OCT 97 - PRESENT: Software Architect, Server and Components Team,
                  Technical Division, Information Access Company.

Netscape Publishing Expert: Wrote a scope and evaluation
document describing how the Netscape Publishing Expert system
could be deployed within IAC and interface with either our
existing content directly or through our HTTP/XML accessible
search and retrieval engine.

New Search Engine Platform Project: Created a porting plan
for moving the content indexing and search/delivery software
from VMS to Windows NT, covering issues such as analysis
of platform comparison (Unix) and design for testability
and staging.

Lifecenter product: Wrote the scope document
and architecture/design for the web-based authentication and 
authorization mechanism for the www.lifecenter.com product,
paying careful attention to leveraging existing components
in new ways in the design. Helped both junior and senior software
engineers get through the bootstrap and debugging phases.

Lifecenter product: Was responsible for the design of the 
"legacy content" interface at the back end of the Lotus-Notes based
new product. Helped bring software engineers new to the project
up to speed in the use of the Java classes involved in HTTP operations
and XML parsing.

Lifecenter product: Wrote the scope document and developed
the architecture for accounting services based on HTTP fetched
XML documents. Designed with attention to ease of interface 
with legacy accounting architecture and flexibility of 
implementation by both Domino(Notes) web servers and Microsoft
Internet Information Server.

Lifecenter product: Presented authentication/authorization/accounting
architecture to cooperating business partners (who provide web
content) and designed and implemented deliverables suitable
for use in an Active-Server-Pages MS-IIS high-volume web site.

Remote Content Delivery: Wrote a whitepaper/technical-review
document on a wide range of possibilities for remote content
delivery, and recommending to management and getting software
engineers to buy into the concept of using an existing 
Reverse-Proxy server product as the base component, rather than
implementing something from scratch. Evaluated Netscape,
Apache, and Microsoft servers, including extensions 
required to each of them. Analyzed performance and caching issues 
and recommended software QA methodologies, coordinating between
development and QA engineers during the deployment process.

Computer Select Web product: www.computer-select.com
Extended my "chunks/object of html" package with enhancements
that enabled a more rapid development cycle.

Insite/Insite-pro product line: www.iac-insite.com www.insitepro.com
Developed a prototype that allows these dynamic content web
sites to interface with microsoft internet explorer
content pull mechanisms including favorites/bookmarks,
subscribed content and channels.

SEP 96 - SEP 97: Software Architect, Information Access Company
                 Business Division.

www.insitesales.com : Evaluated various platforms for
hosting the Perl implementation of the Insite Sales product,
including Fast CGI and Apache Perl Module. Wrote the scope
document for the plan to internally support the Apache web server,
and built the initial revisions and support for putting them
into production.

Designed a web-based product fulfillment and account management
system that delegates authority for account creation to administrators
at customer sites, enabling them to issue (via email or web techniques)
coupons to enable the people they serve to self-enroll in order to
gain access to IAC products. Also allows customer sites to
create customized enrollment web pages that reside on the intranet
site.

Designed an "advanced logon" mechanism to delegate the ability to
issue "login tickets" to the administrators of customer intranet
sites and resale channels of IAC products.
See http://www.iac-insite.com/wbs/insitelrti.html

Designed the usage reporting architecture.

Designed the interface to the concurrent license enforcement
mechanism.

Introduced the practice of application building via HTML templates.
Using http://people.delphiforums.com/gjc/chtml.html

Guided developers through the minefields of bringing mulithreaded
transactional applications from prototype to product. 
Developed the testing infrastructure strong enough to stress the systems to
reproduce problems at the one-in-ten-thousand-cases level, and other
tools to support the regular software QA group.

Wrote an SGML DTD, and redesigned elements of the Hyper InfoTrac Services
to fit into an "architecture for standards-based publishing systems"
which is developing on the internet.

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