Software Developer · Usability Analyst

• Mac OS X
• iPhone / iPad OS
• Web

• Xcode
• Cocoa
• Objective-C
• C++
• Carbon

• HTML
• PHP
• Javascript
• jQuery
• CSS

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MS SQL Server
• SQLite

• Subversion (SVN)
• Photoshop
• Cornerstone
• LAMP/MAMP
• Pencil & Graph Paper

• User Interaction / Interface Design
• Systems Architecture Design
• Full-life-cycle App Management
• Presentation & Instruction

I built Bartas Technologies from the ground up. It started with a simple but much-needed application idea and burgeoned to a collection of well-known and award-winning applications and plugins. Following is a list of the products I’ve built under this moniker with links to each.

• CopyWrite – Project management for writers
• Transcriva – Manual transcription application
• Temporis – Historic timeline editor
• XTabulator – Tabular data file editor
• Ziplight – Spotlight plugin for zip files

In addition to the desktop products, I designed, built, and maintain the web site, designed all artwork in the products (application icons, button sets, etc.), and authored all the user documentation (“Help Book” in Mac parlance).

I was originally brought on board at NIAID to build a desktop (Mac OS X) bioinformatics data mining and visualization application for the Vaccine Research Center as a member of the BSIP (Bioinformatics & Scientific IT Program) team, a small but growing program within NIAID.

As the team grew into a branch (BSIP became BCBB – the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch), my responsibilities grew with it. In addition to the role of software developer, I became the usability analyst and user interface designer.

Following is a list of the projects in which I’ve been involved for BCBB with links to each (when available).

• Spice – Data mining & visualization application
• PaVE – Bioinformatics research tool for the Papillomaviridae family of viruses
• FERMS – Laboratory information management system (internal web application)

I have always enjoyed teaching others. While attending the school during the day in the 1990s, I was asked to design and lead two evening courses for the same southern Pennsylvania school. I taught several semesters before leaving the area – my home town – to advance my career. The introductory technical training courses were aimed at working adults with little to no computer experience. Most students were septuagenarians from the local rural community. The feedback at the end of each course was overwhelmingly positive and resulted in many requests for personal tutoring.

The courses were titled:

• Hands-On Internet
• Introduction to Personal Computers

I have focused my career on software development and usability analysis, therefore I am hoping to de-emphasize the part of my career I consider to be behind me. I list it only as an example of my experience and long-standing roots in the technology industry as it accounts for more than a decade of my career.

I’ve worked for companies in various industries: manufacturing, engineering, technical consulting, and finance. I’ve served as network administrator (“network whipping boy”), webmaster, systems integrator, solutions architect, network engineer, and IT manager.

I’ve built small business and enterprise network systems from the ground up as well as overhauled existing systems. I’ve centralized systems, brought expensive outsourced services in-house, integrated disparate solutions, replaced legacy systems, reduced operating costs (sometimes drastically), and eliminated long-standing technical problems. I’ve designed and maintained static and dynamic web sites, interactive touch-screen bank account kiosks with cash boxes, and document management systems. I’ve even re-created an entire employee break room in 3D (down to the pattern on the carpet) to serve as a fanciful ’90s interface for an employee intranet site.

I’ve built and maintained the public infrastructure of an Internet startup, improved and maintained the perimeter security of an ailing corporate network, and helped a seventy-two-year-old Board member learn that laptop batteries, like portable telephone batteries, must be recharged.