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Richard E. Hannah
President & CEO
Richard Hannah has forty-four years of experience in the Medical Products industry. Prior
to founding MDS, Richard was employed by medical product companies: American Cystoscope Makers Inc.,
Baxter International Inc., Endosonics Inc., and Puritan Bennett Inc. Before entering the medical
industry, Richard created new weapon technology for the US Navy and novel chemical processing
plants for Reilly Chemical.
Prior to MDS, Richard led the development, design, and manufacture of over sixty marketed
medical products. He has contributed to every MDS medical technology project. His product contributions
includes biotech, drug development, medical imaging, surgical, disposable devices, life support,
diagnostic, bio-sensors, and drug delivery. He has nine US Patents two of which were while at MDS.
Richard earned a BA in Chemistry and Mathematics at Indiana State University. He is a graduate of
the University of California Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, MDE program. He received his
education in Hospital Clinical at the University of Chicago Medical School in a program sponsored by
Baxter International and was responsible for world-wide clinical research of a new medical device. Richard is
a California Certified Substitute Teacher and taught in the Vista Unified School District.
He was trained by the FDA in QSR Design Controls, Process Validation, Hazard Analysis
and Critical Control Point Systems, and QSR GMP implementation. Richard has been certified in 3D
CAD. In 1997, he served as a Design Controls expert panel member for the FDA satellite downlink to
San Diego medical device manufacturers. He participated in and led ASQ training programs.
Richard has contributed to US Department of Commerce, US Congressional, and California State Employment Development Department policies.
Since 2005 Richard has been a key leader of the International Trade Advisory Board. In 2008 and 2009, Richard attended the US National
District Export Council Trade Policy Conference. During 2004, Richard assisted in US Stem Cell Research policy creation. Since 1996,
Richard has met with leaders from ten foreign nations to share the MDS business model. Richard was an attendee at the June, 2004 US National
Economic Development Conference in Washington, DC and the 2001 US Congressional Council on Competitiveness Conference. Richard contributed
to US Technology Policy The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation and attended the 1999
presentation by the US Secretary of Commerce and the US Secretary of Education which was held at National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Richard has provided Digital Work presentations for the San Diego Alliance of Government (2002), to the International Trade Advisory Board (2006)(2016),
and the Licensing Executive Society (2007). He has been listed in the National Directory of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.
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Vanissa G. Hannah
Vice President & Secretary
Vanissa Hannah has been associated with the Medical Products industry for
more than thirty-three years. She was educated at Indiana State University.
She has thirty years of sales, business management, customer relations, and
operations experience. Vanissa has managed multiple retail stores. She is one
of the founders of MDS and a global contributor to Digital Workforce government
policies. Vanissa contributed to US Technology PolicyThe Digital Work Force:
Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation.
In 2001, Vanissa received the personal gratitude of Mr. Katsuhiro Nakagawa,
Trade Minister of Japan, for her advice. Vanissa participates in all areas of MDS activities.
She has contributed to every MDS technical project. She assumed an active role in representing
MDS at four international meetings with national leaders. She possesses outstanding writing
skills and contributes heavily to the content of this website. In 2005 and 2006 she received
training in advanced polymer materials from GE Plastics and 3D CAD from GoEngineer. She has
researched, tested, and had direct input into the material selection for medical device projects.
Vanissa was an attendee at the June, 2004 US National Economic Development Conference in Washington, DC.
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Amy L. Hannah
CTO & CFO
Amy Hannah earned a Biochemistry degree cum laude from Fresno State University and an
MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix. She has twenty-six years
of experience in the Medical products and Biotechnology Industry, primarily focused in
drug development and contract research. Past employers include Trega Biosciences,
Lion Pharmaceuticals, Discovery Partners International, and BioFocus DPI, Inc.
Amy has one patent issued and four credited publications. She led several projects
that resulted in the production of greater than 105,000 single compounds for lead drug
discovery with estimated sales valued at $2.5 million. She was responsible for R&D and
analysis of new templates leading into the production of single compound array libraries.
Amy's areas of experience include: clinical research management, combinatorial chemistry, drug discovery, training incoming
personnel, managing daily laboratory operations, resource management, validation of chemical
data, documentation of synthetic protocols and standard procedures, customer sales support,
and chemical data inventory management. For medical device development, Amy has provided
support on bio toxicity, patent litigation, and materials projects. Amy contributed MDS content
to US Technology Policy The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed
of Innovation. She is a founding contributor to MDS and has been an active employee since 1999.
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Andrew J. Hannah
CIO
Andrew Hannah received an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of
California, San Diego. Andrew has twenty years of work experience in computer systems,
networks, and website support. Outside of MDS, Andrew has been the sole person responsible
for the construction and maintenance of the computer network for a large government institution
with multiple facilities. He previously provided technology support to Trega Bioscience, SAIC,
and the Palo Alto, California Unified School District. Andrew has been certified in 2D/3D CAD,
as a Microsoft System Engineer, and as a Cisco Network Associate. Andrew created the Internet
integration in to the MDS business model. He assisted in writing the MDS recommendations for
the US Technology Policy The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed
of Innovation. Andrew has been an active employee since 1996.
Andrew is proficient in:
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, DOS, MacOS,
UNIX, Sun Solaris administration, FreeBSD administration, Linux Administration, Cisco IOS
Languages: C, C++, Perl, HTML, UNIX Shell Scripting, Visual Basic
Networking: TCP/IP, RIP, OSPF, IGRP/EIGRP, NetBIOS, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, Appletalk, IPSec, SNMP
Architectures: VLSM, VLAN, Layer 2/3/4 Switching, DDR, VPN, LAN, WAN, MAN, DHCP, DNS, Gigabit
Ethernet,
802.11x, RFC 1634, RFC 1918, RFC 1492
Tools: Netsaint, MRTG, ipfw, Ethereal Network Sniffer, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Port
Scanning Utilities, Apache Web Server
In addition to his MDS Information Technology responsibilities, Andrew has completed
several medical device hardware and software engineering projects for MDS.
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