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Transparent Solutions was founded in 1997, after 16 years in the corporate world. His background includes stints at Marion Labs, Southwestern Bell and Peabody Energy, where he worked on infrastructure projects, application development and technical support. His strengths lie in his ability to quickly assess a situation and devise creative solutions to problems. Past employers and current clients especially like his solutions that either make or save money for them.Now he brings his expert skills to clients who don’t have access or otherwise might not be able to afford an employee with his specialized skill set.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

WordPressKC connects developers, designers, and end-users in Kansas City to learn, share and experience all things WordPress.+ Organizers host weekly work sessions, monthly meetups, and quarterly social affairs for its 700+ members.+ Organizers insure all aspects of the WordPressKC meetups run smoothly by securing locations, rounding up industry-professional speakers, acquiring sponsors for food and high-value giveaways, joining with local partners, and promoting everything WordPress.WordPress is a free open source software that is used to create custom websites and blogs powering 75 million web sites world wide. It started in 2003 as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system (CMS) and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes -- WordPress is limited only by your imagination.

Primarily acted as an internal consultant working on infrastructure related projects in R&D including printing and document management for NDAs, printing infrastructure for company, intranet and several other projects and systems.* Enabled heavily used mainframe applications via web browser, allowing access by all associates via Intranet.* Developed an alphanumeric paging server that allowed all people and most applications to easily send pages.* Consolidated the support of LANs, Unix, NT, VAX and printing into one group.* Developed a conferencing system that allowed people to easily create, share and maintain information.* Averted a $1,000,000 CPU upgrade by making changes to publishing system and training users in efficient use.* Saved $3,000,000 by allowing printers to be accessed from all computing platforms and using low cost distributed laser printers instead of expensive centralized printers.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Implemented prototypes and high impact projects, traveled to mine locations to help implement systems

Dallas, Tx, Us

When I worked there it was Southwestern Bell TelephonePrimarily involved in application development, then moved into technical support for other developers.* Numerous application tuning efforts and system utilities.* Developed a system to automate monitoring of pressurized cables to allow preventative maintenance. System was eventually commercialized.* Provided technical support for 200 programmers.* Participated in team to develop PL/I programming guidelines.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science