Suite 4304, 44 Charles Street West,
Toronto, Ontario. M4Y 1R8
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Employment Area
• Business and data systems
architecture and analysis.
Personal Objectives
• To provide innovative and beneficial
strategies/solutions in response to business challenges and
opportunities.
• To facilitate introduction of and
migration to new approaches and technologies to support
business objectives.
• To share knowledge and experience
through training and mentoring.
• To be continuously learning, in an
environment with high standards and ethics.
Major Skills
• Business analysis / Business systems
analysis.
• Business systems integration,
architecture, and analysis.
• Project management.
• Architecture developement - data and
applications.
• Data analysis and design.
• Rapid Application Design (4GL/RAD).
• Bilingual English/French.
Familiar With
• Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Work Experience
Systems Architect / Data Analyst, 2001 - Present
Videlicet.com, Toronto
• Specified complete metadata-driven
architecture, designed, and implemented survey creation product
for rapid development of complex, secure, web-based surveys for
multi-platform, multi-server deployment.
• Created web site for sales and
promotion of the survey product and services, including fully
functional demonstration surveys in several formats.
• Maintain corporate web site.
• Market product and services on the
Internet.
• Software: WebSTAR 4 and 5, Lasso,
LDML 3 and 6, html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, CDML, NetCloak,
PhotoShop, FrameMaker, Quark XPress, SPSS
• Hardware: Macintosh
(OS 9 and X) and Windows/PC.
• Specified, designed, and implemented metabase-driven complex web-based version of psychosocial survey instrument, including web-based e-mail management, export to SPSS, and online questionnaire import and creation.
• Specified and installed web server to deploy web-based questionnaire.
• Ensured appropriate data security in place, including firewall protection, password security scheme.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso 7, MySQL, html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, PhotoShop, SPSS, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh and Windows PC.
Consultant, October 2002 - Present
Spectacle Entertainment Productions, Inc, Toronto, Ontario
• Specified, designed, implemented, and maintained e-commerce site for photographic print, book, and DVD sales.
• Ensured appropriate data security in place, including firewall protection.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso 7, MySQL, html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, PhotoShop, SPSS, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh.
Graphic Designer, Dec 2002 - Oct
2003
Not-for-profit organisation, Toronto
• Graphic design for all ephemera of
the organisation’s 2003 marketing campaign.
• Software: PhotoShop, Illustrator,
Quark XPress
• Hardware: Macintosh.
Consultant, Dec 2002 - May 2003
Private
Client, Ottawa
• Designed and implemented complex IP-
and browser-based client intake questionnaire (75 pages,
>1,100 questions) for co-director of psychiatric hospital.
• Metadata-driven system architecture
designed for stand-alone computers, but also for rapid upgrade
to multi-platform, multi-user, client-server web-based system.
• Software: WebSTAR, html, JavaScript,
FileMaker Pro, CDML, PhotoShop, SPSS, MS Office, Corel
WordPerfect
• Hardware: Macintosh and Windows/PC.
• Specified, designed, and implemented
metabase-driven complex web-based version of psychosocial
survey instrument.
• Specified and installed web server
to deploy web-based survey.
• Ensured appropriate data security in
place, including firewall protection, password security scheme.
• Software: MS IIS, Lasso, html, LDML
3, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, PhotoShop, SPSS, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh and Windows/PC.
• Complete responsibility for all
technology within the corporation (gross sales approximately
$12M p.a.)
• Specified and purchased IT equipment
and architecture for corporation.
• Designed, implemented, and
maintained network and sales database system for two parts of
corporation.
• Designed, implemented, and
maintained interface between sales database and three
off-the-shelf accounting packages.
• Designed, implemented, and
maintained cutom-built web store, which sells approximately $6M
p.a.. Store is fully integrated in real-time to sales system
database to provide sales force with instant feedback.
• Designed and implemented e-mail
marketing system linked to corporate sales database.
• Implemented and maintained corporate
e-mail server.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso, LDML 3,
html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, CDML, NetCloak, MacDNS,
QuickDNS, EMailer, Eudora, PhotoShop, Quark XPress, FileFax
Pro, AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC,
Bell Modular PBX, miscellaneous routers and hubs.
• Researched, edited, and published
the largest directory of its kind in printed, CD-ROM, and web formats.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso, LDML 3,
html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, FileMaker SDK, NetCloak,
MacDNS, Eudora, PhotoShop, Quark XPress, FileFax Pro,
AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC,
miscellaneous routers and hubs.
• Translated specifications for the
restoration of the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, from English
to French.
• Software: Miscellaneous IBM AIX
utilities, including word processing
• Hardware: IBM AIX.
Consultant, 1995/1997
Seventh Row Centre
• Web-enabled casting database system
using WebSTAR, Lasso, and FileMaker.
• Created database casting system for
use by casting directors.
• Analysed, designed, and created web
site for the Canadian theatre, film, and television industry.
Initial stage is for use by casting directors and talent
agents. Site permits international access to talent details and
actor suggestions, auditions, and bookings. Realised using
complex relational database access on the web.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso, LDML 3,
html, FileMaker Pro, NetCloak, MacDNS, Eudora, PhotoShop,
FileFax Pro, AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh.
