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David Nims currently resides in Sherwood, Oregon. His background includes a strong mix of technical and managerial roles, along with broad experience in sales, marketing, and business development. | ||||
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| Career summary | Executive/people management:
Fifteen years managing engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and customer support
at various levels up to President. Business development: Provided vision and leadership in launching a broad range of high-tech products into several new markets. Project management: Many years experience managing projects for government, military, and commercial customers, varying in size up to several million dollars. Technical: M.Sc. Physics. Eight years as an optical engineer, digital engineer, systems engineer, and project engineer. |
| Hillsdale Corporation May 2007 - Present | Mr. Nims currently serves as VP Sales & Marketing for this software services company, based in Portland, Oregon. |
| RAINS June 2006 - May 2007 | Executive Director of RAINS, a Portland based non-profit involved in Internet-based information sharing for Homeland Security purposes. |
| Worldvision 2003 - May 2006 | Managed the personal property donation department of this large international charity. More than doubled the donation dollar volume by adjusting the advertising mix to emphasize Internet advertising. |
| Consulting 2000 - 2003 | Provided consulting services in marketing, sales, business development, and strategic planning, primarily to the graphic arts market. |
| Idanit/Scitex 1996 - 1999 | In various roles, first as an independent contractor, helped launch Idanit's wide-format digital, ink-jet printer into the North American outdoor advertising market. Developed media contacts, made initial sales to beta sites, introduced the product to most likely potential users. Success led to Idanit's acquisition by Scitex. |
| Vertical Graphics 1994 - 1996 | As President/owner of Vertical Graphics, developed and marketed a software product for automation of the design of flyers targeted at the residential real-estate market. Ultimately, the company was not successful, as the minimum cost for printing these flyers at high-quality was too high for the typical real-estate sales person. |
| Scenicsoft, Inc. 1992 - 1994 | As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and part owner, Mr. Nims developed the OEM market for Scenicsoft's imposition software product, PREPS. Major contracts were signed with Xerox, Scitex, Indigo, and CREO, resulting in Scenicsoft becoming the leading supplier of imposition software to the graphic arts market in North America, and a major supplier worldwide. As a result of this success, ScenicSoft was acquired by CREO. |
| Optrotech 1987 - 1992 |
As President of Optrotech, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Optrotech Ltd., an Israeli
company, Mr. Nims had profit/loss responsibility for this 150-person company. The U.S. company
was primarily responsible for sales and customer support in the North American market.
Optrotech designed and manufactured optical inspection systems and digital film imaging
systems for the printed circuit and graphic arts industries. During his tenure, both
sales and market share grew substantially. During his last two years with Optrotech, Mr. Nims served as V.P. Business Development, reporting directly to the President of Optrotech Ltd. In this capacity, his major endeavor was the successful launch of the Sprint-110, the first eight-page imagesetter, into the commercial printing market. |
| MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates 1979 - 1987 |
Joined MDA as a Project Manager, for their Meteorological Systems Group, which provided
weather-satellite ground stations for the world market. This led to the position of
Operations Manager, responsible for all the project management operations within the Group. When the company reorganized into business areas, Mr. Nims was promoted to Business Area Manager for the Electro-Optical business area, responsible for engineering, manufacturing, and marketing. Developed and launched several lines of digital film image recorders for satellite remote sensing application, the commercial graphic arts market, the printed circuit imaging market, the seismic data recording market, and the U.S. DOD market. |
| Goodyear Aerospace 1969 - 1979 | Mr. Nims joined Goodyear Aerospace as an optical engineer, primarily working on optical processors for Goodyear's synthetic-aperture radar imaging systems. This transitioned into roles in optical design, digital design, systems engineering, project engineering, and project management for similar systems, as well as for several digital film recorder projects. |
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