Author Archives: David Picard

About David Picard

David is the COO of Beacon BPM Solutions and the President and Founder of PSInd. He has been working in the consulting sector for the banking, financial services, insurance, transportation and telecommunications industries for over 20 years. David began work as an operations consultant after completing his initial tour of duty as an active duty US Army officer with responsibility for operations planning and oversight for site and movement security of nuclear weapons. He has spent considerable time working with Pegasystems building the PRPC BPMS offering and deploying successful BPM implementations on that platform.

Optimizing VPN in a Mixed Cloud & Office SMB Deployment

Posted on October 9, 2012 by David Picard

Here we look at the benefits and challenges in deploying an opensource VPN in a custom Amazon Web Services cloud instance, considering OpenVPN and OpenSWAN as the two prime candidates while outlining some of our selection criteria for the choice of solution. I’ve also identified some motivation here to shift from my beloved iPhone to an Android device – depending on how important I believe VPN access may be from my smart phone / tablet to my home / business. Continue reading →

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Social Networking the BM (Brick & Mortar)

Posted on August 19, 2011 by David Picard

I’m sitting in the local Dunkin Donuts writing a blog entry on my iPhone – not really a remarkable event. I guess the remarkable part revolves around the question “Why Dunkin Donuts?” as I am – without question – a … Continue reading →

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Linksys Cable Modem Upgrade

Posted on January 1, 2009 by David Picard

Linksys Cable Modem Upgrade I called my cable operator a short time back to change my bundled plan and discovered – much to my surprise – that I could move from 10MB download to 20 MB for less money. After … Continue reading →

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