Some Notable Projects

Worked on the development and deployment of a complete system to securely sell, administer, and support the sales of  digital Sheet Music for SheetMusicNow.com.  This very comprehensive system allowed copyright holders to sell their Sheet Music safe in the knowledge that their intellectual property would not be easily Napsterized.

We developed a complete application that allowed SheetMusicNow to scan high volumes of music sheets from archive books.  This system provided automated cleaning of random dots from the images, normalized them to a common size and format, allowed compilation of separate page images into multipage documents (for complete scores or parts, for example), and publication onto the eCommerce system.  Also created a system to process large volumes of PDF files into TIFF image files.

Developed a complete system that allows non-technical users the ability to easily update content within existing web pages using email or FTP or commercial applications.  The system automates the retiring of stale information on a website, and automatically tracks when updates are made to time-sensitive info pages and sends out alarms if updates are not made.

This system is currently used in our Menu-Minder service.  An example of this can be seen in use at the Springfield Restaurant Group.  Check out the Daily Specials at one or more of the restaurants.

We were deeply involved with the fledgling personal wide-area wireless industry, with prototyping, application & consulting support of the Motorola Envoy product (based on General Magic's technologies), wireless gateway systems, and content development & deployment. We worked intensely with the countries first nationwide wireless service, RadioMail, which was a combination of wireless email / instant messaging deployed on small portable devices (such as the venerable HP200 palmtop.)

Development of a completely integrated telephony system that provided telephone access to your email allowing you to not only listen to your email using text-to-speech technology but to reply to emails by attaching your voice message to the reply email. This worked pretty well, much to everyone's surprise, by the way, since using phones for this kind of thing is a bit, well, clumsy. This led to the development of a global email-based voicemail system, which was pretty interesting as well. We did a lot of development with text-to-speech and email applications, and telephone gizmos in general. We also developed a comprehensive provisioning and support system for Notify Corporation's Auto Attendant system.

Part of the systems development team for the one of the countries first fully automated dock-to-dock manufacturing facility.  This facility was developed in Dallas, Texas (well, Carrollton, actually) in 1984-85 for Apple Computer, Inc. to manufacture Apple ][c computers.

Customer applications consulting and customer support for Motorola's Computer X group.  Real-time Unix system cXos used in many diverse manufacturing and high-speed testing scenarios.