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Software consulting and PC support for corporations and individuals.

Toronto, Canada

Consulted to Toronto Children's Chorus to port their music and performance library (originally built on MS Access) to a cloud-based Sharepoint server via java applets. Regrettably, delivered just in time to see Access apps on Sharepoint deprecated. Rebuilt and delivered alternate (and simpler) solution on Google Sheets.

Waterloo, Ontario

EAI project consulting and development. Involved heavy use of JSON and REST in an SOA environment using WSO2.

Odyssey of a Slave is a trilogy for teenagers (roughly 11-16) that retells Homer's famous Odyssey. It is told from the point of view of a young Trojan boy who is kidnapped as Troy falls and forced to accompany Odysseus on his journey home. The three books in the trilogy are Torn from Troy, Cursed by the Sea God, and Arrow through the Axes (published.

Toronto

Altimate was a startup document server company. Working for them, my role was fluid - principally responding to RFPs and customer information requests, writing user documentation, and developing and presenting pre-sales technical presentations to customers.

As president (and sole employee) of RoadWorks Canada, I was responsible for identifying the technology to base the driving simulator upon, customizing it, preparing and delivering pre-sales presentations, and generating sales.

Working with a great bunch of people and amazing technology. TIBCO is the originator of the anonymous publish/subscribe model of distributed computing, which decouples data sources from its consumers. This permits an entirely new model of distributed architecture. During my time here, I wore multiple hats, often simultaneously: developer, development group.

Toronto, Canada

Ran my own consulting company, doing architecture and software development. From a pungent contract with Monfort (a Colorado slaughterhouse) to build an Oracle/Powerbuilder-based yield management system to a contract with Zellers to automate the scanners and conveyors in their order fulfillment warehouse, and later to automate the scanning and loading of.

Markham, Ontario

I supported Motorola Dacscan's cell controller product, extending it with additional functionality and tools such as a graphical shell and writing user and administrator documentation. This role also saw me doing customer rollouts, training and consulting to our customers. The position disappeared when the decision was made to fold up the division.