Within IT, an Application Developer, Database Administrator, Systems Administrator, Technical Project Manager, Trainer and Project Management Consultant for small-to-midsize companies that include Marketing, Manufacturing and Healthcare disciplines. Outside of IT, an Audio, Video and Multimedia Engineer, Songwriter, Producer and Technician within Entertainment and Communication disciplines (with a naturally heavy emphasis on IT and new technology). With a pedigree that bridges digital and analog domains and includes exposure to many past and current Detroit-bred artists, I am quite literally a "child of Motown".Have a deep commitment to satisfying clients through a principled-but-pragmatic approach to project development that considers both the clients' technical and overall business goals, always looking for the right blend of compromises that yield the right solution, at the right cost, right now, while providing clear opportunities for growth when the time comes.Specialties: Drupal CMS v6-10 with heavy emphasis on enterprise-grade application development (Form API, custom field/record validation, proper object-relational data modeling within the Drupal framework, exposing Drupal data via REST-based Web services). Blossoming expert in Tableau and REDCap (clinical research database platform). Relational database administration, Web application design and deployment, user interface and usability analysis, IT training and development, Open Source/new technology/early adopter advocacy, IT infrastructure planning and execution.Specific technical specialties include: Oracle (v5-21 RDBMS, MySQL v5-8, tools), Drupal CMS v6-10, REDCap, Linux (RedHat, Debian and variants), programming languages (Perl, PHP, Unix shell, Python, Javascript, CFML), APIs (RSS, jQuery, Facebook, SimpleGeo, Twitter, OpenID)