Expertise we have includes the following:

• Project Management - Developed project plans, staffing and budget estimates; Negotiated agreements with senior and executive stakeholders; Staffed projects and led business and technical teams; Delivered tasks on time and within budget.
  
  
• Strategy/Methodology Selection - Identified and promoted appropriate industry "best practices"; Evaluated alternative design and development methodologies; Selected or customized approaches for high-visibility customers; Developed implementation standards; Supported risk mitigation and contingency planning efforts.
  
  
• Project Startup - Conducted software evaluations and vendor selection studies for CASE and productivity tools, DBMS and other software packages; Trained project team members and customer staff in design, development, and testing methods.
  
  
• System Design, Development, and Deployment - Facilitated JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions to define client business and technical requirements; Designed and implemented enterprise-wide database architecture using spiral design or rapid application development techniques; Planned testing efforts and monitored results; Led product QA, data conversion and migration tasks; Directed launch efforts.
  
  
• Business Communication - Conducted extensive technical, management, user, and customer briefings and live system demonstrations.
  
  

• Architecture - Web-based, client/server, massively-parallel, clustered, distributed.
• System Software - UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, Linux), MVS, VM, messaging, etc.
• DBMSs and Data Management - DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Informix, XML, XML/db, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Access.
• Languages - C/C++, HTML, X-Windows/Motif, Visual Basic, ASP, Java, Python, Perl
• Development Tools - CASE (Rose, IEF, ERWin), Dreamweaver/UltraDev, Visual InterDev

• Financial Services Industry Product Development - IBM Corporation - Strategic, enterprise-wide, worldwide database, data warehouse, and consulting services.
• Nationwide Weather Forecasting Systems Modernization (AWIPS) - National Weather Service, Litton/PRC - High-volume sensor input, nationwide distributed network, advanced processing, geographic information systems (GIS).
• Enterprise-Wide Transaction Processing Database and Data Warehouse - MCI Worldcom - Re-engineered standalone systems into an enterprise-wide architecture.
• Corporate Data Warehouse Development, Information Quality Programs - Freddie Mac - Supported strategic business goals; Improved financial, regulatory reporting.
• Weather Systems Development - NGIT And The Weather Channel.
• Reserve Personnel Deployment System - Litton/PRC, U.S. Army Personnel Command - Rapid development approach, n-tiered, "thin-client" architecture.
• FTS2000 Nationwide Telecommunications Project - AT&T And Boeing Corporation - Enterprise-wide system for the U.S. Government, massively-parallel processing.
• Develop Division-Wide System Testing Programs - MCI Worldcom and Nextel Corporation - Comprehensive, practical, and cost-effective software testing programs covering all business and technical functions: service ordering and provisioning, status reporting, traffic, billing, equipment inventory, and support systems.
• Financial/Operational Systems Re-Engineering Project - National Publishing Firm.
• Accounting Systems Re-Engineering Project - Computer Services Firm.
• Satellite Ground Station System - Leading Aerospace Firm.
• Database Technology Analysis and Forecasting - AT&T and the U.S. Government.
• Air Base Operability MIS - HQ, U.S. Air Force - Operations and logistics system.