Project Management Professional (PMP), 2007
Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA

Master Certificate in Business Management, 2005
A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Managerial Perspectives, Managing People, Business Law for Managers, Managerial Economics, International Business, Advanced Finance, Financial Statements Analysis, Leadership, Marketing Management, Finance Management, Business Statistics, Financial Accounting

Master of Science, Computer Science, 1993, GPA: 4.0/4.0
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Specialized in networks and data communications, design and implementation of Internet applications

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1990, GPA: 3.5/4.0 cum laude
Denison University, Granville, OH
Major: Computer Science and minor: Mathematics in a liberal arts curriculum.

Diploma Electronics and Radio Engineering (D.E.R.E.), 1985
St. Xavier's Technical Institute, Mahim, Bombay, India
Specialized in computer hardware, process control electronics, radio communications.

Diploma Sound and Television Engineering (D.S.T.V.E.), 1984
St. Xavier's Technical Institute, Mahim, Bombay, India
Specialized in audio and television broadcast technologies.

Over the past eight years, I have been working as an independent consultant in the areas of eBusiness consulting,  information technology architecture and software engineering.  I have been providing quality services to small and medium size businesses as they adapt their processes to incorporate newer computing and data communications technologies.  My areas of expertise include systems analysis, design and implementation of technology infrastructure solutions for the enterprise.  I have been focusing on Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodologies that can be used for a wide variety of activities like business systems analysis, business process reengineering and software engineering.  I have specialized in Java for implementing OO systems.  I balance my time between, teaching and project work.  I have trained corporate staff in all areas of Java, CORBA, XML, RMI, EJB, J2EE and client-side Java beans.  In mentoring and project assignments, I have been involved with all aspects of the software development process: analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.

I streamline my solutions to satisfy the business needs of my customers and have successfully serviced a wide cross-section of the business spectrum, including: strategic marketing, manufacturing, retail sales, software development, electronic commerce, multimedia production, law offices, finance and accounting, internet service providers and many more.

Prior to my career as an independent consultant, I spent four years with Owens Corning in the information systems department in several roles.  I successfully designed and implemented a network management strategy based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) using the HP-OpenView framework.  I also coordinated a team of vendors to implement the corporate wide Internet access, external web hosting, intranet information servers and small vendor commerce B2B services.

As the IT Architecture sub-team leader for the strategic marketing reengineering group, I gained valuable experience understanding business processes and streamlining technology solutions to enable these processes.

I also have five years experience as a programmer/analyst for a mix of Fortune 500 companies, academia and small businesses.  Some of the programming involved laboratory and factory automation and manufacturing process control. My experience in the public sector consists of a six month software design and implementation project for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

I was a contributing author on a book: Enterprise Integration Patterns : Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Pearson Education/Addison-Wesley: ISBN 0-3212-0068-3) published in October 2003.

I co-authored a book: Cocoon 2 Programming: Web Publishing with XML and Java (Sybex: ISBN 0-7821-4131-5) published in October 2002.

I have recently completed working on a book with three other authors: XML Problem-Design-Solution (Wiley/Wrox: ISBN: 0471791199)

Networking and User Groups:
RTP Rational Users Group: Founder and President (2004-2006)
The focus of this group is to study software design methods with an emphasis on the Rational Unified Process and the Rational Product suite.

Websphere Users Group: Board member
The focus of this group is to study the tools and techniques for designing scalable distributed systems.

Triangle Java Users Group: President, Treasurer, Member
I served on the board of the Triangle Java Users Group as the President(2000) and the Treasurer(1999).  I successfully reorganized the group, completed critical business filings with the Federal and NC state agencies, raised funds through corporate sponsorships and membership drives and started programsto assist new users get experience in Java/J2EE.

Conferences and Presentations: Click to see a list of presentations.

Other Experiences:

I am a Major in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol, and am the Deputy Director for Public Affairs of the North Carolina Wing (MER-NC-001).  Prior to this position I served as the Public Affairs Officer (2001-2004) of the Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron (MER-NC-048).

In 1999, I served as a volunteer Venue Financial Manager for the 1999 Special Olympics World Games at the World Games Festival site in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I served on the board of directors and chair of the marketing committee (1996-1997) of the Owens Corning Federal Credit Union which was recently acquired by the Erie Shores Credit Union, Inc.

Honors:

I received the NC Wing Commanders commendation for Public Affairs in 2005.

I received the NC Wing Commanders commendation for Public Affairs in 2004.

I received the North Carolina Public Affairs Officer of the Year Award (2nd place) in 2003 presented by the NC Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.

I received the North Carolina Public Affairs Officer of the Year Award in 2002 presented by the NC Wing of the Civil Air Patrol and the Outstanding Public Affairs of the year from the National Headquarters of the Civil Air Patrol (Maxwell Air Force Base).

I was one of the recipients of the Squadron Commander's Commendation for Outstanding Duty Performance in 2002.

These are some of the honors I have received over several years in academia:

• Mortar Board (Pi Sigma Alpha) - The National Honor Society for scholarship, leadership and service (1990)
• Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society (1990)
• Pi Mu Epsilon - National Honorary Mathematics Society (1990)
• Sigma Pi Sigma - National Physics Honor Society (1989)
• Who's Who Among College Students in America (1989)
• Outstanding Young Men of America (1988)

I fulfilled a childhood ambition to learn to fly planes and am a pilot in the North Carolina Wing (MER-NC-001) of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol.  I enjoy working with media production technologies and exercising the creative side of my personality.  I have produced a few video documentaries on a wide variety of contemporary issues.  I am an amateur radio operator (KB8IBV) and volunteer as a trained storm spotter for the Skywarn program of the National Weather Service.  I am an active member of my church.  I also enjoy playing the bass guitar and outdoor recreation activities like basketball, swimming, camping, hiking, canoeing and fishing.  I have a keen interest in global political issues and may consider becoming active in the political process.