| Hometown | Suffolk, Virginia |
| Occupation | Computer and mathematical |
| Occupation Title | VP / Product Design Chief |
| Company/Organization | Concursive Corporation |
| What's interesting about me? | I like to be outdoors... hiking, biking, camping, tennis. |
| Favorite quote | Being a father sucks, except when it doesn't. (Battlestar Galactica) |
| Favorite song(s) | Symphonies by Dan Black |
| Favorite sports team(s) | University of Tennessee Football |
Background & History
I've been working with Concursive since 2001 and have been involved with many public-facing projects, including ConnectElements.com, ConcourseConnect and ConcourseSuite CRM.
Some of the social networking features I've worked on include: activity streams, blogs, wikis, ratings, tags, comments, connections, liking and sharing.
Some of the CRM features I've worked on include: lead management, opportunity tracking, account management, contact management, marketing campaigns, issue and case resolution, and service contracts.
Other interesting and related features I've specialized on include: agile and traditional project management, document management, and user management.
As for software development, I specialize in:
- Java: Servlets, Portlets, JSPs, MVC, JDBC, XML, JUnit, WSRP, Lucene, EHCache, Quartz Scheduler, Image manipulation, POI (Excel, Word, Powerpoint parsing), PDF, FreeMarker Templates, RSS, JasperReports
- JavaScript: AJAX, Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library
- HTML: CSS and HTML4/5
- SQL: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, MySQL
Some of the programming highlights I've achieved working at Concursive:
- Architect and developer for Concursive's CRM enterprise web application; hosted, on-premise, multi-tenant infrastructure and source distribution models
- Architect and developer for Concursive's enterprise and commercial social networking web application; hosted, on-premise, distributed, shared and source distribution models
- Architect and developer for Concursive's web portal and portlet infrastructure
- Architect and developer of Concursive's asynchronous and synchronous workflow engine
- Architect and developer of Concursive's MVC framework
- Architect and developer of Concursive's Wiki
- Architect and developer of Concursive's Search featuring fast searching and near real-time indexing
- Administrator and manager of Concursive's source code repository and build servers