M.S. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University Feb. '86, G.P.A. 3.85 Concentrations in Compiler Design & Construction and Computer Graphics 
B.S. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, S.U.N.Y.A. May'85, G.P.A. 3.15 Dean's list final 5 semesters and Graduated Cum Laude. 

Chief Architect  Kohman  Inc., New York NY
Kohman runs an eCommerce enabling service from the site PopUpTech.com, which is power by a proprietary technology system The POP-UP Shops are portable Shopping Objects that use the latest Java and ActiveX technology to display highly relevant content via push technology to the consumers. POP-UP Shop is product independent and is in deployment on content specific sites on high bandwidth sites on the World Wide Web. Merchants of all kinds configure objects and distribute them through the system to a network of independent sites. 

As the architect of the system was in charge design of whole system and support processes, Set in motion 2 simple objectives to exist for the team to follow: First, alleviate operational burden of the firm and second, use Areas of Ingenuity.  This meant integrating and configuring industry standard technologies where possible and for those systems requirements which can only be accomplished by inspired ideas and the ingenuity to apply good design and development techniques.

Mapped out and executed the 1.5 year development initiative, including but not limited to, design of systems, hires, resources, hosting, equipment purchases, operations methodologies, migration and rollout schedules. Technically interviewed all project leaders, programmers and administrators.  Made all decisions of products to be used for development and operations. Designed overall system architecture for pieces above the component level. Worked in or managed, and instructed staff in all phases of software lifecycle but heavily spent time on Development, QA test plans and rollout schedules. All systems requirements were determined between the CEO, Director of Marketing and Myself. Personally responsible to explain the complex workings of our new technologies to non-technical board members, and investors. 

Met all milestones by seeing the completion of the system to the level of daily production use. Features of the final system included: Ability to do analysis of statistical tracking data of correlated data between product and site classification. Handling product base by providing a bulk upload and quickly configurable Vendor’s user interface to our proprietary product database. Multiple Payment methodologies by compartmentalize the payment module,  tarting with standard interfaces CyberCash, LinkPoint and EDP. Provided CBHT (Customer Buying Habits Tracking) by recording and tracking all shop usage and customer purchase information down to the content site. Automated deployment by allowing many webmasters to easily configure and deploy the shops by tightly coupling our proprietary configuration database with our content provider Web Based user interface. Seamlessly handled 1000s of Fluctuating distribution points by creating a server which would allow the maintenance of content site product category classifications and providing dynamic calling of the popup shop from a standardized interface. Incorporate new offerings without the overhead of rewrites and allowed the artistic and editorial staff to quickly react to new marketing and sales techniques from the business side through the design of the engine and servers, driven by a proprietary templating markup language connected to the configuration database. Designed system with a ability to integrate large aggregators without major human resources, which as important affect reduces the human error factors and allows an existing Affiliate network to acquire and use us by providing a secure proprietary cross platform inventory definition and transfer system.

A whole host of software and systems were used to accomplish these goals.  Internet Connectivity provided through T1 and DSL lines for use by Exchange, IIS, FTP, SSL was VersiKey, Artist Work was done with Cam media, PSP, Photo shop,  Programming was done with Coldfusion, MSDN, InterDev, Java, Active Perl, ASP, Javascript. Payment Service APIs were Linkpoint, Cybercash. Secured (non-internet) communications products used were Delrina WinFax, IBM’s EDI, EDP check services Webpage Development was done using Cold Fusion, Flash, Frontpage, Dreamweaver. Accounting/Billing System we used MAS-90 and Quickbooks. The Database Migration Path used ODBC so that we were able to use Access for Demo Phase, then switch SQL Server and ORACLE for long term. Shopping cart software was propritarily modified version of aShopKart. Statistical Reporting was Crystal Reports 
 

Project Leader / Systems Architect VNS  Inc., Scarsdale NY & Hollis NH
For VNS supervised all day to day operations, including but not limited to: signing salary checks, scheduling all employees work tasks, hiring/firing of employees, negotiating deals with clients, making all purchase decisions, serving as liaison between all clients and staff, maintaining corporate WebSite, paying all bills related to Operations, constructing of marketing materials, supervising all outsourcing efforts, installing and using accounting packages, deciding of company wide policies, setting of release schedules, directing project leaders/programming staff, and managing all facilities maintenance.