• Researched, edited, and published
the largest directory of its kind in printed, CD-ROM, and web formats.
• Directed development of database
system for sales, marketing, and publication of directory.
• Performed sales of advertisements
for directory, sufficient to create a viable company in its
first year.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso, LDML 3,
html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, FileMaker SDK, NetCloak,
MacDNS, Eudora, PhotoShop, Quark XPress, FileFax Pro,
AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC,
miscellaneous routers and hubs.
Director, Marketing, 1993 - 1994
Orapro,
Toronto
• Directed marketing for new corporate
product. Resulted in, among others, successful sale to
Environment Canada for the entire Canadian Climatological
Database.
• Software: Vax/VMS, Vax Unix, SQL,
MOTIF, Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Sharebase, Teradata, DB2,
MS/SQL, RMS, Rdb/VMS, SmartStar, Sapiens Ideo, SmartReport,
ReportPainter, SmartMove, SmartBuilder, ISQL, FileMaker Pro,
Eudora, PhotoShop, FileFax Pro, AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC, Digital VMS and Unix, HP Unix,
IBM Unix, Teradata, miscellaneous routers and hubs.
• Wrote, edited, typeset, published,
and marketed national best-selling safety manual.
• Wrote, edited, typeset, published,
and marketed largest directory of resources of its kind.
• Edited the de facto standard
safety flyer. This pamphlet is used around
the world as a model for how to write this kind of pamphlet.
• Created web site with secure server
and database search engine of directory.
• Published the event
programme for largest Canadian community celebration.
• Created CD-ROM application for
cross-platform use of directory.
• Designed membership and archive
acquisitioning database for international archive and museum in
Chicago.
• Present safety lectures and
workshops to psychiatric faculty, medical professionals, and to
student and community organizations in Canada and abroad.
• Many live radio and television
interviews, and many printed publication interviews.
• Software: WebSTAR, Lasso, LDML 3,
html, JavaScript, FileMaker Pro, FileMaker SDK, NetCloak,
MacDNS, Eudora, PhotoShop, Quark XPress, FileFax Pro,
AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC,
miscellaneous routers and hubs.
Director, Consulting, 1992 -
1993
SmartSystems Corporation, Toronto (now part of Sapiens)
• Directed consultants and support
staff.
• Developed Rapid Application
Development (4GL/RAD) course for corporate databases.
• Developed sales and marketing tools
for consultant support.
• Software: Vax/VMS, Vax Unix, SQL,
MOTIF, Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Sharebase, Teradata, DB2,
MS/SQL, RMS, Rdb/VMS, SmartStar, Sapiens Ideo, SmartReport,
ReportPainter, SmartMove, SmartBuilder, ISQL, FileMaker Pro,
Eudora, PhotoShop, FileFax Pro, AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC, Digital VMS and Unix, HP Unix,
IBM Unix, Teradata, miscellaneous routers and hubs.
National Support Manager, 1990 -
1992
SmartSystems Corporation, Toronto (now part of Sapiens)
• Managed support and marketing
efforts of Canadian office of U.S. company.
• Trained staff and customers in use
of company products.
• Helped field test radically new
version of database software.
• Provided technical support for the
SmartStar VAX/VMS product to customers in Canada and U.S..
• Software: Vax/VMS, Vax Unix, SQL,
MOTIF, Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Sharebase, Teradata, DB2,
MS/SQL, RMS, Rdb/VMS, SmartStar, Sapiens Ideo, SmartReport,
ReportPainter, SmartMove, SmartBuilder, ISQL, FileMaker Pro,
Eudora, PhotoShop, FileFax Pro, AppleScript, MS Office
• Hardware: Macintosh, Windows/PC, Digital VMS and Unix, HP Unix,
IBM Unix, Teradata, miscellaneous routers and hubs.
• For the largest contract on the
Canada/U.S. defence sharing agreement, planned and developed
relational database to create military standard Interface
Design Specification. Coördinated data input to the final
document.
• Uncovered deficiencies in a series
of specifications. Coördinated and negotiated corrections.
• Performed requirements and
functional allocation for an infra-red sensor system.
• Developed state-of-the-art
distributed Built-In-Test philosophy.
• Implemented system simulation and
graphics tools in a VAX/VMS environment.
• Software: Vax/VMS, FORTRAN,
miscellaneous text editors, databases, and assembler.
Miscellaneous military software packages, including CMS2-M.
Systems Engineer, 1981
Computing Devices Company (now part of General Dynamics), Hastings, U.K.
• Wrote Acceptance Test Specification
and Procedure for Tornado ADV Missile Management System.
• Specified and performed hardware
modifications to avionics system test rig for final system
acceptance.
• Designed and supervised destructive
testing of electronic devices.
• Software: Custom-built
assembler-level code for use with custom-built missile avionics
test rig.
Field Seismologist, 1979 -
1981
Seismograph Service (England) Limited (now part of CGG)
• Managed 20-25 employees on a
day-to-day basis.
