Daniel J. O'Shea


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"I must admit, I have never met a professor with as broad a range of subject expertise. I am truly impressed."  CEO, Web 2.0 Company

"I have to say that this is the first time I've been really struck by such an introduction.  I'm impressed.  We should talk."  CEO, Web 2.0 Startup

MBA Finance & Investment Class Information

Dan O'Shea, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A), George Washington University (M.S.A) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D.), and is currently advising numerous tech companies on effective strategies to profit from the current boom in global Web 2.0 technologies.

Dan epitomizes the "frontier spirit" that still lurks in the hearts of many entrepreneurs, exhibiting a desire for adventure, conquest, success, expansion, wealth... a new life on the open land of digital opportunity!

Dependable support:

Dan works with many other opinion pioneers to evolve insights, establish best practices and develop thought leadership on a variety of electronic media issues. He is a subject matter specialist for technology and new venture development. He advises companies in the areas of personal leadership, strategic planning, product innovation, competitive positioning and digital convergence.

In fact, as you can see for yourself at the very bottom of this page, Dan knows Web 2.0 social media like no other, from deep personal experience. He is the quintessential, preeminent social networker, producing 7 blogs, a podcast, YouTube videos, and participates in every major social network, from Twitter to wikis, from Facebook to mind mapping.

Whether it involves online virtual worlds, or online distance education, Dan has most likely seen it, and suggested a better approach to someone, somewhere. He is a tech news hound, scanning more than 400 tech-related blogs per day, and in the process, building the world's largest database covering critical tech topics like management, broadband, finance, marketing, new venture development, health, law, and many others.

Who else do you know that has assembled over 60,000 links covering these matters?

Dan's guiding values are: selfless service, integrity, duty, respect, honor, loyalty, and personal courage. His leadership style is based on both servant leadership and military leadership principles (see his Leadership Library at the bottom of this page).

He's the "go to" guy if you actually want to accomplish something, not just talk about it.

He seeks out people who can make good things happen... he adores people who can actually make decisions, without taking a depressing month of Sundays to do it... and disdains "tire kickers", "head scratchers", "fence sitters", "data junkies", "committee members", and the "mañana mentality" typically found in so many corporate and academic management positions today.

Do you... yes, YOU... have something important you want to accomplish today? Pick up the phone and give him a call!

A lawyer by profession (admitted to the State Bar of California), and Vietnam combat veteran (with top secret security clearance), Dan is a business management consultant, was the national director of university relations for Youthstream Media Networks / CommonPlaces (a social network predecessor of Facebook) in Boston, and also business development for Tcert , an artificial intelligence personal tutor company based in Atlanta, helped arrange the sale of National Computer Claims Services, an online health data management company, to what is now WebMD, and has even been interviewed by technologist Robert Scoble. He worked his way through law school as a insurance claims examiner and product liability underwriter for United States Aviation Underwriters, in New York City, now a subsidiary of General Re Corp. Later, he also served as a Trust Officer with both National City Corporation in Cleveland. Ohio, and 1st Source Corporation in South Bend, Indiana, and was a licensed general securities broker (Series 7 and 63) with Integrated Resources.

 

He has advised the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center on creation of a proposed global online continuing medical education program. Dan was a reviewer for the widely adopted college textbook "West's Business Law". An arbitrator in private practice, he teaches in graduate programs at the University of Phoenix, the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Henley-Putnam University. Over the years he has held various licenses including Securities Series 7 and 63, life health and disability, and private pilot (single engine land). He has also built a tech database with well over 60,000 information entries, and is actively involved in both teaching and practice with the quality movement (Deming, TQM, QS 9000, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 9000, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma).

