Breighton (Rusty) Dawe has been a technical lead for over 20 years, starting as head of field engineering for the military’s “top gun” system, then at Atari Games as a video game designer and project manager, continuing as Chief Architect for Imagination Network/Worldplay (AOL), and most recently as CTO in a number of startup firms including Meta4, Katerra, and Datacaster.

Breighton’s experience includes: Senior Engineer at D2S associates where he programmed the display system for the militaries “top gun” system, Senior Staff Engineer and Manager at Atari Games (coin-op) where he created a number of popular titles including “Cloak & Dagger,” “Paperboy,” and many others. He was responsible as Chief Architect for creating “CyberPark,” the first 3D social networking environment for Imagination Network/AOL Worldplay. At some of the recent start-up opportunities, he has been responsible for innovative software infrastructure that has opened the door for some of today’s popular networking games and applications.

From Breighton’s foundation as a Stanford graduate in Electrical Engineering, he has grown in experience across multiple industries and a diverse range of career opportunities. Breighton has a broad range of technical and managerial skills and has brought products through their entire life cycle – from research and inception into design, implementation, and production. He is a highly creative individual, designer, and mentor to others in all companies he as worked for.

In practice, moving from a fossil-fuel economy to a renewable energy base is more complicated. To produce fossil fuels, the earth did a lot of the work. It took the biomass, created by solar energy with some help from wind, water and minerals, pressure-cooked it into coal, oil and natural gas, and conveniently stored it under the earth’s surface. While the extraction of the fossil fuels may be difficult, disruptive and sometimes destructive, the rights to the materials under the earth are typically separated from the rights to use the surface. Before, after and even during extraction, there is value to the surface. With some notable exceptions, flora and fauna, including humans, are not completely displaced. New techniques and technologies, such as horizontal drilling, minimize surface impact.

Most renewable energy production requires more extensive use of the earth’s surface. Wind power, solar energy and biofuels, the most scalable forms of energy production encouraged by the present administration through proposed incentives, require extensive surface leases. The wildcatter (also known as a prospector or landman) has always operated by the motto “no lease, no grease.” In finding the right land to lease, the wildcatter is now supported by the agronomist, climatologist and geographer, rather than a geologist.

One major gating factor in the establishment of a renewable energy industry is the availability of public records related to land ownership, and a systematic method of identifying and and contacting land-owners of interest. In the early days of the renewable energy industry, it worked well for a landman to sit and court landowners. Today, the industry must scale rapidly and dramatically. Funding the creation of a records base will require both public and private financing. Because both the public and private sectors stand to gain substantially from this industry, let’s work together on the solution.

Most recently, Ms. Lorber consulted with Standard & Poor’s in building and establishing their full Records Management Program.

Going to school at University of Maryland Baltimore County on a full tuition art scholarship, Jeremy was lured away by the challenges of video game and middle-ware development at Emergent Game Technologies (formerly Butterfly.net). There he was at the forefront of the burgeoning Art-To-Engine field, a field dedicated to content and asset management for the video game industry. Jeremy also spent time in Configuration Management development and support in the dot-com world at the Ultraprise Corporation.

A self proclaimed cinephile, Jeremy was the Technical Director and Editor on the short film, Animus, which he and his friends produced as a labor of love over the course of a year. A typical Sunday morning is spent at the local coffee shop playing chess.

Her background in document preparation stood her in good stead when she became involved in electronic imaging projects. She moved rapidly from training on the scanner to training scanner operators. Her background in micrographics quality control made it relatively easy to determine root causes of image quality problems. Ms. Earehart has made it a practice to personally use and understand each component of an imaging system prior to production use. The performance results of her employees prove her point.

Ms. Earehart’s experience base covers scheduling equipment and personnel assets over multiple projects for on-time delivery of the deliverable product. Her position requires day-to-day contact with customer representatives to solve problems, discuss exceptions, and modify operations to meet unique product demands.

Ed was instrumental in developing a sales and service strategy whereby A. B. Dick would provide conversion services combined with the sales of the conversion equipment. Ed served as the Manager of the ASCET group providing conversion services for hundreds of million of paper documents to updatable images on microfiche. He served as A. B. Dick’s representative to the precursor to AIIM and participated in the development of NMA/ANSI standards for the industry.

With the advent of electronic imaging, Ed participated in the development of software to capture, store and retrieve documents and moved into providing electronic imaging services for a number of service bureaus. In 1990, Ed took a position as Operations Director with REMAC Corporation, a micrographics service bureau. During his tenure Ed converted the service bureau to a respected provider of electronic imaging services to both government and commercial customers and was offered a position as VP, IT for REMAC.

In mid-2000 Ed accepted a position as the Project Director of a multi-million dollar project at the BATF. At contract end, Ed had virtually doubled the contract value and managed a staff of over 280 employees. During his tenure he co-developed a conversion project to convert over 400 million microfilm images to electronic images over a 6 year period. He and his staff procured and installed a state-of-the-art backfile conversion system for roll microfilm while overseeing the development of the conversion management software.

