Coordinated the development of a multi-platform, metalanguage DBMS for use in large corporate SGML-based electronic publishing solutions. Designed and developed the company's first restricted access database for Inter/Intra library Web-based applications.
Career Successes
Designed the software and company's cross platform, generic communications paradigm for seamless integration to all 32-bit UNIX and Windows NT projects.
Trained and instructed DOS and UNIX C Programmers in Visual C++ and Visual Basic, Windows, and three-tiered client/server architecture.
Participated in management and sales team planning for the future direction of the company in terms of cost/benefit, bandwidth/$$$ considerations regarding new product applications.
Major Clients
McDonnell Douglas Aircraft
Houghton Mifflin
Texas State Library System
Connecticut State Library System
20 additional state library systems
Product Highlights
Smart
SGML
Editorial
System
Application:
Software allows major aerospace corporations to use the document standard SGML language to communicate with government agencies and other vendors through a common interface.
Configuration:
System involvement included developing device driver and daemon objects for TCP/IP communications over various LAN/WAN based networks. Target platforms were directed at hosts running Windows NT server and UNIX with additional client-side programming in Visual C++ and Visual Basic for WIN 32 based machines.
Industry-first library card catalog on the Internet. Software includes full-article display capability, such as Jane's Defence Weekly, while offering customization tailored to meet the individual needs of each library and consortium.
Configuration:
Software contains a subsystem capable of remote administration of all multigigabyte databases from the Internet for library supervisory personnel. Development included server applications written in GNU C++, with PERL helper scripts for fast maintenance by the company's Product Support Group that create CGI applications to interface to all remote UNIX/NT servers.
