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Jess was the founder CEO/CTO of ComDais.com. He has strong business development skills and contacts in the areas of team building, partnering, marketing, sales and venture capital. He was the architect of ComDais's groundbreaking XML/SOAP interface for the Ariba eMarketplace platform. Jess holds several recent eCommerce patents and has over 20 years experience as a professional software engineer and many successful projects to his credit. At ComDais he raised $6.5 M in funding and worked closely with strategic partners, Office.com and Winstar on joint development projects. ComDais met every milestone on time and under budget. The ComDais SMB eMarketplace was fielded and successfully supported over 1 million customers; the company was valued at over $60 million before the bubble burst.

Prior to founding ComDais Jess worked at Tradex as the Sr Project Manager and Core Engineering Team Leader. He was the 40th employee specifically hired to help Tradex grow into a mature professional company positioned to go public. A year and a half later Tradex was sold to Ariba for $1.78 billion, making it the single largest software only acquisition in history.

Earlier in his career Jess was VP of Engineering and a member of the board of the English company, Firefox Communications, Novell’s worldwide OSI partner, and help take the company public and then sold to FTP. At the time he was responsible for all of both Novell and USL’s OSI products in Red Box end user binaries and to most major UNIX vendors as source code.

Long-term focus for Jess is to become an industry respected eJournalist and Author with a focus on technology. Jess has been involved in many projects and startups focusing on application development and consequently has strong knowledge of both third and fourth generation programming languages and tools. He remains current with leading edge skills with classes @ the U of U and building sites utilizing PHP/mySQL, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks MX and Adobe Premiere 6.5.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

June 1999 – March 2001
ComDais.com – Salt Lake City, Utah
CEO/CTO / Architect / Sr. Software Engineer

June 1998 – February 1999
Tradex - Tampa, Florida
Sr. Project Manager / Core Engineering Team Leader / Sr. Software Engineer

March 1998 – June 1998 - Contract
Utility Partners - Tampa Florida
Sr. Software Engineer

September 1997 – March 1998 - Contract
ASE - Stuart, Florida
Sr. Software Engineer

April 1997 – August 1997 - Contract
Intel - American Fork, Utah

March 1995 – April 1997 - Contract
Venture Advisory Group - Santa Cruz, CA and Salt Lake City, Utah

June 1992 – March 1995
Firefox Communications - Solihull England & Los Gatos, CA
VP Engineering, Architect and Principal Engineer

January 1990 – June 1992
ICL - Reston, VA. & Bracknell, England
Director of Engineering for North America, Architect / Sr. Software Engineer

EXPERIENCE/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• eMARKETPLACE BRIDGE DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT (E2E Nexus)

Jess has worked on architecture, design and development to create a proof of technology eCommerce bridge

between the Ariba and Commerce One eMarketplaces, xCML (Commerce One’s Standard) – cdXML (Ariba’s Standard).

- uilized J2EE, JDBC, JSP, PL/SQL, XP .NET & VBasic
- analyzed XML eCommerce standards, did the architecture design for a bi-directional transparent bridge between the two platforms.
- stup and tuned project infrastructure components including Tomcat, Oracle.and Ariba eMarketplace.
- did the UML design, Java and VB coding for prototype
- created prototype front end utilizing Dreamweaver Ultradev
- performed successful end to end testing, moving a requisition created on one eMarketplace to the other eMarketplace and maintaining all status, approval and historical information.


• eCOMMERCE XML/SOAP DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT (ComDais – Office.com Project)

Jess worked on current real world eCommerce platforms at ComDais. As an architect, designer and coder he has built state of the art Java / XML eCommerce applications.

- was the architect of cdXML, a complete supplier side XML interface to the Ariba eMarketplace platform.
- was the architect and project manager that built the worlds first commercial SOAP box implementation.
- worked with a team of 9 engineers to complete and field a XML based implementation of the Ariba eMarketplace platform.
- worked with the client Office.com to install, test and tune entire system. Successfully fielded to over 1 million users.


• INTERNET APPLICATION DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT (Tradex – eMarketplace Application)

Jess worked on a E-Commerce system focuses on procurement and B2B, business to business e-commerce solutions. The TRADE’ex E-Commerce system was a Pure Java, multi-tiered architecture, Web Browser base thin client, ODBC / Oracle database application. It was sold to Ariba for $1.78B and became the Ariba eMarketplace platform.

