Over 10 years of business management and leadership in problem solving, computer hardware and software training, installation, and research and development. Strong background in project management, information technology, healthcare, electronics, telecommunications, technical writing, media, journalism, management, sales, and entrepreneurial business development experience in the healthcare and information technology (IT) marketplace. Held positions as a principal, group director, program/project manager, lead systems engineer, and applications developer in both government and commercial customer environments.

A founder of "Vision Enterprises, Inc.".  High Level Computer consulting and business development contractor for small to medium sized businesses. Product specialty areas include:  Health I.T.;  Project Management, I.T. Security Management;  local area networks, wide area networks, infrastructure, office automation, and database system management and application programming. Extensive services background in the areas of Technology Management, R&D, Project Management, strategic planning, capabilities studies, business modeling, requirements analyses, technology assessments, database application developments, product selections, and network/system designs.

 

Operating Systems and Groupware Technologist for Enterprise Integration Corporation, (E.I.C.). Provided technical solutions to end users and training. Chief Network Engineer. A+ Certified. Respected Beta-software developer for "Alpha Software, Inc." Database programs. Microsoft Windows Technical support volunteer and relational database volunteer for the Capitol PC Users Group (CPCUG), largest metro area computer club. Served on board of directors for the "Washington Apple PI" user group (2nd largest Mac group in USA) for Apple/Macintosh support. Substitute teacher in D.C. public schools for Math, Computers, and Science.

EDUCATION

	Certificate of Project Management, Maryland U. (UMUC) expected completion December 2010
	Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Maryland U. (UMUC) December 2006
	"GSA CIO Certificate in Federal Executive Competencies", CIO University; Federal CIO Council. July 2006
	Master of Science, Technology Management,  Maryland U. (UMUC) May 2005
	CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), ISACA, March 2004
	A+ CERTIFIED (COMPTIA) MS WINDOWS & HARDWARE Service Technician Program
	40+ Hours towards M.S., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 1988-1990
	B.A. in Physics, with Math minor, Talladega College, 1988
	Certified as Legal Assistant from George Washington U. (Patent Law Emphasis) 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

	Currently providing Advanced I.T. Network support to DOD, ARMY, AMEDD clients.
	Worked at two job sites with E.I.C.: Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) - Department of Clinical Investigation (DCI); and United Missile Defense Company (UMDC). Responsible for Network Engineering, Resolving end-user requests for system management, integration and upgrade, communications, and various Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT4/2K/XP/2003 Server (& Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe, ICA) OS’s & applications. Daily maintenance and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN bringing together MacOS, Unix, and Windows NT. Provide WebMaster services for WRAMC-DCI. Provide workflow support and imaging solutions for researchers at both job sites. Three days at WRAMC-DCI, and Two days at UMDC. Database Project Lead, Help desk and training support given. Involved in purchase cycle and installation of new and upgraded software. Hardware support and upgrades done as needed. PBX and telephony support given as needed. Audio/Visual and presentation support given as needed. Considered a high profile position requiring the utmost professional and courteous customer service as well as excellent written and communication skills.
	Prior work included providing database solutions for the U.S.D.A. Animal Products Branch as a contractor for Vista Computers, Inc. to convert USDA from a legacy DOS based database system into a seamless transition to Windows GUI applications as a substitute for the outdated DOS applications while maintaining backward compatibility, current workflow of the USDA and fool proofing the final result. Providing a MS-Windows based solution was made more difficult by the critical need by USDA to link different vendor software packages as well as write custom add-in user controls, still maintain security on the token-ring IBM LAN and do it all in less than three months. I wrote most of the deliverable contract specifications, helped to secure the contract and then worked onsite at USDA to fulfill the contract using developer tools for MS-ACCESS and LOTUS 5 based GUI tools to link 60+ databases into a useful database solution for USDA.
	As a founder and chief technical support and network engineer at "Vision Enterprises, Inc." I serve many roles to provide full and personal solutions for small business customers on site via contract and hourly pay per call onsite work. Clients included: L.S. Caldwell and Associates, Abrams Construction Company, Marianne Segura, Kids Moving Company, Meals Express, Inc., and many others. Solutions ranged from installation of small LANs and Office suite packages to Point of Sale Applications, Custom Accounting programs, and multiple relational database integration. Provided information management and lead technical support for most projects. Implementation efforts included the installation of PC, Macintosh, and Network workstations with HP/Compaq, and IBM, products and terminals across OS platforms. Specialties included: Alpha 4/5 Relational Database programming, MS-Access/Office, Foxpro, Dbase, Lotus 123, Novell, MS Windows, Lantastic, Windows NT Server, LAN/WAN products in an Ethernet-TCP/IP environment.
	As a Research Assistant and graduate student working on my Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa I received honorable mention and a special $5,000 award for the National Science Foundations graduate fellowship program. I worked on solar cell research and amorphous silicon applications. This graduate work/study was not completed due to illness in my family.
	As a Physics Major at Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama, on the dean’s list, I was invited to compete for a rare summer internship in microelectronics and solid state physics at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Accepted as a full member of the technical staff, I worked with Dr. Roosevelt People on lab experiments on breakthrough semiconductor hybrid materials such as gallium arsenide for devices using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) techniques to study quantum well device layouts, etc.
	As a Physics major at Talladega College with engineering and telecommunications interests I was able to work as a summer intern at the Capitol Video Communications, Inc. office located in Washington, D.C. near Georgetown. Capitol Video’s President hired me personally after meeting me one day while I was in Washington attending the ITVA conference on budgeting productions. I worked as the full time engineering assistant to Bill Lorenz, Vice President for Engineering, and also as assistant to Edward Kennedy, chief engineer. I trained on the state of the art professional video editing systems using digital time coding and other SMPTE standards I came to learn. I had the freedom and opportunity to write, produce and direct my own personal video project as well as assist on others. I became a certified videographer and a student member of ITVA (Intl. TV Assoc.) and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture & TV Engineers). Low cost Macintosh and PC graphic and sound systems as well as high cost professional on-line and off-line editing systems were setup and used from major manufacturers. We always had the state of the art in analog and digital video graphics systems and film-to-video transfer technology. At the end of my internship the DC Mayor awarded Capitol Video. Many television industry awards have Capitol Video’s name on them as top post-production house in the Mid-Atlantic region. Capitol Video was once the post production house for the Discovery channel and other cable stations.

BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

	A founder of "Vision Enterprises, Inc."; computer/business consulting, Wash. D.C.
	Licensed Real Estate Sales and Property Management Agent, D.C. & MD..
	Served as Treasurer for Meals Express, Inc.; food delivery service, Silver Spring, Md.,

ELECTED TO NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS / TRUSTEE BOARDS:

	"Washington APPLE PI", Inc. The second Largest Macintosh /Apple User Group in the USA. Headquartered in Rockville, Md. over 5,000 Members. 1992-1993.
	Iowa State University Newspaper Board member, "ISU DAILY", Grad. Rep. 1989.
	Talladega College Board of Trustees Student Representative (Twice Elected) ‘86-88

  HONORS and AWARDS:

	COMPTIA A+(Computing Technology Industry Assoc.) Service Technician Certification
	National Institute of Health (N.I.H.) - (M.A.R.C.) Honor Student Fellowship
	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention Award
	Who's Who Among American College and University Students (twice listed)
	Dean's List, Talladega College (Nominee National Dean's List)
	First President, National Honor Society, Talladega Chapter
	Mayor's Youth Leader Nominee, Washington, D.C.
	National Association for Equal Opportunity (NAFEO): "High Tech. Expo" Award

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

	Project Management Institute (PMI)
	Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA®)
	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
	Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society
	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
	International Television Association (ITVA)
	Society of Physics Students (Sigma Pi Sigma)
	N.S.B.E. (alias) National Society of ‘Best’ Engineers
	B.D.P.A. (alias) 'Best' Data Processing Association.
	International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, #26 (IBEW)
	National Capital Area Paralegal Association (NCAPA)

  SPECIAL SKILLS:

	Some study in Russian, German, and Latin languages, not fluent.
	Speed Reading coursework
	Technical Writing/ Journalism
	Accounting coursework

COMPUTER/COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE

Infrastructure Products

	Workstations/Servers: DEC-ALPHA Servers, Intel PCs, Apple Macintosh, Sun, Compaq
	Terminals/Hosts: IBM, Honeywell, UNISYS, HP/Compaq/DEC, Wang, AT&T, NCR
	OSs: Windows 95/98/NT4/2K/XP/2003 (+Terminal Server/Citrix ICA), MacOS, OS/2, UNIX
	Hubs/Switches/Repeaters: 3Com, Cisco, Artisoft, Racal-Interlan, SMC
	Bridges/Routers/Gateways: Cisco, 3Com
	NOSs: Novell NetWare, MS Windows NT Server/LAN Manager, Lantastic, Invisible Lan, Citrix
	Protocols: Ethernet, Token Ring, TCP/IP, NETBEUI, IPX, SNA
	Terminal Emulation/File Transfer: ProCom, Crosstalk, SmartCom, PC-Term, QuickLink, Telnet
	Remote Control/Node: pcANYWHERE, Carbon Copy, GoToMyPC, Timbuktu, Laplink, Citrix ICA
	Internet/Intranet Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Chrome, FireFox, Spry, AOL, PalmScape

Office Automation Products

	Office Suites: Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect Suite, IBM/Lotus SmartSuite
	Menu/Shell: Norton Desktop, Direct Access, Dosshell, Palm Pilot OS Desktop
	Drawing/Painting: Visio, MS Paintbrush, Micrografx DRAW, Paintshop, Corel Draw.
	Desktop Publishing: Ventura Publisher, Pagemaker, MS Publisher, Photoshop
	Computer-Aided Design: AutoCAD, TurboCad, Google Sketchup
	OCR/Imaging: Quick Link Gold (Fax OCR), Omnipage, WordScan, Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, Visioneer PaperPort, HP DeskScan, TWAIN.

Groupware Products

	Electronic Mail/Directory Services: MS Exchange/Mail, Lotus cc:Mail, Novell GroupWise
	Scheduling: MS Schedule+, Novell GroupWise, Palm Pilot OS Desktop, MS Outlook
	WorkFlow: Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, Compaq "Linkworks"/"Work Expeditor", Adobe, FormFlow.

Custom Products

	Software: Alpha 4/5, Dbase, Foxpro, Filemaker Pro, Oracle, OBIEE
	MS SQL Server, MS Access, Visual Basic, Sybase PowerBuilder,
	APL, C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC,
	SPSS Statistical Software,  Corel Draw, Photoshop
	SQL Server, IIS, Sharepoint Services,  AKO,
	IRMS, Electronic IRB Software Project, IRBNet, PTMS
	IBM, NISC, IMC Document Imaging, Archival, Retrieval Project