Worked in the following capacity for each of the following in-house projects:
 

Both proprietary hardware and software was used and the following Technologies included: or used XML, SQL-Server, Access, ASP, Java, VB, VBA, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, COM CDONTS, Linkpont, Equifax Securesite, Pro Fax, NT Server, 95, 98, Active Perl, Xcent, Crystal Reports, Bidfind, Visual Interdev, Exchange, IIS, and Office 97.

Chief Architect for VL2000 system.  Put together team to produce Videolan’s Video Conferencing systems and subsystems (over $1,500,000 of development).  Designed gateway, remote and desktop architecture and methodologies.  Served as project leader.  Gave day to day instructions to all members of programming staff.  Hired and oversaw technical outsourcers to produce small specialized components.  System was composed of over 30 modular integrated applications working on proprietary communications network with integration into public switched networks.  Both proprietary hardware and software was used besides standard WFW, Windows '95, Windows NT, TCP-IP, RAS, POP SQL Server, C, MFC C++, VB, Perl, Java, COM, and second party APIs.

Project Manager/Leader for CTM™ 1.2 and eCourse™ 2.0 development for Course Technology (a subsidiary of Thomson Financial Systems). Put together programming staff to take over development of existing products from prior subcontractors.  Scheduled all development, QA and delivery schedules. Gave day to day direction to all members of  programming and QA staff.   Also in charge of production of subsequent versions of CTM™ 1.21, 1.3 and 2.0 and eCourse™ utilities for CTM clients in the Educational Arena. Personally co-authored wrote all design documents and technical specifications for all versions of CTM.  In addition managed for this multi-network multi-platform development, all phases from programming to testing and installation. Systems were targeted for Windows and Novel Networks running WFW, Windows '95, and NT workstations.  Development was done in VB, and Access, Crystal Reports.  Project development budget was over $900,000.

Took over management of an Expert System based CD-ROM development effort for the insurance law industry.  Was then able to acquire the programmers (myself included) to produce the software for EDP Technologies Inc in VB and C. Subsequently oversaw reverse engineering of the system to produce all technical specifications for the client. 

For HIS Inc. designed and oversaw development of a remotely accessed Sales Analysis system for infield sales staff.  System was development used RAS, VB, VBA, Crystal Reports, and SQL Server.  Components included and automated backup facility, query storage, automated data refresh facility.  Server ran on NT with a modem bank refreshed from an IBM mainframe repository through SMNP. Client workstations were Windows based machine with Dial up modems.

Designed and oversaw the construction of  Bidtracker ™ For Alexander Autographs multi-user auction data entry and tracking system with central repository, automated backup.  Developed for a Windows or TCP-IP network running Windows '95 workstations and Windows NT server with Access.  System was written in VB and C++. 

Project Leader an chief designer of  Intergen™  a multi-language Web Site Generation & Maintenance system used in construction and day to day change management of our clients websites.  Was chief architect and oversaw all day to day development by programming staff.  System was produced using VB, ODBC, Java, ActiveX and Perl for UNIX and Windows based Web Servers.

To support in-house use and development, specified and helped to construct inter-intranet Development tools for:
 

Mail handling,  Newsgroup Posting,  Automated Web Page creation,  Online Web Page extraction and parsing,  Online credit card processing,  Shopping cart software,  Embedded web site search engine  User Tracking & analysis Auction System

Automated task repetition,  Unattended connection,  URL submission software for search engines & directories. Direct Mail Mail list management Proprietary encryption, eCommerce Affiliate Network Support

For 8 separate and disparate clients we have designed, created, run, marketed and maintained there internet sites. 

