Dale Olds

Dale Olds is a Distinguished Engineer in Novell's Identity and Security Management Group. He is currently working on the evolution of identity services and is an architect for identity-enabled and Open Source technologies.

Dale was the lead designer and implementor of Novell Directory Services (NDS) and Novell eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He is listed as an inventor on 11 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and Internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah. He writes code for fun.