The Zeitgeist

David HM Spector is an innovator, developer, writer, consultant and entrepreneur specializing in high-performance computing, social network applications and interface agents. His consulting company is Zeitgeist Information Systems, canonically known as “Zeitgeist.”

He’s written for C|Net’s Tech Republic, InformationWeek, Fortune, WiRed and various other publications both online and in traditional print media.

He created and led the Internet Services Group at JP Morgan that placed the firm as the first bank in the world on the Internet in 1991 that awakened Wall St. to the power of the then-unknown “world wide web.” At his direction, the firm helped fund the development of the Mosaic Browser (which was renamed “Netscape”) which helped launch the “dot com boom” and, among other innovations, he and his team delivered JP Morgan’s RiskMetrics value-at-risk modeling package via the Internet in 1994 which transformed the risk modeling business.

From 1999 - 2004 he was the Linux in the Enterprise columnist for the O’Reilly Network and also the author of Building Linux Clusters, the definitive guide to scaling Linux for scientific and enterprise applications published by O’Reilly & Associates (July 2000).

He is a contributor to a number of Open Source projects including the powerful RIFE application framework and SourceForge for which he developed the “SourceForge Portability Patches” that allowed the popular Open Source project management system (and all of its derivatives such as GNU Savannah and GForge) to be used outside of VA Software.

As 20+ year veteran of the IT industry, he is a speaker at industry events ranging from the 802.11Planet WiFi/Wireless conference to local software groups such as the New York Software Industry Association and the New York Metro chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and is available for consulting projects or to speak on a variety of topics ranging from new fronts in technology to information security.

And, for the record, he has nothing to do with The Zeitgeist Movie - in fact he has owned this domain since the days of the ARPAnet back in the 1980s, long before even the existence of the modern “Internet.” Oh, and lastly, no, the zeitgeist.com domain name is most definitely not for sale.

 

Specialties:

Wireless networking, social networks, Web2.0, security, infrastructure development, intelligent agents, technology analysis and technology due diligence for VC firms.

Some Career Highlights:

• As a software consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation in the New York Financial District he specialized in UNIX and distributed systems, TCP/IP networking and world-wide inter-networking for multi-national financial services firms including Bankers Trust, Nomura Securities, Bank Julius-Baer, J.P. Morgan & Co. and Bear-Stearns.
• As a Vice-President at J.P. Morgan & Co. in charge of research and development for UNIX systems in the firm’s Global Technology & Operations unit, he brought the Internet to Wall Street in 1991 and was responsible for the development, in 1994, of the Internet as an information delivery vehicle to the Wall Street financial community as the architect of the Internet technology behind delivery of J.P. Morgan’s RiskMetrics risk modeling package.
• At Citibank, he worked on the executive team advising the consumer bank on the issues and technologies involved in the Internet delivery (”e-commerce”) of consumer banking technologies.
• He was the Linux in the Enterprise columnist for the O’Reilly Network and also the author of Building Linux Clusters, the definitive guide to scaling Linux for scientific and enterprise applications published by O’Reilly & Associates (July 2000); he has also been an occasional contributor to WiReD and other popular technology publications.
• He has been profiled in a number of publications for his work in this field, including: FORTUNE Magazine, Information Week, Communications Week, and Business Week as well as in Doing Business on the Internet by Dr. Mary Cronin, a book profiling pioneering businesses and business users on the Internet.

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