David Heit
Senior Product Manager, Research In Motion
David Heit has been with Research In Motion (RIM) since 2000. As a Senior Product Manager, Mr. Heit has established the BlackBerry extensibility strategy, succeeding in transforming BlackBerry into a wireless platform for all applications. Mr. Heit was also integral in leading the collaborative development and release of the BlackBerry solution for Novell GroupWise.
Prior to his time at RIM, Mr. Heit spent 14 years with NCR Corporation and AT&T Global Information Solutions in Product Management, Sales Management and Consulting roles. He has experience working with products ranging in areas such as document management and workflow, financial transaction processing equipment, automatic handwriting recognition and high volume document image archives. Mr. Heit has worked with many Fortune 1000 organizations re-engineering business processes with new technology techniques. This has ranged in areas from tax processing to field data collection.
Mr. Heit is a sought after public speaker, having participated in a variety of industry events and trade shows on a number of different topics. Examples include speaking at JavaOne on the Future of Java in Wireless Communications, and at Gartner CRM on Utilizing BlackBerry for Salesforce Automation.