I work with a wide range of clients in custom networking, database and web strategies providing end-user support (hardware and software) in Windows & Mac based systems.

Diverse clientele includes the following areas: recording studios and artists, retail point of sale, real estate, churches and non-profit organizations, accounting, recruiting, boat sales, physicians, colleges, art galleries and arts organizations. I have over 19 years of experience working with arts organizations, musicians and artists including the Okaloosa-Walton Community College Arts Center music theory lab and theater department.

Past projects include: providing the most cost-effective solution fiber-optic network solution for a client, which saved the client over $15,000 in unnecessary phone system and WAN upgrades. Design and programming of front end user interfaces for databases accessed through Borland Database Engine and ODBC data sources; primarily Access & SQL 7 using ADO in Borland Delphi 5.0 visual application development environment for, inventory control, EDI, paper manufacturing environments and bar coding applications.

I've worked in the area of web design and development since 1996 which includes managing web content and electronic sales & delivery of original music, recordings, sheet music, visual art and graphics, original music instructional books and software products.

Other past projects have included a state contract to conduct training for all newly hired district staff of Florida State House of Representatives in a newly installed computer hardware and software configuration. Responsibilities included writing the state contract proposal, all phases of project management, the organization and teaching of all classes, the creation of supplemental course materials and evaluations to assess the success of the program. The courses were four-day classes customized around the job tasks of HOR staff including: Windows NT/WFW environment, Word Perfect 6.1, Delrina Form Flow, Lotus Organizer, Lotus CC:Mail, and HOR mainframe programs for bill-tracking and constituent tracking.

Contract positions have also included work for NORTEL while working with Global Knowledge Network through Gromelski & Associates
in the areas of Curriculum Development and Project Analysis as a Senior Instructor in support of a pilot training program in a desktop migration that involved 40,000 users from the Macintosh to the Windows 95/ Office 95 environment. This six-week project involved developing needs assessments and evaluations for pilot program participants and custom designing and developing curricula (quick-reference guides, jobs aids) geared specifically to the transition between platforms. Conducted evaluations of Computer Based Training Products and the design of their distribution to the pilot program participants. The analyses and evaluations resulted in a Windows 95 presentation of a customized familiarization training strategy model to pilot program participants that included the Senior Executives and Managers of the Nortel Richardson, TX facility.

Additional responsibilities for CARMA Productions also include all sales, marketing, accounting and financial management for CARMA Productions.

Additional past work experience includes:

US Coast Guard Electronics Technician, (Crypto specialty) 8/81 - 8/87

4 years active duty and 2 years reserve time as US Coast Guard ElectronicsTechnician with NSA top-secret security clearance, specializing in cryptographic communications equipment repair at the component level.

Interlight International
Tallahassee, FL 10/91 - 2/94

System Administrator 10/93 - 2/94
Real-Time File Engineer II 10/92 - 10/93
Real-Time File Engineer I 10/91 - 10/92

System Administration of a Sun Sparc Server 490 and approximately 20 Macintosh and PC terminals. Hardware and software troubleshooting of entire system including drive replacement and thin Ethernet (10base2) network management, system backups, asset and disk space management and tape archival. Multimedia software development in a C/UNIX environment for the Philips CD-I player. Integration of audio, video, and text with custom-designed software tools; programming in C and other languages (including Awk and Shell scripts); Training of co-workers, including a Korean development team from Samsung. Created new documentation, dataflow diagrams and training manuals using structured systems analysis techniques. Use of the Media Mogul CD-I authoring system.

Illuminactive, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL 6/94 - 4/95

Project Management and implementation of the installations of multimedia and CD-I application development and full motion video (MPEG) digitizing encoding and decoding hardware and software, as well as system installation and administration of a DEC-Alpha based server running Windows NT Advanced Server 3.5, a 10baseT Ethernet network, utilizing a TCP/IP protocol and associated Internet applications (Netscape, Eudora, etc.) Multimedia CD-ROM authoring of various projects utilizing authoring systems such as Multimedia Toolbook (Windows), and Media Mogul for CD-I.

Software Solutions Now
Tallahassee, FL
2/94 - 7/96

Training students in Introductory through Advanced levels of applications software for Government, Business, and Individual groups. Courses taught included the following applications: Access, Paradox, Internet access and use, HTML, MS Word, Word Perfect, Windows, Excel and additional courses as needed. Specialized in Advanced Database applications training.

Tallahassee, FL
'89 - '91

Programming in various languages for these organizations: Florida Department of Banking and Finance and Economic Research Services.

Education

A.A. Computer Science/Mathematics Gulf Coast Community College - August 1989
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Theta Kappa
Who's Who Among American Junior College Students

Continuing coursework in Computing Science, Mathematics and
Information Technology at:

Florida State University and the University of West Florida
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administration
Microsoft Networking Essentials Certification

Developing Spanish language fluency.

References available on request.