Resume

• 2015

  GIANT Innovation

  The Innovation Project

  Founded by David Dabscheck

  GIANT Innovation is an innovation consulting firm that transforms the way organizations and people think and act to become world-class innovators. It has helped a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies

  global NGOs

  and public sector agencies develop and implement sustainable innovation and creativity programs.

  GIANT Innovation

  Greater New York City Area

  The Innovation Project

  a non-profit organization that provides advice and best practices related to government innovation worldwide

  was founded by John Farmer

  Director of Technology & Civic Innovation at Microsoft.

  Board Member

  The Innovation Project

• 2013

  David

  Lefer

  The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution

  Scigus

  Inc.

  Co-founded and helped manage a physics-based non-traditional defense contractor. Secured a three-year multimillion-dollar defense contract to build high-powered

  solid-state microwave emitters for the US Navy through the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

  overseeing the venture as Project Manager.

  Scigus

  Inc.

  The Founding Conservatives (Published by Penguin in 2013) recounts the birth of the American right during the Revolutionary War

  and was hailed by the Kirkus Reviews as \"Groundbreaking history not to be missed—a book to quote and to keep

  as the material is rich enough to merit rereading.\"

  The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution

• 2008

  New York University Tandon School of Engineering

  David Lefer is an Industry Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering

  where he is Director of the Innovation and Technology Forum

  a required program for all 800 first-year students

  and co-Director of the Institute for the Convergence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His academic work focuses on invention

  innovation

  and entrepreneurship. Lefer also serves as NYU representative and adjunct professor for the National Science Foundation's Innovation-Corps program

  teaching scientists

  engineers

  and inventors how to turn their ideas into viable startups using the Lean Startup method. He is also co-PI of a multi-year NSF I-Corps grant focused on promoting women and diversity in STEM-based entrepreneurship.

  New York University Tandon School of Engineering

• 2002

  They Made America

  PBS series produced by The American Experience

  They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine

  Two Centuries of Innovators

  Helped produce the four-part PBS series

  They Made America

  based on the book I co-wrote with Sir Harold Evans.

  They Made America

  PBS series produced by The American Experience

• 1998

  New York Daily News

  New York Daily News

  Co-wrote

  A best-selling history of American innovation

  They Made America was made into a four-part PBS series and featured on the History Channel. Fortune magazine named the book one of the top 100 business books of the past 75 years.

  They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine

  Two Centuries of Innovators

• 1996

  The Digital Age

  PBS Television

  Greater New York City Area

  Co-produced PBS show on innovation and technology hosted by James Goodale.

  Co Producer

  The Digital Age

  PBS Television

• 1995

  writer

  writer

• 1994

  MS

  Journalism

• David G. Lefer

  NYU Tandon School of Engineering is a comprehensive school of engineering

  applied sciences

  technology and research

  and is rooted in a 158-year tradition of invention

  innovation and entrepreneurship.

  David G. Lefer

  Research

  Journalism

  Content Strategy

  Non-fiction

  Editorial

  Blogging

  Publishing

  Fiction

  Social Media

  Books

  Copy Editing

  Web Content

  Proofreading

  News Writing

  Media Relations

  Storytelling

  Editing

  Creative Writing

  Lefer