Dave Pearah Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Lenexa, KS, US

Lenexa, KS, US

SpiderOak provides a collaboration platform for organizations and people whose missions demand ACTUAL security. Our blockchain and cryptographic technology implements need-to-know policies in adversarial environments where lives and livelihoods are on the line.

Chicago, IL, US

Champaign, Illinois, US

Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a set of file formats designed to store and organize large amounts of data: HDF5 is used by the world's leading research, engineering, and financial firms. Originally developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, it is supported by The HDF Group, whose mission is to ensure continued development and.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for Product Management, Engineering, IT globally in 10 countries (Americas + Europe). Hand-picked by CEO to improve product leadership, engineering transparency, and quality accountability, and to embark on.
• Integrated 5 acquisitions into single global technology team of over 250 people with a shared culture and process.
• Starting with team that had lost credibility due to a major outage, recruited or coached next generation of leadership, and implemented Agile Scrum across 15 teams releasing software to production every 2 weeks.
• Launched teams focused on data science (machine learning + big data) and user experience (UX + front-end coders) to deliver key differentiators in a crowded market.

• Responsible for defining the product strategy, and executing the technology to realize the goals of the roadmap. Recruited to architect growth of entire portfolio and revitalize engineering.Impact: Broke internal.
• Extended functionality of existing 8-year-old platform as well as created new products and channels, including: mobile apps, patient satisfaction product, and IVR app for heart failure patients.
• Grew revenue through new products and strategic partnerships with non-traditional clients, including health plans and pharma.
• After inheriting demotivated team of 7 people that had weathered several high-profile departures, completely rebuilt organization to 25+ through management changes, recruiting, and establishing offshore teams in.

Chicago, IL, US

• Recruited by executive team to establish “Blue Ocean” market segment by building a world-class Development and Services organization focused on small physician practices. Owned P&L and 40-member team including sales.
• Expanded role in 2009 to turn around struggling RxSwitch transaction business, resulting in additional $12M revenue through strategic negotiations with Surescripts, RxHub, and pharma.
• Added revenue stream for pharma by supporting sponsored content and clinical alerting within app.

Chicago, IL, US

• Within 6 months of joining, launched company’s first self-service SaaS application for physicians, which became the most-used clinical SaaS app in US: 100,000+ physicians writing 150+ million scripts annually.
• Pivoted business twice by: 1. adding subscription revenue stream and 2. creating OEM and VAR channel offerings.

Burlington, MA, US

• Recruited by Dictaphone management team to revamp product strategy, with the express goal to emerge from bankruptcy and seek strategic buyer. Executed significant pivot of products and revenue stream: developed SaaS.
• Created industry’s first SaaS app for transcriptionists (iChart) and physicians (Physician Direct).
• Launched speech recognition and natural language processing products to upsell into base ofexisting clients.

• Recruited by the founders to create and articulate product vision to venture capital (VC). PhoneRun was a "voice portal": a speech recognition-driven service that delivered branded content to anyone with a cellphone.
• Defined and implemented PhoneRun's product strategy following competitive analyses, usability trials, and partner feedback.
• Established strategic alliances with speech gateway vendors, including Motorola and IBM.
• Served as lead product advisor for Lucent throughout its internal product definition process, promoting integration of RealAudio, Inktomi stream caching, and Nuance speech recognition.

• Assisted National Economic Council in assessing impact of Telecommunications Act of 1996.
• Through extensive interviews with interest groups and leading carriers, formulated a strategic policy framework to encourage broadband service deployment to residential communities.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Worked on the Iridium project, developing a specialized integrated circuit to perform CDMA signal decoding on handsets.
• Simulated and verified design to implement Viterbi algorithm using VHDL.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Implemented telephony protocol using VHDL modeling and synthesis.
• Established electronic design automation flow for reusable components.

• Researched and developed algorithm for real-time compression of ECG signals.
• Designed, modeled, and synthesized compression hardware using C++ and VHDL.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Developed specialized CPU in VerilogXL for use in telecommunications.
• Performed functional and environmental verification on client designs.

Ms, Computer Engineering

Ms, Technology Management

Bs, Computer Engineering, Latin American Studies

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