• YourCoupons & InternetValues - Electronic coupon services.
• ezAutoCare - Directory service and Newsletter for Automotive products, services and information
• InternetDomains4U - Domain name reseller and hosting service
• Charles Oakley (NBA Basketball player) - Online store for his products.
• Meltzer Industries created and maintained BlanketSleepers.com and online store for licensed trademark children's sleepwear
• Marble Technologies – Software company producing Y2K Cobol Analysis Tools.
• LowPrice4U – retail merchant selling children’s collectibles (Beanie Babies)
• Cambridge Mobile – Resellers and developers for Upshot a sales and marketing product.

Helped with the construction of demo software for a touch screen Kiosk to run our in-house multimedia development product MediaAuthor™ used AVI, MPEG, WAV, AUD, PSP, FLI/FLC and image composer.    MediaAuthor™ was written in VB with ODBC, and AllText™.

Met with representatives, produced technical proposals and/or worked out deals for and with the following: American Skandia, Quantic Communications, Teledate, Interplay, BOCES, US Optical Disk, Miller Friedman, the Diamond Club, M Heart Powers, Meltzer Industries, Club Fantasy, George Brown University, Accolade shipping, Murphy Higgins & Assoc., New Millenium, Animus Communications, Consumer Direct, Opera Systems,  Stratos computing, Credit Card Services International, P&G Realty, BNI, and AT&T Internet services division.

Project Leader  EIS, Stamford Connecticut 
Brought in as a Substitute Project Manager while Employee Project Manager was on sabbatical for 3-months. Responsible for all Client side application development and maintenance on Centenium Systems 1.0, 2.0, & 2.5. In charge of 10 separate on going product development efforts (including an outsourceing effort being performed by MicroModelling Inc.). Answered directly to Director of Engineering and had 15 direct reports. Met and resolved issues which QA, Training and Support Managers to coordinate efforts and resolve issues. Personally trained new Developers and Quality Assurance personnel in Methodologies used by division. Architected and implemented new release procedures for previous, current, and future versions of the system. Met with Senior System Architect on design issues for Centenium 3.0 (scheduled release Jan. '97). Trained new employee project manager after project manager quit on returning from sabbatical. 

Lead Technical Designer / Project Leader / Consultant NYNEX MCS & Unidata & Communications
Responsible for all Client side application development on PC Platforms. In charge of eight separate products and thier rollouts (these are the only products which have been sold by the Company on WFW, NT & 95 platforms). Reported directly to Vice-President to discuss all development issues for Client Side application development. Traveled to Anterim Northern Ireland, Plano Texas and Cambridge Massachusettes to manage off-site product and development efforts. Reviewed and modified outsourced design documents, development schedules, functionality specifications, and user documentation for UNIX and PC Video Conferencing and Collaberation software. Met with other members of design staff to synchronize production of code. Had staff place all UNIX and PC products under my control into version control system. Instituted coding standards and version control to be used for all development efforts in division while NYNEX and for whole company at Unidata & Communications. In charge of rewrite and maintenance of client side controller software for desktop multidirectional video conferencing system (Dialer). With project manager and operations staff of project, outlined and implemented further enhancements for New England Medical Center video software (NEMC Dialer). Met with Anterim personnel to facilitate their migration of PC-Toolkit to 32-bit platform. With Liaison managed outsource staff at EDS in Plano Texas. Evaluated TCP-IP transports on MS-Windows platform. Assumed control of and enhanced functionality of Multimedia collaboration libraries (TOOLKIT). Designed and developed an in-band User Profile Configuration Application Storage Mechanism (UPCASM). Managed developers implementing a simple white board (IMAGEBOARD) for the UNIX platform based on the TOOLKIT. Developed Methodology be used by Client Application Developers. Had staff implement Multi-Interface cross-platform (UNIX,NT,95,WFW) communications controller with uniform code base to implement Client Development Methodology. Personally coded in C, C++, VB, SYBASE, SQL-Server, shell Scripts and ODBC. 

Lead Technical Designer/Consultant Thomson Financial Service, Boston, 
Flew weekly to Boston to deal with Thomson personnel. Reviewed business requirements for Thomson's Order Transaction System (Tradeview) and created functional specifications. Led development meetings with project leader and programming staff of TradeView and TradeRoute. Met with programmers for design reviews of code in development. With vice president of business development determined goals of product and release schedules. Gave tutorial style presentations to multiple members of six different programming projects on C/C++ programming in the Windows environment, XVT and SYBASE. Met with QA staff for management of Bug Fixes. Implemented code in C, XVT, C++, and SYBASE to control order allocations and executions, portfolio maintenance, broker assignments and portfolio target creation. 

