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Primary responsibilites encompassed: providing technical direction for implementing projects requested by management, sales, and editorial department stakeholders; development and maintenance of PL/SQL stored procedures; updating and maintaining the news system ORACLE schema. Also assisted where necessary the development and maintenance of Java applicatons running under Solaris.Converted from using satellite feeds as our primary news feed to a proprietary news delivery system for simultaneous delivery over the internet (called nx), and I am co-inventor on the patent granted for this technology.Represented Business Wire at meetings of the IPTC (iptc.org) which developed the NewsML XML standard used on the nx news delivery system. I was also chairman of the NewsML 1 working party during my final year at Business Wire.

Basically, I WAS the IT department. Primary responsibility was the design, development and maintenance workflow application for management of environmental sampling and reporting services.Originally implemented in MS Excel and then MS Access as a part-time side project until hired full-time in January 1996, I was tasked to migrate what we came to call the Compliance Data Services to a client server architecture implemented using Java and Oracle to market as software, service, and support bundle to municipalities.Application covered wastewater, drinking water, and stormwater compliance programs as required by local municipalities under mandate from EPA regulations.Further responsibilies included both database and network administration; also the pruchase, installation, and maintenance of computer equipment.

Development of MFC C++ based Windows commercial software application called "Flowmodel"Tasks included ensuring Universal Naming Convention and Long File Name compliance for WIndows 95 certification, design and development of ArcPath object (a file system absraction object), and modification of WinWidgets source to support duration data type.Company was acquired by Visio

Development and maintenance of merchant purchase authorization turn-key sytems implemented under C/Unix using C-ISAM for database support.

Design, development and maintenance of C/Unix programs using C-ISAM database for non-standard auto insurance software covering all aspects of insurance policy underwriting and processing (excluding claims processing)

B.A. In Business Administration, Computer Information Systems

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