Continental Guest Services/ISSG –Served as architect and developer of a C#.Net/MSSQL n-tier client/server application that provides services such as dinner reservations and Broadway theater ticket sales to NY City tourists. The application has a graphically friendly kiosk interface that resides in over 20 of the largest hotels in the city as well as an efficient interface for CGS' inside phone sales staff. Recently I completed an interesting feature which is a facility to quickly and easily enter the complete seating layout of every venue in New York City from the smallest Off-Broadway theater to Giants Stadium.
Various - Designed and built several websites
including http://www.selenoclarke.com
utilizing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
Other URL’s available on request.
Ness formerly PCSI and Blueflame – a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, is a global project oriented consulting firm specializing in internet and database development. Below is a list of the major projects that I have worked on.
Graduate Management Admissions Council – Developer (C#.Net, MSSQL). GMAC
creates and administrates the GMAT graduate exams as well as maintains resource
sites for students and institutions interested in MBA programs. I developed portions of the “Pathfinder”
search engine program comparison feature for www.mba.com
as well as data entry screens in www.gmac.com.
Major Pharmaceutical Company – Strategist/Analyst (various). For a brief strategy engagement, I investigated the usage of non-keyword, context based, search engines for locating medical research articles. I spent two months researching vendors and developing prototypes using InXight and Engenium search engines.
AT&T – Developer (Plumtree,
ASP, Oracle). Served as a developer on a
team supporting a Plumtree portal serving 100,000 users. I was responsible for building several
Plumtree “gadgets”, writing routines to migrate data from one Plumtree instance
to another, as well as served as the team’s DBA/Oracle expert.
Major Pharmaceutical Company – Tech Lead, Developer (Java iPlanet, PDA, AvantGo,
Oracle). Served as Tech Lead
for a large J2EE based intranet application for project tracking and document
management for an Operations Research group of a fortune 100 pharmaceutical
company. The system also includes a PDA application (Palm and PocketPC) that
allows the users to have access to data extracts when traveling or while in
high level meetings.
Major HMO – Tech Lead, Developer (ASP, Sybase, AvantGo). Designed and prototyped a PDA based patient management
system. The application is totally
disconnected and is synchronization driven.
The system will ultimately be used by nurses and home healthcare aides who
provide home based care and handle tasks such as: scheduling; reference info;
messaging; and time management. It is also cross platform and will run on Palm,
PocketPC, and RIM Blackberry devices.
BevAccess.com Wireless – Project Manager, Tech Lead,
Developer (PDA, ASP, Web Clipping, Oracle). BevAccess.com
provides an online B2B exchange for the Beverage industry, providing an
efficient and easy-to-use procurement process for buyers of wine, spirits, and
beer. The application gives a beverage
distributor’s salesforce access to many functions of BevAccess’ live web site
using a wireless Palm device including order processing, customer profiling,
and order tracking. http://www.bevaccess.com/
Transamerica Flood Hazard Certification System – Developer (
American
Cyanamid Corporation Sales Force Automation System – Tech Lead (
The system has two primary user bases: The field sales
force which has a remote version of the system running on laptops utilizing
e-mail to send and receive updates; and an in-house telemarketing group which
uses a LAN version to communicate directly to a 10GB Oracle database. This project was one of the first and largest
systems based on
Borland/Inprise
Corporation. I represented PCSI and Borland at PCEXPO at
I have also done presented at three
Borland Conferences covering General Client/Server development and using
Pfizer QUICK
System - Project Manager (Paradox Windows, distributed DB system using OBEX and cc:Mail). This
system provided sales force automation for Pfizer’s national sales force. Using OBEX we were able to distribute data
and program updates using a transport independent architecture (mail,
diskettes, downloads). http://www.pfizer.com/
Warner
Wellcome GOALS System – Tech Lead (Oracle & Access).
This system performed a detailed analysis of the client’s sales of over
the counter products (several billion dollars worth). This was the first Client/Server system for
the fortune 100 company and used a Windows front end programmed in Access and
an Oracle server. I served as the Oracle
and C/S expert. http://www.warner-lambert.com/
ACORD
Corporation Order Processing system - Developer (Paradox 4, SQL server 4.2, Netware
3.11). This system has allowed ACORD to handle their own order processing and
customer support operation, saving several million dollars a year that was
previously spent on outsourcing. The system has taken over 200,000 orders to
date, and shipped hundreds of millions of insurance forms to all parts of the
country. http://www.acord.com/
NYS/Niagara
Mohawk Power Company – Developer (Paradox DOS, Excelenet OS/2, distributed DB system). Relocation prospecting system sold as a
product. This innovative system allowed
economic planners to search for appropriate sites for corporate candidates
interested in moving to
National
League for Nursing CAT Pharmacology (Paradox 3.5): CAT is a computerized nursing exam that
the client sells as a product to nursing schools. It used a new concept in the
science of testing that allows for the exam to adapt to the student’s responses
and determine a more accurate measure of their knowledge. I handled all aspects of developing this
product from development, coordinating beta testing, and writing installation
software. http://www.nln.org/
National
League for Nursing Test Construction system. This system
provided a workstation for creating exams by piecing together questions stored
in a database. The resulting exams, many
of which were for certification purposes, have been taken by nurses around the
world.