Shut down Acorn Software, Inc. Responsible for negotiation with creditors, sale of assets, disposal of intellectual property, and all other aspects of dissolving a corporation.

Web site design and implementation for Ashley Development, LLC. Fully responsible for all site design, Java code, CGI, data collection, email integration, etc.

Design and implement a network attatched storage product for Compaq. Involved OpenVMS device driver modifications, application and API design and implementation. All new code was C++, all driver code was Macro 32..

Porting RealServer for use in a new internet video streaming product being produced by Vividon. The work involved rapid understanding of a large body of code (250K lines), building and use of cross compilation tools (not as easy as you might think), dealing with GCC compiler bugs, debugging the EXO Kernel (the Vividon proprietary OS), etc. All code was in C++ and C.

Port the Mason Content Manager to the latest working version of Mason (1.15). This provides an integrated development environment for web applications and sites using Mason in the Apache/mod_perl environment. The project was done to allow the development of a Linux iptables based firewall using a web browser as a user interface.

Place all Acorn Software, Inc. tools and products in the public domain under the Open Software Initiative license.

Install WASD Web Server. Port existing applications from OSU Web Server to WASD. Provide secure ecommerce service using WASD. This project required a deep understanding of three different web server environments (WASD, OSU and Purveyor), development of a server neutral CGI framework to allow development and rollout of new functionality under any of the three web servers deployed at the client site, and development of additional tools to provide necessary interfaces between DCL, CGI and HTTP. All code was placed in the public domain and has been adopted by the WASD development group.

Ongoing contributor to WASD Web Server development group.

Ongoing contributor to IDE.PHP, a public domain PHP (and other web technologies) Integrated Development Environment used extensively for small PHP development projects within Cottage Software Works and it's clients.

Write article for the OpenVMS Technical Journal detailing strategies for writing server-agnostic CGIs in Perl and DCL.

Redesign and rewrite VMS::Librarian extension module for Perl. VMS::Librarian is used for all sorts of system management functions and custom library development on OpenVMS.

Design and implementation of simple image management utilities for a web application.

Ongoing contributions to the Linux Cross Reference (LXR) project.

Design and implementation of a variety of support and management websites for the Florida Democratic Party. Functionality included, volunteer coordination, donation collection (E-Commerce), campaign registration and management, lawyer drives, public event calendars, voter transportation coordination, etc. Fully responsible for all database design, user interface design, and implementation. In addition I assisted with network management, server and workstation construction (Windows 2000, FreeBSD, RedHat), and a wide variety of systems adminstration responsibilities.

During the course of this project, I developed a number of original PHP classes allowing working PHP, Javascript, and HTML code to be generated mechanically from MySQL table descriptions. These have been published under the GNU Public License and are available for download (see YAMC, SQLData, and DB, above for details).

I have continued my involvement with the Florida Democratic Party, providing a variety of pro bono consulting services, mostly in the e-commerce area.

Tutored high school students in basic and AP physics.

Working with the Chairman of the Department of Economics of Boston University to debug and improve a personal financial planner product called ESPlanner. Responsibilities included introduction of sound software engineering practices (source control, design review, peer review), development, and working closely with the rest of the team during the development and debugging process. I worked on the user interface for ESPlanner which required learning Visual Basic 6.0 and COM to interface between ESPlanner, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excell. I redesigned the web site (www.esplanner.com) which required an in-depth knowledge of cascading style sheets, tools for managing a distributed authoring environment, editing the technical ecnomic content of the site, etc. As part of this project, I significantly enhanced Tidy, a public domain Fortran Source Reformatter, that allowed us to easily maintain a consistent "look and feel" for the ESPlanner project. I developed a set of statistical and numerical algorithms in PHP for use in economic simulations.

Redesigned the www.esplanner.com website from the ground up. Introduced user registration, automatic Paypal payment processing, and a wide variety of maintanence features to make support of the user base substantially easier.

Developed image processing code for www.pageweavers.com a web site design and hosting company.

Worked as a dive master for End of the World Resort on the island of Guanaja in the Bay of Honduras.

Developed and deployed a web site for producing Sudoku. The code was put in the public domain and a simple web site using it deployed. Hundreds of people have gotten Sudoku from this site.

Moderator of the Southwest Windpower Users Group.

Starting and developing a woodturning business specializing in fine woods made into practical objects. This ongoing activity includes product design, production, and marketing. I'm working with shops in in New England and Honduras and providing business development consulting services to a grower of exotic woods in Honduras. I hope to be responsible for founding a fine woodturning tradition in Honduras.

Provided mentoring services for beginning woodturners. Taught the basics of safety, tool use, design, wood harvesting, and a variety of other things important (and sometime not so important) to woodturners.

Responsible for storage related system design and implementation in a post-relational database architecture.

Chief Architect. Branches, OpenVMS. Designed and implemented Branches™, tape data library automation middle-ware. Required detailed knowledge of VMS/VAX and VMS/AXP internals, OpenVMS internals (when the development paths converged), VMSClusters, object oriented design, C++, SCSI (in general) and all tape data library vendor SCSI specifications (in specific), all 3^rd party archiving and HSM packages, TCP/IP client/server design and implementation. Additional responsibilities were integration between Branches and 3^rd party packages, establishment of ISV and other relationships between Acorn and the various tape data library manufacturers and vendors, establishment of ISV and other relationships between Acorn and the various 3^rd party package manufacturers and vendors, and production of all design and product documentation.

