Mr. Firmage spent 12 years researching and pioneering breakthrough technologies in physics as well as defining a conceptual framework of economic development that culminated in the genesis of the Academy of Science and Arts. He is the founder of Serius Corporation, a pioneer of cross-platform “desktop programming” tools via a visual object-oriented programming system. Serius was later acquired by Novell, where Mr. Firmage was named Vice President of the AppWare Developer Tools Division. A short time later, he was promoted to the position of Vice President of Strategy for Novell’s leading-edge Network Systems Group.
Mr. Firmage left Novell to co-found and serve as CEO of USWeb Corporation. USWeb, later USWeb/CKS, became the world’s largest internet consulting enterprise, with more than 2,500 experts spanning 10 countries and serving more than 50 of the Fortune 100 companies. His professional career continued to expand as he founded, co-founded, served as a managing partner, or was otherwise significantly involved in several innovative enterprises. These endeavors included Intend Change Group, which oversaw the creation of OneCosmos Network (later reorganized as ManyOne), Electron Economy (later acquired by Viewlocity), Invesmart (later acquired by Stancorp), and Infrastructure. Defense (later acquired by Verisign).
ManyOne’s Sentry Services is tasked with simultaneously reducing risk and increasing assets of those who seek services from the Internet. His experience studying, then detecting, and then guarding against Internet fraud is invaluable to ManyOne’s customer-oriented consulting practice. Dr. Dickens’ industry savvy, teamed with his leadership skills, provide ManyOne with sophisticated, ethical leadership worthy of our mission to be “The Web for Humanity.”
He serves on the boards of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In 2001 Dr. Dickens became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Elink Elite, what was then a new integration of business and Internet services. In 2007 he developed concepts of pre-emptive open-source funding, launched through the Open Source Corporation (OSC). In January 2013 Mr. Dickens became President and Chief Executive Officer of YSC Companies.
Prior to becoming a high-technology entrepreneur and collaborator with ManyOne CEO Joe Firmage, Dr. Dickens specialized in, practiced, and taught Internal Medicine in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. He penned his first book, Broken Brain Syndrome; with the hope to help those afflicted with addictions and emotional disorders find relief.
Previously, Ms. Paramore has served in many Board and Advisory roles in educational institutions, including serving as President of the Alumni Association of Brigham Young University, and as a Board Member of Airline Ambassadors. Co-Founding with its leader Edwin B. Firmage, she was instrumental in the successful effort to prevent the MX Nuclear Missile system from being deployed across Utah and Nevada and served as Executive Director of Utahns United Against the Nuclear Arms Race.
Mr. Nielson has created and populated various ManyOne portals, resulting in more than 1,000 nodes and images in ManyOne’s taxonomy. He also developed a Javascript tool to convert embedded video and widget snippets from external websites into a form that could be incorporated into the portals of the ManyOne platform.
Mr. Nielson has uniquely deep roots with ManyOne. Twenty years ago, he worked alongside ManyOne CEO Joe Firmage. As Chief Scientist and Director of Development at Serius Corp., Mr. Nielson led engineering teams in the development of the original AppBuilder object-oriented software development tool. In 1993, Novell, Inc. acquired Serius and the flagship AppBuilder product for $24 million USD, and the technology was renamed AppWare. While at Novell, Matt re-implemented and enhanced the AppWare window object layout tools and headed cross-divisional consideration of human/machine interface issues.