Mentor colleagues on new technologies and software methodologies; self-trained in newer web and cloud technologies; replaced monolithic software with more manageable and configurable modules.

Successful in migrating heavyweight EJB applications to use a much more lightweight POJO/Web architecture while still achieving the goals of a 3 tiered system.

Crafted software to build real-time television information productions for customers (Patents Obtained), including a web-based application that consolidated 90% of company‘s in-house reports. Adopted the entire IT department to make use of version control software. Designed highly efficient database schema to support in house legacy application conversion to the Java platform. Created a suite of migration software during a merger between TV Data and Tribune Media Services. Designed a production engine that provides real-time listings information all of the major players in the entertainment arena. Developed and taught instructional programs for Perl, Java, Spring Framework, 3-tier programming, database design to colleagues. Developed an application used by many of movie theaters to remotely enter their show time schedules into a database through a web service.

Managed Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise on AIX/Unix systems, created software for AIX/Linux systems. In charge of all systems/network related activity. Troubleshooted network performance issues and wrote custom monitoring software for use by the Systems department.

Created a QuarkXpress "Xtension", a plugin for QuarkXpress Desktop Publishing software used for our business to paginate television listings for television books. Application is used by TMS internally as well as almost all US newspapers that have television listings to create television listing grids and logs.