- worked as Sr. Project Manager for Solution Implementation department. Solution Implementation provided the necessary customization for major clients. Worked in a disaster recovery mode on major projects for the company; Raytheon, MetalSite. All three projects were late and in jeopardy. Successfully fielded the Raytheon project and managed acceptance by the client. This was TRADE’ex’s first major installation, 80,000 users.
- Jess was one of three Team Leader for the core development group.
- Instituted the first project to implement a written development methodology process. Implementing a semi-formal OO Development Methodology utilizing a fast lightweight set of processes, documents and CASE tools.

• WIRELESS REMOTE UTILITY METER READING APPLICATION DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT

Jess worked as a Sr Software engineer doing primarily bug fixes to assist in getting two behind schedule releases out the door. The application was in C/C++ running on NT with an Oracle database backend. Development utilized MS Visual C/C++ IDE.

• INTERNET APPLICATION DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT (ASE - Internet Backup Application)

Jess worked with a startup, creating a remote Internet based backup and configuration management system.

- established development process model, taught practice, principals, created document templates, (modified IEEE reference documents to create "lightweight" process model).
- taught a class in software project organization and procedure, utilizing Software Project Survival Guide, (by Steve McConnell author of Rapid Development and Code Complete), as the text to establish a common baseline of project organization and expectation.
- Team Leader for the architecture and design of the Java, Visual J++, based client.
- wrote the initial GUI prototype in Visual Basic and worked closely with product management to finalize the look and feel.
- Established a common directory structure, installed PVCS, wrote build scripts, created PVCS archive and established internal build and configuration management procedures.


• LAN MANAGEMENT APPLICATION (Intel – LANdesk Division)

Jess worked with the LANdesk product, a full-featured network management and control package. LANdesk is a client/server application that runs on MS Win/NT clients and Netware NLM and NT server platforms.

- took over development responsibility for the AMS, Alert Management System. AMS is a client/server database and event management system that logs all alert events throughout the network and provides the user configurable response, such as console messages, sending email, FAX, and paging in response user configured events.
- the code had not had anyone regularly maintaining it in over a year and was in disarray. Some of it could not build anymore, most of it could only be built on one particular developers machine. Established a directory structure, updated and fixed PVCS build scripts, created PVCS archive and checked in the code.
- AMS included a homemade red/black tree database NLM that had never worked properly in several of its major functions, such as group deletes. Upgrade the compiler to the Watcom 11 version, and establish a source level debug environment for NLMs.
- Using MSC/C++ 4.0 MFC and Watcom 11, fixed all outstanding major AMS bugs for the next release of LANdesk


• CONSULTING AND APPLICACTION (Venture Advisory Group )

Jess worked in a a small group of consultants that help software companies with business development, marketing, software engineering maturity, development process / procedure and ISO 9000 certification. During this period I worked part-time in order to spend more time at home during the pregnancies and first year of my two new sons life..

- consulted with a number of companies on Software Maturity, Process and Procedure and ISO 9000 certification.
- learned Java / J++ and HTML, developed Web sites and an Internet commerce application (AmSquare Mall Store).
- consulted on Internationalization / Localization, business development and doing business in the EC and PacRim
- taught TCP/IP section of MS NT certification course

• NETWORKING APPLICATION DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT (Firefox Communications)

Jess worked on with Firefox as a start-up in the West Midlands of England. They had developed a gateway product, a Netware NLM, which connected Novell users to ICL OSI networks.

- add a TCP/IP stack to the gateway and made it a NetWare to Internet gateway.
- Worked with Novell executives, to OEM LAN Workplace and create a client/server bundled NLM gateway product.
- managed the transition of USL's and Novell’s OSI product set to Firefox. Supplying full line of OSI - GOSIP products for both NetWare and UnixWare and source code to most major UNIX vendors in the world.
- integrated third party development/porting and product introduction of X.400 Email and X.500 Directory Services.
- did the architecture and managed the development of the NetWare / Oracle gateway.
- represented Firefox at ISO (International Standards Organization), OMG (Object Management Group) and EMA (Electronic Mail Association)

• OFFICE, eMAIL AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS (ICL)

Jess worked with OfficePower was the worlds first fully email enabled office application suite, utilizing both UNIX SMTP and X.400 email systems.

