David H. Holtzman Totally Explained

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David H. Holtzman is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, security expert, technologist, technology executive, and writer. Initiatives he spearheaded have radically changed the way people interact with technology.

Dot Com Boom

During the Dot Com Boom of the late 1990s, Holtzman ran one of the most critical networks in the world —- the domain name system. As Chief Technology Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's master root server, Holtzman oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from five hundred thousand to over twenty million domain names.

Early career

Early in his technology career Holtzman was a cryptographic analyst, Russian linguist, and submariner with the U.S. Naval Security Group. He worked at the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center as an intelligence analyst, focusing chiefly on the Soviet Manned Space program. As chief scientist at IBM's Internet Information Technology group, Holtzman managed the development of IBM's information product and service offering to encrypt and sell digitized content across the Internet, which was called cryptolopes. He served as a senior analyst for Booz Allen Hamilton for several years, where he ran technology-driven restructuring initiatives for Wall Street firms and large financial institutions. He also designed and built a networked, heterogeneous database and text retrieval system called Minerva, which was used by NATO and several trade associations before being sold to IBM in 1994.
Holtzman has designed and built numerous information-based software systems and is the author of several patents dealing in areas as diverse as identity management, digital rights management and domain name registration. Mr. Holtzman was CEO, founder and chairman of Opion, a venture-backed start-up company he started in 1999. He innovated and managed the development of several patented and innovative marketing intelligence technologies involving pseudonymity, reputation-ranking and "buzz" tracking. He has consulted on marketing strategy for several large corporations, including Amazon.com. He has been a security consultant for several organizations, private and public, including Wesley Clark’s 2004 presidential campaign. He was also CTO for All-America PAC, Senator Evan Bayh's leadership PAC leading up to the 2008 Presidential election. He has been an adviser to over a dozen high-tech companies throughout North America. He has taught business courses as an adjunct associate MBA professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and entrepreneurship via a cutting edge “Lecture On Demand” technique for the University of Pittsburgh using distance learning software and podcasts.
In addition to being the author of the recently released (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and consulting, Holtzman is currently the president of GlobalPOV

, a firm he founded to explore significant technology issues and their affects on society. He has been interviewed by major news media including the New York Times, CNN, and USA Today. Holtzman wrote a monthly ethics and privacy

column called "Flashpoint" for CSO [ChiefSecurity Officer] Magazine, and his essays have been frequently published in BusinessWeek

as well as Wired Magazine, CNET, and ZDNet. Holtzman publishes daily on topics such as privacy, intellectual property, business, and pop culture on his blog, www.globalpov.com

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Mr. Holtzman is currently the co-founder, Chairman and CTO of Pseuds, Inc. a stealth startup company headquartered in Northern Virginia.

Education

Holtzman has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the father of five children, whom he raised as a single parent. He likes to sail, watch Shakespearean plays, and cook.

Some Articles Written by Holtzman

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http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/view.html?pg=1
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-947327.html
http://www.csoonline.com/read/030104/flashpoint.html
http://www.csoonline.com/read/020104/flashpoint.html
http://www.csoonline.com/read/010104/flashpoint.html

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