Provider of advanced business solutions and support, specializing in computer infrastructure, SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and SharePoint.• Project planning, project owner interviews and information acquisition, specification creation, design, development, and implementation of SharePoint applications using SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, CorasWorks Suite and CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset.• New SharePoint Farm installations, migration of existing SharePoint installations, multiple Web Front Ends and multiple System Configuration and Administration sites for speed and reliability.• Microsoft Servers, MS-SQL Servers, network and infrastructure, Business Intelligence, SharePoint application development.• Customer assistance with process control and production plant automation questions.• SharePoint Designer for troubleshooting development, Visual Studio with SharePoint Extensions for major development, CorasWorks Suite and CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset for enterprise level development.• Workflow design and implementation.• Dashboarding for summary information of business processes.• Customized master pages and branding according to customer needs, specialized code and system implementations.• End-to-End ownership of projects from customer quotes through application implementation and support.

Equian migrations completed and returning to independent work.

SQL Server in multiple capacities, Assisting Infrastructure with the strange and unusual.Equian LLC transition (buyout) to Optum May 2020.

Managed business and executed development, support, and administration. Prime contractor and major project sub-contractor. Services provided for both business and industrial implementations.Systems Development, Deployment, Support • Web and Windows application development, MS-SQL Server database design and administration,.• Embedded processor design and programming.• Industrial and business automation (PLC, Business Intelligence, communications).• Microsoft Server and network design (Active Directory, routers, bridges) and support, provisioning, troubleshooting.• Systems integration of disparate parts into customer solutions.• Legacy systems expansion and redesign.Automation:Extensive experience in industrial automation, electronics design, and digital communications across several sectors and markets. Includes, but not limited to, PLC, MMI, RTU, Smart Module, Embedded Processor, and SCADA development and installations. Customer satisfaction resulted in many repeat projects and multiple installations.

Chemical/Oil/GasProjects for oil and gas fields, tank farms, natural gas pipelines and pumping stations, oil pipelines, batch and continuous chemical processing. Well known customer names are Star Enterprises, Arco, Texas Eastern, Tennessee Eastman, DuPont, Union Carbide, Showa Denko Carbon, Johnson & Johnson. Examples:Oil/Gas fields using wireless communications based on concentric communications and ring routing locally, mobile wireless communications remotely. Solution increased productivity, reduced costs, and provided an extreme safety improvement for remote locations. Natural gas pipeline using solar powered RTUs at remote mainline valves, installed during first phase, before wireless communications available. Premature testing of disaster functionality, during pressurization testing. Pipeline micro fractures, caused by non-reported backhoe incident, resulted in explosion. RTUs correctly identified problem, isolated section, resulted in disaster containment and reduced capital loss.

AutomotiveProjects for automotive suppliers. Additional technologies employed included RFID, barcode reader, conveyor, robotic storage and shipping systems. Well known customer names are Johnson Controls, Bridgestone-Firestone, Johnson-Mathey, SaarGummi, and Magna Corporation.Examples:Just in time production scheduling and monitoring system, from raw materials to final product. Included material processing and machine utilization throughout entire plant, via configurable parameters and processing timelines.Auxiliary conveyor storage system operating in either manual or automatic modes. Allen-Bradley SLC series system feeding Allen-Bradley PLC series system. Solution allowed customer to selectively batch build product, while reserving primary storage for required scheduled shipments. Results were increased productivity, higher storage efficiency, and reduced labor costs.

Food and PharmaceuticalWell known customer names are Frito-Lay, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Purdue, Wrigley’s. Examples:Multi-stage autoclave sterilization process for medical instruments. Extremely important to customer, capital expenditures made and original automation hardware supplier defunct. Customer ecstatic when solution exceeded expectations, and had potential for speeding regulatory approval process.Food processing automation resulting in sufficient savings to allow larger product delivery size at less cost than original size. Customer extremely pleased by solution cost recovery interval, as well as enhanced marketing capability.MiscellaneousSemiconductor clean rooms, facilities lighting and HVAC, Port Authority transit, wastewater treatment, specialized embedded processor designs, automatic calibrations systems, automatic testing systems.

Hardware and Software Development• Digital and Analog electronics design, firmware, software.• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems.• Computer hardware and software for custom systems and customer applications.• Personal computer and PLC intelligent module based user interfaces, machine control, networking, and data base applications.• Project management and technical lead.• Training courses development for internal and customer personnel.

Requested transfer from Dallas, TX to Johnson City, TN.Contract Systems Business / Industrial Services Division.The Charter of Contract Systems Business was:• Take on projects that VARS nor anyone else could do.• Look for these projects in targeted market areas.• Acquire knowledge and bring it back for product development and improvements.A no holds barred environment, where software and hardware were used if available and produced if not available. Not quite a "skunk works", but very close to it. Automation was across many sectors and industries. It was not unusual to have an Oil/Gas project followed by a Government Agency project, followed by a Chemical or Food Processing project.

Location: Dallas, TX Expressway Site.The Equipement Group (Defense Systems and Equipment Group) dealt primarily with governement defense systems, but had many internal customers. Titled as "Contols Engineer", because no other appropriate title was available, the team I in worked did much more.Hardware and sofware design at all levels, troubleshooting, development, training, automatic test systems development, things that fly in the air, and things that fly underwater..Having excelled in several areas and become a worldwide last line troubleshooter of electronic, computer, and software systems, I had a team of my own, within the team, before transferring to Texas Instruments in Johnson City, TN.