Dewayne Hendricks
Type of Fellow: Research Fellow
Description: Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO, of the Dandin Group, Inc., based in Fremont, California, USA. Dandin Group offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including research and product development, for wireless communications via the Internet. He also has been an active member of the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council (FCC/TAC) for the past seven years.
Prior to forming Dandin Group in 1999, he was the General Manager of the Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 following an opportunity to participate as the Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless Field Tests for Education project. The project sucessfully connected remote educational institutions to the Internet. The test sites ranged from rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
Dewayne was the CEO and co-founder of Tetherless Access Ltd, founded in 1990. Tetherless Access was one of the first companies to develop and deploy Part 15 unlicensed wireless metropolitan area data networks using the TCP/IP protocols. He has participated in the installation of these networks in other parts of the world including: Kenya, Tonga, Mexico, Canada and Mongolia.
Dewayne’s background includes several other entrepreunerial positions as CEO and founder, and inclusion on various “top 100” lists as an innovator in the industry. He has been involved with radio since receiving his amateur radio operator's license as a teen. He is currently a member of the Board of FirstMile.us, a non-profit advocacy group for big broadband for everyone, anywhere.
More information on Dewayne is available at the Dandin Group web site: <http://www.dandin.com>. Information on the
FCC TAC can be found on the FCC web site at: <http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac>.
Information on FirstMile.us can be found at <http://www.firstmile.us>.