Summary

I consider myself to be: an engineer and a businessman; a tactician and a strategist; a team player and a tough manager; a software architect and a coder; a standards politician and a protocol guru; a student of the medium and a leader.

The result: an incomparable breadth of knowledge and experience.

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Experience

Started as a one-man consulting shop which grew within 5 years to 12 employees and annual revenues of $1.2 million. Made a succesful transition from a consulting business to a products and services company based on open-source and free software. All company protocols, software and services are now exclusively open-source.

Built a complete state-of-the-art Data Center from the ground up, including redundant stable power and backup generator, full UPS protection and redundant Internet connections. Created numerous domains in support of the company's protocols, software, services, and business strategies. These include: neda.com, byName.net, byNumber.net, byAlias.net, byMemory.net, bySource.org,
byBinary.org, ForSMB.net, mailMeAnywhere.org, leapforum.org, emsd.org and esro.org.

Provided consulting and/or contract engineering services for numerous clients and projects. Satisfied clients include: Sierra Wireless, AT&T Wireless Data Division, CDPD Forum, Data Critical, Electronic Mail Association, Emulex, Motorola, Microsoft.

From 1992 to 1995, played a key role in the creation of the Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) industry. Led the technical network architecture design for the CDPD specifications, and was directly involved in the planning, development and deployment of the network services for AT&T Wireless Services.

Provided liaison and advocacy for client interactions with various standards organizations including TIA, ANSI and IETF/IESG/IAB.

Participated in the strategic planning and protocol design for Mobile E-Mail and Paging services of AT&T Messaging Divison.

Free Protocols Foundation Bellevue, WA 2000 - Present

Founded the Free Protocols Foundation (FPF) as a U.S. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. The FPF is an independent public forum dedicated to the support of patent-free protocols. Created web sites (http://www.freeprotocols.org) and structures to support FPF activities. Formulated policies and procedures for maintaining patent-free protocols.

Teknekron Communication Systems Bellevue, WA 1990 - 1991

Managed the architectural design and implementation of medium-scale Network Management systems of SS7 networks, using SNMP and CMIP.

Boeing Computer Services Bellevue, WA 1989 - 1990

Responsible for standards tracking and strategic planning of Directory Services (X.500) in Boeing office. Chairman of North American MAP/TOP Directory Services Technical Committee. Represented Boeing in NIST-OIW and ANSI OSI standards committees.

Interconnections Bellevue, WA 1988 - 1989 Designed and implemented the network layer of XNS for Novell Netware VMS. Ported software to SCO Unix as a Kernel Streams Module.

Retix Santa Monica, CA 1986 - 1988

One of the original seven software engineers who developed the core technology for Retix. Lower layers work was focused on Transport Class 4, IP, LLC1 and 802.3 drivers. Upper layers work was focused on X.400. Ported Retix's lower layer software to various hardware platforms and operating systems.

Teltone Corporation Seattle, WA 1983 - 1985

Developed a local telephone call billing system for step-by-step and cross-bar central offices in C for custom embedded Teltone hardware. Worked closely with hardware engineers to ensure overall proper system functionality.

Education

Seattle University Seattle, WA 1978-1981 Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Publications

I have a large number of publications; a small sample follows. All of these publications are web accessible at the indicated URLs.

1. M. Banan, J. Cheng, and M. Taylor. AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2. Request for Comments (Informational) 2188, Neda Communications, Inc., September 1997. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2188.txt

2. Banan, M. Neda's Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery (EMSD) Protocol Specification Version 1.3. Request for Comments (Informational) 2524, Neda Communications, Inc., February 1999. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2524.txt

3. Mark S. Taylor and William Waung and Mohsen Banan. Internetwork Mobility: The CDPD Approach. Prentice Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1997.
   http://www.leapforum.org/published/internetworkMobility

4. Mohsen Banan and Andrew Hammoude. Operation WhiteBerry. A component of The LEAP Manifesto, LEAP Forum, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000.
   http://www.LEAPForum.org/operationWhiteberry/index.html

5. Mohsen Banan. The WAP Trap - An Expos of the Wireless Application Protocol. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. http://www.freeprotocols.org/wapTrap

6. Mohsen Banan. A Vision for Libre Internet Application Services. LEAP Forum, Bellevue, WA, February, 2002.
   http://www.mailmeanywhere.org/doc.free/neda/libre_vision/liasVision/fullVision/accessPage.html

7. Mohsen Banan. Free Protocols Foundation Policies and Procedures. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. http://www.freeprotocols.org/freeProtocolProcess/main.html

8. Mohsen Banan. Lightweight & Efficient Application Protocol (LEAP) Manifesto. LEAP Forum, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. http://www.leapforum.org/LEAP/Manifesto/completeManifesto

9. Banan et al. Open C Platform. Neda Communications, Inc., Bellevue, WA, October, 1996.
   http://www.mailmeanywhere.org/sw.free/neda/foundations/ocp/OCP-MulPub/accessPage.html

10. Mohsen Banan. Computer Telephone Interface. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Thesis, University of Washington, August, 1982.
    http://www.vorde.org/voiceProcessing/mb-cti-thesis/main.html

Software

I have developed a very large body of software; a small sample follows. All of the following software is licensed under the GPL or LGPL, and is freely available at the indicated URLs.