Welcome. I’m a software developer in my spare time (I’m on a retirement income, so I have plenty of it). My primary app is currently a seating chart app for educational purposes, designed at the request of a family member and now used by hundreds of users.
Creating Software as a Hobby and Business
SC Class Assistant (est. 2017-Present)
iPhone/iPad App (2017-present) is designed for educators to use in classrooms, featuring an interactive seating chart for homework, attendance, and now behavior tracking. It also features the automatic creation of random groups, and picks random students evenly(with student photos if available).
A high school science teacher in my family requested this app. It’s only on IOS now (android app discontinued), it’s a free download (in-app purchase required if you need it to work with more than 10 students per class or more than 2 classes).
FMail for Windows Store (est. 2012-2015)
From 2012 to 2014, this was a POP3 e-mail client for Windows (when its mail app lacked POP3 support). This one earned me a few thousand dollars on the side. I wrote this in C# with “Windows Metro.”
Contract: Contact Management for Windows (est. 2006-2008)
I worked with Anritsu (2006-2008) to develop a contact management App for Windows (with a PHP/MySQL Backend to store contacts remotely). This tracked field service technicians for all the major cell phone carriers, displayed in a hierarchy (tree) format (with drag-and-drop repositioning). It was written in C# on the front end and PHP on the server side.
Contract: Tribunal/Dispensation Management System (est. 1999-2001)
1998-2003 Contracted with NAV Co., LLC to codevelop case management software sold to Catholic Diocese Offices. I visited the NYC, Syracuse, and Atlanta Diocese offices to help get the software up and running. This software did things like track annulment cases using Canon Law rules and generated reports to be sent to the Vatican (“Rome Report”). This was written in Borland Delphi, which was also known as Object Pascal.
I earned the CompTIA A+ Certification back around 2001, but it seems to still be valid as of May 2024. The logo is pretty, so I’m adding it here. Many of my other certifications from back then have been retired (Certified Novell Engineer 5, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [NT4], and Linux Professional Institute Certified Level 1 [expired 2008]). For fun, I might take some new certification exams as time allows.
Employment History:
-May-June 2001: Geo-Centers (now called SAIC I think), I was contracted to help build a biochemical weapons detection system. This involved C/Linux socket programming (utilizing TCP/IP to communicate with the sensor) along with GTK+ interfaces, as well as Apache HTTPD configuration and other related tasks.
-1998-2001: New York State Unified Court System (including Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, 2nd Department and New York City Civil Court): LAN Administrator. I supported databases (Advanced DB Master), and ran cabling and did general tech support on Novell networks and Windows Peer-to-Peer networks.,
-1996-1998: Concurrent Computer Corporation (Formerly Harris Computer Systems Corporation, now I think they go by Concurrent Real Time which has the same logo when I google it). C/UNIX Systems Software Engineeer, I developed, debugged and tested UNIX Kernel and Library and Command Tools code for a custom Real-Time implementation (PowerMAX OS or PowerUX) of UNIX System V Release IV.
-1994-1996: Clemson University College of Engineering: Student Employee solely responsible for the PC Labs throughout the college (there were about 5 public access labs where students could use the PCs). I wrote software that at each start-up (and Netware Login Script) would replace all the windows configuration (.ini) files with fresh copies, inserting anything custom like the machine name, and it would also delete any user created files and restore any deleted files from the “image” i made of what each PC would have. This was on Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
-1991-1996: Summer Job @ Loews Theaters, Concession Stand employee primarily, earned 6% commission plus incentives for selling combos (suggestive selling and up-selling, where I was consistently on top of the sales list, earning over $800/week at times on an under $5/hour salary otherwise).
-1990: Video Game Discount Outlet. @ Nassau Mall – Nintendo and Sega game sales, mostly open-box video games, and, to my recollection, we also purchased used games there.
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