As our company had moved to a subscription based model, we were no longer limited to working within one specific application. Over the next few years I would work on developing, and assist on deploying nearly all of the applications provided by SCS.I was assigned the responsibility of interviewing and hiring new talent - software developers and technical specialists. During this time we brought on four new programmers to help facilitate our growth.With the new talent being brought on I became more involved in managing projects and development teams. This included corporate wide deployment of our ad tracking application and of our classified pagination system. Part of this process was managing the development teams, keeping deadlines, coordinating efforts and working directly with the customers' higher level project managers and system teams.Utilized the following programming tools and worked in these environments...Operating systems: Redhat/CentOS/AlmaLinux, Windows and Mac.Software apps and tools: Samba, GIT, Sendmail, NetATalk, QuarkXPress, Adobe Apps, Apache, PostgreSQL.Programming tools: Pascal based in-house programming language, Linux shell scripting, Java, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, Perl, Python, C, C++, AppleScript, Visual Basic Script, XSLT transformation, XML and PostgreSQL / SQL.

Remaining with the ad tracking development and installation team at SCS, I began going on-site with a installer to assist in system setup. Setup would often including preparing Windows and Mac workstations for use with our software, configuring email, printers and faxing on-site. I would also assist the installer with technical issues during the on-boarding process.These trips gave me a very clear picture and understanding of how a newspaper worked from head to tail. It also aided in my understanding of system development given exposure to the true end users of the system.During the later end of this period I began working with a development team to truly modernize our ad tracking application migrating it from a X-Windows legacy application to a web-based application. By the end of this period I had been instrumental in the development and deployment of the following...All components of our ad tracking application had been fully migrated to web-based environment;An application for taking Classified Ads on-line was developed and deployed;An application for taking Retail Ads on-line was developed and deployed;An application for tracking the statuses of ads by page was developed and deployed.Utilized the following programming tools and worked in these environments...Operating systems: Redhat Linux, Windows and Mac.Software apps and tools: Samba, GIT, CSV, SVN, Sendmail, NetATalk, QuarkXPress, Adobe Apps, Apache, PostgreSQL.Programming tools: Pascal based in-house programming language, Linux shell scripting, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, C, C++, AppleScript, Visual Basic Script, XSLT transformation, XML and PostgreSQL / SQL.

I came on with SCS as a Junior Application Developer during a significant boom in the newspaper industry. I started work developing and improving reports for our accounting system.Shortly thereafter I was reassigned to work on the company's ad tracking software, where I...Assisted in the migration of our primary platform of deployment from SCO UNIX to Redhat Linux;Developed and deployed data replication and redundancy tools to keep our application server pairs in sync in a two shared nothing server environment;Major involvement in modernizing and adding functionality to our ad tracking application, including but not limited to email, faxing and print interfacing. At this time development was done primarily in an X-Windows environment.Utilized the following programming tools and worked in these environments...Operating systems: Linux, SCO UNIX, Windows and Mac.Software apps and tools: Dave, NFS, Sendmail, NetATalk.Programming tools: Pascal based in-house programming language, Linux and SCO shell scripting.

My partners and I have built The Portal Comics and Gaming from the ground up.I have prepared and developed accounting practices and growth strategies for The Portal Comics and Gaming for nearly seventeen (17) years as a partner and owner. This has given me the opportunity to gain management experience as well as understanding strategies of building a business.I have grown up with Dungeons and Dragons, comic books and other games and my love of these is what lead me to build The Portal to where it is today.