Keywords

Quality, Value, Experience, Contract/Project Web & Internet Services, Applications, Software Engineering, JAVA, JSP, Servlets, Applets, RMI, JDBC, J2EE, WebStart, JNLP, Database, SQL, MySQL, Apache, Resin, Tomcat, JAMES, JavaScript, XML, Jakarta, Axis, phpMyAdmin, CVS, ANT, ODBC, PERL, PHP, ASP, IIS, C, C++, TCP/IP, CGI, OS X, Scripting, Automation, OOP, Components, Reusable, unix, linux, DOS, Windows, Borland JBuilder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior

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Education

Date: August 1983
Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Degree: B.S., Computer Engineering

Date: June 1978
Location: Corning Community College, Corning, NY
Degree: A.S., Engineering Science

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Skills & Technology Matrix

The following table summarizes most of my current areas of expertise and prior experience.

I am an extremely fast learner and able to become productive with new environments and technologies very quickly.

As important in today's world, I know how to quickly locate and apply what I need to know when I need to know it!

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Bio

I have had a passion for computers for almost the last 30 years. In high school, I was the proud owner of one of the first programmable calculators, the Texas Instruments TI-59, complete with a roll-based thermal printer ... writing programs to help solve my math problems, and was always in the accellerated math & science curriculums.

I graduated from Corning Painted Post West High School in 1976 with a Regents diploma, and started college at Corning Community College in the Engineering Science program in the fall of 1978. Engineering-related courses included Calculus, Engineering Physics, and I recall the frustration of sitting at a card-punching machine entering Fortran programs for later batch execution, output, testing, and debugging - which took an eternity compared to the interactive IDEs of today.

I became very passionate about computers and electronics, and upon graduating from CCC with honors, enrolled in the Computer Engineering program at Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall of 1980. This was my first time "out on my own" (not living at home), and despite a rocky first quarter at RIT, I was able to weather the storm and keep up with the intense program (I later learned that 50% was the average dropout rate in this program).

RIT Engineering programs are co-op programs, where students alternate between a quarter of classes and a quarter of employment with local companies to get valuable "on-the-job" experience. I was fortunate to have been hired by Xerox corporation, and during some of my co-op time there, ended up working with the Xerox Alto and Star workstations.

These systems were THE pioneers of the "desktop" user interface, ran smalltalk (one of the first object oriented languages), and talked to each other and shared printers via ethernet.

Although I didn't know it at the time, 2 of my supervisors at Xerox, namely Steve Capps and Owen Densmore, would later leave Xerox to work at Apple Computer on the Macintosh. Steve Capps wrote the first version of the Macintosh "Finder" (desktop UI), and Owen Densmore worked significantly on the Macintosh imaging & printing architecture. The Macintosh, which debuted in 1984 with a whopping 128K bytes of RAM, was the FIRST personal computer to offer WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) word processing and printing, and would soon become THE computer that started the desktop publishing revolution.

I had a brief year off from school due to finances, but returned to RIT, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in August of 1983.

I bought one of the first 128K Macs in 1984, and have been an object-oriented (whenever possible!) software developer ever since. Although I had to give us my Mac(s) for Windows and DOS for several years due to the company I was working with, I recently switched back to the Mac and have 2 laptop Macs, and with OS X, unix, and JAVA 2 built-in, as well as being able to run Virtual PC and any version of Windows, am once again a Mac evangelist!

I am currently a member of the Apple Developer Connection, Sun Developer program, and when I have time, make occasional visits to the Rochester JAVA User's Group (RJUG) and other Mac and OS X user's groups.

I have played a significant role in Macintosh & other projects for Microsoft (Word, WordFinder), Apple (MacWrite, MacDraw), Kodak (Denver, ColorSense, Creation Station, Scanners), Microlytics (Gopher, WordFinder, SpellFinder), Millennium Computer, Interactive Television Associates, BuySellBid.com (RadioDate, voice personals), dozens of web sites and web applications, and most recently a very exciting distributed computing and P2P JAVA application with Building Block Software.

I have an entrepreneurial spirit, have been involved with many companies and projects including many of my own, and try to live by a few simple (tho cliche!) mottos:

Keep Trying, Never Give up!
NEVER give up on your dreams!
Feel the Fear, But Do it Anyway!
THINK DIFFERENT!

A few of my hobbies (when I have time) include Motorcycling (sport-touring), photography, Home Theater, and warm-water fly-fishing.

A few of my current passions are tele and mobile computing, web and JAVA applications, and just about anything that helps automate repetitive, labor-intensive tasks.

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