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d/b/a Den of MusesAdministration, management, and maintenance of a former industrial warehouse to facilitate its use as a creative space for art and carnival activities that manifest an eclectic spectrum of beauty and nonsense. Current tenants are the Krewe du Vieux, The Royal Artists, the New Orleans School of Metasmithing. Previous tenants have included the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus (IKOC), NOLA Burners (local chapter of Burning Man), New Orleans Fringe Festival, Southern Repertory Theater and other organizations and artists that would please the Muses, the Goddesses of creativity.

MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT CAD/AVLProvide 24/7 on-call support. Provide on-site support on request with travel expense reimbursement.Monitor all systems and sub-systems.Advise and assist in resolving software, hardware, network, and data issues.Procure spare parts for legacy equipment and replace if necessary. Update software when necessary.Update system documentation when applicable.

TYCO ELECTRONICS, M/A-COM WIRELESS SYSTEMS, COM-NET ERICSSONProvider of mobile radio technology, products and services to worldwide markets.Responsibilities:Advise management on software design and other technical issues. Prepare software updates for field systems. Evaluate new equipment and technology. Maintain laboratory for testing software and hardware upgrades.Accomplishments:Established a laboratory for testing software and hardware upgrades. Led a software team in the design, specification, documentation, coding, and testing to enhance an existing radio control and communications product following industry-standard procedures. Worked with outside software vendors to establish an interface to a third-party Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system.

Navigation Data Systems, Inc. Manufacture of hardware and development of client/server software for GPS Vehicle Tracking Systems.Responsibilities:Software design and coding on a variety of high-performance servers and graphic workstations under the OpenVMS operating system on VAX and Alpha hardware platforms using FORTRAN and C programming languages, X-Windows graphics, and DCL scripts. Coordinated software development and testing with engineering department. Installed software upgrades. Tuned software code and adjusted system quotas to improve performance. Managed and maintained computer systems and networks. Designed and conducted quality control tests. Developed and maintained source code libraries and documentation. Ensured compliance with contract specifications. Supported field system installation. Supervised programming staff. Advised senior management on software design and other technical issues. Backed up and recovered software and data. Prepared software updates for field systems.Accomplishments:Led a software team in the design, analysis, and programming for multi-million dollar, multi-vendor systems in North and South America and the Middle East. Successfully migrated FORTRAN, C, and system code from a 32-bit DEC VAX/VMS Operating System to a 64-bit DEC Alpha OpenVMS Operating System. Analyzed system and network performance degradation and recommended solutions that stopped software and system crashes and met contract specifications.

Responsibilities:Supervised data acquisition for land, marine, marsh, swamp, and transition zone seismic operations in the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern half of the continental United States. Determined optimal data acquisition parameters. Conducted quality control tests of field instrumentation, surveying, and mapping. Resolved permit problems. Evaluated new equipment and techniques. Maintained cost controls and operating statistics. Cleared invoices. Performed preliminary interpretation of seismic sections in the field and office. Coordinated data processing activities. Advised middle and upper management on the selection of geophysical contractors.Accomplishments:Supervised as many as seven seismic field crews simultaneously, keeping all within budget and meeting or exceeding program objectives with respect to the quantity and quality of data collected. Worked with company and contractor research groups to develop innovative acquisition and processing techniques that improved data quality in frontier and difficult data area regions.

PROGRAMMER /ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER/ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Tulane University Laboratory for Environmental MedicineMulti-disciplinary research team investigating environmental effects on pulmonary function.Responsibilities:Developed data acquisition, processing, analysis, and report generation software that ran on a variety of DOS-based PC’s, minicomputers and mainframes (DEC, IBM) using high-level scientific and statistical languages (FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, BASIC, SAS, SPSSX, and others). Created, maintained and updated statistical databases. Supervised and coordinated data collection and processing activities. Maintained data communications, quality control, and documentation.Accomplishments:Organized and coordinated the collection and integration of diverse data from various groups in engineering, medicine, pulmonary, epidemiology, immunology, and bio-statistics for seven ongoing research projects. Made presentations to government and industry committees that resulted in increased funding for data activities and acquisition of computer equipment.

RESEARCH ENGINEER/ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANTulane University Bio-Mechanics Laboratory Interdisciplinary research in head and spinal cord injury.Responsibilities:Designed and set up experiments. Repaired, calibrated, and maintained electronic equipment. Implemented a digital filter design on a specialized time-series analyzer. Advised research scientists of instrumentation capabilities. Recommended equipment purchases. Conducted high-speed cinematography in acceleration and impact studies. Operated electro-optical tracking equipment and X-ray devices.