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Expert has been building software applications since 1975. He has managed, coded, designed, analyzed, tested, installed, and/or supported software in the following areas: payroll, inventory, accounts receivable, job costing, general ledger, accounts payable, bank security, restaurant management, sales journal, menuing system, government accounting, law enforcement, telephony, program generator, retail store management, report generator, intelligent terminals, windowing system, simulation, point-of-sale systems, church management, communications operating systems, mortgage banking, data collection, order entry, screen design tool, remote data telemetry, construction costing, security, patient billing, hog production, automated testing equipment, language construction, compiler construction, patient admission, and financial analysis. Expert's teams' software won the president's award for excellence at a Fortune 100 firm. His enhanced oil recovery simulation software was instrumental in making decisions about oil field investments. His firm's telephony testing product, Data Engine(tm) was purchased by some of the largest telephone switch manufacturers in the world. Expert's recent focus has been in developing applications that are secure and run over the web to enable firms with multiple locations to share information and truely enable distributed business.

Expert has been associated with Web development since 1995. He has done projects in the areas of: courthouse and legal, IVR, experiential marketing, and security. Expert has also been a web project manager for a vritual team with 13 members spanning 5 states. He has done the analysis and designed web applications to support everything in a company from sales through billing and accounting. Expert is an expert in Php, MySql, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Javascript and DHTML. He invented and AJAX-like technology and was using it in websites years years before it was officially adapted as a standard. He has also developed an application using ASP and MS-Access that consisted of around 100 programs that was used in the educational arena for 10 years.

Expert has been responsible for the design of banking security for a 250+ correspondent banking network. Recently he has completed a OO security framework design for corporate web applications that meets security software requirements for FISMA, PCI, HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, NC Identity Theft, Gramm-Leach-Billery Act (GLBA), FERPA, and addresses the 2009 CWE/SANS top 25 most dangerous programming errors. The design consists of approximately 200 classes. Expert' company recently hired a senior government security expert to breach his previous security system on a website. The attempts were unsuccessful. Expert is now implementing the latest security framework that he has designed.

Expert has been involved in database design since 1980 and has worked with a number of different databases: MySql, Oracle, Sybase, MS-Access, Dbase, Btrieve, FABS, and Revelation. He has worked with the ADO database layer and has recently created his own secure database layer as a part of a security framework he is creating. It features 256 bit encryption/decryption, data masking, data validation, internationalization support, password support and information leakage protection as well as auditing. He has designed databases in the 300+ table range and is familiar with CASE tools for database engineering/design. Expert was also involved in the database design for the system portion for global logistics software.

Expert has been doing requirement development and analysis for over 30 years. In one project for a Fortune 100 firm, he developed over 4000 requirements for their new product. In another, he developed all the requirements to put their entire business on the web. Expert has done requirement versioning as well as traceability from the design. He is adept at interviews, prototyping, and JAD sessions as well as research for requirements extraction. He has done analysis in the following industries: Mortgage / Correspondent Banking, Software, Telephony, Government / Legal, Education, Transportation, Logistics, Test Instrumentation (ATE), Law Enforcement, Construction, Hospital / Nursing Home, Library, Talent / Promotional and Energy.


Expert has been involved in system design since 1977. He has done designs totally 1000's of pages for a variety of industies. His latest design for a web security framework consists of seven volumes and spans over 450 pages. Expert has also taught system analysis and design at the senior college level for over 7 years. He is familiar with both traditional and object-oriented design and can create either or hybrid designs, if needed for legacy systems. He has also worked with an object database. Expert uses the MVC paradigm for his designs. He has worked in the following OO languages: Smalltalk, Java, ASP, Nextstep's Objective C, and PHP. He has architected the technology framework for a 1500+ member law enforcement unit. His designs use SOA. Expert's use of object subsystems and testing objects resulted in his team's artifacts being ready months ahead of the other teams in a multi-million dollar telecom project.

Expert has been involved with curriculum development at both Mars Hill College and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His new curriculae at Mars Hill resulted in an over 500 percent increase in enrollment in Computer Science with 2-3 years.

Expert consulted with an ATE (automated test equipment) company to develop device drivers in C for their flagship product. Before his stint there was complete he had submitted over 1000 suggestions for improvement and bug reports for their product. He finished his consulting as assistant to one of their vice presidents. He also revamped and streamlined their sales support system. Expert was called into help turn-around a large telecom project that was months behind on delivery. Based on his consulting assistance and his recommendation for a new project manager, the project was turned around and the software was successfully completed. Expert lead a vritual team that in 45 days developed an IVR / database application to authenticate, and then collect clock-in and clock-out for talent arrivals via their cellphones. It went live on time at 850+ simultaneous locations in 5 timezones. The IVR application also delivered a departure survey and tabulated the results. Minute by minute arrivals were tracked on an accompanying Google map and color coded as to ontime, late or no show. Expert had no previous IVR experience at the start of this project but is a very fast learner. Expert consulted for a large metropolitan police force and formulated their information architecture. His work with Oracle and XML data delivery to squad cars resulted in a greatly increased network throughput.