HMAUS Signal Supporting Macintosh and Apple Users in Hawaii

Burt Lum is a self proclaimed Digital Ronin and has for the last 25 years fascinated with the convergence of computing and communications. Ever since his college radio days at Stanford University’s KZSU 90.1FM, Burt has explored ways technology helps facilitate communications. Upon returning to Hawaii in 1981 he started a magazine called Novus covering the local music and contemporary culture scene. The magazine started on a typewriter but quickly migrated to a PC, in those days a Kaypro running CP/M and Wordstar. This was before the days of the Macintosh and desktop publishing.

From 1980 to 1995 Burt was with GTE (now Verizon) in R&D, technical marketing, product management and market development in support of advanced network services. He was instrumental in getting all the schools in Hawaii connected to the Internet. He also worked at the Maui High Performance Computing Center, a 500+ node IBM massively parallel processor computing facility, as its business development manager. While there he helped establish one of the first DS3 circuits dedicated to Internet access to service the center. Burt also founded NetEnterprise Inc., an Internet data center company in 1996 and served as its President and CEO from 1998 to 2003. He is currently working at one of Hawaii’s largest healthcare insurers in information systems strategic planning.

Burt’s always been interested in nurturing Hawaii’s tech industry. Toward that end he’s written a technology column for the Honolulu Advertiser called Bytemarks from 1998 to 2004 and has been active in developing social media tools to foster community building. You will find him in all the major social media apps like Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Yahoogroups, Ning, Ustream, Qik, Utterz and many others. Just look for Bytemarks.

Most recently he co-hosts, along with Ryan Ozawa, a tech radio show on Hawaii Public Radio called, Bytemarks Cafe. You can hear it live every Wed. from 5-6pm on KIPO 89.3FM or catch the podcasts at www.bytemarkscafe.org.

Burt Lum received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in 1978 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1981.

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