• Used high speed multiplexers and
tape recorders in the field. Used knowledge of matched filters
and correlation in hardware and software. Performed repair of
field equipment on an as-required basis.
• Used industry- and company-specific
custom hardware and software.
Abstracts
Many abstracts, papers, and poster presentations at scientific conferences in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
Publications & Articles
A best-selling book, several other books, and numerous articles and reprints in publications in North America and Europe.
Radio and Television
Frequent invited guest on television and radio in North America and Europe.
Newspaper and Magazine Interviews
Interviews in many North American and European newspapers and magazines.
INVITED Presentations to Student and
community Groups
• Student groups at University of
Toronto, York University, and Ryerson Polytechnical University.
• Community groups in Toronto,
Hamilton, London (England), Chicago, New York, and others.
Awards
Several local and national community awards
Software (Alphabetically, with versions
where appropriate)
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AccPac
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Acrobat 4 & 5
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Acrobat Distiller 4
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Adobe Type Manager
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AETracker 3
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AppleScript
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Assembler
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Bar Code Pro
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BASIC
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BBEdit 6.5
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ccAuthorise 2.1
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CMS2-M
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Communicator 1-4.7
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DateBook Pro 4.0
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DB2
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Disk 10
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Disk Warrior
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Drive Setup
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EIMS 3
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EMailer 2.0
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epsConverter
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EPStoPICT
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Erwin
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Eudora Pro 5.1
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Excel 4.0
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Explorer 2-5.5
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FaxSTF 3-6
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Fetch (FTP) 3-4
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FileFax Pro
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FileMaker 1.0-5.5
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FileMaker Server
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FileMaker Unlimited
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FileMaker Web Server Connector
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FileMakerSDK 3.0
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Font Creator
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FontHarmony
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Fontographer
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FORTRAN
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FrameMaker 6
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FreeHand 7
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Funnel Web 4.5
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GifBuilder
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GIFConverter
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Graphic Converter
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HardDisk Toolkit 1-2.5
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Hypercard 2.3
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ICMPLogger
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Iconizer
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Illustrator 10
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Ingres
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IPNetSentry
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ISQL
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JPEGView
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Keep It Up
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Lasso 3.x & 6
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M.Y.O.B.
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Mac Telnet
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MacAfee
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MacDNS 1.0.4
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Macjodomo
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MacProject
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MacsBug
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Mail
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Mailbox to FMP
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MS Office 98
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MS Word 5 to 98
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MS/SQL
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NetCloak 3.2
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Netscape 7
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NetSplat
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Norton Antivirus 2-5
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Norton SystemWorks
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Norton Utilities 2-5
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Okey-Dokey-Pro 2
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Opera 5
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Oracle
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Organizer 2
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Outlook Express
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PageMaker 6.5
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PageSentry 2.5
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Photoshop 7
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Pounder II
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ProCite 4
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QuarkXPress 5.01
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QuickDNS 3.5
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Quicken
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QuickTime
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QX Tools
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ramBunctious
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ReportPainter
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ResEdit
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ROFM 4
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Safari 1.0
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Sapiens Ideo
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SCSI Probe 2-5
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ShareBase
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SmartReport
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SmartStar
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SoftWindows 3
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Sound Utilities
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SPSS 9-11 Mac
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SPSS 9-11 Windows
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SQL
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Statview 5
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Streamline 3
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Stuffit
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Suitcase 8-10
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Summary Pro
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Sybase
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TechTool Pro 2-3
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Telnet
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Teradata
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Timbuktu Pro 3-6
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Toast 5
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Transparency
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TTConverter
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Type Reunion
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Vax/VMS Software
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Virex 2-5
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Virtual PC
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WebStar 4.5 & 5.3
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WebStar SSL 4.5 & 5.3
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WhatRoute 1.7
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WordPerfect 3.5
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Works 5
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ZipIt 1-2
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HARDWARE
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Mac OS 9 and X
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Windows
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Unix
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MOTIF
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Power Macintosh
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Sun
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HP Unix
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IBM Unix
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DEC VAX/VMS
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DEC PDP 11
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IBM PC
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Apple I and II
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Nascom II
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Teradata
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University Education
Professional Development
• Currently pursuing research doctorate (Maimonides University, Florida). Performed anonymous survey of visitors to web site to determine the breakdown of interests of people visiting site. Study forms basis of research conducted at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, my doctoral research, and other research.
• Object-Oriented Requirements
Analysis (Peter Coad for Technology Training Corporation), now
known as ‘Together’ by Borland.
• Software Requirements and Specifications (Integrated Computer Systems).
• CMS2-M (Sperry-Univac, now Unisys).
Professional Affiliations
Volunteer Activities
• Co-founder, developed,
coördinate, and present the best attended, longest running
series of safety seminars held under the auspices of local not-for-profit organisation.
• Coördinated and captained
twenty-member running teams for the Royal Ontario Museum
(won the ROM Challenge Trophy two years in succession).
Recreational Activities
• Windsurfing, snow skiing, roller
blading, photography, swimming.
Other
• Bilingual English and French.
• Fair knowledge of German.
References and further data available upon
request.