SYSTEMS DESIGNER/CONSULTANT Pitney Bowes, Research and Technology Center, Shelton, CT.
Matrixed in to three groups to evaluate ODBC as a core technology for future product development. Met with third party ODBC driver manufactures, as well as, internal developers to determine capabilities, needs, and functional solutions. Produced documentation outlining design and porting issues involved going between Windows and DOS environments for non-UI embedded systems. Designed and produced a high level Database Application Programmer's Interface (DBAPI) for all future windows development at Pitney Bowes. Gave a design review for DBAPI for representatives from eight ongoing distinct development efforts. Tested prerelease third party ODBC drivers. Attended windows world developers conference and seminars (took courses specifically dealing with WOSA, NT memory internals, system management, GUI design). Informed and instructed various Pitney Bowes employees on database management techniques and usage, and it's bearing on their development efforts. 

CONSULTANT 
Morgan Stanley, IS 1633 Broadway, NY, NY
Was brought in to work on the final phase of the development of MIDAS, a data retrieval system for analysts which integrates back end distributed SYBASE and SQL-Server databases to a GUI running under MS-windows for the express purpose of doing real time data delivery of historical data to analyst spreadsheets. Responsibilities included rewriting in C++ keyboard interface for the UI to coordinate concurrent multiple modeless dialogs, designing and constructing an on-line context sensitive help for both data and program information, building backend interface to SQL-Server to retrieve help information, and meeting with technical support personnel to determine delivery format of help information. 

SENIOR PROGRAMMER/CONSULTANT 
Software Options, Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 
Was brought in to fix and enhance BOSS (Back Office Securities System used by securities firms and investment banks). Repaired over 200 known bugs in both UNIX and DOS versions of the software. Areas in which fixes were made included trade entry, cancellation/correction, monthly PL, report generation, general ledger, Offsets, End of Day, Month & Year book reconcillation, Black & Scholes calculation, and currency, instrument & securities definition. Designed and implemented code to import exotics trades from DEALER (a proprietary front office trading system). Built code to compress data during report generation. Wrote code to allow trade entry of exotics on currency pairs, physicals and instruments. Enhanced system to accept and recognize foreign date display. Profiled for speed and resources key components of system, as well as, wrote detailed report suggesting possible courses of action to improve overall efficacy of system. Met with QA personnel to determine needs in both environments. personally wrote code in C and SQL. 

CONSULTANT 
Chase Manhattan, Global Securities Systems, 1 Chase Plaza, NY, NY 
Worked on design and development of a windowing based portfolio performance management system. Met with users to determine functional needs of software in development. Interfaced with programmers involved with data delivery. Produced code to perform the extensive calculations specific to performance in portfolio management (TRW, Annualization, Performance Triangles, What If calculation, Black & Scholes Risk Analysis, and Index comparisons). Constructed navigation code for GUI for said system. Implemented a generic toolbar interface library to be used in present and future systems being developed by group. Provided and integrated generic printing code to deal with all vendor supplied device drivers. Outlined and constructed internal data model used by system. Personally wrote code in C. 

