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David Beckemeyer
These days I am a part-time inventor, part-time investor, and strategic advisory consultant. I also sometimes serve as interim CTO, primarily with startups. I'm usually able to serve at below-market base compensation supplemented with an equity stake in the firm.
I'm available for consulting services, with a specific focus on tactics and strategy related to fund raising and business planning. Areas where I add value include:
- Crafting or refining a technical architecture
- Identifying and refining a business model
- Drafting or editing investor-focused documents and presentations
- Developing a fund raising strategy
- Interim CTO
Updated August 16, 2010
A Brief Biography
I met Sky Dayton in 1994 and helped him determine the technology requirements for his ISP venture. In July 1994, my consulting company, BDT.COM, delivered, installed and configured the router, Sun servers, and 10 modems which started EarthLink Network. The company provisioned their first account that day.
In 1995 EarthLink acquired Beckemeyer Development (BDT.COM) and hired me as vice president of engineering.
I served EarthLink Inc. for ten years, from 1995 to 2006, serving variously as VP Engineering, CTO, and VP R&D.
Before joining EarthLink, I founded Beckemeyer Development (BDT.COM) in 1985. BDT.COM provided general Internet consulting and design engineering services, including Intranet design and implementation, security consulting, firewalls, intruder detection and response, and Internet integration.
BDT.COM had a world-wide customer base consisting of corporations, universities, and government agencies. Out of demand from customers, in 1994, I added regional Internet access to the company's services.
Prior to founding BDT.COM, I was a senior software engineer at Integrated Automation, Inc. which developed information management, inspection and process control systems in Alameda, California and did about $50m in annual sales. Before that, I was a software engineer at Nicolet Zeta Corporation (formerly Zeta, and later acquired by AM Bruning), which is taking us all the way back to 1981.
After leaving EarthLink, I founded TelEvolution, Inc. in 2004, an Internet telecommunications firm with a patented telephony 2.0 platform that dramatically improves the economics of developing and delivering next-generation communications applications and services. TelEvolution provides the technology behind PhoneGnome, Voovox, Phweet, and other private-label VoIP brands and services.
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