42Co LLC

CEO/Founder 7/06 - Present

Provo Labs LLC

Chief Operations Officer      9/05 - 7/06

Sentry Financial Corp, Contractor

Project Lead     10/02 – 09/05

Lead Designer and Architect for TeamWork, an N-Tier Lease Management CRM written entirely in VB.Net.  Responsibilities include assisting the CIO with Project Management, Leading the Design (both software and database) Team, and Leading the Architecting Team.  TeamWork is a complete replacement system for 3 commercial software packages intended to manage all aspects of Sentry’s business (Accounting, Payroll and Leasing).   TeamWork is an OOP based application using VB.Net and SQL Server for database access.  It manages all aspects of corporate Leasing and has a comprehensive Accounting package which includes Invoicing, Cash Receipts, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.  Its architecture requirements included an Internet ready Business Layer and a Web Service ready Data/Business Layer. 

CDI Corp, Contractor (LDS Church Office Bldg)

Senior Architectural Engineer     6/01 – 10/02

Jan 02 – Oct 02 Church Scheduling System (CSS), N-Tier Architect

CSS is responsible for the schedule management of all church General Authorities.  Specifically, it manages the scheduling of all Stake, Regional and Area Conferences and who will be attending them from the Church Leadership.  It is a multi-tier Internet based application with an Oracle database written entirely in ASP.NET & VB.NET.  My responsibilities in this position include designing and writing a multi-tier architecture utilizing the advantages of Microsoft .NET, abstracting all business and data access from the front-end and some development of front-end web pages. 

Aug 0 1- Mar 02 Publications Information Network (PIN), Lead Engineer.

 PIN was designed to replace several mainframe and legacy applications for the LDS Church’s Curriculum Department.  It was written entirely in Visual Basic 6 and is a multi-tier Windows based application able to utilize Oracle, SQL Server, and Access databases.  It is responsible for the approval and management life cycle of all Official Church publications.  I was brought in to ensure the project, which was 2 years behind schedule, would be releasable within the following six months.  My responsibilities included re-designing and re-writing the data access and business layers and designing and writing a GUI Management interface to manage all data binding and appearance tasks for all forms in PIN.  PIN was released on time and is now a very stable and strong application in the process of being deployed worldwide.

Avysta Software  

Senior Software Engineer     2/00 – 6/01

Senior Architect in the development of Visual Front Office (VFO), a Customer Resource Management (CRM) application.  VFO is an extremely large application designed for several hundred concurrent users.  It includes 12 projects, over 100 forms, and several thousand lines of code.  It is a multi-tier application designed to work with Oracle, SQL Server, and SQLBase databases in an MTS and Citrix environment.  My team succeeded in meeting several extremely aggressive deadlines, sometimes requiring 120-hour workweeks, to get the product to market.  My responsibilities included Assistant Lead of the backend design/development team, Lead of design and programming of the installation software using InstallShield, Lead Programmer for the “Contact Center” which included Accounts, Tasks, Appointments, and Contact Management.  Revenue generated by VFO peaked at 3 million per year before Avysta was dissolved.

The Gatherers

CEO/Owner     11/98 – 09/06

The Gatherers is a consulting company focusing on advanced applications development and dynamic business solutions.  We often work in partnership with Bottom Line Services of North Carolina.  We’ve developed several applications covering a wide spectrum of business management including shipment building RF systems, traveling salesman inventory systems, Medical Records management, and several office management applications.  Well-known customers have included Corning Glass, General Marble, Hamilton Beach, Warner Lambert, Fuji Film and the SC Dept Mental Health.   

Aspen Distribution Services

Systems Developer     3/97 – 8/99

In an OS heterogeneous environment, was responsible for design and development of all Windows based solutions.  Projects focused on augmentation of their warehouse management system, generally in EDI and shipping applications. Major accomplishments included: Development of an automated EDI generation system that converted non-EDI files into full EDI transactions delivered via Internet mail.  Implementation of Compliance Labeling requirements and a complete RF system to build compliant shipments.  Full report creation, generation, and scheduling system to replace Crystal Reports.  Customer Service calls/issues management and tracking system.  HR management and several other small scale projects.  All programs were developed in VB 5\6 using Access, Informix or SQL Server as a database with ADO and MTS where appropriate.

US Air Force

Information Manager     1/92 – 4/96

Primary Duties included supporting all squadron computer systems and providing data management for the squadron.  Completely automated a previously manual office with VB 4\5, developing databases, spreadsheets and forms for all functions of the Information Management Offices.  Several of these solutions were adopted Air Force wide.  Received high recognition’s within the Air Force and was given an Honorable Discharge.