- wrote TSR comms interface in MS C for DOS and Windows to support 7 TCP/IP vendors and IPX/SPX
- OfficePower had been a terminal based system, did the architecture and managed the development of OfficePower into a client/server environment. This was successfully accomplished by creating a DOS and MS Windows clients, utilizing MS C, adding an custom RPC mechanism to the UNIX application and integrated user selected programs.
- contributed to the design and vendor selection of an Informix based document management system.
- worked on internationalization / localization into fourteen languages to market into second tier technology countries.
- acted as product manager in the early development of Winsock and was a founding member of the Winsock Committee.
- Became trained as an auditor and successfully managed the process of becoming ISO 9000 certified.
- trained in Object Oriented Architecture and Design by Semaphore Training.
- represented ICL at the EMA, Electronic Mail Association, and was the alternate representative to the OMG, contributed to the CORBA specification.

Development Technologies

- Over 2000 hours of industry education and over 500 hours teaching:
Intro, Intermediate and Advanced Application Development OO Analysis and Design using UML and Java
Developing OO Application with Java and PHP: The Full Lifecycle
Unix Kernel developer, & Administrator courses TCP/IP, OSI etc

Programming languages ASM, C, C++, C#, Java. VBasic, PHP and development tools include Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, .NET, JDeveloper, JBuilder Pro, Visual Basic. Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access and NetObjects Fusion.


SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

- Many speaking engagements in support of engineering, sales and marketing. Very experienced at creating and giving PowerPoint presentations to semi and non-technical audiences.

- Formal research and presentations to IEEE, OMG, EMA, NASA and others.

Narative and Prior to 1990

Mr. Lynn "Jess" Jessop
1150 Centennial Circle
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116
(801) 654-0830
RESUME

MAJOR AREAS OF EXPERIENCE:

• Large Software Project Management and Engineering - Leadership and Team Building, Full Life Cycle Experience, Concept Development to End of Life, Product Commercialization
• Software Engineering Maturity, Rapid-Development, Light Weight Process and Procedure, Object Oriented Architecture and Design, ISO 9000 Certification
• Distributed Client / Server Internet Applications, MS Windows, NetWare NLM, NDS, UNIX, SMTP, DNS, TCP/IP, OSI, IPX/SPX, X.400 & X.500 Development
• C/C++ Visual C++ 5.0, Java / J++ 6.0, MFC, COM/DCOM, Oracle 7, SQL, Application and Systems Level Development, Real-Time and Embedded Software, and Systems
• Internationalization and Localization, Offshore Engineering, International Marketing Support, Experienced at doing business in the EC, Pacific Rim, India and Australia
• Delivers Projects On Time and To Specification by; Leadership, Motivation, Engineering Process and Procedure, Project / Risk Management and Commitment

EMPLOYMENT:

6/98 – 6/99 TRADE’ex E-Commerce Systems – Sr. Project Manager / Team Leader
Tampa, FL
TRADE’ex is a startup, high-end E-Commerce software company. TRADE’ex E-Commerce system focuses on procurement and B2B, business to business e-commerce solutions. The TRADE’ex E-Commerce system is a Pure Java, multi-tiered architecture, Web Browser base thin client, ODBC / Oracle database application.
• Sr. Project Manager for Solution Implementation department. Solution Implementation provided the necessary customization for major clients. Worked in a disaster recovery mode on three major projects for the company; Raytheon, MetalSite, Project X. All three projects were late and in jeopardy.
• With long hours and a good team the Raytheon project was completed successfully and accepted by the client. This was TRADE’ex’s first major installation, 80,000 users.
• MetalSite is an industry marketplace, it is currently under going user acceptance testing.
• In addition to project management and team leader roles, I also wrote Java Beans code for the EDI integration and learned the ugly details of EDI documents. Also fixed major bugs i
n internationalization. Currently leading the SAP integration project.
• Following these projects I moved into the core development group. Currently Team Lead for the company’s first project to implement a written development methodology process. We are implementing a semi-formal OO Development Methodology utilizing a fast lightweight set of processes, documents and CASE tools.


3/98 – 6/98 Utility Partners Inc. - Sr. Software Engineer (Contract)
Tampa, FL
Utility Partners, UP, product, MobileUp, is the industry leader for dispatch and field service management software for the gas and electrical utility industry.
• Team Leader for the MobileUp 4.5 release base development team. Successfully completed development on time. This was the first UP project to have High Level and Detail Design documents which resulted in greatly reduced rework and lower bug count in QA.
• Developed client/server database applications in C & C++ for wireless mobile dispatch utilizing Win95, NT, UNIX, SQL, Oracle 7 and MKS Source Integrity.
• Created document templates and established High Level and Detail Design process.

