Came on board a startup to provide technical leadership and assist the founder and CEO with all the complexities of designing and implementing a secure, reliable cloud infrastructure that spans multiple datacenters in multiple cities, and can scale in a cost-effective manner. After three years, I bought the company and have grown it from operating out of a shared office in Williamsburg, to providing services for clients all along the 200-mile corridor from Hampton to Charlottesville. Our reputation is absolute platinum, and we try always to focus on protecting our clients and doing the right thing, even if it is not the easiest or most popular.

Designed/updated Web Sites for various customers, using wide variety of technologies, including HTML, DHTML, Java, PERL, JavaScript, Tcl/Tk, CGI, CSS, XML, VRML, Flash, Shockwave, Director, SQL Database, and more. Tools included Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Beyond/3D, Fractal Texture Composer, Acrobat, and more. Designed and implemented AIT corporate network, including multiple redundant links to the world, full ingress/egress network monitoring, arrays of FreeBSD/Linux/NT servers acting as front-line Web servers and back-end database servers. Worked closely with customers on all phases of projects (Concept, Design, Review, Installation, and Update) on platforms including Solaris, FreeBSD, Tru64, Linux, NT/2K, AIX.

Accepted pay increase and returned as Lead Engineer. Designed, coded, and debugged firmware in C and Assembly for various 8x51, x86, 68EC0x0, and ColdFire platforms. Wrote, debugged, and extended device drivers, test programs, and applications packages for numerous platforms. Maintained 10,000+ line robotic control software package capable of running on all major UNIX platforms. Performed maintenance and enhancement work on firmware for multiple compression, encryption, and robotic control systems.

Performed standard system administration duties on corporate computer network of more than eighty Sun and SiliconGraphics systems. Wrote network security and system administration software using C, C++, Perl, sh, ksh, Tk, Tcl, Postscript, HTML, JavaScript, Fortran, and other languages as necessary. Implemented automatic network traffic security monitor in Bourne shell (with snoop, awk, sort, and dc) with Postscript reporting capabilities and an HTML/JavaScript front-end.

Designed, coded, and debugged embedded controller firmware, device drivers, test programs, and applications packages for numerous platforms. Wrote 10,000+ line robotic control software package capable of running on all major UNIX platforms. Designed and debugged SCSI device drivers for UNIX, OS/2, Apple, and DOS platforms. Solely responsible for design and development of control software for 100+ Gigabyte, 30+ Megabyte per second SCSI disk array. Assisted in writing of technical documents and manuals for various products. Sole engineer responsible for performing field engineering work at several very high-profile customer sites (Exxon - Houston, Northrop-Grumman - Baltimore, among others). End-to-end project management for several projects. Performed a number of functions in various departments, including Sales/Marketing, Technical Support, Documentation, and Production. Due to strenuous requirements of this position, I resigned to pursue completion of my bachelor's degree.