Experience

• Warm Glass Arts Instructor

  Kimball Arts Center | October 2013 - Current

  Introduction to Glass Fusion with David Robinson Next classes start October 1, 2014 and in November - 4 weeks each. I am an artist in disguise. By day I am an entrepreneur in a business suit and on weekends I have been a hot and warm-glass artist for almost 20 years now. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and skills with kids, dogs, "real artists", and anyone who enjoys a glass of good wine during or after class. I'm easy to spot, just look for the guy with a lot of band aids on his fingers. 
The Kimball Art Center hires local, regional and nationally known artists to instruct all courses. Currently the Kimball works with over 40 teachers a year to provide top quality and unique classes for the community and our visitors.

• Chief Executive Officer

  Navillum Nanotechnologies | January 2014 - Current

  Navillum Nanotechnologies, LLC is a chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. We have developed and patented an innovative method for fabricating quantum dots (QDs) and other types of semiconducting nanocrystals at commercial scale. Despite the great potential of quantum dot technology, a major barrier is how to produce high-quality quantum dots in large-scale or commercially viable amounts. The market for quantum dots is set to explode over the next several years, growing from $67M in sales in 2010 to $7.6B by 2022. At Navillum, we believe we have the solution to bridge this gap so that quantum dot applied technology can ultimately and finally be brought to market. As a result, Navillum is poised to become a key market supplier to end-use application manufacturers Founded in early 2012 by scientists at the University of Utah, the company already has impressive achievements to date. Navillum has received several grants from the University of Utah and the State of Utah as well as funding from the National Science Foundation to support the development of our technology. We were the grand prize winner of the 2012 CU Cleantech Competition, sponsored by the DOE and NREL, We were one of the six finalists in the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition to be held in Washington, D.C. on June 2012, as well as a semi-finalist in the Cleantech Open 2012. Our multidisciplinary team of talented scientists (University of Utah) and business mentors (Lassonde Business Center, University of Utah) are well positioned to guide our company through the startup process. At Navillum, we are helping to revolutionize energy efficient and clean energy technologies.

• Strategic Advisor

  Veristride | August 2014 - Current

  Veristride provides an integrated shoe insole / smartphone / analysis solution that gives users their own information about their movement abilities, including real-time information and feedback. We seek to allow older adults to evaluate, track, and improve mobility and stability. I am providing the company with advice about product market fit, company capitalization, and fund raising.

• President

  EZ LIFT Rescue Systems, Inc. | November 2011 - Current

  EZ LIFT Rescue Systems designs, manufactures, sells, and services patient immobilization and lift systems that incorporate a unique, patented, lift and transport system that is designed to minimize lift impacts to the back. These systems have been rigorously tested and show that proper use of the EZ LIFT Rescue System effectively reduces lift and torque required to move a patient from the ground to the gurney by more than 50%. The EZ LIFT Rescue System will minimize or even eliminate many of the serious back injuries being experienced by trauma personnel who are constantly struggling to lift and move patients at trauma scenes.

• Managing Partner

  Baseline Performance Partners | May 2011 - Current

  Baseline Performance Partners (BPP) is a specialty service provider designed to meet the specific needs of entrepreneurs who are just starting the next emerging growth company or running an established company that is ready to grow. BPP is the first company to provide a unique combination of business skills that can help you jump start your business, or to simply help your current business grow faster, run better, and more efficiently.

• Managing Partner

  SimplicityMD | September 2013 - July 2014

  SimplicityMD develops innovative Class I and Class II medical devices. Our mission is to develop simple, superior, class I or II medical devices to improve patient care and/or lower healthcare costs. Our motto “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo Da Vinci is embodied in our first company spin out, the “PenBlade” safety scalpel was directed by the voice of the customer. The ergonomic design is easy and inherent to use because it mimics the instrument most commonly operated by a physician, a click pen. The PenBlade, a third generation safety scalpel, will reduce provider sharps injuries because of the intuitive design and novel features. The patent pending ‘passive’ blade retraction and patented suture-trimming groove will both reduce blade exposures and encourage safe clinician behavior.

• Management Advisor

  Turbo Style Products, LLC | June 2011 - February 2014

  Turbo Style Design is creating a new market with products that meet the needs, wants and desires of women. Our business philosophy is simple; to design, manufacture, and sell innovative, creative products that allow women to personalize their automobile with products that reflect their unique, feminine personality. We started Turbo Style Products, LLC because we recognized that no serious attempt had been made to design, manufacture, and sell products that would allow women to make their automobile, an essentially “male product” into their own refection of their own female personality. CarLashes, our first product, has received a strong (even passionate) reception in our target market evidencing that our customers are indeed hungry for our products. This is a market that has never been served and the reaction to our initial products has validated that our approach to this market will allow us to develop significant market penetration and resulting sales based on our current sales trajectory.

