Resume
I'd like to find small projects that I can do on a consulting basis, but I'm prepared to consider full time employement in the Dayton, OH area.
I work fast, and I can develop detailed information systems. I'm highly focused on building intuitive interfaces
that perform as the end user would suspect.
I'm almost exclusively self taught by reading books, but I must admit there are a few people I have learned from
during my tenures at various technology firms. The short list is Bob McIntyre, Paul Scholz, David "Inky" Culbertson, and Craig Murray.
I've been at the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies on a number of occasions, and I would like to be
employed on that edge again. While at the same time, I have a certain love for open source languages
and the unix operating environment as its beauty lies in its efficiency.
My focus is website development, but I've tackled stand alone applications when necessary.
| Fearless Readers Online | This is the last project I worked on. It is a full blown ecommerce
application selling used comics at great prices. The customer was very pleased with my effort and makes sales on almost a daily
basis. Fearless Readers.
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| 2008-Present | PHP, MySQL, Paypal checkout, and Paypal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) |
| Log Your Diet (.com) | This is a very simple little website that
counts calories and nutritional information for the user. Only one person used the system
religiously, and they lost weight. I developed it over a period of five days, and
I hope to have enough working capital to advertise the system because it's statistically 200x more profitable than running online wargames. I hope to add PDF generating to the system for reports. Log Your Diet.
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| 2008-Present | PHP, MySQL |
| Vernon Glaser, and Associates | I did consulting for this company, mostly developing
in Cold Fusion and C# technologies. I worked with, fixed, and added to a variety of projects involving other people's code.
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| 2007 | Cold Fusion, C#, MS SQL Server |
| Game Development | I have been building games since I had my first computer.
I have developed games in Basic, C, PERL, and mySQL. I take pride in building errorless systems that
are easy to play and have all the features I look for in a game.
Legions of Tercia.
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| 2001-Present | PERL, PHP, MySQL, Linux, HTML, Javascript, End User Support |
| TooHome, Inc. | I was solely responsible for coding a large scale ecommerce
site. We were the largest home improvement products website at the time of my employment, and the site
was built exclusively with my technology. Active Server Pages and mySQL were employed with a sophisticated
dev/prod setup that allowed data entry personel to enter new products, preview them in dev, and selectively publish
changes as they were finalized. I also developed a spreadsheet style interface directly to the mySQL database
to facilitate rapid pricing updates. I also handled many administrative tasks on both IIS servers and Linux Servers.
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| 1999-2001 | Active Server Pages, MySQL, Visual Basic, HTML |
| MTCIBS (Modern Technology Corporation Internet Business Solutions) | I worked under
Craig Murray at MTCIBS developing custom applications for a variety of customers, including NUCO and Henny Penny.
We developed in PERL and to a lessor degree Cold Fusion and Sybase. It was a challenge because of my disability, but
I can recall starting on day one, and Mr. Murray gave me a 500 page PERL book, and by the end of my first day, I went to him
and asked for my first project. They assigned me to a bug hunt in an elaborate system that they hadn't been able to fix, and
one by one I hunted bugs and smashed them. It was really the first time I worked with somebody elses code.
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| 1998-1999 | PERL, Cold Fusion, Sysbase, Unix Shells |
| flashCast communications corporation |
This was my favorite coding job ever. I learned so much from my coworkers, and I developed the confidence in
internet development that led to many future jobs and really established myself career wise. I was also part of
a group that achieved Microsoft Site Builder Network Level 3, and there were only three employees. We were the
smallest Site Builder Network Level 3 members around. I developed web engines with C++ and Active Server Pages utilizing
Microsoft SQL Server. I also administered NT 4.0 Servers, IIS Servers, and Microsoft SQL Servers. |
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| 1997 | Windows NT, ISAPI DLL, HTML, Active Server Pages, Java, MS SQL Server 6.0&6.5 |
| Columbus Roof and Truss |
This was basically a construction job I worked to pay the bills. I built roof trusses. This was perhaps my favorite
job ever. We survived by hiring temporary workers on largely a daily basis, so I had to train and put to work a
new crew almost every night. This is the only personnel management experience I have.
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| 1994-1995 | Hammer, Tape Measure, Pencil, Team Leader |
| Simulation Technologies, Inc. |
I worked for this company for almost six years, and I wore so many different hats it wasn't funny. Some days,
I would work on documents formatting them and preparing them for printing. Other days, I would be drawing charts
and graphics on Macintosh's, often piecing together architectures by using clip art from other sources. I also
handled setup of macintosh computers and pc's. I setup our macintosh network, and handled hardware upgrades
for a small office. I also developed my first software professionally. I recall one project: North Korea was rattling
their sabers, and I was put to task setting up a chemical weapons simulator to calculate how many sensors we needed
for our air bases. The deadline was tight, and I did the job. I developed it in VB 3.0, and I provided a graphical
display so we could not only proof our results mathematically but also visually.
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| 1988-1994 | Macintosh, PC Setup and Upgrading, Networking, MS Office, MS Visual Basic 3.0 |
| Jaycor |
I learned how to use a mouse at Jaycor. That seems so trivial, but at the time, mice were new. There was even
a learner application on the Macintosh, that taught you clicking, dragging, and double clicking.
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| 1987-1988 | Macintosh, PC Setup and Upgrading |
| Research Computer Services |
I did a variety of office jobs at this company. My duties ranged from binding documents to complex data entry tasks.
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| 1987 | Document Binding Machines, Keyboarding |
Novels || Short Fiction || Information Technology
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