David Levine is a career technology executive focused on corporate risk, geospatial analysis, distributed conceptualization and applications in the energy, government, infrastructure, health, entertainment and natural resource sectors.

Mr. Levine previously served as Vice President, Business Development for Lanworth, a natural resource intelligence company, and Vice President, Geospatial Solutions for the James W. Sewall Company, where he lead the operating unit responsible for GIS, enterprise systems engineering and integration, Web development, cadastral dataset production and forest cover-type mapping. He also founded Datacaster Corporation, which is commercializing a geospatial intelligence platform developed at West Virginia University’s GeoVirtual Lab.

In 2000, Mr. Levine founded Emergent Game Technologies (formerly Butterfly.net) to provide the systems infrastructure for networked games. Mr. Levine focused on bringing Emergent’s platform to the entertainment industry as well as to government markets, where it served homeland security, defense and education efforts. For Emergent, Mr. Levine developed strategic alliances with Cisco, IBM, Intel, MCI and Sony. Previous entrepreneurial endeavors included the creation of Ultraprise Corporation, a provider of the leading business-to-business whole-loan exchange and portfolio risk management platform for the financial services industry. At Ultraprise, Mr. Levine received a patent for the online exchange of whole loan portfolios and created MISMO, the Mortgage Industry Standards and Measures Organization, which remains an active part of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mr. Levine started his first technology company, HuskyLabs, as a groundbreaking Internet systems design, development and integration firm in 1992 after developing and deploying Web-based publishing solutions for the World Bank as an senior analyst for Communications Development, Inc. HuskyLabs served the Coca-Cola Company, Times Mirror Corporation, National Public Radio, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Rouse Company and many other corporate and non-profit organizations.

Mr. Levine is recognized as an early Internet leader, participating as a presenter and panelist in landmark events, such as the First International Conference on the World Wide Web at CERN Particle Physics Lab, the first business on the Internet panel at Comdex and lecturing on Java and streaming media at Internet World between 1995 and 1997. He wrote one of the first books on the Java programming language, Live Java, Database to Cyberspace, and was the keynote speaker at the first NASA Java Day in Cape Canaveral.

For the past few years, Mr. Levine has been engaged by a wide variety of organizations for professional development, market strategy and technology innovation services. In February 2004, Mr. Levine was appointed by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to establish an office of Technology-based Economic Development within the West Virginia Department of Commerce. He has also served as the Executive Director of the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center.

Mr. Levine graduated from Yale University with a degree in Philosophy, was awarded a Rackham Memorial Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a doctorate in education, leadership and change.

A systematic approach to risk management, opportunity identification and threat assessment begins with foundational intelligence derived from recorded content. Healthcare, insurance, real estate, financial services and energy companies, utilities, associations and governments sit on treasure troves of information in warehouses, file systems and archives that can be activated for the benefit of the institution. Docutex helps companies reveal trends and patterns in the storehouse of facts that lead to innovation, adaptation and successful initiatives.

Enterprise analytics can reveal both causation and correlation, providing a new, fact-based view of the operating environment. In cases where individual records and identities must be protected, the records governance program can support advanced research by assuring that individual data cannot be reverse-engineered from statistical samples.

The patterns that emerge from advanced analytics can drive new sources of revenue, identify efficiency gains and limit risk.

The language of paper records permeates our vocabulary. In the mortgage industry, a banker will “board” a “wet” loan for the transfer to servicing. The metaphor system harks back to a time when freshly-inked parchment memorializing an agreement dried on wooden racks in the light of an oil lamp.

Today, contracts are routinely executed on the Internet, at the point of sale or by pressing a button on a mobile device. Agreements may be consummated by email, Web form, phone call or eFax, by proxy and in counterpart. The full record may include hand-written annotations, receipts, maps, sounds, video, drawings, links and photographs.

Physical and digital repositories provide both access to and protection of historical, business-critical and culturally significant records. Today, organizations require a records management program that considers future compatibility, cost, continuity of operations, accessibility, security, fidelity, regulation, privacy and future value. Most importantly, the program must address the risk associated with preserving records, and the relative certainty of disposition at the end of useful life.

Records management cannot be accomplished by technology alone, as technology advancement is a big part of the problem. A successful program rests on rigorous policy, vigorous maintenance and ongoing monitoring as a complement to a sophisticated systems infrastructure with automated policy enforcement and notifications. Transformation occurs not just at the outset of the program, when backfiles are converted into digital formats, but throughout the lifecycle of the information.

Capturing, indexing and organizing recordable content for later use is both art and science, requiring an understanding of the mechanics of social networks, virtual worlds and information topologies. Docutex implements records management solutions that start at the point of creation and integrate relevant inputs throughout the records lifecycle on paper, networked and mobile media.