Chief Architect. VirtualBranches, OpenVMS. Designed and implemented VirtualBranches™, Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library automation. Required detailed knowledge of VMS/VAX and VMS/AXP internals, OpenVMS internals (when the development paths converged), VMS device drivers, VMSClusters, object oriented design, C++, C, Macro-32, SCSI (in general) and all Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library vendor SCSI specifications (in specific). Additional responsibilities were establishment of ISV and other relationships between Acorn and the various Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library manufacturers and vendors, production of all design and product documentation, and management of the implementation and support team.

Chief Architect. MODisk, OpenVMS. Designed and implemented MODisk™, Magneto-Optical Class Device Driver. Required detailed knowledge of VMS/VAX and VMS/AXP internals, OpenVMS internals (when the development paths converged), VMS device drivers Macro-32, SCSI (in general) and all Magneto-Optical drive vendor SCSI specifications (in specific). Additional responsibilities were establishment of ISV and other relationships between Acorn and the various Magneto-Optical and CDROM drive manufacturers and vendors and production of all design and product documentation.

Webmaster. This required knowledge of Perl, Python, Java, HTML, a variety of web development tools and web servers, etc.

Chief Architect. Squash, OpenVMS. Designed and implemented Squash™, Real-Time Compressing Disk Device Driver. Required detailed knowledge of VMS/VAX and VMS/AXP internals, OpenVMS internals (when the development paths converged), VMS device drivers Macro-32, Compression technology (Limpel-Zev, Huffman, etc.). Additional responsibilities were production of all design and product documentation.

Chief Architect. HSManager, OpenVMS. Designed and implemented HSManager™, Hierarchical Storage Management for OpenVMS. Required detailed knowledge of VMS/VAX and VMS/AXP internals, OpenVMS internals (when the development paths converged), VMS device drivers, OpenVMS security internals, Fortran, C, Macro-32. Additional responsibilities were production of all design and product documentation.

Chief Architect. VirtualBranches, Windows/NT. Designed and implemented portions of VirtualBranches™, Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library automation. Required detailed knowledge of Windows/NT kernel internals, Windows/NT device drivers, Windows/NT File system, object oriented design, C++, C, Assembly Language, SMB, SCSI (in general) and all Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library vendor SCSI specifications (in specific). Additional responsibilities were management of the development team.

Chief Architect. VirtualBranches, Linux. Designed and implemented portions of VirtualBranches™, Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library automation. Required detailed knowledge of Linux kernel internals, Linux device drivers, Linux File system, object oriented design, C++, C, Assembly Language, SCSI (in general) and all Magneto-Optical and CDROM data library vendor SCSI specifications (in specific). Additional responsibilities were management of the development team.

Chief Architect. ACSLS, OpenVMS. Responsible for port of StorageTEK ACSLS and integration of ACSLS with Branches. Required detailed knowledge of TCP/IP client/server design and implementation, object oriented design, C++, C, StorageTEK Library products (Silo and SCSI), Branches internals.

Consulting projects: Design and develop Branches™; Migration of MasterServe™ to Unix; Develop a client/server architecture for MasterServe™; Develop a platform independent Remote Procedure Call (RPC) for Macintosh (Mac OS and A/UX), Unix, and VAX/VMS; Performance analysis for VAX XMI/DSSI; Design and implementation of performance testing tools and methodologies, including specialized VAX/VMS device drivers; Architecture, design, and implementation of MasterServe™, an optical disk library for archival storage; General distributed system consulting in the electronic publishing industry; Design and implementation of source control and software distribution tools; Architecture, design, and implementation of pick & place assembly system; Architecture, design, and implementation of WORM based archival storage system; Macintosh front end for Datavert™; Product evaluation for FA-2000; Personnel evaluation and training for FA-2000 development team; Network management and software engineering standards for office automation corporation; productivity tools for medium range engineering firm; data center facility planning and management; arbitration in computer related negotiations; VAX performance analysis; architecture, design, and implementation of memory management for process control system; graphics instruction set design and implementation; re-design and error analysis of corporate network; architecture and implementation in multi-corporation world-wide electronic messaging system; development for driver and control program for UNIX/MS-DOS co-processor system; development of integration and migration tools for multiple vendor CAD/CAE system; development of CAE/CAD data base management and tools; design and implementation of real time kernel for MC68000-based system; development of image processing algorithms; development of tools, support, and training package for naive development group.

Ski bum at Killington, Vt.  Taught skiing to all levels and abilities.

Develop a client/server architecture for MasterServe™ This particular project was the one that finally led me to start Acorn Software. I did a simple robotic control system for managing a Kodak optical library (the K560). This product was sold under the trade name of MasterServe to New England Telephone who need to build a disaster recovery system for their network of systems running VMS. I did the design and development of the disaster recovery plan, including working out how to backup databases (Oracle, RDB) running 24x7 and multiple machines over the network using standard VMS tools, and testing the same. The system was actually tested in production and the VMS systems were alive and operational within 6 hours, as per specification. Many unix based disaster recovery systems had not become operational again after several weeks despite having specified 6 to 24 hour recovery. The principles of robotic control and automated backup using standard tools became Branches, the flagship product of Acorn Software.

Responsible for project leadership of Terminal Services Architecture products: Intel 80186/286 based terminal services controller; PR1ME based terminal services; Development of functional, design, and product documentation; Coordination of international terminal support definition and development efforts; Design and implement in-house electronic mail system prototype.