Rob Durst Email & Phone Number

Dunstable, MA, US

Massachusetts

Silver Bay Software LLC provides major retailers with commercial software that encodes machine readable carrier routing information on millions of parcels every year. We also provide state governments and financial services companies with software applications to help them better manage their documentation processes.As Silver Bay Technologies we also.

Massachusetts

The Quickitt service let prospects request additional information about an ad or product by simply taking a picture of a QR code with their smartphone camera, and then entering the email address where they wanted that information sent.Quickitt LLC was dissolved in 2024.

Massachusetts

The Durst Group was a management consulting firm that helped clients convert concepts into revenue by formulating and implementing financially relevant business development strategies, clearly communicating their value proposition to their target markets, and leveraging tangible intellectual property assets created from intangible intellectual capital..

• Formerly a division of the Polaroid Corporation, and subsequently acquired by L1 and then Safran-Group, Digimarc ID Systems was the leading provider of driver license and identification issuance solutions in North.
• Recruited by executive management to develop and implement a business development and marketing strategy for this acquired business.
• Developed a business strategy to reposition DIDS as a specialty provider of identification solutions, both as a prime systems contractor and as the preferred bid team member for large system integrators.
• Recruited key personnel and recruited and established marketing and product management staff and organizations.
• Established a standard product development process. Identified and assessed credential, identification and biometric technologies and providers and negotiated supplier agreements.

Meridian Global Advisors is a boutique management consulting and asset management firm with partners in the United States and Austria. The firm helps their clients define their business and technology strategies and then align and optimize their operations so that they are consistent with these strategies. Meridian also helps clients develop structure and.

Fort Myers, Florida

• NeoMedia Technologies develops and markets proprietary software and technologies that link commercial products, print, and other physical objects to online information and services.
• Recruited by founders to help launch the company through a successful IPO. Defined R&D requirements, recruited key management and technical personnel, and built a development organization from the ground up that.
• Defined and implemented an intellectual property strategy in the print / web media convergence space. The resulting portfolio continues to serve as both a competitive barrier-to-entry and as a source of licensing.

• Symbol Technologies, Inc., now part of Zebra, provided barcode data capture products, radio frequency identification technology, mobile computing platforms, and wireless infrastructure products and service to customers.
• Recruited by executive management to commercialize PDF417, a high-density 2D barcode symbology capable of storing kilobytes of error corrected machine-readable information on print media. Formulated business.
• Established PDF417 as a standard 2D symbology for key federal and state government agencies (e.g. DOD, DOE and state DMVs), industry standards bodies (e.g. ISO MH10.8, AIAG) and a variety of domestic and international.

Recruited by executive management to help define a new technology strategy for the corporation and help form a new core R&D division. Helped redefine mail-processing in the context of software and data processing systems. Defined cross product systems architecture. Recruited and formed systems engineering and advanced concepts development groups and.

Recruited to define and develop next generation graphic workstations for business applications of videotex. Also served as corporate wide systems architect reviewing graphics systems, communications protocols, operating systems, and SNA/OSI interoperability as related to the division.

Systems engineer representing Bell Labs and AT&T on architecture and standards definition efforts in videotex (ANSI), home data networking (EIA), and ISDN initiatives. Also helped develop the technology plan for AT&T Consumer Products post divestiture.

Consulted and prototyped code for multiple divisions within Hughes related to digital image processing and rendering, automated image understanding and analysis, and Lambertion surface modeling of fly-through perspective terrain models derived from DMA data sources. Secret Clearance (lapsed).

Continuing Education, Finance & Accounting, Product Development

M.A., Cognitive Psychology

All but dissertation completed for Ph.D.

B.A., Psychology / Philosophy (Double)

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude. Alden Scholar (Deans List) 2,3,4. NW Pennsylvania Undergraduate Reseach Award (1975), Special Honors.