David Kocs
Principal
TDK Technologies, LLC

David Kocs began his Information Technology career in 1989. David is currently a Principal in TDK Technologies, LLC, which he started in April 2001 with his partners Terry Tucker and Kristin Tucker. TDK Technologies provides technology consulting to companies and IT organizations through a highly collaborative and innovative approach. David's management responsibilities include technology practice manager, solutions practice manager and business development.

Prior to starting TDK Technologies, David was involved in building another Internet technology company, Aliigis. David was Chief Information Officer, where he was responsible for the management and direction of an integration middleware product, which was transformed from the technology vision in four months. Prior to joining Aliigis, David managed a team of technical architects, who were responsible for providing the technical direction for the enterprise architecture at Edward Jones. David's team mentored the application developers (of more than 500) to ensure that all initiatives conformed to the architecture. Previous roles included project management and application development with Edward Jones, Unibased System Architecture and McDonnell Douglas.

David holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas. David is a board member and former president for the St. Louis SIM chapter. David’s community involvement includes the Billiken Angels Network (St. Louis University Entrepreneurship Program), RCGA and technology advisory committee at the Academy of the Sacred Heart.