (43) electrical engineering and

computer science courses

Miscellaneous

Military:

U.S. Army, Vietnam, Artillery Fire Direction/Forward Observer (1971-72)

U.S. Army Reserve, Ft. Lawton, Washington, Army Security Agency Pattern Recognition

(1976-77)

Professional Societies:

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013 IEEE Innovation in

Societal Infrastructure Award Committee, 2010-12 IEEE Fellow Committee, 2011-12 TAB

Awards and Recognition Committee, IEEE Consumer Electronics President 2010-12 and

First Vice President/President-Elect 2009, 2012 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure

Award, 2005-11 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee and

Associate Editor, IEEE Technical Field Award Council, 2009 Past Chair of IEEE Masaru

Ibuka Award Committee, 2007-08 Chair of IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award Committee, 2005-06

Member of IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award Committee, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Administrative Committee, IEEE Consumer Electronics Fellow Committee, Industry Liaison

Chair of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009, IEEE

Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications, IEEE 802.14 Cable

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TV Protocol Study Group, IEEE Communications Society/Society of Cable

Telecommunications Engineers Committee

Society of Industrial Applied Mathematics

Optical Society of America

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers

Textbooks Published: (1); Technical Articles Published: (19)

Personal: Birth date

February 4, 1953, Married, three children, United States Citizen

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