Douglas I. Kalish

Services Offered

Collaboration EcoSystem Plan
Increasing productivity, quality and innovation at no cost

Workshops on Managing Technologists
Negotiation skills and coping with conflict in the technological workplace

Employee Education for the Life Sciences
The basics of drug and device development

Technology and Strategy Consulting
Technology meets Business - and vice versa

Other Activities

• Visiting Scholar in the Management of Technology Program, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
• Member, Haas Club 6 (median instructor rating of at least 6 out of 7), Spring 2003
  
  
• Member of the University of Michigan's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Leadership Committee
• Sponsor of a Summer Undergraduate Biomedical Research Opportunities Fellowship at the University of Michigan
• Founder of the Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship in the Division of Computing Sciences of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Amateur Radio Operator Extra Class,  callsign KA3L  (QSL via eQSL.cc or LOTW)
• Assistant Chief Radio Officer and Assistant District Emergency Coordinator, Santa Clara County
• 2008 "Volunteer of the Year", Santa Clara County Emergency Managers Assn
• Palo Alto Citizens Corps Council Steering Committee
• Palo Alto Neighborhood Disaster Activities -  Certified Disaster Service Worker
• Santa Clara County ARES/RACES - Mutual Aid Communicator
• Designed and coordinated the largest disaster drill in Palo Alto history: Over 120 volunteers across three different city agencies.  Damage information from a simulated earthquake was relayed from the street level to the EOC (and back down to the street) and first responders were dispatched to critical incidents.  We used four different radio services (VHF, UHF, GMRS and MURS) across five frequences to coordinate the effort.
  
  
• Winner (with Meredith Bohling) Best Picture and Best Director of the First Silicon Valley Film Festival for "How to Enjoy Early Retirement"
  
• Doug is the son of Mildred Armstrong Kalish, author of Little Heathens, and manages her engagement calendar.  To schedule a book talk, please go to the Heathens website and send a message via the Feedback button.