Following are jobs I've held. Each has a brief summary, plus information
about projects I worked on while at that job, technologies I worked with,
and roles I played.
Amphion provides medical transcription and coding services for hospitals and like facilities. They hired me to help them replace their leased software systems with an in-house alternative and to position them as a transcription technology provider for their customers, too. My key role was as a .Net (C# and VB.Net) programmer and Sql Server expert.
Pharmacy OneSource, or "P1S", sells hosted web-based software that hospital pharmacies use to deal with compliance and cost saving measures. They hired me on to raise the level of sophistication of the apps. My key role was as the UI architect. I developed a new framework with a strong emphasis on DHTML / AJAX client-side behavior. To ensure quality, I was integrated into the first major application built on it and served as trainor and mentor to a rapidly growing development team.
Mitinet is an older but small company that, at the time of my hire, was making a sharp change in direction. One key element was introducing a sizable call center. I was hired to plan, design, create, and support the infrastructure needed to support it and the consequent growth that would happen in response to increased sales.
NetLocus is the second company I have cofounded. We were developing a unique and ambitious service that aimed to eventually impact most users of the web, featuring a toolbar plug-in for one's web browser that would feature custom content related to whatever web page the user would go to. This required a sophisticated web spider to analyze the web and find appropriate information.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) is a huge umbrella corporation. One of its larger holdings is its Dealer Services company, which delivers enterprises systems to the automobile dealership industry. I orgininally joined Automotive Directions (AD). ADP saw the value of the software it had created and wanted to tap into its sales potential, so it acquired AD. Among other things, I gained a lot of experience with offshore outsourcing during this period.
After a few years in the consulting business, I wanted to play more of an integral role in a company, so I joined AgeNet, a small business catering to the eldercare industry. Here I was the primary developer and coordinated development activities with scientists, writers, artists, and IT consultants.
CompuMasters was a smaller consulting company with an unusually talented group of professionals. It gave me more experience with larger companies and state agencies.
Stratagem represented a major departure for me, being the first IT consulting firm I worked for. It also gave me my first exposure to the inner workings of medium to large companies. In them, I found my web experience in high demand and quickly became central to various key projects.
Carnell was the first company I cofounded. We developed some of the first sophisticated web-based applications and helped pioneer the idea of software as remote services instead of something you installed on your own computer network. In addition to developing a variety of automated services, we expanded into developing original online content and the tools necessary to support them. I am still a nominal principal, but the company is now run primarily by my wife.
SpaceMaster provided me with the first opportunity to use the skills I had been honing since the early days of the web for professional applications. This capped off my experience developing applications using the mostly forgotten DataEase relational database system and Microsoft Access.