In 1987 I was an owner of a business which needed to be computerized and for which there was no suitable software available. We bought a Macintosh and I wrote the necessary programs. After ten years as an owner and hands-on manager of a small business operating in a very competitive environment I found programming more satisfying than operating the business, so I sold my interest in it and have been a computer consultant ever since.
Over the last two decades I have worked steadily for a wide variety of employers and clients in many technology positions including analyst, developer, mapping specialist [GIS], network designer, programmer, senior network engineer, systems architect, support, testing, team leader/project manager, technology director and webmaster.
Following the death of my wife I gave myself an extensive break and recently have done several projects for private clients. I am now ready to return to the corporate world. My unique experience and extraordinary skills are a valuable addition to any firm and fit a wide variety of projects. I am open to travel and would consider relocating.
You can read my resume below or download it as a Word document. Recruiters – please do not submit my resume before contacting me!
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| Airline/Aircraft Projects Inc.; A.S.A.P. Messengers; Bessemer Trust – Woodbridge, NJ; Branch Brook Park Alliance – Newark, NJ; Bruce Ginsberg, Attorney-At-Law; Carriage House Paper – Boston, MA; Consultants For Talent Payment; Cooper-Smith Pianos – Westport, CT; Goodtimes Entertainment Group; Harper Collins Publishers; Hospital For Special Surgery; Human Potential Network; Law Offices Of Bevins & Katten; LivingProof; Lord, Bowles, Dentsu Partnerships / Young & Rubican; Marymount School for Girls; New Environments Worldwide – Palisades Park, NJ; Positive Profile – London, United Kingdom, RJR/Nabisco; The Counseling Center – Westport, CT; The Diet Center – Darian, CT; The New York Times; The Workbench | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Technology Director |
The Knowledge Project |
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| Responsible for all technologies utilized by the organization as well as all technologies utilized by schools participating in TKP initiatives. Coordinated all phases of concurrent projects (defined project scope and objectives, work plans, schedules and status reports. Initiated and maintained direct contact with software and hardware vendors and other service partners). Developed the THINK Systemª, an interactive model of the Standards Based Integrated Curriculum, a platform for teaching and a student portfolio/evaluation system using a web based Geographic Information System interface. The project included coordinating work with New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Information Technology as well as The Board of Education to give New York City students access to the color digital orthophoto and vector planimetric NYC Base Map. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager, Y2K Remediation Lab |
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter |
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| Managed a staff of 18 programmers and business analysts (responsible for assembling project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedule to ensure completion of project on time and budget. Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team. Created and implemented processes for remediation of End User Computer files for Y2K compliance. Designed systems architecture for lab as well as the databases utilized to manage the processes (downloading files, testing them for date issues, remediating those that required it and integrating those files back into the corporate work flow) as well as designed and managed the programming of various tools to facilitate the remediation of business critical excel and access files for the firm’s controllers. Additionally responsible for the firm’s initiative to guarantee Y2K compliance by converting all Lotus files to Excel ’97. Remediated just over 418,000 PC, UNIX and Mainframe files. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business Analyst |
Fidelity |
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| Responsible for designing Y2K test scripts by interacting between application owners and testing staff. This required both the analysis of the back-office systems in order to ensure that the critical process flows were being tested appropriately and the management of the testing processes which included responsibility for the team who created the test environments, coordinating the tests with internal traders and external brokers and governmental agencies and ensuring their successful completion. Responsible for documenting the processes as well as designing metrics for reporting results to management. Environment: PC and Mainframe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior Software Developer |
J.P. Morgan |
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| Responsible for the design/programming of the Team Review program which lets the bank’s officers review each other and empowers the human resources department in guiding employees’ career paths. I had sole responsibility for the design and programming of the mail-enabled, stand-alone, front-end application for the Macintosh (HyperCard) using Lotus Notes as middle-ware and Sybase as the back-end. The front-ends enable the users to request several reports from the Sybase database and ad hoc reports are available utilizing Business Objects and PowerBuilder. The program was used by 20,000 people globally (3,500+ Macintosh users) and involved coordinating between the program/design teams for Macintosh, Windows, UNIX and VMS. Due to the volume of different reports and E-Mail messages (approximately 400,000); the project required the installation of SMTP Gateways and involved working with multiple business units including the Network, Systems and E-Mail departments. Environment: Mac, PC, UNIX, and Mainframe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Webmaster and Site Designer |
Time, Inc. |
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| Responsible for the system architecture, design and development of Intranet web site that manages the workflow for the global staff of InStyle magazine, I took the project from concept through implementation by interfacing with all areas of the magazine staff and technology departments of the parent company. All staff members use their browser to create or modify forms whose data is transferred into the appropriate databases which generates e-mail messages to the staff members who are responsible for the successive steps needed to produce the magazine. The Macintosh based server utilizes WebSTAR, SiteMill, Tango, FileMaker Pro, cc:Mail and AppleScript CGI’s. Environment: Mac, PC, UNIX, and Mainframe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In addition to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) and Adobe Creative Suite (GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop), I have done projects using Action!, Advanced Revelation (SQL), AppleScript, ArcView, AudioShop, Canvas, CineMation, Director, Dreamweaver, FileMaker Pro, FinalCut Pro, Flash, HyperCard, JavaScript, Joomla!, Lotus Notes, MediaMaker, Morph, PageMaker, Persuasion, PHP, QuarkXPress, QuickTime, ScriptWizard, SuperCard, Tactician, GRASS and LandView6 (GIS), Visual Basic (VBA), WordPerfect, WordPress and dozens of other programs, programming or scripting languages, various utilities and tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| DOS, Windows, P/2, OS2, Macintosh and Unix desktops: various Mainframe, Windows, Novell, AppleTalk and UNIX servers over assorted networking systems and topologies (Banyan Vines, NetBOIS, TCP/IP, Novell, IPX, Ethernet, and TokenRing). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This resume was posted on November 25, 2007 |
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