Frank Hecker is
a sales engineer with the government
sales group of IronKey, Inc., a
vendor of secure USB devices for authentication, encryption, identity
management, and privacy. Frank was previously Director of Grants and
Programs with the Mozilla
Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting choice and
innovation on the Internet through its support of
the Mozilla project and
related initiatives. Prior to joining the Mozilla Foundation
full-time Frank was a sales engineer with
Opsware Inc, supporting sales of Opsware IT automation
software and services to the Federal government.
He has also worked for
CollabNet,
supporting sales of CollabNet services relating to open-source and
other collaborative software development, and for Netscape
Communications Corporation and America Online, Inc., as Director
of Systems Engineering for the Netscape government sales group in
Bethesda, Maryland. At Netscape he was sales technical lead for the
Netscape/DoD worldwide site license, the FORTEZZA, FIPS 140-1, and
Netscape Security Services projects, and many other sales activities;
he was also a key contributor to Netscape's decision to release source
code for the Netscape browser, and was appointed one of three Netscape
Fellows.
His professional interests include information systems security, the
technical, business, and public policy aspects of open-source
software, assistive technologies, and online education.
He was the winner of
the 2009
Catalyst Award for his work in promoting open source
accessibility, and was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's
top 100
leaders of Washington's tech world
.
He blogs at
<http://blog.hecker.org/>