Manager Management

Harry Forsdick

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Lexington, MA *2420

Phone: 781-***-****

Harry Forsdick EMail: *****@********.***

Web: www.lexdig.com

www.forsdick.com

Technology: My first strength (and love) is technology:

Summary of qualifications

understanding what has been accomplished, how it can be applied,

and how multiple technologies and information can be combined into

effective products. I am creative: At BBN, over a 20 year period I

was directly associated with 8 innovative products or systems, most

of them centered on the Internet. At Genuity and at Level 3, I

headed up a small group of developers who built prototypes of new

applications that demonstrate the power of the Internet. Two of

these applications -- "Meetings over IP" and "My NOC" took of

existing Genuity / Level 3 products (Voice over IP and customer

specific network monitoring and configuration data) and used them

in innovative ways that created more demand for our existing

products.

Over the past 30 years, I have learned that innovative Internet

technology is necessary, but not sufficient for creating a successful

business. Critical for success is the cost, simplicity, reliability, and

maintainability of a product. In addition, a successful product or

service must combine well with existing legacy systems as well as

extend into the future by being open to working with new systems

that haven't been written yet. At Genuity and Level 3, I took these

ideas and built systems with a very small, but highly motivated

teams producing rapid product refinements based on customer

feedback. I believe these rapid design, development and deployment

strategies are the key to succeeding in this era.

At CMGI I was Chief Technology Officer of multiple startups under

CMGI's control, including InfoMation Publishing, PlanetDirect and

CMGI Solutions. In these capacities, I developed the ideas for new

products, worked with developers and customers to implement

those products and then worked with customers to make most

effective use of our products. In my work at CMGI Corporate I

developed new product ideas as well as evaluated the technology of

new business opportunities.

I like to build products and solutions that are innovative and solve

real problems. Three such products are Meetings over IP, a

browser-based (no explicit software download) collaboration system

I developed at Genuity linking conference rooms/offices together

with voice, imagery/video and data; Echo, a web-based information

finding, categorizing and presentation system and the Object

Management System, a modular web-content assembly system.

After I left Level 3 Communications, I set up a consulting practice

known as Lexington Digital where I consult with small businesses,

non-profits and individuals who are interested in using computers

and networks in innovative ways. Since I was involved in many early

applications of the Internet and have over 35 years of experience in

the Computer/Communications industry in both Research &

Development as well as application of Internet technology within

Corporation, I have been asked to serve as an expert witness in

several patent infringement cases. I am interested in additional work

in this area.

In addition to the Lexington Digital web site, www.lexdig.com, I also

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have my own personal web site, www.forsdick.com, which is mostly

devoted to my avocations and activities of my family.

Management: At Level 3, Genuity, CMGI and BBN I have had

significant management responsibilities, including financial and

personnel management, as well as project management and

proposal creation. At Genuity, I lead up a small group and have

interacted frequently with Executive management and important

customers. At InfoMation, a 25-person CMGI startup, I was

responsible for the development of our products, accounting for

about of the company's employees. At BBN in the early 1990s my

department ranged in size from 30-50 researchers and programmers

with a budget between $5 and $8M / year.

Marketing and Sales: I enjoy explaining things to people as well as

thinking with them about how to solve problems. At Genuity, I work

with the Marketing group to develop explanations of our future

products and services. At InfoMation I was involved in all major

sales opportunities as a technical marketing representative of our

company. At Genuity, CMGI and BBN, I have been frequently called

on to present a variety of technologies developed at our company,

as well as to market our capabilities to commercial and government

clients.

Work experience June 2004 - Lexington,

Lexington Digital,

current MA

Consultant

After developing my skills and expertise in a long career in

Internet Applications, I have now decided to leverage my

experience and become a consultant. I am interested both in

projects that draw on the knowledge I have gained by

working on numerous projects related to the Internet, as well

as other projects that draw on my skills with computers and

communication. The most important characteristic of these

new projects is that they are interesting to me.

February 2003 - Broomfield,

Level 3 Communications, Inc.

May 2004 CO

Vice President Emerging

Information Technologies

I was responsible for understanding and exploring the

technologies and systems to be used in Level 3's future

customer facing products and services. My work involved a

combination of investigating the state of the art in Networking

and Application technologies, designing and building

demonstration prototypes, as well as analyzing and writing up

studies on special topics.

March 2001 - Woburn,

Genuity, Inc.

February 2003 MA

Vice President of Advanced

Technology

At Genuity, I was responsible for understanding and exploring

the technologies and systems to be used in Genuity's future

products and services. Like my work at Level 3, I was

involved a combination of investigating the state of the art in

Networking and Application technologies, designing and

building demonstration prototypes, as well as writing and

coordinating the production of a quarterly updated technology

roadmap. One prototype that has gotten significant attention

is the Meetings over IP system. We showed that it is possible

for ordinary, non-technical office workers / consumers to use

a simple, self-service, on-demand, web-based voice (VoIP),

video and document (MS Office) conferencing service. We did

all of this leveraging off the shelf software systems as well as

inexpensive, state of the art Internet appliances (e.g., a

Panasonic video camera with an embedded web-server that

connects directly to ethernet and power).

