HometownSuffolk, Virginia
OccupationComputer and mathematical
Occupation TitleVP / Product Design Chief
Company/OrganizationConcursive Corporation
What's interesting about me?I like to be outdoors... hiking, biking, camping, tennis.
Favorite quoteBeing 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