Alan D. DeRossett; Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Getting in on the ground floor as an Internet Service Provider Mr. DeRossett has been in a position to watch trends and develop relationships with many of the original dot com startups that are now highly successful. His experiences and vision have led to his ability to be the architect of numerous technological advances and have given him a unique understanding of how to integrate these technologies.

He worked for Laser Identification systems in Camarillo as an application engineer using Laser devices as marking and engraving tools. For the music industry, sound studios and related recording studios Mr. DeRossett set up some of the first video editing. With his assistance, Paramount studios and the American Film Institute began using Silicon Graphics computer systems for the archival of film to digital media.

He is also a member of the ATT wireless developer program as well as a Sun Microsystems developer and a certified Apple programmer. He has done research on Radio Frequency (RF) technology with Sun Microsystems and is a developer for RFID programs at Sun.

He is currently an IFX programmer for Automated Clearinghouse Interfaces and ISO 8583 financial messaging; tools used for integration between front end and back end processing for the banking industry.

He has been involved with the Open Source software community for a number of years. His interest in Smart Phone Linux Operating systems (SPLOS) has made him a leader in the effort to make cell phones operate on an Open Source platform. His interest in nanotechnology has gotten him an invitation to be part of the Foresight Institute a think tank and incubator for nanotechnology. His ISP currently hosts NanoAlchemy.com and he has recently been working on a world wide bioinformatics database.