SYSTEMS DESIGNER/CONSULTANT 
EDO Government System Division, College Point, N.Y.
One of two chief architects of WASPP, a graphically oriented CASE system for Digital Signal Processing. Developed and Presented design for fully integrated system to generate, download, & debug code for a DSP system running on a parallel processor dataflow architecture computer from a integrated windowing environment. Made and assisted on design decisions on methodology, development station hardware requirements, interprocess communication protocols, database, and delegation of programming tasks for the 8 systems designers. Specifically Guided three subsystem development efforts Migration, Report Generation and Installation. Responsible for design of Local Repository by implementing a relational database model for the back end and providing the following functionality: application registration, logging of database modifications, archive, restore, rollback, dynamically scoped querying, record locking on a UOW level, and an API for developers working on other sub-systems. Designed and built the Translator, a fully malleable compiler to produce symbolic output based off of 3 inputs, the Repository, the OS Designer's ASCII Templates and a special purpose language to control production based on the state diagrams derived from the templates. Specified the GUI for the Definition Editor, a program to design rules for code generation for different base objects in the repository, as well as, their shape, connectivity, and form entry in the FlowGraph Editor. Developed the Constructor, a line oriented interpreter to act as a batch command language in the windowing environment. This provided the capability to use second source code generation products seamlessly within the integrated environment. Designed and implemented the repository manager, a CRUD program for the local repository which allows extended querying and view of log files. Envisioned and constructed the Message Editor, a modeling tool to allow DSP programmers to design crossbar messaging between different PEs in the target hardware. Established methodologies for version control, QA, and product development. Provided extensive information to OS Designers, AMSP2 engineers, and V3 application designers on technical questions pertaining to the system, it's operations, and methodology. Determined which designers were responsible for resolution of bugs or the addition of enhancements. Helped with the preparation of functional specifications & time schedules for software development. Guided technical support and QA on intricacies on how to maintain software version control and update of user systems. Produced full internal documentation on software. Was consulted by management on issues such as virus protection, version control, and networking issues. Produced small utility executables for use by the OS designer and DSP programmers to make downloadable binaries from COF. 

SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST/CONSULTANT 
FIRST BOSTON CORP. 12 East 49th street, NY.,N.Y. Sept. '87 - Oct '89 Responsible for design, development and implementation of sub-systems for a C.A.S.E. system for Real Time Financial Applications. These were: the code generation pass of the compiler, the stack frame utilities used by the driver for the runtime system, the interface for the driver to the real time interactive debugger, integration of the interactive debuggers of multiple environments/machine boundaries into a uniform single source controllable system, the front end for the CASE programmers in application development, the tools for automation of unit & regression testing of systems (used by system integrators, project leaders, programmers and maintenance personnel), interface to Local Repository through single tasking environment, installation system with full and partial production and development system installations, subsystems used in construction of other applications (memory management, hashing algorithms, and object reformatting used in Entity Relation modler, Process Hierarchy Diagrammer, Matrix Builder, and Local Repository Engine), Operating system utilities normally supplied by third party sources (free standing repository access programs, whereis program and added functionality to system prompt) Other responsibilities included: trouble shooting the C.A.S.E. system for the root of particular system errors, preparation of functional specifications & time schedules for software development, delegation of coding & integration of submodules to fellow workers, providing information to staff members on technical questions pertaining to HPS and it's operations, the analysis of total system for inefficiencies, reporting possible courses of action for improving efficacy, spending time with end users, training sales, support, QA and technical writers explaining the functionality and uses for the systems, consulting with users to improve performance of OTP processes they designed with the system. 

Founder / Independant Consultant 
QuickSilver Development Inc.. 
For Pi Technologies, brought in as a Chief Designer to layout the design and oversee the development of universal language parser and inference engine. System consisted of configurable preprocessor, LR1 finite state machine, BNF psuedo-language interpreter, access database.  Required the design of a new atomic meta-language for the interpreter, and full BNF forms for every language the company was doing analysis.  Languages deveoped included Wang COBOL, MVS COBOL, RPG, Unisys Fortran IV,  Turbo Pascal,  and Watcom C v2.

QuickSilver supervises day to day operations, including but not limited to: signing salary checks, scheduling all employees work tasks, hiring/firing of employees, negotiating deals with clients, making all purchase decisions, serving as laison between all clients and staff, directing of bookkeeper, constructing of marketing materials, supervising all outsourcing efforts, installing and using accounting packages, deciding of company wide policies, setting of release schedules, directing project leaders/programming staff, and managing all facilites maintainence. 

For Pitney Bowes & Microsoft produced IMO document and feasibility study to use Mail List Management as an add-on Microsoft Word 6.0 based on thier presently available libraries and products. Performed a study of competing mail list management products for breath of functionality and ease of use of GUI. Wrote a design document on multi-field filtration and sorting algorithms including SoundEx libraries.

