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Birmingham, Alabama Area

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Co-founded company to develop an industry-first digital library solution providing comprehensive usage logging, holdings verification, and performance monitoring.Designed and developed a local area network monitoring appliance using Nginx, Django, Erlang, PostgreSQL, and Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora).Provided independent consultancy services to scholarly publishers, healthcare providers, and the wider technology community.

Birmingham, Alabama

Provided consultancy on matters of software architecture, hardware infrastructure, interface usability, application performance, and project management for the SpringerLink hosting platform which served over 3 million sessions per day and processed approximately $4 million of pay-per-view transactions annually.Designed and developed a third-generation scholarly content delivery platform with emphasis on accessibility (W3C-WAI, WCAG, and 508c compliance), performance, scalability, and availability (including business continuity and disaster recovery).Coordinated all project management (using an agile methodology) and client relations with the second largest academic publisher in the world.

Birmingham, Alabama

Co-founded a new division of EBSCO Industries to provide scholarly content hosting services.Designed and developed a multitenanted hosting platform (IIS, ASP, Index Server, and SQL Server) which served approximately 35% of its market.Hired and managed a team of approximately 35 architects and developers, 5 DBAs and infrastructure specialists, 5 research and development staff, and 10 account service managers and customer support personnel.Manged a hardware infrastructure of about 80 web servers, search servers, database servers, and content loaders.Assisted marketing and sales with technical salesmanship. Grew client base from 0 to over 200. Regularly involved in sales presentations and customer relationship management.Designed and developed a second-generation platform (IIS, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and Endeca) adding support for books and reference works in addition to journals.Represented MetaPress at various industry conferences and events.

Birmingham, Alabama

Designed and developed a content aggregation system using C++, VB, and SQL Server.Developed a content aggregation site using IIS, ASP, and SQL Server to allow customers of EBSCO Subscription Services to search and browse all of their scholarly periodicals from a single interface.Managed technical relationships with over 300 scholarly publishers.

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Developed process automation software for air conditioner manufacturing.Designed and built a hardware interface allowing turret presses (originally controlled by programs on paper tape) to be controlled by PCs, greatly increasing up-time and monitoring while allowing programs to be loaded remotely.