• Designed a system to track purchase orders. Created a normalized database, user input forms and reports in MS Access 2000.
• Migrated data from DB2 on an AS/400 system to the new MS Access system.

• Developed an online voting system with voter verification, using Perl and MySQL.
• Developed a project management system to track the projects of a group of volunteers through all the phases of the systems development life cycle, using Perl and MySQL.
• Created a scoreboard program to record and display votes at a national convention, using Perl and MySQL.
• Wrote other CGI programs in Perl and PHP to maintain a list of volunteers and registratrants for annual meetings with MySQL or flatfile backends.
• Produced reports over the various databases, using Perl.
• Customized Mailman listserv software, using Python.
• Contributed patches to the Mailman project on Sourceforge.
• Contributed Perl modules and scripts to a free software volunteer programmer repository.

• Involved in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle - analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Designed an intranet for all departments within the Information Technology division, using HTML and Perl.
• Wrote surveys in Perl with CGI and a flat file database.
• Created the Information Technology pages for the company wide intranet.
• Created and implemented a lending library program, using Delphi and Paradox.
• Created a custom Help Desk call tracking system in Excel, preliminary to the installation of an SQL system.
• Worked with IT management on the original implementation of the Help Desk system. Customized data and forms to user requirements.
• Converted the software development project tracking system from a Paradox database to an MS SQL Server database and integrated it into the Help Desk call tracking system.
• Analyzed the two systems from both technical and functional standpoints.
• Mapped the data from one system to the other.
• Wrote Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures to perform the conversion and as needed when business rules required changes to the database structure.
• Maintained and troubleshot the Help Desk software, using transact MS-SQL.
• Prepared materials and presentations to train users.
• Performed Y2K due diligence tests on large and complex mission critical systems.
• Created and maintained a relational database to track the Y2K testing project.
• Verified that all program and file objects were accounted for in the project, using a combination of AS/400 utilities and PC database and reporting tools.
• Developed dynamic runtime reports for all of the above database projects.

Adult Education Instructor
Montgomery County Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools and several Proprietary Schools

• Developed and presented courses to adults from diverse backgrounds possessing varying degrees of proficiency in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and Airline Computer Reservations Systems (SABRE, Apollo)

• Provided customer service to a wide range of clients.

• Washington Area Midrange User Group - Board of Directors
• DC Perl Mongers - Active Participant & Occasional Presenter