Various Companies
Freelance Programmer · Connecticut, Hawai'i, New Mexico · 9/1999 - 9/2019Got started at 18 years old writing a data conversion script in Perl for my mother’s client in the manufacturing industry.
Clients have included small businesses, universities, staffing agencies (e.g. Robert Half Technology, ALTRES, & TekSystems) and large organizations (e.g. University of New Mexico Hospitals, Central New Mexico Community College, The Department of Veterans Affairs, Time Warner & Master Card) across industries (e.g. retail, marketing, health care, education, research, non-profit) in Connecticut, Hawaii and New Mexico. Have come to specialize in systems integration, business process management, and data-oriented programming.
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With minimal JavaScript experience at the time built JavaScript heavy dashboards and backend Java / JSP code for a multi-tier system that read sensors in heavy equipment, boats, yachts, and recreational vehicles.
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Without any Flash or ActionScript experience converted a Flash animation from the website of an aerospace company into a trade show display adding a ticker tape display whose message (which could be edited by a user) would transition between the ticker tape and the original Flash animation/video.
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Worked on a Java based VoIP heads up display system for a telecommunications company that they had implemented for their help desk staff. It was intermittently crashing without reporting errors. Adding logging, a test suite and cleaning up the code greatly reduced the crashing with errors being reported when it did.
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Implemented a health insurance integration for a college which involved creating complex SQL queries, creating a custom EDI 834 generator (had to quickly learn the EDI 834 standard over a weekend), and a scheduled upload to the insurance company.
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Helped an IT Services company move a stalled project forward by creating an integration for Microsoft Exchange, moving their code into source control, and getting them into a bi-weekly sprint cycle.
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Developed a logging system for a small software company that could handle thousands of requests per second and run on a hosted VPS taking inspiration from Kafka for the logging and using MySQL for permanent storage and querying based on Datalog and the EAV pattern.
