| WORK EXPERIENCE |
OfficeVision.com
Chief Technology Officer, Chief Architect, Senior Consultant |
Atlanta, GA
April 2000-Present |
- Designed, developed, and delivered in 3-1/2 months (concept-to-revenue):
a completely ASP-hosted application to enable competitive rate analysis for the rental car
industry.
See http://www.mvrateshop.com, and log in as
"demo" (password "demo").
- Consulted to various clients on Application Service Provider (ASP) issues: technology,
development proposals, and security.
- Wrote business plan, proforma financial statements, and private placement memorandum as
an Application Service Provider (ASP) internet startup serving the enterprise software
requirements of Professional Service firms.
- Negotiated deals with software vendors to integrate, host, and market their software as
part of a Professional Services industry solution.
- Selected, installed, and configured core technologies and platforms for systems
development, testing, and deployment. (Sun servers, Nokia firewalls, Cisco routers and
switches, Oracle RDBMS, Apache web server - SSL enabled, Java, Tomcat servlet engine,
Turbine application development framework)
- Designed core database schema for an ASP.
- Developed software for user registration and management, organization registration and
management, and e-commerce (credit card billing and management).
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Talus Solutions/DFI-Aeronomics/Aeronomics Incorporated
Systems Architect |
Atlanta, GA
1998-2000 |
- Led the analysis, design, and development of $3M Airline Revenue Management System base
product (sold to Delta Airlines, America West Airlines, others).
- Led the user interface architecture design, resulting in a 3-tier system with highly
configurable, data driven screens and dynamically constructed SQL executed by the
application server
- Led the batch architecture design, involving the design of a light-weight, memory-based
object database for maximum total system throughput.
- Led the application business object modeling using UML (Universal Modeling Language),
generating C++ code with the Rational Rose CASE tool.
- Led the database design using ER/Win, implementing on Oracle 8.0.5 with size ranging up
to 1.5 Terabytes.
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| Director, Product Development |
1996-1998 |
- Managed a portfolio of product development projects, including staffing, scheduling, and
budgeting.
- Steered the product development directions through the merger of Aeronomics Incorporated
and Decision Focus Incorporated (DFI) as they became Talus Solutions.
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| Manager, Operations Research |
1995-1996 |
- Initiated and built the Operations Research Group at Aeronomics to provide our project
teams with top analytical skill in forecasting of customer demand and optimization of
sales for revenue maximization (i.e. Revenue Management)
- Recruited and hired staff. Established policies.
- Designed and built forecasting/optimization tools and subsystems.
- Executed studies quantifying revenue benefits of Revenue Management. (generally 3%-8%
revenue enhancement for >$100M firms)
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| Systems Development Project Manager |
1993-1995 |
- Led the development and implementation of a $1.8M Revenue Management System for Marriott
Hotels.
System was a client-server analytical decision support system. Client
application was built using Powerbuilder on Win95. AIX server ran Informix database (1GB
per property) in a distributed, property-based architecture (~300 sites).
- Led the analysis, design, and development of the forecasting and optimization subsystem
of a $3.5M Revenue Management System for National Car Rental.
Client application: SQL*Windows on Win95. Server: Oracle (150GB) on
PyramidOS (Unix).
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Kenan Systems Corporation
System-based Consultant |
Washington, DC
Summer 1992 |
- Justified capital-budgeting proposals using volume/revenue forecasts for the US Postal
Service.
- Utilized historical volume/price/economic data, price elasticities, soft factors in
demand forecasting model.
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Hewlett Packard/HiPerformance Systems
Unix Pre-sales Consultant/Unix Customer Support Engineer/Unix Trainer |
Johannesburg, South Africa
1989-1991 |
- Consulted to sales force on UNIX workstation and distributed database
performance/technology issues.
- Spoke at national computer conferences and debates on UNIX, X-Windows/MS-Windows, and
RISC/CISC.
- Created and taught numerous computer courses on Unix security, Unix administration, and
C-language programming.
- Led technical analysis on two 400-node ($4,000,000) distributed database network
proposals.
- Initiated and developed new software products for real-time equipment control and
network printing.
- Published technical articles in nationwide industry journals.
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MARTECH Systems
Software Systems Analyst, Software Development Engineer, Project Manager |
Johannesburg, South Africa
1986-1988 |
- Led 4-man software development teams in development of a real-time multi-tasking
embedded system, employing a 68000 assembly language kernel and application software
written in C.
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IBM, Cambridge Sales Office
Market Research Analyst |
Cambridge, MA
1982-1983, Summer 1984 |
- Designed/executed/presented market research study on needs and preferences of 50 key
M.I.T. computer users.
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| EDUCATION |
Georgetown University
Master of Business Administration |
Washington, DC
1991-1993 |
- Specializing in information technology management and international business.
- Consulted to telecommunications firm on capital budgeting for foreign joint-ventures.
- Analyzed telecommunications industry on corporate, competitive, and government-relations
strategies.
- Awarded full merit scholarship. GPA: 3.8. GMAT: 98th %.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, July 1986 |
Cambridge, MA
1984-1986 |
- Specialized in computational optimal control theory and flight simulation.
- Developed flight simulator software using 3D graphics on UNIX workstation for thesis.
GPA: 3.6. (on a 4.0 scale)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, December 1983 |
Cambridge, MA
1980-1983 |
- Specialized in digital control and space systems.
- Won Innovation Award for best senior research project out of 100 students.
GPA: 3.5. (on a 4.0 scale) SAT/ACT: 99th %.
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ACTIVITIES/SERVICE
- Organized and led 5-40 man teams for 19 years in a non-profit organization. Frequent
public speaker.
- Eagle Scout, Troop 2, Santa Monica, BSA.
- Intermediate French and Afrikaans.
- HS Honors: 8th in California in AAPT physics exam. Top 100 in USA in national MAA math
exam.
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