9/97 - 3/98 ASE Inc. - Sr. Software Engineer (Contract)
Stuart, FL
ASE is a startup, creating a remote Internet based backup and configuration management system.
• Established development process model, taught practice, principals, created document templates, (modified IEEE reference documents to create "lightweight" process model).
• Taught a class in software project organization and procedure, utilizing Software Project Survival Guide, (by Steve McConnell author of Rapid Development and Code Complete), as the text to establish a common baseline of project organization and expectation.
• Team Leader for the architecture and design of the Java, Visual J++, based client.
• Wrote the initial GUI prototype in Visual Basic and worked closely with product management to finalize the look and feel.
• Established a common directory structure, installed PVCS, wrote build scripts, created PVCS archive and established internal build and configuration management procedures.

5/97 - 8/97 Intel - Sr. Software Engineer (Contract)
American Fork, UT
This division of Intel produces the LANdesk, a full featured network management and control package. LANdesk is a client/server application that runs on MS Win/NT clients and Netware NLM and NT server platforms.
• Took over development responsibility for the AMS, Alert Management System. AMS is a client/server database and event management system that logs all alert events throughout the network and provides the user configurable response, such as console messages, sending email, FAX, and paging in response user configured events.
• The code had not had anyone regularly maintaining it in over a year and was in disarray. Some of it could not be build anymore, most of it could only be built on one particular developers machine. Established a directory structure, updated and fixed PVCS build scripts, created PVCS archive and checked in the code.
• AMS included a homemade red/black tree database NLM that had never worked properly in several of its major functions, such as group deletes. Upgrade the compiler to the Watcom 11 version, and establish a source level debug environment for NLMs.
• Using MSC/C++ 4.0 MFC and Watcom 11, fixed all outstanding major AMS bugs for the next release of LANdesk.

3/95 - 5/97 Venture Advisory Group - Consultant (Contract - Part Time) -
Santa Cruz, CA and Salt Lake City, UT
Venture Advisory Group was a small group of consultants that help software companies with business development, marketing, software engineering maturity, development process / procedure and ISO 9000 certification. During this period I worked part-time in order to spend more time at home during the pregnancies and first year of my two new sons life.
• Consulted with a number of companies on Software Maturity, Process and Procedure and ISO 9000 certification.
• Learned Java / J++ and HTML, developed Web sites and an Internet commerce application (AmSquare Mall Store).
• Consulted on Internationalization / Localization, business development and doing business in the EC and PacRim.
• Taught TCP/IP section of MS NT certification course.

6/92 - 3/95 Firefox Communications Inc. - VP of Engineering -
Solihull England & Los Gatos, CA
Firefox was a start-up in the West Midlands of England. They had developed a gateway product, a Netware NLM, which connected Novell users to ICL OSI networks. Was recruited to take over all development and be a Director of the company.
• Add a TCP/IP stack to the gateway and made it a NetWare to Internet gateway.
• Worked with Novell executives, to OEM LAN Workplace and create a client/server bundled NLM gateway product.
• Established a development offices in Los Gatos CA and Tokyo, Japan and contract development in India and Australia.
• Managed the transition of Novell's OSI product set to Firefox, becoming Novell's worldwide OSI partner.
• Helped negotiate a deal and managed the transition of USL's OSI product set to Firefox. Supplying full line of OSI - GOSIP products for both NetWare and UnixWare and source code to most major UNIX vendors in the world.
• Managed third party development/porting and product introduction of X.400 Email and X.500 Directory Services.
• Did the architecture and managed the development of the NetWare / Oracle gateway.
• Represented Firefox at ISO (International Standards Organization), OMG (Object Management Group) and EMA (Electronic Mail Association)

