• Single-handedly 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 integrated 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, independent of the additional applications to be hosted by the ASP.
• Developed software for user registration and management, organization registration and management, and credit card billing and management.
• Installed and utilized alternative compatible open source technologies for reaching price-sensitive market segments.
  • Linux / Intel servers
  • MySQL RDBMS
  • Perl / mod_perl

• Developing a secure, collaborative, community site at http://www.internetdynamics.com.
• SSL secure-server encryption
• HTTP Basic authentication
• Online registration and e-mail-based identity validation
• Integrated threaded discussion groups and mailing lists
• Integrated browser-based file editing
• Developing web application development framework.
• authentication
• persistence
• session/thread state management
• user interface management (windows, frames, tables, color schemes, user preferences, complex controls)
• integration of JavaScript and Java
• browser compatibility
• multi-user synchronization and resource locking
• change procedural to event-driven programming model
• site localization (directory locations, development/test/production environments)
• separation of presentation/application-logic/storage mechanisms
• Developed and maintain several special-interest destination websites
• Developed several websites for clients (http://www.hopeforchildren.org, http://www.hhconsulting.com), friends, and family (http://www.naturalightphoto.com, http://www.internetdynamics.com/www/forcelimited)
• Incorporated credit-card processing to create e-commerce-enabled sites
• Administer, moderate, and participate in several special-interest mailing lists, including one PGP-secured list
  

• Started the first intranet at the company.
• Downloaded, compiled, installed, and administered NCSA and Apache webservers on multiple server machines.  Added modules (mod_auth_db).
• Downloaded, compiled, installed, and promoted the use of Perl as a development language and a CGI programming language
• Downloaded, compiled, installed, and promoted the use of numerous open-source tools (Samba, RCS, CVS, gmake, autoconf, BerkeleyDB, Majordomo, PGP, Mesa, enscript)
• Downloaded, installed, and utilized numerous CPAN modules (CGI, libwww, GD, FCGI, DB_File, DBI, DBD::Oracle, MIDI, Mailtools)
  

Technical Skills

Business Skills

• C (Expert), C++ (Moderate)
• Perl 5 (Expert)
• Unix Bourne/Korn Shell (awk, sed, etc.) (Expert)
• Java (Beginner)
• JavaScript (Beginner)
• Assembly Language (Expert) (68000, 6803, 8085, Z80)
• PASCAL, LISP, BASIC (Experienced)
• Fortran, ALGOL (Moderate/Rusty)

Development Methodologies (Expert)

• Entity Analysis and Database Design (ER/Win)
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (UML) (Rational Rose)
• Structured Analysis and Design (DFD, CRUD)

Unix Subsystems and Administration (Expert)

• X-Windows/Motif (X, xrdb, xdm, mwm, clients)
• Kernel Performance Tuning (swap, cache, etc.)
• Unix Security (su, newgrp, passwd, group, drwxr-x---, chmod, chown)
• Berkeley/Arpa/NFS Network Services (rcp, ftp, rlogin, telnet)
• System Configuration (init, rc, profile, shutdown)
• Print Spooler (lp, lpadmin, interface scripts)
• Terminal Management (terminfo, gettydefs, inittab, ttytab, getty, stty)
• Serial Networking (uucp, cu, mail, uugetty)
• Backup/Recovery (cpio, dd, tar)
• Development Environment (cc, make, vi, ar, nm, adb, ld, lex, yacc)
• Process Management (ps, kill, nohup, ksh job control, fg, bg)
• Batch Processing (cron, crontab, at, nice)
• Device/Disk Management (mount, mknod, checklist, fsck, mkfs)

Database Experience

• Oracle 8.0.5 (Expert), Informix (Intermediate)
• Logical data modeling and physical database design
• Designed Oracle databases (that ran fast) up to 1.5 Terabytes
• Table partitioning, query and index tuning, Query optimizer hints
• Stored procedures and functions

Miscellaneous Development Projects (C/Unix)

• Wrote Flight-Simulation Software for University Research on Unix Workstation
• Wrote Multi-Tasking Scheduler for 6303 Embedded System
• Wrote Vehicle Classification System for 6303 Embedded System
• Wrote C-Assembler Interface Routines for 68000 Embedded System
• Enhanced Real-Time Train-Routing Software for 68000 Embedded System
• Wrote UPS Control Daemon
• Wrote Unix Security Audit and Control Software as a Korn Shell Script
• Wrote Network Printing Utility for Incorporation into an LP Script
• Wrote Terminal-Based (curses) Windowed "Help" Application
• Wrote Custom Serial Networking Module for an Informix-based MIS System
• Wrote Library and Preprocessor to Enable Non-Invasive Remote Debugging
• Wrote C-language Parser to Generate Structured Charts from C Code
• Wrote Multi-Screen Terminal Manager
• Wrote Numerous X-Windows/Motif Utilities
• Wrote Statistical Analysis Software for PC for University Research
• Enhanced Terminal Emulation Software for PC in PASCAL
• Wrote Numerous Other Tools and Utilities for Unix

• Project planning and execution
• Issue tracking and resolution
• Status reporting

Product Development Management

• Release Planning
• Product Profitability Planning, Tracking, and Reporting
• Recruiting and Hiring
• Performance Reviewing and Professional Development

Communication

• Preparing and Delivering...
  • Customer Presentations
  • Industry Debates
  • Professional Training Courses
  • Motivational Speeches
• Writing Proposals and Technical Specs
• Creating Course Curricula

Marketing

• Competitor Positioning Analysis
• Product Positioning Planning
• Demand Forecasting
• Pricing Models

Statistics and Management Science

• Resource Allocation Optimization
• Linear Programming
• Market Research/Survey Analysis
• Statistical Quality Control
• Best-Fit Linear Modeling
• Multiple Regressions
• Numerical Simulations

Finance and Accounting

• Capital Budgeting
• Stock/Option Price Valuation
• Corporate Valuation
• Foreign Exchange Risk Hedging
• Proforma Financial Statement Preparation
• Financial Statement Analysis

Strategic Planning

• Business Plan Preparation
• Industry Competitive Analysis
• New Venture Planning
• Scenario Analysis
• Risk-Return Analysis
• Merger and Acquisition Planning
• Shareholder Value Analysis
• Ethical Framework Analysis