David Sandel

As the CEO of iNeighborhoods, I spearhead the development of innovative Digital Districts, leveraging Smart technologies to drive economic growth and community development in North American cities. By integrating community ecosystem planning with data oriented technologies, we attract business opportunities and accelerate neighborhood prosperity, ultimately leading to realistic socio-economic advancement in the region.

I lead the development of Delmar Digital Mainstreet, a geolocated digital district designed to integrate smart city infrastructure, IoT sensing, intelligent community Wi-Fi, digital placemaking, and student-driven innovation into the Delmar Loop. My work focuses on strategy, partnerships, and deployment of technologies that enhance community safety, support local businesses, strengthen neighborhood identity, and position St. Louis as a leader in next-generation digital infrastructure. http://delmardigitalmainstreet.com

Einstein Designs was originally conceived by Forest Crawford and Paul Metz in 1987. With some work, they produced an improved version of the 19″ plasma ball created by Bill Parker, a MIT student. Later n 1988, Forest and Paul were introduced to Dave Sandel and his company Roanoke Electronics. Dave redesigned the power supply, frequency and phase controller for the Einstein Designs plasma ball. Later that year, the idea for the Light Tree was developed by the three of them. The light tree included a Bonsai like tree mounted on a real lava base. The tree branches were built by using about 50 yards of fine wire tightly wrapped around a flexible metal tree-like harness. The wires were then connected by hand to tiny grain of wheat bulbs along the branches for the lighting effect. The Light Tree also included an audio controller that would respond to music and produce an amazing lighting effect. This was marketed and distributed by the Sharper Image Catalog in 1987. Then in 2019, Forest Crawford and Dave Sandel were introduced to Tom Carr who had extensive experience in neon lighting design, fabrication and production. Shortly thereafter, the new Einstein Designs was born ! https://einsteindesigns.center/

NetLabs LLC > Datotel - Providing carrier class consulting services to municipal government, universities, healthcare and businesses. Providing managed services and collocation data center capabilities. Datotel - A provider of managed and cloud services for small and medium sized businesses.

Cisco > NetLabs LLC - providing carrier class assessment, design, test, integration and deployment services to universities, municipal government, healthcare and the large enterprise.

Provided product development, technical and sales support to the WorldCom, Williams Communications, MFS, Brooks Fiber, Savvis and Compuserve product development and lab operations as part of the Cisco Servce Provider team out of Tulsa Oklahoma. Design lead for WorldCom MAE East and MAE West 97'.