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Current Skill Summary:

• Java, web services, XML technologies, XSLT, SQL
• JSP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• J2EE web applications
• GUI design, Swing, Java3D

I am a Harvard Extension ALM in IT candidate.

President: Ace Coders, Inc. (2002-Present)

I founded Ace Coders, Inc. to bring together specialists in order to create the best possible websites and custom software for businesses, non-profits and educational institutions. Using Java/XML/XSLT/SQL I developed a content management system which uses a WYSIWYG editor to allow non-technical users to post news items, job listings, articles, etc. This system is running on maps-inc.org.

Also, I've been developing software displays using Java 3D for the Quantum Concepts project at the Science and Math Education Center at Boston University.

Java Developer: Infinitemarket, Inc. (July 2000-August 2001)

Infinitemarket developed tools and services for creating fully customized and private-label websites where people could exchange information and products.
I created core software tools for sites like Playcycle and Care Simply. Responsible for design and coding of "transaction model" and auction workflow.

• Developed fixed-price and auction transactions for online exchanges
• Developed module enabling users to post questions/answers to each item
• Designed and implemented module which handled time-sensitive events such as ending auctions
• Created a library of custom JSP tags to make functionality available to web designers
• Coded JavaScript client-side form validation

(Java/JSP/JDBC/SQL/JavaScript/Servlets/J2EE/JRun/CVS/Windows/Linux)

Software Consultant (1982-2000):

• Boston College, Department of Psychology (2000)
  Created user interface for data analysis and display applet: Davis Project (Java/Swing)
• Boston University, Science and Math Education Center (97-00)
  Created user interface and VRML 3D molecular display for Quantum Science Across Disciplines project: PolyAtomic Explorer User could make movies such as animated dipole and hydrogen pods. (Java/Swing/VRML)
• Tufts University, Center for Science and Math Teaching (89-99)
  Designed and implemented software for physics education.
  • Created four versions of Vector Visualizer®: interactive software which helps students understand mathematical vectors. This software runs in conjunction with tutorials created by educators. Includes a parser for vector equations, 3D display of vectors and allows students to directly manipulate arrows.
    • An applet with a better-quality 3D display demonstrated vector operations e.g. addition, subtraction, cross and scalar products, components, etc. (Java/Swing/JavaScript/DHTML/VRML)
    • ActiveX control which could be dropped into the Tufts LoggerPro microcomputer-based lab or into a Microsoft application such as Word or Excel (Java/ActiveX bridge)
    • OpenDoc component which could be dropped into a spreadsheet. The 3D vector display was then linked via mouse-drags to spreadsheet data. The vector display was then "run" to give a visualization. (C++/Macintosh)
    • An application with which it was possible to overlay movies of carts and balls with trails and arrows signifying actual collected velocity and acceleration data. (C++/QuickTime/Mac)
  • Created interactive data analysis tools for MacMotion™ (a Computers In Physics magazine Second Annual Contest award winner) and other microcomputer-based lab programs (C/Mac)
• Sunburst Communications (88-89)
  Programmed PlayWrite for AppleIIGS: software for reading and writing instruction. Students write scripts for animated puppets. When script is run puppets speak accompanied by special effects. Exhibited as Puppeteers in The Boston Computer Museum in 1989. (C/assembler/AppleIIGS)
• HRM Software (84-85)
  • Co-developed Biofeedback MicroLab™. Software analyzed Galvanic Skin Response, heart rate, muscle tension and skin temperature. Provided graphical feedback as well as euphonious synthesized sounds. 1987 Classroom Computer Learning "TOP SIX" Software Award of Excellence (Commodore64/Basic/assembler)
  • Co-developed Cardiovascular Fitness Lab™ which featured an animated heart which pulsed synchronously with the user's heartbeat and floated higher as the pulse quickened. 1986 Classroom Computer Learning. "TOP TEN" Software Award Winner (Commodore64/Basic/assembler)
• Technical Education Research Centers, Inc. (82-88)
  • Modeling project (C/Mac)
  • Keyboard emulator firmware for use by the physically impaired (Commodore 64)
  • Experiments in Science™ microcomputer-based lab software: 1985 Classroom Computer Learning Software Award Winner (AppleII/Basic)
  • Experiments in Human Physiology™ microcomputer-based lab software: 1985 Classroom Computer Learning Software Award Winner (AppleII/Forth)
  • Temperature graphing software with animated thermometer: (AppleII/Basic/assembler)
  • S.C.O.P.E.™ microcomputer-based lab (AppleII)
• Stanford University, Department of Physiology (82-83)
  • Heart rate/pulse amplitude collection and analysis software (AppleII/Pascal/assembler)

Programmer: Cambridge Development Lab (Fall 81)

Coded microLab SYM Software™ microcomputer-based lab software for physics (6502 assembly language)

Programmer: University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer and Information Science (80-81)

Coded user interface for VISIONS image processing system (LISP/VAX)

Programmer: Smith College, Department of History (79-80)

Coded software interface between LISP relational database and Fortran statistics package (LISP)

Programmer: Technical Education Research Centers, Inc. (Summer 1978)

Coded character generator and drawing software sold with S100 video boards (CPM/Z80 assembly language)

Teaching Experience

1 week intensive LISP course at Smith College (80)
1 month intensive LISP course at Hampshire College (79)

Academic History

Harvard University Extension Unix Systems Programming Introduction to C/Unix/CGI Programming Groups, Graphs and Algebraic Structures for Computing Web Services Implementing Internet Protocols Developing e-Business Applications Using XML Object Paradigms: Design Patterns, C++ and Java Advanced Topics in Java and Distributed Computing Java for Distributed Computing Introduction to Database Systems and Client/Server Computing Theory of Computation Algorithms and their Analysis Design Science: Three Dimensional Applied Statistics Principles of Physics 2: Electricity, Waves and Magnetism Linguistics/Cognitive Approach Logic

Boston University Metropolitan College Interactive Computer Graphics Computer Graphics Tufts University Summer Session Applied Math for Engineers Statistics for Behavioral Sciences

Hampshire College B.A. 1979, concentration: math and computer science. div 3 project: Computer Model of the Human Parsing Mechanism, a simulation of Dr. Lyn Frazier's "Sausage Machine" sentence processing model written in LISP.