Website design and programming for local martial arts (NHB, Kenpo, Kickboxing, Jiu Jitsu) school. See http://www.americanfistlaw.com

Lead the migration from WebSphere v3.5 to WebSphere 5. Re-architected project code to reflect latest in WebSphere best practices. Provided mentoring to staff on WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD), modern Java technologies, and integration with Active Directory via LDAP.

Architect, design and implementation of special payment payroll EJB/struts application in Websphere 5 on zOS.

Design and implemented realtime Java electronic battlefield software for live-fire Abrams, Bradley, dismounted Infantry and Aviation training.

Further details available upon request.

Wrote a homework management application that allowed for district students to retrieve assignments and make submissions via the web.

Implemented remote file management and security tools.

Developed custom modules to pull student information into the Citrix Portal

Designed and developed a database driven content management system for a secure pay-for-service multimedia martial arts educational website using struts, MySQL, Java and CSS.

Architect/Mentor of software development initiatives within the U.S. Postal Services. Responsible for overall design and programming of internal applications. Mentoring and teaching a team of six in java, visual age, websphere studio, websphere application server, UNIX and OO development.

Architect a 3-tier application for metered mail management.

Implementation in all areas of application.

Creation of training material.

Instruction to a group and on an individual basis.

Lead upgrade from WebSphere/Visual Age v3.0 to v3.5

Architect/Lead Developer of eCommerce solutions for Deluxe Business Forms. Responsible for estimating project efforts, architecture/detailed design, implementation, mentoring Jr. programmers, configuration and release management.

Worked on a web-based ordering and customization system for business checks and forms, order fulfillment, order tracking, real time image rendering of proofs, and XML data exchanges between suppliers.

Coding of a 4-tier session transaction application architecture.

Design and programming of servlet middleware to support http transactions, transaction related business logic, and authentication.

Design and implement AWT, HTML, HDML GUIs for varying client types (web browser, Palm VII, web-enabled digital phones, IVR)

Implementation of object model to support data related business logic via an RMI proxy architecture

Design and implementation of XML data structures.

Programming of Java application code to provide all University student services via the web including course registration, scheduling, transcripts and grades.

Developed Java code that performed transactions through PeopleSoft using the PeopleSoft Message Agent and JDBC to Oracle through a servlet generated user interface.

System administration of UNIX development box, OS upgrades, patches, and sendmail listgroup management.

Lead developer of large scale software development primarily in java. Applications include intranet groupware, foundation classes, and applications aimed at the network computer.

Designed and developed VCOS, a desktop and windowing environment written in java 1.0 and deployed on the network computer.

Primary developer of the Odyssey Software Suite. Web-based groupware written in perl and c, including a calendar, personal contact manager and a reminder system

Complete systems integration for sun and sgi system networks. Set up and configure routers, csu/dsu, and hubs. Build and install software including sendmail 8.6.1/8.7.5, dns setup and administration, usenet news, web server with multiple virtual domain hosting. Performed hardware upgrades.

Unix system administrator for University email, directory and student/staff account machines. Responsibilities included system security, patches and upgrades, software builds, Perl/sh scripting and configuration on 5 Sun Solaris boxes for a user base of over 70,000 accounts.

Additional work included web-related programming involving large data exchanges between many departments including standard CGI utilities, custom database development, and user interface design.

Projects included:
- The Office of the Registrar website; designed and developed many cgi scripts including an online interactive course search, design and implementation of the underlying database the search queries in unix dbm format, gpa computation, course planner and database, book search and a graduation date planner.
- The Kiosk Publication; developed all the cgi programs in perl, including online classified postings, editorial submission, and calendar.
- Programming and design behind the main University of Minnesota web pages.
- Internet interface to x.500 directory. Functions included public searching and directory management application.
- Implemented web site authentication using x.500.

Department of Astronomy: Part of the automated plate scanner (APS) group. Worked to digitize the Palomar Sky Survey plates into an online catalog of objects containing their positions, colors, magnitudes, etc. Responsibility for identifying scanned objects with known astrophysical objects from catalog, mapping RA, declination with X,Y ranges on one or more plates and final reduction of image data into the database for online retrieval.

College of Education: Performed software installations, operating system support and upgrades, computer hardware maintenance, and general helpdesk work.

Department of Physics: Worked on Cosmic Ray project. Used microscope to scan photographic emulsions for interactions with high energy gold particles. Built lead targets for use in accelerator.