Creative system architect and engineering manager as well as a hands-on engineer on teams up to 26 direct reports with another 75 contract reports, multiple outsourced projects and total budgets as large as $10,000,000 per year.

Specializing in Microsoft integrated solutions and systems using their latest products. Managed technical architecture, development environment, project scheduling, production deployment, product maintenance and customer support, budget management, accurate delivery estimates, coordinating deliverables with far-east production facilities, coordinating communication between internal and external customers and engineering resources, building and managing engineering teams, and handling quality issues.

I'm experienced in the design, construction, deployment, and maintenance of high volume web interface client-server applications and consumer PC-based software applications in zero-downtime tolerant environments. Projects have included research and development, product design, business model development, technical architecture requirements, production management, and customer support.

Excellent training, speaking, and written communications skills applied in environments as diverse as astronomy classes at Indiana University, training sessions for Hewlett-Packard, and the United States Marine Corps.

Advanced research skills in astronomy (with 2 publications), physics, computer science, and history of technology. Numerical modeling and applications.

Strong mechanical skills. Have tuned a car with a butter knife and a book of matches.

An exceptionally poor bowler, but a damn good sport about it.

My fundamental "soft" skills are communication, visualization and composition. As a trainer I have always been successful at the process of communicating difficult subjects in a way that is geared to the group at hand. As a designer, I can often visualize and compose entire projects from end to end when others on the team are still seeing pieces on the table.

Computers have always been tools and toys for me. I still have my first computer, bought as a kit in 1980. It was a Sinclair ZX-81 with 2,048 bytes of memory (yes, 2K) costing $200. Since then I have always had a computer handy. I've been using the Internet since 1989, back in the bad old days when all we had was Telnet, FTP, and email.

I used to think a 1200-baud modem was fast. I LOVE where all this is going.

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Microsoft Centric: MS .NET Framework (2.0 and 3.0): C#, Windows Forms Applications, ADO.NET, ASP.NET (C#) and Web Services. WTL applications for Vista. ATL/WTL Win32 application programming. Windows Shell extensions. SQL Server 2005 and older versions. Source Safe administration. Classic (haven't done it in awhile): VB and C++/ATL COM/DCOM components. MS ASP using VBScript.

Unix/Java: PHP and MySQL on Apache (and IIS). ATG Dynamo 4.5.1 and 5.1, BEA WebLogic 6.0, Red Hat Linux, Solaris 8 on Intel and SPARC, Apache 1.3, Oracle 8i (NT, Solaris/Intel, Solaris/SPARC), J2EE (Java), and XML. Vi (no, I don't do emacs). Tools: Together Enterprise, Eclipse, JBuilder, CVS.

Technical Project Management: Certified Scrum Master - Scrum is a "lean" approach to software development - often called Agile development.Project scheduling, Budget management, Accurate delivery estimates, coordinating deliverables with far-east production or test teams, facilitating and guiding technical requirements gathering and technical decision making, coordinating communication between internal and external customers and engineering resources, building and managing engineering teams, handling quality issues, and day-to-day management of large engineering teams.

Technical Business Development: Flipping huge vendor bills into partnership, investment, and joint development opportunities. High-level discussions and presentations to ATG, BEA, Segue, Nacio, Digital Island, Intel and others.

Legacy experience: Have built systems using Vignette StoryServer 5.0, Netscape 3.0 servers using Server Side JavaScript (a.k.a. Livewire) connected to MS Access, Illustra, Informix, and Oracle database systems. Operating systems included Windows NT, Solaris, and IRIX. These systems included custom Perl and C components enhance functionality and performance.

Legacy Scientific programming: Mathematica, Fortran (77/99), C/C++ on Unix, FITSio, Perl, Postscript, LaTeX, Unix (Solaris, HP-UX and DEC Ultrix), Unix shell scripts, and VRML. Large scientific systems extensive utilities in the Pascal language. Data visualization and analysis.

Making it go: Network operations: Experienced in LAN-to-WAN, and LAN-to-Internet integration using ISDN, DSL, Cable, and T1 technologies. Cisco, Livingston, and Ascend router firewall configuration. DNS configuration. InterNIC (now Network Solutions) domain name management since the days when your NIC handle was your initials and the year you signed on: NIC handle DS1996. Web log analysis and site testing. CGI programming in Perl and C/C++. HTML coding and legacy document conversion. Skilled in image processing for the Web.

Autistry Studios (www.AutistryStudios.com)
Co-founder & Director of Studio Operations, 9/2008 - Ongoing
Pre-vocational training for teens and young adults on who are on the ASD spectrum. Duties include teaching classes, keeping all company book and systems operating: Mechanical, Electrical, Computational as well as growing this California non-profit organization.

A. B. D. Ph.D. Astrophysics, Indiana University, 1997.
M.A. Astronomy, Indiana University, 1997.
M.S. Physics, California State University, Northridge, 1991.
B.S. Physics, Sonoma State University, California, 1990.

Model Building: Model Trains, especially 1900-1940 era. Static model airplanes of all types. Model cars, motorcycles, and trucks. Dioramas and museum miniatures.

Reading: Physics, Math, History (Marin, California, the West, U.S., Military, Railroads), Cryptography, Mysteries.