Donald Gansberger Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Working to deliver innovative pathways for companies to achieve success in pushing software with value to war fighters with Defense Innovation and government acquisition partners

Helping emerging commercial technology break through government innovation pathways into defense programs. Strategic advisory, detailed knowledge of government requirements, acquisitions, policy, and deep knowledge of acquisitions bureaucracy. Proudly partnered with ellimaC Consulting Partners for contract support and deep strategy support.

San Francisco, California, Us

The Veteran Fund is a pre-seed fund focused on dual use technologies and startups built by members of the military community. My investment focus is cyber security for zero trust architectures, CI/CD pipelines for dual-use software and AI/ML pipelines for dual-use IoT devices.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

AFWERX (11/19 - 9/20): Technology Evaluator (Ventures); (1/22 - 5/22): Fellow (Spark); (8/22 - 10/24): Software Manager (Prime)US NORTHCOM (4/19 - 7/22): Operations Chief, Joint Task Force-North, Regional Support Team, South Texas / Mission Command Element-Southwest Border J3 AirACC (12/13 - 3/19): Plans/Programming/Budgeting/Requirements/AcquisitionsDIUx (8/16 - 4/18): DACAS Program Manager / Project Mandalore14 ASOS (10/08 - 12/13): Chief JTAC-I, Chief JTAC SEE, Flight NCOIC; 2x deployments8 ASOS (1/05 - 10/08): ADPE & CA/CRL Custodian, Safety NCO, PTL, OTM, etc., etc.; 2x deploymentsCCT/TACP Pipeline (8/02 - 12/04): StudentJ1Z371, J1Z231, 8Y000, 9I000 AFSCs, SEIs: 914, 279, 280, 281Multiple deployments (all OEF) at various echelons (all airborne light infantry; both conventional and special operations; supported from LRRS Det through OGA, ODA, ODB, Bn, BDE, & Div as well as base defense for the largest base in Afghanistan), as well as support to DHS & DoJ on the US/Mex border.Been a "programs" guy my whole Air Force career, always trying to find efficiencies and advancements to create the most effective and lethal warfighters I could.I'm a passionate advocate for process innovation and adapting commercial technology to augment maneuver combat with multi-domain capabilities. Combining holistic process evaluation principles with real world startup, combat, software/network/system engineering and Gov't acquisition experience built on a bedrock of being an NCO who always puts mission & subordinates first.Requires rethinking many thought silos to enable 3rd offset strategy.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Broken up work spread across Octel's Messaging Division of first Lucent Technologies then Avaya Inc. Began as IT Engineer, worked the transition from IPX/SPX and primitive NetBIOS to pure IP domain for Windows clients while a contractor. As full-time, worked support and UNIX client network re-design, migrating from antiquated yp design to modern DNS configuration. Left during GISO re-org but later returned as a contractor tools developer building customized tools for remote administration.

Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Us

Administered BIND DNS on Linux, Oracle SQL on Sun Solaris, massive roll-outs of automated system configurations on Windows NT (using bootp and my own scripts). Also served as the highest level elevation for IT services.

Us

Network & host administration for IT network (primarily MS Windows), also maintained internal network connectivity for IS network across external tunnels.

Mooresville, Nc, Us

"Hired" as an intern but working full-time in software development at age 15.Re-wrote Vehicle Dynamics Simulator that predicted vehicle reactions to various setups (such as how changes in shock rebound rate, gearing selections, engine mappings, adjustments to wing angles, etc.) would effect on-track performance. Ability to predict lap-times in near real-time based on adjustments, then output a comprehensive set of engineering data to better inform users of reasons for gains or losses. Wrote prototype code for "chaos prediction" software (determining yellow flag probabilities given multiple adjustable factors and large data set that constantly updated itself using historic track, seasonal, driver and vehicle information and real-time vectors from on-track activities including timing and scoring data. Would love to go back and change the iterative algorithmic scripts to modern AI.)