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Littleton, Colorado, Us

70+ years of combined professional software experience.Serverless is currently our biggest thing: IoT on IBM Cloud Foundry/Watson/Node Red and video e-commerce on AWS with the whole S3, API Gateway, Lambda yada yada with some elastic transcoder pipeline thrown in. Got a couple apps in the oven.Client satisfaction is the most important of our operational goals, and everything we do will bedone in service of that goal.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Brought in to turn around suboptimal engineering progress. Codebase is 7 years old and never had direction. Recommended incrementally refactor the existing system, which is what is required to make current and future feature development successful.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Single page React+redux e-commerce app for uploading and editing photos to print on products. Anonymous shopping carts, save for later list using node.js API.

Denver, Us

Wrote Python scripts that run daily to synchronize between external SQL Server system and Quickbase applications for a friend's startup.

Denver, Colorado, Us

By de-emphasizing the use of an existing framework and applying structured design and OO, our new team has accelerated delivery of client sites from 12 - 18 months to 2 - 4 weeks. We eliminated the need for outsourcing.4 of the healthcare sites launched during the last 8 months received high honors when judged among 1,000 sites at this year's Healthcare Internet Conference. That's what kicking a$$ looks like.

Spruce Grove, Ab, Ca

Systems integration tasks, incrementally automating diverse legacy business processes. Focused on customizable dashboards and integrated interfaces to enable viewing and updating data from these various systems.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Wrote UI for airline-hosted internet access and video streaming application. Video catalog, auto-playing news videos and weather pages. Responsive carousels and players.

Mobile and Web app using nodejs, mongodb, jQuery, HTML5, etc

Rewrote portal reporting subsystem with HTML, CSS, Javascript and dojo. In one set of reports, replaced thousands of lines of report-specific code with less than 400 lines of generic code.

Working within the Yii framework, implemented several complex products:A custom audio player "builder" using XSL to assemble and edit HTML, JS, and Flash streaming component based on user settings. The player can be successfully launched after saving with no manual editing.Single point of access control using legacy XML navigation file, adding roles and rules, and XSL to both create the menu system and generating the Yii access methods necessary in every controller class.

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Architected and implemented new role-based access control framework, built into existing business classes.Architected internationalization/localization methodology to integrate new XML UI definitions with legacy PHP localization and simplify the overall process between McAfee and translation vendors.Sole PHP developer of McAfee SaaS Email Archiving, a massive Web-based e-mail archiving product, providing Web client interface functionality to search and manage e-mail.Wrote PHP SOAP API framework to support product provisioning from external systems..Sole PHP developer of McAfee's Email Continuity, an enterprise cloud-based e-mail Web application, creating a flexible HTTP component to support both XML-RPC and REST communication with multiple Berkeley DB XML stores. Helped architect a high-performing DNS solution to address segregated customer databases.Pioneered true object oriented implementations, explored advanced PHP techniques and pushed architecture from everything being a one-off effort to true reusable cohesiveness.

Designed and developed Sybase SQL stored procedures within the Facets and Orbitz health insurance applications.Wrote Sybase jobs to migrate client into a hosted environment. Reengineered COBOL and shell scripts into batch SQL logic.Wrote SQL Server jobs to integrate new vendor interface with legacy systems. Rewrote cursor-driven procedures using T-SQL. Refactored process into a modular architecture, using nested DTS execution methods that minimize manual interaction and maximize portability and reusability. Wrote reflective code to produce XML serialization of DTS package, allowing varying transformations, views and analyses of work and data flow.Architected, developed and implemented a MS SmartDocument authoring solution, using Web services and SharePoint. Application work is done in VB.NET. In the process identified and defined disparate data sources to automate the document authoring. Designed and prototyped an XML-based integration of previously non-captured data into business metadata.

Wrote large intranet application to manage Los Alamos Laboratories’ government-mandated environmental cleanup. Replaced traditional ASP programming methods with data-driven, XML managed application flow.Co-wrote TierScript™, a lightweight, yet powerful, XML client-server programming language running on Microsoft platforms. Enables powerful database Web applications without writing any SQL Server stored procedures, custom server components or server-side scripting in HTML pages. The XmlHttpRequest object was used heavily in TierScript's Javascript; AJAX in 2002.Added dynamic charting/graphing of SQL Server data to an existing ASP application using XSLT and SVG to replace expensive third party graphing tool.Wrote large shareholder accounting system.

New York, Ny, Us

Partnered with global customers and business analysts to integrate existing vertical information systems into complete customer management systems.Evaluated vendor offerings and custom programming solutions to design automated e-marketing, CRM solutions and information portals for Fortune 500 customers.

Automated the software delivery process to global sales force.Drastically reduced size and improved performance of legacy device monitoring and simulation tools.Led successful Y2K conversion of device simulation suite (700+ source modules).Wrote multi-platform hardware monitoring and alarm protocol.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Automated quality control checks and program requests, putting updates in the customers’ hands.Developed and maintained online and batch systems to activate and bill cable television and communication systems. Architecting new methods to do hot updates of system settings without any programming.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Debugged and enhanced proprietary telephony system to support field sales engineers.

First employee to be officially recognized by the company for innovation.Created the List Lightning™ list order fulfillment product, turning a loss-leader into a cash cow through automation. It is still one of the flagship services offered by the company that acquired EDS’ subscription fulfillment division. I delivered a proof of concept that made the product workable, and then worked with all levels of staff to individually build and deploy this solution.Reinvented the development process by writing macro, function and object libraries to simplify programming. Created the underlying engine to process relational data access requests against mammoth proprietary file system data store.Initiated and chaired the Programming Standards Task Force, creating standards for common design patterns, exception management and online documentation.Initiated and led the Process Improvement team.Wrote code generation wizards, a hyperlinked help system (for 3270 terminals, before there was a Web), file analysis tools and many other developer and user tools.Solely responsible for the support and enhancement of multi-million-LOC data access engine used by all applications. Regularly processing 30MM+ records at a time.Led project teams and mentored other developers in reusable, structured and object-oriented techniques.Led the transition from development in assembler to C. Conducted training, wrote all C functions and macros for compatibility with legacy assembler systems.

Wrote asset management system for petroleum industry clients.Wrote accounting and internal billing applications.Wrote development and testing wizards.Refactored legacy systems to reduce costs of job execution.Wrote flexible report definition and execution engine – saved 1000s of hours of application programming.Wrote user query/reporting engine regularly processing 30MM+ records.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Rewrote reporting system to streamline distribution, saving 500 hours/year.Streamlined the Bell Billing interface system, reducing daily run cycle from 28 to 7 hours.Wrote user query tools - reduced ad-hoc programming requests; improved user efficiency and satisfaction.

Computer Management Science

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