Howard Ryan - Founder and Chief Executive Officer

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Howard Ryan has developed innovative and first-to-market products for the enterprise software industry for over a decade.  Howard is a recognized leader and pioneer of several newly driven internet technologies.  The culmination of Mr. Ryan's experience and expertise resulted in launch of Desktop Alert.  More on Mr. Ryan's background is here.

David Zadick - President

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Mr. Zadick's distinguished career includes mass notification deployments to the White House, numerous American nuclear facilities, Congress and over 200 other Department of Defense and government facilities worldwide. Mr. Zadick will manage and direct company operations and also lead Desktop Alert initiatives into new market segments. Mr. Zadick has accrued over 25 million dollars in sales to the most crucial and prestigious governmental agencies in America for worldwide mass notification implementations.  More on Mr. Zadick's background is here.

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Buddy was officer and an Avionics Flight Test Engineer at Edwards AFB. Buddy separated from the Air Force 1992 and began a career in information technology holding positions of network architect, Senior Developer, IT Director as well as consulting to corporations like Match.com, Adams Golf and McAfee.  Buddy joined the Desktop Alert team in January of 2005.  Buddy recently commandeered the Desktop Alert ERP install at LLGM.  Buddy took over at Desktop Alert after Justin finished his two coop semesters at Desktop Alert.  Buddy wrote all of the Active Directory integration in our software and he is core of our over all offerings.

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Vicki came to our firm when she recognized the strong growth at Desktop Alert and recognized that we needed major help coordinating business logistics.  As a leader in the Northern New Jersey real estate market for well over 20 years, Vicki brings a plethora of talent to the firm.  Vicki is the glue that helps all of us at Desktop Alert keep the business together.  If you ever do business with Desktop Alert, you will be meeting Vicki!

Stephen Forte - Microsoft Regional Director

Our founders met Stephen in 2005 when taking C# computer programming classes being taught by Stephen at Baruch College.  Stephen has established himself as an world-leading industry expert on Microsoft Technology with certifiable accreditations including that of Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP..

Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was recently acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN). Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world.

He has written several books on database development including Programming SQL Server 2005 (MS Press) and is working on Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press).

Stephen has provided key contributions to the Desktop Alert data sharing topology.

Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen is also an MBA candidate (June 2008) at the City University of New York (Baruch College).

Justin Van Patten worked with Desktop Alerts founder Howard Ryan from 1998 to 2004 until being offered a fulltime position as a manager at Microsoft.  Justin's contributions to the Desktop Alert application were and continue to be significant. 

Justin is currently a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) of the .NET Framework.  He is responsible for many of the types in the Base Class Library (BCL).  Justin is also also currently driving many of Microsoft community initiatives, such as the BCLTeam WebLog.  Justin's home page is here.

Andre Durand has provided insightful advice and key resources to Desktop Alert since day one of the company's existence. 

Andre Durand is a twelve year veteran of the enterprise software industry, a recognized leader in the identity industry and a pioneer behind the concepts of the digital identity network. In addition to his role as CEO of Ping Identity, Mr. Durand co-founded and co-chairs Digital ID World, the official identity industry conference and magazine. Prior to Ping Identity, Mr. Durand founded Jabber, Inc., a leading global provider of in instant messaging and presence management platforms serving both the carrier and enterprise markets. While at Jabber, Mr. Durand supported the incubation of the Jabber Software Foundation, a non-profit setup to facilitate growth of the Jabber Open Source project, where he served as chairman for 18 months, helping to drive adoption of Jabber's innovative hybrid open source and commercialization strategy. Prior to Jabber, Inc., Mr. Durand founded Durand Communications, a provider of client/server solutions for online databases and applications, where served as CEO for five years before selling the company to Webb Interactive in 1998.

Retired - Major, United States Air Force

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Retired majors David Morgan Jr., Pat Morgan and David Morgan line up in their service dress uniform. All three generations of the Morgan family have flown the C-130 Hercules.                 Read more here....

Pat Morgan is a certified project management consultant to the commercial and federal research and development (R&D) sectors with over 20 years experience in systems-based Project Management. Pat is an internationally recognized project management researcher and conference speaker, and has appeared in leading professional management trade magazines. Pat is on the Board of Directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (www.asapm.org), as well as the Licensing Executive Society's - Software Licensing Task Force (http://www.usa-canada.les.org/).

Retired - United States Navy

Robert Hunt is a lifelong successful banker/realtor from the Northern New Jersey area.  Robert's assistance to Desktop Alert has be invaluable for the last 5 years.  Desktop Alert can thank Mr. Hunt for helping the company continue to forge ahead during the early days of the companies existence.

Retired - Air National Guard Officer - Release

"Bringing Tim on board allows Desktop to further strengthen our roots in the military community," commented Howard Ryan, president and CEO of Desktop Alert. "As we build and market network-centric emergency alerting systems to the DoD, it's incredibly valuable to have the perspective of a career military professional who has first-hand experience implementing systems in the defense environment. We're honored and excited to have Tim as a member of our team and about the experience and enthusiasm he brings."

When describing his reasons for joining the Desktop team, Childers stated, "Having spent my entire military career at the Wing or Squadron level, I have seen first hand what it takes to operate and manage an operational unit and I understand the needs of a front-line organization at this level. From my varied experiences in the communications field, base operations and flying operations to management of flight and mission scheduling and most recently in Command and Control, I know the value of accurate and timely notification during routine and emergency situations.” Childers adds: “Having seen Desktop Alert’s capability demonstrated and realizing how this type of technology would’ve enhanced my job in Base Operations and the Command Post, I became excited in the product, the company and management team leading it. That's why I am honored to become a part of the team."