1/90 - 6/92 ICL, (International Computers Limited) - Director of Engineering Reston, VA. & Bracknell, England
OfficePower was the worlds first fully email enabled office application suite, utilizing both UNIX SMTP and X.400 email systems. Came to ICL as a Sr. Software Engineer in charge of networking for the OfficePower product, a multi-user UNIX based office application suite. Was promoted to Director of Engineering, ICL USA. The OfficePower team, fifty-three engineers and support staff, were split between Reston VA and Bracknell, England.
• Wrote TSR comms interface in MS C for DOS and Windows to support 7 TCP/IP vendors and IPX/SPX
• Did the initial port of Novell's Portable NetWare to ICL UNIX as a skunk works project, won corporate backing and helped launch the product. Was a founder of the Portable NetWare Partners Association.
• OfficePower had been a terminal based system, did the architecture and managed the development of OfficePower into a client/server environment. This was successfully accomplished by creating a DOS and MS Windows clients, utilizing MS C, adding an custom RPC mechanism to the UNIX application and integrated user selected programs.
• Contributed to the design and vendor selection of an Informix based document management system.
• Managed internationalization / localization into fourteen languages to market into second tier technology countries.
• Was involved in the early development of Winsock and was a founding member of the Winsock Committee.
• Became trained as an auditor and successfully managed the process of becoming ISO 9000 certified.
• Trained in Object Oriented Architecture and Design by Semaphore Training.
• Represented ICL at the EMA, Electronic Mail Association, and was the alternate representative to the OMG, contributed to the CORBA specification.

3/89 - 1/90 I.T.I. (Innovative Technology Inc.) - Director of Engineering McLean, VA.
I.T.I. was a "beltway bandit", (Federal Government Contractor) they did contract development projects for the government and had an online subscription service, ITACS. ITACS was a database of the Federal Government Supply Catalog. ITACS contained information on everything the Federal had every bought, from who and cost data. Came to ITI as a Sr. Software Engineer, after three months was promoted to Director of Engineering.
• Converted COBAL mainframe based ITACS database to C and Informix on XENIX.
• Developed CD-ROM based version of ITACS for DOS utilizing C-Tree database.
• Managed the JTFP project for the Army - utilizing Interactive UNIX, as Data Base Concentrator. This system would connect to seven different remote databases, format quires and provide a compound rationalized result.
• Managed TAMMIS project for the Army - an HP-UX hosted Computer Based Training (CBT) Authoring system.
• Managed TDN project for the Army - HP-UX distributed data base network utilizing NFS,Yellow Pages and SQL.

12/88 - 3/89 Sysorex Information Services - Sr. LAN Systems Engineer (Contract) Falls Church, VA.
Sysorex was a new "beltway bandit", positioned to do Federal Government Contracting for PC and networking products.
• Was trained in dissecting a federal RFP and developing a wining proposal.
• Was responsible for developing the technical approach and wrote the major sections of Sysorex's first winning proposal, the USDA NASS project, a $45 million contract for PCs and NetWare LANs.
• Did research and evaluation on PC based LAN Operating systems, including installation and test of Novell NetWare, 3Com 3+ Open (LAN Manager), FTP TCP/IP and Banyan Networking.
• Set-up a forty workstation, two fileserver network and ran extensive benchmarking. Did vendor selection, was the primary interface with many vendors and arranged numerous equipment loans for evaluation.

1/87 - 11/88 Design Service Corp. - Project Manager, Sr. R & D Engineer Washington, D.C. & Salt Lake City, UT
This was a service company that worked on many different projects, often being called in on an emergency basis. Including design of add-on cards for the IBM XT/AT/RT, the Apple Macintosh II.
• Did the FCC emissions design rework on 9 different PC add-on products and got their certification.
• Created a standard IBM AT/RT interface design and took the design through the process of becoming a custom ASIC.
• Designed a Macintosh II interface in PAL, programmed in PLASM.
• Wrote real time firmware for embedded communications systems in Intel 80186 and 8051 assembly language.
• Designed the hardware and wrote the firmware, in Intel 80186 assembler, for two serial communication board designs.

4/85 - 1/87 Mainstream Data Ltd. - Project Manager and Sr. Design Engineer Salt Lake City, UT
Mainstream was a start-up formed to create a new nation wide wireless point to multi-point, multicasting, wireless data communications network, utilizing satellite and a custom modulated error correcting FM Radio sideband, SCA.
• Was Project Manager, for the IDR, Intelligent Data Receiver. Managed the development team that included six employees, two contract design firms, a custom gate array manufacture, an injection mold maker and plastics manufacture, a contract manufacture and an FCC testing contractor.
• Contributed to the network design, utilizing ISO model layer protocol.
• Designed the architecture of the IDR, hardware. Designed the motherboard, a single board multiprocessor computer that included the Intel's 80188 and Motorola's 68HC11, a shared memory processor interface and many I/O devices.
• Designed test set-up and wrote test software in MS C for the manufacturing line.
• Successfully managed the project through to completion including first manufacturing run and FCC certification.

