Dedicated Servers

TheNewPush, LLC. Denver, Colorado 1999 - present
MAd Scientist / Managing Partner / Technical Architect

Network Architecture

• Mission Critical Enterprise Application Design: participated in the design of a fail-over architecture for ISP firewall, domain name services (DNS) and email server.
• Dedicated Server Hosting Architecture Design: redesigned ASP network architecture for corporate client providing dedicated server and private communications between remote offices using Virtual Private Networks.

Enterprise Application Integration

• Software design: participated in the design of an interactive client center including provisioning, billing, webmail, email administration, and server health monitoring.
• Software development: wrote most of the code of the provisioning framework tied to the billing system, wrote patches to the open source mail server code (Qmail/Vmailmgr) of which one has been merged to the main branch. Also contributed to an online marketing engine that rivals Alexa.
• Research: As a member of the research team, participated in the development of new product branches and evaluated new technologies.
• Documentation: wrote manuals such as an installation guides and operating manuals. Wrote "how to" documentation for specific modules such as email, secure email and DNS install and configuration. Also authored a number of FAQ entries, system maintenance and management; wrote collaboration tool setup, configuration and maintenance guide; wrote moderated mailing list setup and management guide; wrote file server operations guide; and prepared network policy.

IT Management

• Operations Management: managed and coordinated day-to-day operations for TheNewPush's Network Services that included one corporate office and two satellite offices.
• Support Services: helped create an organization that handles customer support and internal support.

Orchid Systems, Inc. Denver, Colorado 2000 - 2002
Project Manager/Technical Architect

Network Architecture

• Mission Critical Enterprise Application Design: participated in the design of a fail-over architecture around Orchid's TeleShaper Gateway product allowing the transaction processing gateway to health monitor itself and switch operations onto a stand-by server, in case the active gateway's operations degraded. Orchid's product line was thus expanded to provide mission critical transaction processing capabilities.
• Corporate Network Design: redesigned Orchid's corporate network architecture so that it would accommodate growth and allow e_cient communications between remote offices using Virtual Private Networks.
• Datacenter, ASP Design: developed requirements and designed Orchid's datacenter for an Application Service Provider framework allowing hosting of the company's Tele-Shaper Gateway in a secure and redundant datacenter environment.

Enterprise Application Integration

• Software design: participated in the design of Orchid's next generation legacy integration framework. Specific modules developed include transaction processing monitoring, server health monitoring, fail-over architecture, Java application server framework, database connectivity, and the Java swing user interface.
• Software development: prototyped server health monitoring and contributed code to fail-over framework and the Java swing user interface.
• Research: As a member of the research team, participated in the development of new product branches and evaluated new technologies. This role also included contributing to articles and white papers for selected industries about Orchid and EAI related topics.
• Documentation: wrote manuals such as an installation guide and shipping certification. Wrote "how to" documentation for specific modules such as email, secure email and DNS install and configuration.
• Production: prepared and shipped the first TeleShaper Gateway and developed the methodology that is currently used to prepare and ship the TeleShaper Gateways.

IT Management

• Operations Management: managed and coordinated day-to-day operations for Orchid's Network Services that included two corporate offices and three home offices.
• Support Services: helped create an organization that handles customer support and internal support.
• Documentation: wrote manuals and "how to" guides such as email system maintenance and management; wrote collaboration tool setup, configuration and maintenance guide; wrote moderated mailing list setup and management guide; wrote file server operations guide; and prepared network policy.

American Management Systems Golden, Colorado 1999 - 2000
Technical Lead/Business Analyst

Enterprise Application Integration

• Specialized training in connector design
• Worked on strategy to test and maintain Vitria's KENAN connector
• Technical lead on a significant project at QuantumShift, participated in the design and execution of a routing layer for streamlined provisioning based on Vitria. The project's main objective was to connect QuantumShift's billing and provisioning system into heterogenous extra- and intra-company systems using B2B Gateway technologies, with a lot of data conversion and mediation

Telco billing and mediation (Automation of Local Zone Configuration in Telephony)

• Invented an original process to automatically define and reproduce the local calling areas for any market.
• Designed the prototype as part of a B2B application, using OO and XML technologies.

Customer Care, Billing, Telephony

• Led a team of four people to define telephony usage in Arbor/BP and developed a series of software tools that are widely used at AMS.
• These tools, mostly written in Perl and C, allowed this testing team to consistently deliver ahead of schedule and streamline regression testing.

Ebusiness

• Designed and supervised the development of several reporting tools using Java Servlets, Perl CGI scripts and GUI design.
• Testing: AO1, BD1 universal GUI-driven call data usage generator to create CDRs in KENAN's various formats: the generator developed was used at ATG and Firstworld.
• Milefinder: GUI-driven application that, given a pair of phone numbers, identifies distance, lata, state and rate center.
• Mediation: supervised maintenance and enhancement of a usage preprocessing tool that converts and preprocesses EMI and Qwest proprietary long distance CDRs into Arbor/BP compatible CDRs.
• Statistical Scripts: developed or contributed to dozens of statistical scripts that report on consumer behavior or analyze bill processing data, all scripts are web enabled. Trained six people to be able to develop equivalent scripts.

SOFRES Consulting Paris (France) 1997
Business Analyst

Counsel in Strategy: junior consultant on a team that reported the impact of environmental regulations on the chemical industry to the European Commission. Main contribution was the development of data gathering and analysis tools that dramatically reduced the time the team needed to prepare the deliverables.

Procter & Gamble Amiens (France) 1996
Technical Analyst

Supply Management: re-engineered the ordering process of raw materials at the liquid plant; designed, developed and implemented an inventory assessment software in Visual Basic leading to the optimization of safety stocks with an overall stock reduction of 50% to 80%.

CPSE, Junior Enterprise of the ENSCP Paris (France) 1993 - 1996
Project Manager/Business Analyst

Chairman: management and marketing activities led to a 60% growth in revenues and 110% increase in profits. Major projects included Strategy Observation for Rhˆone Poulenc and Interactive Advertising Software for Elf Atochem Thiochimie.

CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) Geneva 1990
Research Scholar

Electronic Documentation: created the first electronic documentation for the LEAR particle accelerator in TEX format, automatically convertible to HTML. At that time, HTML was at version 0.9.

Patent 6,721,761 Denver, Colorado 2000

A System for Assigning Digital Identifiers to Telephone Numbers and IP Numbers. This patent solves multiple telco challenges with one algorithm: local (geographical) usage rating, local number portability, and QoS rating. Another advantage is that it allows both NPA-NXX and IP based telephony rating. It is available as a plugin module that can enable any mainstream billing system to solve these problems. It has been tested for KENAN's Arbor/BP. The patent can be viewed by going to the following U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site "http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm" and entering the patent number or just click on the Patent number above.

Publication Denver, Colorado 2002

Leading Edge Information Technologies for Energy Industries, co-author of paper presented by Dr. Carol Dahl at the annual AIEE conference in Aberdeen.

• Colorado School of Mines - Golden, CO
  Master of Science in Economics - December 1998
• Currently Pursuing a PHD - course work completed in 2003,
  expected completion date May 2006
• French Institute of Petroleum (ENSPM) - Paris (France)
  Master of Science in Petroleum Economics & Corporate Management - July 1998
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) - Paris (France)
  Master of Science in Process Engineering - July 1997