"I have always had a career goal that caught my eye, which is top level, world class performance. I understood the required sacrifice. Of course, I also understood that passion, organization, resolve and luck also come into the picture. I wanted it more. I worked harder. I focused more. I practiced under a coach with a purpose, a written plan, and documented my ongoing execution. I had a deep passion for it. It is my very best friend. I sacrificed more for it. I made the required application of effort, like a fire burning inside. Hardly anything means more to me than that. I still practice the basics regularly. I know what I don't know and have a deep personal desire to know more. I resent the implication that I was given a talent. I have a real dedication to the performance of my craft."


Background:

Born in New York City, grew up on Staten Island, and educated at La Salle Military Academy (now St. John's University), University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), George Washington University (M.S.A.) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D.).

An avid proponent of using Web 2.0 cutting edge advanced technologies in business and education, Dan has served in many diverse business roles over the years, in positions such as: attorney at law, insurance underwriter and claims examiner, trust officer, financial planner, business advisor to a global internet services provider, business advisor to an Internet health care company acquired by what is now WebMD, director of higher education marketing at a publicly traded web media network company, commercial arbitrator, and university professor.

Dan scores extremely high on the Kirton Adoption-Innovation Inventory in terms of insight, foresight, innovation, idea production, willingness to challenge assumptions, risk taking, willingness to produce many ideas, toleration of high failure rates, thinking tangentially, welcoming change, manipulating problem assumptions, being a catalyst, challenging rules, challenging assumptions, challenging conventional & consensual viewpoints, and instituting "better" and "different" problem solving techniques... thereby providing the dynamics for radical organizational change and rapid business development. On the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Dan is a Rational Inventor ENTP, logical and contemplative, capable of burying in a complex problem and remaining detached until it is solved. Abstract, analytical, competent, curious, inventive, systematic and engaged with technology. Pragmatic about the present, relativistic about the past and skeptical about the future. You can also review an online analysis of his Twitter posts here (note: this takes a minute or two to load.)

Dan has the ability to... collect, assimilate, and weigh a wide range of data... construct intricate relationships among constellations of ideas... embrace ambiguity... intuit appropriate actions in puzzling business situations... remain mentally flexible and juggle a lot of office demands at once... envision a broad range of consequences... and anticipate rapid, unexpected changes.

Dan served as a US Army Infantry Officer during 1970 to 1971 in Vietnam, where he was promoted to the rank of Captain and served as Assistant District Senior Advisor as a part of MACV-CORDS Advisory Team 16 in Hà Lam Hamlet, Thăng Bình District (map) (view from the air) (satellite view), Quảng Tin (now Quảng Nam) Province, 30 miles south of Danang. He earned various military decorations, including (from the United States of America) the Combat Infantryman's Badge, 2 Bronze Stars for valor, the Air Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, and the Cold War Recognition Certificate;  (from the Republic of Vietnam) the Cross of Gallantry; and (from the State of New York) the Conspicuous Service Cross and the Conspicuous Service Star.

He was one of two US Army Officers described in a front page article by Peter A. Jay (accompanied by Matthew V Storin) in the Washington Post  on Monday, May 3, 1971 entitled "A Vanishing American Role; Vietnamese Replace Advisers - U.S. Role Lessens In Calm Viet District" involving an armed midnight motorbike patrol along rice paddy dikes in the rural Vietnamese countryside. Storin said of this night that it was the only time as a reporter that he felt he had to carry a weapon for personal protection during his entire time in Vietnam.

Dan entered military service after commissioning as a Distinguished Military Graduate at the Infantry Officers Basic Course at Ft. Benning, Georgia, was then assigned to the 4th Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment at Ft Ord, California, and graduated from the Political Warfare Advisors Course at the John F. Kennedy School for Military Assistance at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina before deployment to Vietnam. He also attended the Transportation Officer Basic Course at Ft. Eustis, Virginia, the Logistics Management College at Ft. Lee Virginia, the Naval Transportation Management School in Oakland, California, was assigned to the logistics staff of First Army at Ft. Meade, Maryland, and served in the Pentagon in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. On active duty, Dan held a Top Secret security clearance. Dan has a strong, continuing interest in military issues, veterans issues and veterans support groups, and is the Vice Chair of the Veterans Archive at St. Petersburg College on the Tarpon Springs Campus.

