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I have been a Systems Engineer for over 30 years, working on every conceivable platform — from micros to mainframes. One of the hottest information delivery platforms right now is, of course, the World-Wide Web. I believe the two best examples of a development platform for web applications are Oracle Web Application Server and Microsoft's Internet Information Server. I am a Microsoft Partner, an MSDN Universal Subscriber, and a Level 2 member of Microsoft's Site Builder Network. I also maintain my Oracle technical awareness via membership in the Oracle Technology Network. We developed one of the first remote client-server applications using Oracle and Gupta's SQLWindows back in 1991. It was called the Defense Instructional Technology Information System (DITIS) and was a repository of DoD-funded or developed courseware. We then converted the Query front-end of this system to the Web in 1993. It, too was one of the first database web applications in existance. DITIS was taken over by the DAVIS program in 1997. A link to current DITIS information can be found here.
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We've found the Office Developer Edition useful in building custom small business applications with Microsoft Access or Visual Basic and Microsoft Data Access Objects (DAO). We have developed a web page displaying the Reddick VBA Naming Conventions that you can see here.
A lot of our Web Application development is focused on Active Server Pages (ASP) with Active Data Objects (ADO). Database web applications can be hosted on Windows NT Internet Information Server or Windows 9x Personal Web Server, and standard HTML is dynamically generated using standard Visual Basic or Java Script that runs on the Server! Call us at (407) 647-6997 for details. You can see an example of an Active Server Pages Web Site that we designed and developed as the Law Enforcement Instructional Technology Information System (which was located at www.leitis.com, but is currently here). You will either have to log in as guest/guest or register to get an account. Either way, it's not a restricted site. The Department of Justice took over the management and hosting of this application about two years ago, and it hasn't been seen on the web since!
Another more database-intensive web site, for which we developed the application logic and database back-end, can be found at Navigate Now. You can log in as guest and use the password, guest, if you don't mind seeing data entries from other 'guests.' Navigate Now is truly a web application, where the user has the ability to insert, edit/update, and manage their own career-oriented personal information. If you are a web site developer with a strong graphics capability, but wish to extend into the exciting web application arena, please call us.
Today, Business-to-Business (B2B) applications are being developed at a frantic pace. We have supported this architecture for several years. A primary example can be found at MBX Logistics, L.L.C.. You cannot access the customer and vendor areas of this web site, but browsing around, you will see how the customer and vendor portions of MBX Logistics' back-office have been exposed to the Internet through a 3-tier application. Carriers who subscribe to MBX Logistics' Web service can access all of their currently assigned loads, and either accept or reject individual Loads, thereby creating the Purchase Order process via the web. Through careful application of business logic and via scheduled applications, we have automated the carrier assignment of nearly 40% of MBX Logistics' trips every day and have automated the calculation of all accessorial charges for every load that MBX brokers. We are currently extending the site capability to XML and EDI direct data transfers to the carrier, and will further extend it to allow customers to locate their loads via the web and/or EDI. If you are looking for ways to expose all or a portion of your customer-relationship data to your customers via the web, please call us.
You can see two of our standard commercial web sites at Ruggiero, Martinez & Company, P.A. — a great local accounting firm, and at RESSI. We have developed several major Point-of-Sale platforms (both host-to-host, and universal access) for PTT-Telekom, Inc., a local Winter Park pre-paid long distance facilities-based carrier. We were able to help this client grow into a major player in this market. We developed an eBusiness for Real Estate Inspections, Appraisals, etc. on speculation, but the principal was never able to attract sufficient venture capital. The prototype for Access2re.com is accessible here. For Triangle Reprographics, Inc., we have been the catalyst for much of the behind the scenes business rule implementation on both the public extranet (Online Order Forms) and the private Intranet (a completely integrated Job Tracking System delivered in the browser and now released as a commercially available Intranet/Extranet application). We have also developed a complete online eShop, where Triangle Reprographics customers can directly purchase reproduction paper and film supplies with their credit card.
Experience:
MicroApplications, Inc., Maitland, FL
Principal, 1/85-Present
Providing systems development and consulting services to Central Florida small business since 1985. Expertise in Windows and Unix desktop and network (local and wide-area, including Internet) line-of-business applications (in any number of languages and host platforms), Web site and application development (using any combination of HTML, Java, Server- or Client-Side Scripting, Visual Basic, C++, or Web Application Servers like Oracle, Cold Fusion, or Active Server Pages), and specialized hardware/software interfaces and integration (including Point-of-Sale and X.25/Frame Relay). Also, if you are looking for Technical Representation in the Central Florida area, we can help!
Star Mountain, Inc.*,
Alexandria, VA
Principal Engineer, 12/89-2/97
Directed $1 million/year+ Orlando Operations, and lead numerous research and development projects in the fields of Information Systems, Training, Human Factors, and Organizational Development.
*merged into Provant in 1998
Allen Corporation of America*
Senior Research Engineer, 11/77-11/89
Started as a Research Engineer, and ended up directing Internal Research & Development.
*acquired by The Singer Corporation in 1987 — long before there was a world-wide web!
Education
I graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1971 with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering Degree, and went to the University of Florida for a year of graduate school in Coastal & Ocean Engineering. This educational background has helped me immensely in solving complex systems' integration problems, and I am proud to be an alumnus of both universities.
Please download a copy of my complete resume in Microsoft Word format here, or in ASCII text format here. Or, just grab the Web version, and print it out!
