Application Architect seasoned and specialized in design and structuring of software applications to ensure scalability, reliability and maintainability to serve as a blueprint for developers. Software is developed and deployed effectively and efficiently in alignment with organizational specifications and industry standards.
I've built data applications for Insider Trading compliance, ETL processes, data warehouses, Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) implementation, union labor, cost accounting, warehouse management, equipment tracking and inventory control with WebSocket, SFTP, email, PDF and Office Automation integration.
10 years experience in 'Oracle Applications' Integration developing custom Manufacturing Tooling & Tool Inventory, Item Specifications, Activities and Documents, Production Scheduling and QC/QA applications that incorporate data from Oracle schemas BOM, INV, WIP, ONT, PO, APPLSYS, APPS, HR, AP, AR, GL & JTF.
From 1997 until 2010 I lived on the Upper Eastside and consulted in Manhattan & Brooklyn for a variety of financial, educational, manufacturing and real estate organizations.
Now I live on a 100 acre farm in the beautiful Adirondack Region of Upstate New York raising cows and building applications.
Better software is built on a farm!
My degree is in Mechanical Engineering and before my software career I worked for Ahlstrom Kamyr as a field engineer building pulp and paper mills in 5 States and 2 Providences in Canada. My responsibilities were fulfillment of contract specifications, project schedule, procurement and logistics of equipment.
Construction projects are a complex series of activities requiring a wide variety of highly specialized materials, many of which are custom-built for the specific job. This project management position required tracking and scheduling of milestones, subcontractors, equipment and material. I started using dBase III which came pre-installed on my new office computer along with Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. That was the beginning of my software career.
In 1993 I formed a software consulting company - Black Diamond Software and the Summer of 1996 I began the creation of a product called Info Digger developed with Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 which is an object-oriented programming language with a powerful data engine.
From 1998 to 2016 I built & still support custom business applications for clients using Info Digger as an application framework which I was constantly improving non-stop until Visual FoxPro 9.0.
In March 2007, Microsoft announced that there would be no VFP 10, thus making VFP9 (released to manufacturing on December 17, 2004) the last commercial VFP release from Microsoft. Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 was released on October 16, 2007. The support of Version 9 ended on January 13, 2015.
Almost 20 years of my life invested into development of Info Digger which was now obsolete and I was not sure how to proceed. I needed to suck it up and regroup on Web development rather than client/server development.
Info Digger has been rewritten as a JavaScript ES6 module running in browser consisting of HTML5, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM) & JavaScript front-tier, a JavaScript ES6 Express module running in Node.js incorporating REST, AJAX and JSON with abstract data classes middle-tier to access both MySQL and Oracle databases.
All the knowledge in object-orientated development and data-centric design has been transferred to better technology and a modern web application framework.