PROJECTS

  • printui.com
    • Co-founder and CTO.
    • Scoped and supported many B2B enterprise projects.
    • Created scalable server architecture using Amazon Web Services.
    • Wrote thousands of lines of PHP code for RESTful APIs and web sites.
    • Developed the EasyPrintUI turnkey solution for printers, designs agencies, and in-house marketing departments.
    • Hands-on "root" dev-ops of many Linux and Windows servers.
    • Management of offshore development team that provides professional services to PrintUI clients.
    • See printui.com for more details.

  • Nimbleware Consulting
    • Worked with several US and international clients on a number of mobile and web projects.
    • Architected highly scalable web services.
    • Guided offshore development teams working on desktop software, mobile applications, and web services.
    • Developed high-performance image scaling and caching web service in PHP.
    • Developed web services to interface a Flex RIA to InDesign Server.
    • See www.nimblewareapps.com and www.nimblewareconsulting.com for more details.

  • "Transfer" Open Source Code
    • Defined requirements for a web site to send large files that are too large for email attachments.
    • Implemented web site in PHP, including: authentication, notifications, file management, and administration.
    • Tested source code with independent developers in preparation for making the code open source.

  • Adobe Stock Photos
    • Founding member and key contributor of the team.
    • Worked closely with product managers to define realistic requirements consistent with business requirements.
    • Built a team of 37 managers, developers and testers.
    • Invented a stock photography SOA standard allowed desktop software to be married to partner's web service APIs.
    • Shipped product on time as part of the Adobe Creative Suite.

  • Data Center Design for Adobe Systems
    • Designed several highly scalable, multi-gigabit bandwidth data centers
    • Hired a small, high-performance team of data center specialists, all cross-trained on all equipment and servers.
    • Created overall philosophy and design for the data centers to ensure 99.97% up time.
    • Supported 37 Adobe SaaS teams on 24x7x365 basis for hosted applications that supported 6 million users.
    • Specified and purchased $8 million of equipment and servers.
    • Specified requirements and selected co-location sites.

  • Cloud Computing for Adobe Systems
    • Gathered requirements from executive management and research teams.
    • Managed an agile software project to create hosted software to control all aspects of the cloud.
    • Guided the architecture.

  • Mentoring
    • Improve the planning and management of software projects for a small engineering software company.
    • Provide tangible advice on how to turn a technical idea into a salable product.