 From the 1990s through the present, Doug Dyment has focused his communication skills and industry experience on the technical sales & marketing of new technologies, largely for startup companies. This activity has spanned six years with Echelon Corporation, introducing LonWorks, a distributed control network technology; two years with Ardent Computer Corporation, promoting a new class of computer system combining vector arithmetic and graphics hardware technologies in a unified architecture; two years with Computer Access Technology Corp. (CATC), marketing protocol tools, and three years with Silicon Energy Corporation (now part of Itron), which sells Web-based enterprise energy management systems. Currently, Doug develops & conducts classes, provides coaching services, and does instructional design for A.S.K. Learning, a leading company in the training of Sales Engineering personnel. His titles have varied, from Director of Technical Marketing to Principal Technology Consultant, but his roles have generally encompassed a variety of product marketing and pre-sales responsibilities, including those of technical message developer, corporate spokesman, and technology evangelist (and even—on occasion—webmaster and training director).
In the late 1980s, Dr. Dyment was a tenured Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, occupying the school's first industrially funded chair: the Canadian Pacific Chair in Computer Applications. His research and teaching included real-time systems, computational architectures, and software engineering. He was a director of the Institute for Computer Research, co-director of the Multiprocessing Systems Group, and Associate Chairman for Undergraduate Studies. He also taught graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor with the University of British Columbia.
Prior to this, Doug was immersed in software development roles, notably as Vice President, Data General Canada, where he managed the three corporate engineering groups (Hardware, Software, and Field Engineering), and was principal architect for several of the company's software products, including RTOS, the real-time operating system kernel that served as the basis for all subsequent Data General operating systems.
Dr. Dyment has presented seminars, lectures, and papers in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, the Peoples Republic of China, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States. His various professional affiliations have included the ACM, IEEE, National Speakers Association, International Platform Association, Ocean Cruising Club, and Mensa. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science, and can still be spotted writing JavaScript & Python code. |
