As President and Co-Founder of ecfirst.com,
the HIPAA Academy, Nguyen is responsible for day-to-day
operations of the company and the delivery of quality
technical solutions to customers. Mr. Nguyen was
introduced to the Internet in 1989, and quickly
recognized it as the communication medium of the
future. He has accrued over 15 years of intensive
experience and has become an expert in Internet-enabling
technology.
Prior to co-founding ecfirst.com, Mr. Nguyen spent
a number of years consulting for several large corporations.
As a consultant, he recognized the advantages that
the vast amount of technical resources the Internet
can offer to a company’s research and development
efforts and introduced the Internet into the development
environment of several large organizations. Then
in 1995, expecting to see a profound impact in the
commercial arena as well, Mr. Nguyen co-founded
ABC Virtual Communications, Inc. with the focus
of helping companies to understand, embrace and
implement Internet technology. With his help, the
company grew from three to 60-plus employees in
less than three years. During that time, he also
helped build the company’s technical infrastructure,
led several enterprise-wide web development efforts,
and was instrumental in developing and directing
product development.
Some of Mr. Nguyen’s technical achievements
include the successful porting of Sun Microsystem
JVM. He was a member of a two-man team that accomplished
a pioneering effort in porting the Java Virtual
Machine to a real-time, embedded operating system.
His Java expertise also led him to design and implement
the first 100% Java Applet application to automate
the processing of forms from a web browser. Sun
Microsystems, the inventor of Java, eventually licensed
it for its own usage. At the HIPAA Academy his focus
has been on EDI solutions and the delivery of a
web based risk analysis tool known as HIPAAShield
On-Line. This tool allows for a quick and low cost
method for small organizations to determine the
risk within their office as dictated by the HIPAA
legislation. Written in Java, this tool is both
flexible and secure for the end user and system
administrators. Born in Vietnam and raised in Iowa,
Mr. Nguyen holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Iowa.
