Helped design an Agile methodology for Socialtext resulting in stability in development and predictable releases. Built many of the in-house tools used to track iterations. Led development team as Agile coach, filling in for VPE when she was absent. Acted as story customer for technical stories. Supported senior sales executives in closing some of the largest deals in the company's history; handled all technical due diligence support for prospects, handled all architecture, security, and customization discussions with CIOs, CTOs, architects, IT security, and others.

Designed Recognia’s technical analysis Web service, taking it from a loosely articulated concept to release. Set the development methodology (XP), coding standards, and technical architecture for the company. Wrote the underlying frameworks (both the Web services API and the internal class library) that the hosted website and Web services are built on. Built and led a strong Agile Development team.

My company’s focus was custom software development, in particular writing software that emphasizes ease of use. Designed, developed, and implemented a multi-user inventory management program targeted at small businesses dealing with multiple suppliers. The product achieved its ease of use by hiding the details of inventory management theory from the end user.

Consulting clients include:

Arnprior Mini Storage: Developed software to track unit rentals in company’s self-storage business. Database resides on a Linux box on the Internet; the Windows-based client software can access the database from any Internet connection.

Binomial International: Ported Binomial’s disaster recovery software, Phoenix, from Windows 3.1 to Win32 implementing a new user interface. The core of Phoenix is an expert system that extracts relevant information from a large document, populates fields in the document with information from a database, and generates a custom disaster recovery plan for the user.

Autoskill International: Resumed development on AutoSkill’s literacy instruction program, The Academy of Reading. Mentored junior programmers on C++ and OOP. Developed prototype for an Internet-based version of the Academy. The prototype uses an SQL server for its backend, and Director and Shockwave to deliver content. Researched various technologies for Internet implementation of the Academy.

Bergener Research Inc.: Converted Bergener Research’s Lambda III program from DOS to Win32. This involved implementing a Windows UI for a DOS program while retaining the speed of use of the DOS program. Lambda III displays spectrum analysis data obtained from gas chromatagraphs.

TruLogic Systems Inc.: Developed a set of APIs (Pascal, C, assembler, BASIC) to interface with TruLogic’s data acquisition boards. The assembler API was capable of reading 300,000+ samples/second from the data acquisition boards inside a 80386. Developed software to control a printed circuit board tester using these APIs.

Developed Newton software to track sales activity in both the pharmaceutical and publishing industries. The software synchronizes sales activities with a remote, central database.

Led the team that designed and developed The Academy of Reading, a Windows version of AutoSkill’s literacy educational program. The Academy was designed to be an Integrated Learning System. Interface design was a challenge since the users of the software cannot read and are generally not computer literate. The Academy was developed for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Worked on TSL’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), developing drivers for new data acquisition hardware and implementing a new billing system. The LIMS automates sample prep, data acquisition, data analysis, sample tracking, and client invoicing. Began implementing and integrating statistical process control procedures into the LIMS in order to catch instrument calibration issues before they become significant.

Developed user-friendly front ends for configuring and reviewing the results from various forest modeling programs. The models were developed in FORTRAN and had inputs and outputs that only a FORTRAN programmer could love.