David Hart, M.S.

David Hart, M.S. is Director of Open Source Projects at The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, VP Product Delivery and Support at Novamente, and Principal Consultant at Atlantis Blue. Atlantis Blue is a member of Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) and a partner of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI). David earned a MS in Environmental Science and has a long-term interest in environment, sustainability, and earth science issues.
 
David leverages over ten years of applied information technology and business management experience. His strengths include evaluating, choosing and implementing the most appropriate technology for a given problem, delivered on time and on budget. His specialty is building and maintaining stable, robust, scalable systems, including in-place upgrades where staff and resources remain fully operational.
 
David has extensive technical background in computer networking, systems administration, data storage and data security. He has administered multi-million dollar IT budgets and delivered technology including information systems infrastructure and software applications for security, finance, customer relationship management, and software engineering.
 
His applied business management skills cover broad operational areas including general management, information and communications technology management, data center management, network security management (LAN, WAN and WLAN), technical support call center management, telecommunications management, facilities management, physical security management, procurement management, supplier & utility provider management, power systems management, environmental sustainability and compliance management, and personnel management of groups of skilled technical and knowledge workers.
 
David has held technical and managerial roles in numerous publicly listed companies, including “Manager, Information and Communications Technology” at OpenTV Inc. (NASDAQ: OPTV), the world’s leading interactive television solutions provider.
 
David earned his BA in Chemistry at Hope College in 1994 and his MS in Environmental Science at the University of Sydney in 2002. He lives and work in Sydney, Australia, and travel regularly. He holds US Citizenship and a Visa for Permanent Residence in Australia.