Chief designer and developer of Executive Crossword. A MS-Windows game which provides an electronic version of daily crossword puzzles. In addition to programming in Visual C++ and VB, this involved the direction and instruction of employees in the use of functionality for MDI, GDI, printing with metafiles, Timers and common dialog boxes. Singularly added animation display and play, sound playing, and palette control. Designed POVRAY CGS files and converted series to AVI and FLI formats for play in product. Wrote scripts for autodesk animator (AAS files) using WinRix, PaintShop Pro, and PhotoShop LE. 

Consulted with CD-manufacturing companies relating to format and content of product on disk. Worked side by side with graphic artist to modify GUI interface to make it more appealing to users. Wrote encryption software to hide our proprietary data format. Met with lawyers for trademark, copywrite and liscensing issues. Had employee build a mailing list of potential future clients by running an offering. Instructed puzzle writers in production of demo puzzles. Instructed employees on conversion of puzzles to proprietary format.

For Helmsley Spear, investigated and determined the performance problems associated with an on-line DBASE inventory control and purchasing system for a 12,000 apartment complex. Wrote evaluation report and courses of action for client to take against producer of software. 

Analyzed Meltzer Industries data integrity issues and made purchasing decisions relating to software and equipment upgrades and network backup facilities. 

With 2 employees designing and developing QuickSilver 'C' Code Production Utilities. These included full documentation, WIT a Windows Intelligent Tracer program, WINSTART windows startup demo program and the following libraries BINODES (bi-directional linked list), BNDSET (set manipulation), FILEIO (file manipulation), FORMAT (string formatting), BITREE (tree sets), MLESSDLG (modeless dialog handler), DBGI (debugger interface) and PAGE (memory management). Chief designer and developer of QuickSilver Development's CO80 library & window editor. This involved the development of functions for keyboard i/o, linked list creation & manipulation, window management, memory management, and hash table construction & usage, all written in assembler and C. Wrote text editor to take advantage of the special capabilities of epson fx printers in Pascal. 

Developed and implemented applications programs to check commodities transactions in securities trading in Pascal.

Set up and maintain networked PC based systems for apparel manufacturing firms invoicing. Teach, maintain and purchase software and hardware for stand-alone systems used by law firms and Realtors. Before Oct '87 

SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST/CONSULTANT
NYNEX Computer Service. May-Sept.'87 

SENIOR RESEARCH COMPUTER SCIENTIST
- Stahl Research Labs. Inc. May '85 - April '87 

TEACHING ASSISTANT
- Prof. Melvin Klerer Dept. of C.S. Polytechnic University Jan '86 - May '86 

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
- Prof. Victor Y. Pan Dept. of C.S. S.U.N.Y.A, Jan '85 - June '85 

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST
- Five Quad Ambulance Corps. Albany Sept '84 - May '85 

ACTUARIAL INTERN
- Teacher's Insurance (T.I.A.A./C.R.E.F) June '84 - Sept.'84 

TEACHING ASSISTANT
- Prof. Peter Bloniarz Dept of C.S. S.U.N.Y.A. Jan'84 - May '84

ACHIEVEMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
Member of ACM since April '83 (SIG's:GRAPH,ART,ARCH,SMALL/PC & PLAN) Winner of ACM Northeast Regional Programming Contest Oct.'85 
Representative of S.U.N.Y.A. at international Programming Contest Mar.'85 3rd Place ACM Northeast Regional Programming Contest Oct. '86 
Passed first 2 actuarial exams 
 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Usage of: C, C++, SQL, SYBASE & SQLServer, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Pascal, assembler, Basic, HPS, COBOL, DBASE IV, Scheme, Fortran, Ingres. Producing for: NT 3.5, WFW 3.11, WIN 95, DOS, UNIX, Level 37 Exec, VMS, VRTX, Netware, Banyan Vines, UCSD-P, TRS-DOS, OS/2 On: IBM PC, 360, Univac 1182/83, DEC MicroVax II & PDP-11, TRS-80, AMSP2, SPARC and Stratus Mini.