Consulting for clients on various projects on Unix based platforms using variouslanguages (Java, C++, Perl, PHP, SQL, shell) and using and enhancing various open source software. Moreinformation on consulting available at http://computer.griffmonster.com/. Most recent projects have included identifying problems to be solved, building teams with the skills and knowledge for the projects, leading the teams, designing the systems, and writing code.Led workshop in 2009 assisting 110 special needs individuals on resume writing, job interviewing, and presentation of self via a Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks program for the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service We Care programRecently had the privileged of consulting for the President of Starfall Education Foundation, website that teaches children to read and do math, to help restructure and grow the Organization's IT and development teams. Performed an audit of systems, communications, technology, personnel, using feedback from effected parties in the organization (President, CTO, creative team members, technical members, and the IT team). The results were recommendations on employees with under utilized skills, areas needing external hiring, technology recommendations, cost benefit analysis between options, and more.

Volunteer for Conference on World Affairs (CWA) at CU Boulder which is in its 70th year in 2018. It is a unique conference with 100 unpaid participants from around the world discussing "all things conceivable" (Tag line by Roger Ebert), on 200 free and open to the public panels, over the course of a week in April.Participating on several programming subcommittees to help identify and recruit participants. As co-chair, facilitate weekly meetings keeping us, the volunteers, on topic and making progress in the limited time we have as professionals with full-time jobs. As a team, identify and recruit participants, create interesting and open-ended topics that will lead to engaging discussions.Moderated and organized some of the discussions and performance events. A highlight in 2017 was putting together a performance with world class musicians and dancers (including aerialists) to improvise together.Helped fix some bugs in the Java based scheduling software that finds times when rooms are available, participants are all available at the same time, without to many panels for a participants in the same day, without days without panels, and many more requirements.Human Condition Subcommittee - CWA 2016Film Subcommittee - CWA 2016, 2017, 2018Arts Subcommittee - CWA 2016, 2017, 2018Arts Subcommittee co-chair - CWA 2017, 2018

Various pet projects in progress:Assemble a community of people and long-tail data through crowd sourcing to locate composting, specialized and seasonal items available from individuals, farmers'markets, and stores using location, time, category and multi-lingual based searching using Java, Perl, MySQL, Hibernate, Maven, Eclipse, GWT, Google Maps, Polymer.Educating on PV Solar and ROI.Health Insurance Adviser to educate and facilitate selecting the health insurance policy that is the best fit based on the customer's health and financial information. Uses the same technology as the compost locator with the addition of the Socrata SODA 2.0 API to access publicly available health insurance plans on the federal and state exchanges.

ImageX team.improving user experience through enhanced location precision and augmented reality.Creating proof of concepts for using imagery to produce new inferred data.Created API and library to facilitate data storage access/transfer between various disparate data sources (local file system, Amazon S3, Uber internal API, RESTful, etc). Provided the UberEats division with suggestions for improving UI/UX and back-end issues.

Helped with ColoradoCare Yes in support of Amendment 69. The amendment was on the ballot for November 2016 to provide Coloradans with Medicare for all style universal healthcare for everyone one in the state.Using SmartVAN data to help connect to Coloradans via grass root volunteers to educate the voters on the topic.Created a simplified version of the EcoLocate.Org Health Insurance Adviser tool to help explain the cost to each individual based on their specific health circumstances and personal financials.

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Elected by the Members of the CO-OP. Excited to help CO and the nation take the next steps in improving health and healthcare. Unfortunately politics caused the CO-OP to close. Will see what else I can do to move our nation's health in a positive direction. Have some ideas ...

Collaborated with the President/Founder of TuttiSystems, LLC, identifying the needs of small dental offices to refer patients to specialists and labs, track progress, and securely transfer patient information in the form of notes, documents, and images. The result was TuttiCare, a secure HIPAA compliant system for small practices with features commonly found on systems used by major hospitals at a fraction of the cost.Designed TuttiCare to handle the needs of dental offices with the flexibility for future expansion into other fields of medicine with secure interfaces for doctors to collaborate with each other and communicate with their patients.Met with prospective clients/friendly early adopters/beta testers in the fields of general dentistry, various dental specialties, and dental manufacturing laboratories. Assist with technical sales, using these opportunities to question assumed requirements of the clients, modify designs, and prioritize features.Worked on code when the complexity of the algorithm was beyond the skills of the rest of the team and when needed to meet delivery milestones.Built a team of UI developers, Software Engineers, and QA testers. Manage the communication channels between the various members and the President.Working with a small budget provided the opportunity to focus on reducing feature creep of the product as well as mentor Junior team members on their first projects, preparing them for future projects.

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Cross-functional team leadership, designer, and developer on dRNome's CueVue project. Re-architected the user interface (Adobe Flex), database (MySQL), file system, and middle-ware (Java,Hibernate, Spring) creating a coherent solution architecture. Identified team specialties enabling partitioning of project and distribution of manageable size sub-tasks.

Pancil, LLC / Sarfall.com best known for their e-learning web site to teach children how to read English. Designing and coding software for network analysis, content parsing and analysis, and process identification and documentation. Designed and coded GMSysMon an application for tracking network connectivity and generating alarms to notify of network and machine failures. It is a lite weight application similar to Nagios. The flexible design was then used to generate alarms on other data including overheating of computers, server rooms temperature, cpu load threshold monitoring, bandwidth limits, and more. Made available to open source community. Contributions to the open source checkbot project. Identified bugs, fixed bugs, enhanced capabilities by adding plug-in interface points to allowing for parsing of custom data and information types. Used the plug-in feature to add support for links within flash files

Degreement.com, degree audit and advising software. System is writtenin Perl with a MySQL backend and is handling 100K students and several million student class records. ForDegreement also worked in marketing and sales with universities, secondary schools, and state board ofeducation. See CV for more detail on Degreement work.

Team Manager with the Sustainability and Greening Division of the Democratic National Convention Committee. Managed group of volunteers and managers in a venue with 30K visitors per day.

Designing and architecting systems for a pre-IPO globalization company. GlobalSight develops software enabling the localization of web sites for international markets. Engineering responsibilities include designing and architecting future products and developing integrations between GlobalSight's existing products and external vendor products. Identifying future GlobalSight products and features for evaluation by product marketing. Training internal employees, partners, and clients to use and install the GlobalSight System3 products and integrations. Identify I18N (Internationalization) issues present in external products (Oracle, Vignette, ATG, Interwoven Teamsite, etc.), develop best practices documentation, and provide I18N training. Assist sales with prospective costumers as special needs arise. Only two time winner of the monthly Presidents Award for outstanding contributions to the company by an employee.

Designing and developing components for the next generation of CDMA base stations. Utilized Rational Rose Real-Time to model the behavior of the base station and generate real-time code. Developed Java and perl programs to enable communication via CORBA between the base stations and the remote controllers.

Working on communication layer as applied to various fields including virtual meeting rooms, stock market, games, ... using home grown CORBA distributed object subsystem. Application supplies hints as to the level of synchronization required to aid in response time and bandwidth usage.Degreement software system to aid students in planning and verifying graduation requirements.