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Thane Plambeck
2341 Tasso Street
Palo Alto, California 94301
650 321 4884 Office
650 323 4928 Fax
thane@best.com
http://www.plambeck.org

Education

University of Nebraska at Lincoln       Mathematics        BA  1985
Stanford University                     Computer Science   PhD 1990

Positions

2001-present Independent Consultant 
2000-2001    Principal Scientist, CTO Organization, VeriSign Inc 
1999-2000    Chief Architect, Signio Inc                                [Acquired by VeriSign]
1997-1999    President and CEO, Structured Arts Computing Corporation   [Acquired by Signio]
1995-1997    Independent Consultant 
1995         Summer Staff, IDA-CCR (Princeton, NJ) 
1991-1995    President & Co-founder, PostModern Computing Technologies, Inc.  [Acquired by Visigenic]
1991         Summer Staff, IDA-CCR (Princeton, NJ)
1990         Senior Software Engineer, Teknekron Software Systems (Now TIBCO)

Other experience (six months or more)

1985         Visiting Associate, Mathematics, University of Birmingham, England (9 months)

Awards

1985         Phi Beta Kappa        
1983         World Champion, ACM International Collegiate Computer Programming Contest
             (with David Leavitt, Paul Petersen, and Mark Tuttle)	
1980         National Merit Scholar        
1974         Nebraska Elementary School (K-6) Scholastic Chess Champion

Executive Corporate Positions

1999-2000    Executive Staff, Signio, Inc
1997-1999    Executive Staff & Board Member, Structured Arts Computing Corporation
1991-1995    Executive Staff & Board Member, PostModern Computing Technologies, Inc.

Consulting Clients [Nature of Work]

ArrayComm                  [Network Security]
C*ATS Software             [Financial Derivatives]
International Risk Control [Financial Derivatives]
Numerical Technologies     [Semiconductor Design Tools]
Oracle                     [CORBA & Distributed Systems]
Qualys                     [Network Security]
Talarian                   [CORBA & Distributed Systems]
VeriSign                   [Network Security]

Longer Term Consultative Assignments

1997         Chief Operating Officer, Numerical Technologies, Inc.
1995         VP Engineering, International Risk Control

Undergraduate Teaching Experience

1988         Data Structures, Stanford University
1989         Discrete Mathematics, Stanford University

Patents

2000         "Authenticated Payment" (Filed March 2000, assigned to VeriSign)

Publications

Five peer-reviewed publications in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Thesis Title & Graduate Advisor

"Semigroups and Transitive Closure in Deductive Databases." Jeff Ullman, Stanford University.

Personal

Founding Donor, The Marlene and Vern Plambeck Endowment for the Fine Arts (29 January 2001).
Married. Two children.