A lawyer by training (admitted to the State Bar of California in 1977), Dan is an Arbitrator in private practice, has attended the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School and many other CLE programs, and teaches in the MBA Program at the Graduate School of Business and Management at the University of Phoenix (UOP), and in the Emerging Global Leader Program (which he helped develop) for high potential mid-career executives in the banking industry at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is currently developing a graduate course, MGT 800, Advanced Management and Leadership, for the Personal Protection, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism Masters Degree Program at Henley-Putnam University. He learned to fly and obtained his pilot's license in 1969.

Dan has taught and consulted with corporations about a broad range of undergraduate and graduate business disciplines including:

management, higher education & corporate training, law/negotiation/mediation/arbitration, leadership, finance, investments, marketing, sales, advertising, logistics, new venture development, web technology, mind mapping, government relations, creativity and career planning.

Current UOP courses taught include:
BUS/415 BUSINESS LAW
BUS/421 CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS LAW I
BUS/422 CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS LAW II
FIN/540 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOUNDATIONS
FIN/544 FINANCE FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING
FIN/545 ADVANCED PROBLEMS IN FINANCE
FIN/554 FINANCE FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING
HCS/405 HEALTH CARE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
HCS/570 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR NURSING MANAGERS
HCS/571 FINANCIAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
HCS/579 HEALTH CARE FINANCE
HCS/582 HEALTH CARE FINANCE
MBA/503 INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
MBA/540 MAXIMIZING SHAREHOLDER WEALTH
MM/520 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING
MMPBL/503 INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
POL/215 STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL PROCESSES

At other institutions, Dan has taught university courses on investments, management, law, finance, purchasing, leadership, quality, accounting, statistics, computers, estate planning, marketing, sales, and political science.

Dan has broad personal leadership experience and is particularly excited about leadership implementation and training in organizations of all sizes, utilizing a unique values-driven approach.

Dan has a deep and extensive background and interest in online web technology, having built perhaps the world's largest combined database covering, among other topics, online distance education (11,150 entries), web technology (10,820 entries), management (5,150 entries), finance (1,960 entries), law (2,830 entries), advertising (1,810 entries), creativity (1,590 entries), universities (2,700 entries), and other matters (8,470 entries). He previously built a web-based student social network project with 1,000 registered users and 5,000 friends, and develops training programs in the Second Life virtual world. He has used and is familiar with all major learning management systems. He scans thousands of blog posts and podcasts related to technology each week, and maintains an active interest in the Open Courseware movement.

Dan has advised numerous tech businesses (having arranged the sale of one company to what is now WebMD), including Louisiana State University where he has advised the LSU Health Sciences Center on creation of a proposed global online continuing medical education program, using Internet2, Clark College (near Portland, Oregon) where he consulted on a leadership program, and is currently working with a group of the most talented and creative senior Second Life developers, literally around the world,  to create a new 3D virtual world technology company.

Vision:

The internet and optical networking change practically everything on a global basis. The real challenge today, for perceptive technology executives, is not "Where will I find more programmers?", but "What strategy will maximize both my return on investment and my global market share?", by making maximum use of cutting edge web technology.

I believe that Internet2, National LamdaRail and other regional partners and follow-on technologies, create a favorable combination of circumstances that will be filled by unusually perceptive executives who are willing to seize new business opportunities to be developed though extremely high speed optical networking.

The question isn't, "Is this real?" The question is: "What are you doing about it?"


Internet Expertise:


Dan's Blog Posts...

Leadership

Management

Technology

Finance

Education

New Venture Development

Law, Negotiation, Mediation & Arbitration



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Dan's Google Reader Feed

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Dan's Investment Wiki


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Dan's Favorite Military Movies



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