May 2000 - Andover,

CMGI, Inc.

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February 2001 MA

Vice President of Engineering

In my role as VP of Engineering at CMGI, I was a resource to

all of the operating and investment companies of CMGI,

advising them on applicable Internet technologies that would

benefit their business. I also was involved in several

investigations of the technologies for new businesses in the

areas of wireless communication, Internet appliances, device

independent portals, connected handheld devices, and web

authoring systems.

Oct 1996 - May Andover,

Infomation Publishing /

2000 MA

PlanetDirect/MyWay / CMGI

Solutions

Chief Technology Officer

InfoMation Publishing Corporation was a startup founded by

CMGI in 1996. Our business was in the area of personalized

filtering, organization, and presentation of public and

company private information. Our products were aimed at the

Corporate Intranet market, although they worked equally well

in the Internet. I invented our first product, Echo, while I was

at BBN and was involved in the licensing of the BBN

technology to CMGI, prior to participating in the founding of

InfoMation. In September 1998, Infomation was merged with

PlanetDirect Corporation, another CMGI subsidiary.

My role at InfoMation was to head the technology team that

built products. That included tracking new technologies,

systems and components that could be used in our products,

tracking competitor's products, designing new products, and

guarding the integrity of our products. I represented our

company in outside interactions involving technical matters or

in technical marketing. In addition, I directly managed several

senior developers and the development manager.

At PlanetDirect/MyWay a group of Echo developers and I

adapted Echo to become a vertical news feed generator. The

content coming from these news feeds is then assembled into

the MyWay local content pages.

While I was at PlanetDirect/MyWay, I developed the idea of

the Object Management System, a modular content assembly

system that allowed people to mix and match content from

diverse Internet sources. This system served as the

inspiration for the formation of CMGI Solutions, a company

formed by CMGI whose charter was to deliver solutions built

up from the diverse technologies and content present in the

over 70 CMGI subsidiaries and investments. When CMGI

Solutions was formed, I became CTO and guided the company

in the development of a general purpose, reusable framework

for combining content and tools into solutions. In May 2000,

CMGI Solutions acquired Tallan, a large systems integrator in

Glastenbury CT and most of the activity of CMGI Solutions

moved to Connecticut. At this point, I became Vice President

of Engineering for CMGI.

1975 - 1996 Cambridge,

BBN Corporation

MA

Department Manager

For over 20 years I was involved in the development of the

Internet - from the early work on communication and

application protocols to later work on sophisticated

applications utilizing network communications. During that

time, I advanced from individual contributor to project

manager, assistant department manager, and finally, for the

final 7 years as department manager. I created an

atmosphere in my department that was conducive for

creativity and invention. Our reputation was as a skunk works

where interesting things happened.

I was principal investigator on many Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA) projects, both proposing new projects

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as well as managing those projects. I invented or took part in

the development of many early innovations in the Internet,

including Multimedia Electronic Mail, Shared Workspace

Conferencing, Desktop Video Conferencing, Internet

Mail/News/Web Server, Internet Video Servers, Internet Map

Server, Wireless Wearable Computers, Large room sized,

touch sensitive displays and most recently, the Personal

Internet Newspaper (PINpaper).

Out of this work emerged several commercial products

including BBN/Slate, a multimedia document communication

system, MMConf, a shared workspace conferencing system,

Picture Window, the first Internet-based desktop video

conferencing system, the BBN Internet Server, an Internet

appliance supporting electronic mail, news and web servers,

and PINpaper, a web and agent-based information discovery,

filtering, organizing and presentation system. PINPaper is the

basis of InfoMation's Echo product.

Our primary business was doing research and advanced

development for various organizations, primarily the US

Government. At any point, there were 5-8 separate projects

going on among the 30-50 researchers and programmers in

my department. I managed this effort sustaining a viable

business (ranging from $5M to $8M per year) in a period of

decreasing government support.

I recruited good people into my department, frequently

spotting outstanding candidates directly out of college.

Building these young employees into effective teams was very

satisfying to me.

1969 - 1971 New London,

U.S. Navy Underwater Systems

CT

Center

Mathematician

Entry level position programming mainframe computers

Education 1965 - 1969 New

Yale University

Haven, CT

B.S. in Engineering and Applied

Science

1971 - 1975 Cambridge,

Massachusetts Institute of

MA

Technology

M.S. in Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science

Candidate for Ph. D., Electrical

Engineering and Computer

Science

1994 Cambridge,

Massachusetts Institute of

MA

Technology, Sloan School

Greater Boston Executive

Program

one semester intensive management

training program

Honors 1998 Cambridge,

Massachusetts Software Council

Internet Founder, an award MA

honoring some of the original BBN

pioneers who worked on the

ARPANET project

Please see CiteSeer (http://tinyurl.com/4a21 ) for a list of my

Publications

publications

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