Frank W. Sudia

2912 Diamond St. #345	Tel: 650-714-0456
San Francisco, CA 94131	Fax: 866-861-6925
www.fwsudia.com	fs409-at-fwsudia-dot-com

Summary

• Senior technical analyst / marketing-sales support / strong technical writer
• Deal team leader or team member for M&A, strategic alliances, and licenses
• Corporate, patent, trademark, license, and contract administration
• Extensive financial services, database, patent-trademark, and info-sec experience.
• Product management for security technologies or enterprise applications

Employment

Avocet Sports Technology, Inc. (founded 1977)

VP of Business Development / Jan 2004 to present

• Coordinate patent and trademark protection program
• Develop outsourcing and licensing relationships
• Police trademark and copyright infringements
• Identify corporate partners to pursue patent infringers

FW Sudia Consulting (formerly SudiaLab)

Owner (self-employed) / January 1999 to Present

· Information security policy consulting

· Expert evaluations of information security technologies

· Intellectual property protection and licensing

• Corporate strategy consulting

Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank NY)

Managing Director (role), BT Strategic Ventures / Aug 1997 to Dec 1998

• Evaluated proposed financial services and information security investments.
• Member of “New World of Banking” Committee
• Co-managed seed-stage incubator (subsequently Deutsche Bank eVentures)

Vice-President, BT Electronic Commerce (CertCo) / April 1994 to April 1997

• Designed e-document security technologies
• Participated in legal and technical standards bodies
• Negotiated critical patent in-licenses
• Managed all patent and trademark work, including foreign filings
• Assisted with spinout of subsidiary valued at $150 million

Asst. Vice-President, Technology Strategic Planning / Jan 1991 to March 1994

• Developed high-value financial trading systems
• Developed “BTAS” bank-wide token-based single sign-on system

Prior to Bankers Trust, Frank worked in Washington, DC as a consultant to various government agencies, including HHS, FDA, EPA, NIH, National Park Service, Minerals Management Service, and Office of Surface Mining. (Dates and details on request. See database projects list below.)

Education

J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, 1983

B.A., Social Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979

LES Fundamentals of Intellectual Asset Management, Certificate, October 2001

PKI and Data Security Projects (1992-98)

Fintegrity Ventures

• Designed efficient digital certificate revocation notification system (CRNS) plus innovative “blocked hash tree” (BHT) authorization and revocation technologies (1999).
• Co-designed “Fair Witness” technology for secure third-party verification of critical web transactions (1999).

BT Ventures

• Designed PKI-based Certified Electronic Mail (CEM) system, including ability to require a signed receipt from the recipient without third party intervention (1997-98).

BT Electronic Commerce / CertCo, Inc.

• Co-designed “CryptWrap” e-contracting and digital rights management system (1996).
• Designed Reliance Manager (RM) technology, online certificate status checking coupled with identity warranty (1995-96), licensed to Identrus (April 2001).
• Designed “Multi-Step Signing” distributed split-key CA technology, including key servers, signing officer and registration agent workstations. Delivered to MasterCard/Visa (SetCo) for SET Credit Card Payment System Root CA (1995-96).
• Designed “Acquire” online digital cash system, based on a wire-transfer paradigm (1995-96).
• Designed signing authority model for banking, corporate, legal, and medical use. Formed the basis for ANSI X9.45, and related ATSM medical records standard (1994-95).
• Designed corporate key escrow system, including international independence, choice of agents, and audit protections. Highly rated by leading security experts (1993-94).

Bankers Trust Technology

• Designer and team leader for BT Authentication Server (BTAS), including single-signon, one-time password tokens, Kerberos, public-key exchange, and encryption (1992-3). Used by up to 40,000 employees and clients of Deutsche Bank accessing over 200 financial applications, and also deployed at State Street Bank and Goldman Sachs.

Standards and Policy Work

American Bankers Association, X9.F1 Working Group; Leading contributor to ANSI X9.30-31, X9.55, X9.79, and X.509 Version 3; Co-Author of ANSI X9.45, "Enhanced Management Controls Using Attribute Certificates." 

American Bar Association, Section of Science and Technology Law, Information Security Committee (ABA-ISC); Member of Editorial Committee for ABA-ISC "Digital Signature Guidelines" (1994); CyberNotary Committee, on international notarial practice. Contributed to passage of US federal E-SIGN Act, Utah Digital Signature Act, and the Florida & Alabama Civil Notary Laws.

American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM E-31.20 Medical Records Authentication.

National Notary Association, Advisor for Model Notary Act.

