Ray Di Casparro

PROFILE

A senior management executive with international and domestic expertise in smart phones, telecommunications, personal computers, mainframe computers, the Internet, corporate networks, and intelligent consumer electronics

STRENGTHS

  • High integrity, honest, responsible, and trusted by executive leaders in the community

  • Professional business leadership and adherence to corporate governance and stewardship

  • Persistent and unswerving in the achievement of objectives, projects, and assignments

2009 Digital Forensics Training Program by CyberSecurity Institute

2009 Law and Digital Forensics Course at University of Washington Extension (CEU 3)

2009 Accounting and Computer Forensics by Institute of Internal Auditors

2010 University of Washington Digital Forensics Tools and Processes (CEU 3) included: Xways Forensics, FTK 1.8 and 3.04, FTK Imager, and numerous small forensic tools)

2010 Cell Phone Forensics and, Tracking USB Devices--by the Computer Technology Investigators Network. 

Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Investigate criminal/civil evidence and company policy violations on computers and cell phones

  • Help corporations establish policies for computer, network and Internet use in the workplace

  • Expert witness testimony

  • Ensure availability of latest digital forensics strategies, tools, and education

  • Create digital forensic resources and labs for corporations, law enforcement, and law firms

  • Lead a team to deploy advanced TCP/IP networks, as models for home networks of the future which included: Xbox, Zune, Bing, Windows Media Center PCs, Cisco Routers

Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, Entertainment and Devices Division  2007-2008

Directed advanced technology groups through the acquisition process for decisions by executives and MS board of directors 

  • Drove business and technical due diligence including, technical assessment of scalability, security risk and threats, use of Open Source, and integration with strategic product road maps

  • Identified emerging (5-8 years) technologies and companies for acquisition examples include witricity and secure universal intelligent bank payment cards to replace credit and loyalty cards currently in use by U.S. DOD

Director of Entertainment Strategy, Entertainment and Devices Division    2002-2006

Led technical business team to develop and execute technical innovative strategies for the Xbox 360 –a PowerPC chip based video game console

  • Developed and executed transformational technical and intellectual property strategies which resulted in strategic hardware and software architecture decisions—use of Moore’s Law to predict technology cross over points for future products; licensing DRAM intellectual property in conjunction with a fabless silicon strategy to drive down pricing; consolidating ICs and subsystem circuitry for fewer electronic components

  • Worked closely with business and technical teams on HDD--Seagate and WD, DVD--HLDS, Philips, Toshiba, Samsung, DRAM—Samsung and Infineon, silicon suppliers--UMC and TSMC, CPU--Intel and IBM. 

  • Licensed unique intellectual property to ensure DVD video game security could not be pirated or hacked therefore protecting the company’s business model

Offered brand name publishers like NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Prisa, La Tribune and the Times of London a secure micro payment system for new media content delivery over cell phones and Internet PCs

  • Hired, trained, mentored, managed and led international team to define the unique technical and business rules of international transactions

  • Worked with software engineers and architects to modify the Qpass system for mobile phones and PCs to work in international markets

Kidney Foundation--Washington, Redmond, WA
Full-time Volunteer Executive Director and Founder      
1999-2000

  • Awarded the Volunteer of the Year award by the National Organization

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Business Development Manager, Microsoft European Division  (Paris, FR)   1994-1996

  • Developed and executed plan for burgeoning European telecommunications communications sector

  • Identified and managed European ISP partners to develop Microsoft’s first TCP/IP Internet network—MSN

      US PC OEM Division          1990-1994

  • Worked with the leading PC OEMS on Microsoft’s advanced technologies tablet computing, multimedia systems, Windows CE, Media Room/VOD service

  • Worked closely with technical teams of third parties eg: Motorola, Scientific Atlanta (owned by Cisco), NetFrame, Casio, NEC, and Toshiba to create strategic innovative products

  • Entrusted with business and technical responsibility of the Chairman’s personal interest account

Brown & Associates, Watertown, MA (largest systems integrator in New England)
Vice President/Owner          1985-1989

  • Lead a team of people to educate Fortune 1000 accounts eg: Gillette, AIG, John Hancock Mutual Life, MIT, Raytheon, about local and wide area network technologies

  • Worked with large corporate IT departments to plan and deploy their first TCP/IP LAN/WAN systems from 3Com, IBM, Microsoft, and Novell

Computerland of New England (largest PC reseller in New England)
Business Development          1982-1984

  • Directed and lead a strategy for ~70 employees to sell personal computers and applications to large institutions like Textron, Polaroid, MIT, Harvard University, Gillette, John Hancock Mutual Life

  • Sold, installed and supported the first PCs from IBM, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corporation including operating system and application support to major corporations in the Boston area.

  • Sold and installed mini-computer systems (B90) for general business use including: conducting needs analysis and understanding business processes

  • Sold mainframe computers (1100 and B9000 ) to state and local municipal governments in New England

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Founder and volunteer Executive Director, National Kidney Foundation, Washington State

Board Vice Chairman, Life Center Northwest

Founder and Board Member, Living Legacy Foundation

Executive Board Member, Eastside Domestic Violence

Board Member, National ParentNet Association

Youth Leader, Esperanza International


 

 

 

 

 

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