5/83 - 3/85 Gestalt Technocracy - Project Manager, Sr. R & D Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA
Gestalt was a start-up formed to do contract design and later moved into products with the Peace of Mind System, a security, control and speech system that was an add-on to the PC.
• Designed a Atari compatible disk drive, hardware and software, utilizing Zilog Z8 and ZENIX (Zilog UNIX System) Z8 assembly language cross-compiler.
• Designed the hardware, wrote applications program in C.
• Wrote parts of the business and marketing plan and helped acquired venture capital. Exhibited the system at COMDEX.

6/81 4/83 Atari - Sr. Research and Development Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
Atari was in its heyday as the premiere video games company and was trying to establish the home computer market.
• Came to Atari as a Sr. Diagnostic Engineer, to establish a Software / Hardware Diagnostic Development Lab. Designed field diagnostic, the SALT II diagnostic cartridge, to support the 400/800/1200 computer, in 6502 assembler.
• Was promoted to Sr. R & D Engineer and joined a new design group in Atari Corporate Research, lead by Dr. Ted Hoff and Dr. Alan Kay, to create a multiprocessor DOS/UNIX notebook computer, the Sierra Project. Was assigned to the hardware team, later to become Hardware Team Leader.
• Designed CPU and DRAM sections utilizing Intel 80286 and 8088. He worked with Paul Wells, Chief Architect of the 80286 to debug first release of silicone. Because of speed requirements he did the DRAM Controller in discrete 74AS parts, the design was later converted to ASIC and was used by Commodore in the Amiga.
• Managed the Amy, custom sound chipset, and Rainbow, custom graphics chipset, groups as a sub-section of the hardware team. The Amy chipset was later sold to Commodore and was used in Amiga.
• Was introduced to UNIX learned kernel programming and the C language.
• Was the system administrator for a Zilog Unix box, which he helped setup, maintain and use as an ARPAnet node, (predecessor to the Internet).

2/81 6/81 Commodore - Software Engineer (Contract) - Sunnyvale, CA
Commodore was a leading supplier of early microprocessor based computer systems.
• Contributed to the design of the sound system on the Commodore 64.
• Wrote a complete diagnostic package, in BASIC and 6502 assembler for factory final test and worldwide field service.

9/80 2/81 NASA Ames Research Center - Microcomputer Engineer (Contract) Mt. View, CA
NASA was involved in the joint Soviet / American project to put primates in space and study their biorhythms. The objective was to monitor the activity of monkeys in space, in the hopes of coming to a better understanding of the causes of space sickness in astronauts. The monkeys and equipment were the responsibility of our team and they were to ride in a Soviet Sputnik satellite.
• Did research in the monitoring hardware, resulting in a system of Piezoelectric plastic sensors acting as accelerometers to monitor movement.
• Wrote several programs, in Apple II BASIC and 6502 assembler, to retrieve the data from flight data loggers and translate it to graphs showing activity periods, sleep periods and space sickness.

3/80 9/80 Rockwell International - Digital Design Engineer (Contract)
D.O.E. Wind Test Site, Golden, CO
Rockwell was the prime contractor for a D.O.E. funded wind energy research project.
• Designed an early local area network, utilizing RS422 communications to achieve 6000+ feet data links. The network was set up to do data acquisition from 35 windmill sites. Utilizing Control Logic 8080 microcomputers doing remote 24 hour data collection and then communicating via a polling sequence system to the master concentrators, two Data General Nova minicomputers and then uploaded via fiber optics to an Eclipse mainframe computer for analysis.
• Wrote failure tracking and analysis database program in Microsoft BASIC.

9/78 6/80 Metropolitan State College - Completing Degree Program

BS Electronics Engineering Technology
Minor in Computer Science, G.P.A. 3.2

Metropolitan State had a credit for life experience program. Completed the required 18 months on campus and passed the reviews for credit to earn BS EET degree.

3/78 9/78 I.C.I - Sr. Electronics Engineering Technician (Contract) Englewood, CO

10/77 2/78 Sperry Univac - Sr. Digital and Data Comms Technician (Contract) Salt Lake City, UT

3/76 10/77 Manpower Technical - Sr. R & D Technician (Contract)
Seattle, WA

1/74 1/76 Raytheon Data Systems - Sr. Field Engineer
San Jose, CA and Honolulu HI

10/73 1/74 Acurex Icore - R & D Technician and Field Engineer -
Mt. View, CA

7/70 9/73 U.S. Navy - Gunners Mate Missiles (GMMSN)
USS Lockwood DE1064, San Diego, CA