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Menands, New York, United States

Community interest group centered around Menands, NY, and focused on the life and times of the 21st President of the United States. Coordinated some educational and community events, and commemoration activities.

Capital District, New York

Held three positions during the 2020 Decennial Census: Recruiting Assistant (responsible for community outreach and candidate recruiting) 2019-2020; Enumerator, 2020; and full-time as a Census Field Supervisor for the field operation in the latter half of 2020. Supervised over 40 field employees.

Volunteer. Performed Search and Rescue missions, served as regional Aids to Navigation Officer, performed emergency response operations, and executed multiple related duties. Extensive training in Incident Command System (ICS) management, and Team Coordination Training (TCT). Qualified crew member on various craft, including 47' MLB. Staff offices: Marine Safety Officer and Aids to Navigation Officer. Acted as Flotilla Commander, Vice Commander, and Division and District staff officer. Multiple award winner for ATONs (2005-2011). Moved to retired status in 2017.

Monterey, California

I worked on a number of interesting things during my short stint here, including a design for a multi-system XML-based protocol for intra-DoD transfer of some data with rather unique one-way security issues, a re-design of a content-management system for integrating work by in-house professionals with external contractors on language test development, and a real-time tracking system for status within the department.

Engineering Manager for Sun's Java System Messaging Server. Provided technical direction, personnel management, customer and partner technical liaison, and overall direction for Sun's flagship carrier-grade messaging system's development group. During tenure moved group from waterfall to scrum/agile cycle and engaged team for major product release. Supervised 12 staff members directly and another dozen through dotted line reporting. Coordinated complex development processes that spanned multiple geos, time zones, divisions, including contractors and partners.

Volunteer position for SEIU Blue Team in Pennsylvania for the 2008 Presidential Election. Coordinated database efforts between local organizers and state and national organizations on GOTV and related matters. Worked with VAN and America Votes staff to cut turf maps, establish logistical schedules, and optimize data entry and retrieval. Assisted in training organizing staff in database and data entry tools use.

Company co-founder, Chairman of the Board and acting CEO from founding until 2000, and Member of the Board of Directors from beginning to end of this pioneering company. We introduced many technical features to email clients that became industry standards, forged some of the enduring technical standards that run this part of the internet, and were the first company to make commercially viable the 30-day demo, on-line sales model for software. See http://www.mulberrymail.com/about.shtml for company timeline.

One of the guys behind the Mulberry mail client. (Cyrusoft did business under the name Isamet, Inc. 2003-2005.) See http://www.mulberrymail.com/about.shtml for a company timeline. In addition to Mulberry, we also shipped a supported IMSP server (based on CMU's Cyrus IMSP server), a web mail product (SilkyMail), and had distribution and support rights to a Telnet client and a desktop X Windows Server. The company had active partnerships across the internet messaging space and was considered a technology leader and pioneer during its run, and the core products were profitable starting in the first year of operation. I was one of two co-founders of the company, acted as interm CEO and Chairman for its first three years, was responsible for virtually all the site business and core revenue development (over seven figures, cumulatively), guided product development, continued working part-time for the company while handling another start-up opportunity, and stayed with the board until the very end.

Co-founder and CEO of a start-up founded to build innovative SOHO internet mail appliances. A successful prototype and model was developed for the device. Company was liquidated without loss when venture financing stalled out. Concurrent with Cyrusoft, this company was managed independently but was essentially a spin-off of some technology developments that could not be integrated directly with Cyrusoft's main business.

Business manager and customer service point of contact for a small business-to-business Internet Service Provider serving technology start-up companies in Pittsburgh, PA, in conjunction with the Data Haven Project, Inc. Design Center Internet operated as a subsidiary of Cyrusoft International, Inc. after June, 1997.

Member of the Board of Directors for an industry consortium founded to provide interoperability testing, open standards events, and promote open standards internet mail over competing schemes for world-wide email communications. (The consortium disbanded more or less due to its own success.)

Ran special projects for Computing Services, including Project Cyrus project management. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_IMAP_server for information and links on Project Cyrus.) Managed and supervised in-house development teams, including an all-star team of folks who went on to Google, Yahoo, Mirapoint, Innosoft, Sun Microsystems, Apple, Pair Networks, Excite / At Home, and a number of other prominent start-ups and industry giants.

Developer on Maple Multimedia courseware project while attending graduate school full-time.

Philadelphia, Pa

Sole proprietor and sole employee of a start-up company that developed and sold a library for the Newton Development Technical Kit for the Apple Newton. Primary IP sold in August, 1996.

Jack of all trades in Educational Computing organization, ranging from software development to faculty support to curriculum development. Served both the Humanities departments and Physical Sciences as an interim coordinator. This was a fun time, as we hooked the college up to the internet (one of the very first small schools to do so), pioneered web services, moved to client-server systems and universal computing access models, and generally moved computing from a specialized niche to a universal service. We helped found the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, still active today in technology issues for the nation's elite small schools, and boosted the college's overall rankings as an educational institution in part to a humane and realistic technology revolution.

Manager for University-wide computing end user services. I started out as a research programmer and research computing user consultant, but was appointed to manage all user services in the wake of a consolidation and reorganization that merged five departments into one. User Services at the time included help desk operations, computer cluster and public facilities management, operation and business management of the computer store (which did a seven-figure business), training and documentation services for a large array of platforms, and contract services for research/grant-based entities operating on campus. I had a professional staff of eight reporting directly to me, and over 60 student employees.

Database guy and utility hitter at a small community college's admissions office. (This is now Quincy College.) I did a lot of database development and number crunching, but also pitched in on just about everything the office did. I was also the Foreign Student Advisor that year -- I suspect because I could actually speak a couple of foreign languages, had done some ESL teaching, and learned how to fill out INS forms. I also taught one section each semester of the Introduction to Pascal class ("computer science") as an adjunct instructor.

Full-time research assistant and corporate history researcher for the Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Records Project, an NEH-funded project under the auspices of the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, DE. The project was designed to recover business records worth preserving in the wake of the bankruptcy of the Penn Central railroad. Among other duties, fished old corporate records out of unheated, coal-dust-covered warehouses, battling rats along the way.

Office Of Us Rep. John Seiberling

After high school, I worked as a constituent services representative for Congressman John Seiberling, who represented Ohio's 14th Congressional district from 1971 through 1987. (Wiki entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seiberling ). John was a fascinating guy, a dedicated public servant with an intriguing background, who left a career as a corporate lawyer in industry to become one of the greatest environmentalists in Congress. I learned a lot from him and the staff in his office about passion, integrity, commitment, and pragmatism.

I was a library page during high school at the local public library, and then worked for about nine months full-time as a clerk at the front desk and substitute reference desk assistant while I finished school. Libraries are really interesting places to work; they're a crossroads of the community, and also centers of knowledge that model a lot of what goes on in society as a whole.

Ms, Computer Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Research assistant for the Math and Computer Science Department Maple Courseware project, Alice Kroeger Award.

Ba, Art History

Activities and Societies: WSRN-FM (Station Manager)Chief Student Consultant, 1986-1987, Computer Center. Computer Center Consultant.