• CFO

  One Revolution Foundation | December 2007 - Current 2011

• CEO & President

  Techniscan Medical Systems | July 2001 - September 2011

  TechniScan developed a flexible, innovative ultrasound technology platform, known as the Warm Bath Ultrasound (“WBU™”) imaging system. The WBU™ system produces three absolutely unique ultrasound images based on both traditional B-mode (reflective) ultrasound and on transmission ultrasound. The unique tomographic combination of these refraction corrected reflection images into a 3D volume will provide physicians with a new way of viewing and interpreting ultrasound images, especially when combined with the quantitative information about the bulk tissue properties of the breast provided by the numerical transmission data. WBU™ is designed to work with currently available commercial DICOM standard and TechniScan also developed a dedicated image viewing workstation that allows clinicians to better utilize the full spectrum of the information available from WBU™. The WBU system is still in development and clinical testing at the University of California San Diego. TechniScan partnered with one of Europe's leading medical manufacturers of Ultrasound and MRI - Esaote, S.p.A. Esaote supports product development, engineering and design, and clinical testing and will provide distribution for western Europe when the system is commercially released.

• Founder, President & CEO

  PhatPipe, Inc. | January 1998 - March 2001

  PhatPipe was a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, -a telecommunications service provider that offered internet service, private line, and special access services primarily to tenants of industrial real estate owners. PhatPipe was financed by and served the 10 largest industrial REITs in the USA. PhatPipe was featured on the cover of the April 2, 2001 issue of Telephony Magazine. As Founder and CEO, I led all efforts from formation and financing, staff hiring, network engineering, network operations, research, and product development efforts.

• Environmental Specialist

  Consultant for Base Realignment and Closure | February 1996 - June 2000

  As a specialty consultant to Congress as they deliberated the rule making and methods for closing U.S. Military Bases, I worked as a Team Member evaluating various Military Bases and the Environmental Liabilities that were associated with closing, remediating, and redeveloping these Taxpayer assets. My role was to assess the environmental impact of recommended closures and realignments, including the cost of restoration, waste management and environmental compliance. The Defense Department includes the cost of waste management and compliance with environmental laws and regulations and the computation of costs and savings for BRAC Criteria -- for example, the cost of compliance with the process requirements of the National Environmental Protection Act. Additionally, while the DOD does not include the cost of environmental restoration required by "Superfund legislation" in its compilation of costs and savings. Those costs are real and sometimes substantial and they were to be paid by the American taxpayer or by those firms brought in to complete the redevelopment of specific properties. In my position I was to provide an understanding the substance of the environmental impact of the totality of the DOD's recommendations and methodology and assumptions behind them. I used examples sites to determine the extent to which the environmental impact of a DOD recommendation and the costs for relating to them can be predicted and the range of uncertainty around those predictions.

• Contract Management

  Aon Construction Services / LA Unified School District Remediation and Construction | March 1996 - December 2000

  Advised clients about methods to minimize environmental costs and risks involved in complex real estate acquisitions. Selected clients / assignments; Base Realignment and Closure Commission Reporting and Rulemaking in Support of Base Closures. Developed evaluation and reporting strategies to allow a comprehensive understanding of the environmental risks often inherent in large industrial property transactions. Assisted in the development of the underwriting and evaluation criteria for Environmental Cost Cap Insurance businesses. Example clients; AIG Environmental Services; AON Construction Management. Completed 3 significant projects in less than three years with an aggregate budget total of more than $300 million in clean up and acquisition costs. Projects included negotiation of transaction requirements as well as Environmental Impact Reporting (EIR/EIS, Endangered Species, Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Monitoring, etc.) to Local, State, and Federal Agencies.

• President & COO

  MEC Environmental SciencesChief Operating Officer | March 1987 - March 1996

  Managed the day-to-day operations of this environmental consulting firm and associated toxicology laboratories, with 70 scientists focused on Environmental Impact Reporting, Monitoring, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Aquatic Toxicology, Port and Harbor Development, Site Characterization, and Regulatory Support. Direct responsibility for growing the business from 15 employees to 70 and revenues from $1 million annually to more than $10 million annually over 7 years. Founded and managed 2 Aquatic Toxicology Laboratories. Acquired and integrated competing laboratories. Managed both national and international projects ranging from simple environmental surveys to complex, multi-year monitoring and Environmental Impact Reports (CEQA/EIR/S) in support of Port and Harbor Construction, Oil Refinery Construction, Military Operations, Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Management, and Wastewater Outfall Operation Monitoring and Construction. Sold to Weston Engineering in 2000.

Education

• University of Utah

  BS | Business Administration