Technical Papers & Other Publications

• How to Go for a Walk -- A Guide to Creative Thinking, Sept 2006
• Data Content Monitoring for Security, Integrity, and Availability, IP Locks, Sept 2002
• An Overview of Structured Licensing, Les Nouvelles (Journal of the Licensing Executives Society), Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Dec 2001
• A Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen

v0.9 Pre-print on KurzweilAI.net, August 2001

v1.0 Journal of Futures Studies, November 2001, Tamkang University, Taipei

v1.1 Law Update, August 2004, Al Tamimi & Co, Dubai

v1.2 Special Report, Lifeboat Foundation, March 2007

• Blocked Hash Tree Status and Entitlement System, Sept 2000
• Fax Replacement: A White Paper (EDS), July 1999
• A Classic Power Struggle, Computer World Emmerce, Nov 1997
• Commercialization of Digital Signatures, ANSI X9 Working Paper, Feb 1994

Business Database Projects (1985-92)

• Bankers Trust Global Funding, served as DBA for "Collateral Management” government bond trading system handling up to $13 billion/day in repurchase (repo) agreements (1992). 
• Fidelity Investments, designed mainframe components for “Proxy Edge” on-line proxy voting service. Used by Fidelity to vote over 20,000 share positions per year and marketed to other large mutual funds (1990). 
• Independent Election Corp., substantial rewrite of "Contest System," handling most United States proxy elections with two or more solicitation groups. Maintained and supported “Verbal Voting” call-in proxy voting system (1989-90).
• Director Services Corp., developed "Industry Practice Report" system to compare expense data across mutual fund companies (1987-89). 
• U.S. National Institutes of Health, scientific equipment rental program, developed “SERP” system to manage inventory, rentals, and purchase orders (1988-89). 
• U.S. National Park Service, developed "National Archeology Database" (NADB) used at over 60 sites to collect and manage archeological survey reports (1987-88). 
• Bell of Pennsylvania, developed "Telecommunications Demand Model" for time-series and I/O modeling of statewide telecommunications demand (1986-7). 
• U.S. Small Business Administration, developed Financial Statement Forecasting System (FSFS) to review loan recipient performance and make recommendations (1986). 
• PNR Associates, Philadelphia, PA, developed and managed litigation support system to assess historical market share in a product liability (asbestos) case (1986). 
• U.S. Office of Surface Mining, developed Director's Issue Management System (1986). 
• U.S. Minerals Management Service, developed tracking system for appeals concerning federal oil, gas, and mineral leases (1985-6). 
• U.S. Office of Surface Mining, developed “MBO” regulatory tracking system (1985).

Patents & Published Applications

As of August 19, 2007 my issued patents had been cited 698 times in other US patents, an average of 50 times each.

Issued US Patents

7,085,780: Method and apparatus for monitoring a database system, 8-1-06

6,209,091: Multi-step digital signature method and system, 3-27-01

6,029,150: Payment and transactions in electronic commerce system (co-designer), 2-22-2000

5,995,625: Electronic cryptographic packaging, 11-30-99

5,903,882: Reliance server for electronic transaction system, 5-11-99

5,867,578: Adaptive multi-step digital signature system and method of operation thereof, 2-2-99

5,825,880: Multi-step digital signature method and system, 10-20-98

5,659,616: Method for securely using digital signatures in a cryptographic system, 8-19-97

4,388,892: Process and apparatus for generation of steam via catalytic combustion, 6-21-83

6,009,177: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 12-28-99

5,872,849: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 2-16-99

5,857,022: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 1-5-99

5,850,451: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 12-15-98

5,841,865: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 11-24-98

5,799,086: Enhanced cryptographic system and method with key escrow feature, 8-25-98

Published Applications

20050204129: Multi-step digital signature method and system

20050114666: Blocked tree authorization and status systems

20050114653: Certificate revocation notification systems

20040024736: Method and apparatus for monitoring a database system

20020062438: Reliance server for electronic transaction system

20020029337: Method for securely using digital signatures in a commercial cryptographic system

20020013898: Method and apparatus for roaming use of cryptographic values

20010050990: Method for initiating a stream-oriented encrypted communication

20010011255: Reliance management for electronic transaction system

WO 01/25874: System [...] for providing verified network sessions with visual confirmation

WO 01/11812: Distributed rule enforcement system

WO 00/22787: Method [...] for providing enhanced electronic mail services

Tools Skills

C, Visual Studio, BSafe, SQL (Sybase, Oracle, IBM DB2), xBase, some Unix

MS-Word, PowerPoint, Visio, FrontPage, Acrobat, Excel, Visual FoxPro

Invited Talks & Panels

IP Society / Santa Cruz / Leveraging IP Assets	Aug 2002
VC Task Force / Brobeck / Leveraging IP Assets	July 2002
EDS / Baltimore Technologies / PKI Symposium	June 1999
FT Ventures / LP Meeting / Internet Security	June 1999
Columbia / Etzioni Encryption Debate Panelist	April 1999
Digital Commerce Society of New York	Nov 1998
National Notary Association Annual Conference	June 1996
E-Mail World / Web World Conference	April 1995
AICPA Computer Audit Subcommittee	Q1 1995
International Cryptography Institute	Oct 1995
International Information Integrity Institute (Merck)	1995
Office of Technology Assessment, Panel	Dec 1994
Institute of Internal Auditors, Conference Panel	Fall 1994
National Association of Secretaries of State	July 1994
National Conference on Supercomputing Applications	June 1994
US Council for Int'l Business, Info Policy Committee	May 1994
US Computer System Security and Privacy Adv. Board	Mar 1994
ANSI X9.F1 Wholesale Financial Services Security	Feb 1994
RSA Data Security Conference (key recovery)	Jan 1994
RSA Data Security Conference (endpoint security)	Jan 1993

Awards and Advisory Boards

KurzweilAI.net, “Big Thinkers List” (2001)

Global Consciousness Project, Theory Committee (2002)

Lifeboat Foundation, Advisory Board (2006-8)