I founded one of the first computer stores in the world, Digital Design, in 1976. This was before PC's and before the Apple II computer. I successfully marketed small computer systems used in the home and in industry. I manufactured and sold small peripherals to the public and to computer manufactures.

I have been involved in retail and wholesale since I was a child working in my family's importing business. In that business, Scandinavian Art Handicraft, I was engaged in activities such as purchasing, merchandising, advertising design and placement, product design, and store display. I was solely responsible for the family's silk importing business and built up the distribution channels as well as developing the largest importing and wholesale business of silk thread in the United States. Among the products which I developed were a line of macramé' supplies, needlepoint kits, and rya rug kits. At the height of the early to mid 1970's I was a well respected person in the textile crafts business.

I am educated in physics, nuclear engineering, film, theatre, photography, textile design and computing. I studied under Frederick Werner at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1970's. Dr. Werner was heavily involved with the people at Dartmouth who developed BASIC and the Dartmouth Timesharing Service. As a freshman, I was the only undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati to have a fellowship in physics. I was responsible for research into phosphorescent phenomena under the late Issay Balinkin, the foremost authority on color and light in the world at the time. I developed a process to "freeze" images, on phosphorescent materials, for long periods of time and then retrieve them. I built the laboratory equipment used in the research.

I was the editor of the 1982 Cincinnati Companion, a resource book of the Cincinnati, Ohio area. This publication was used by many companies, including Proctor and Gamble, for recruiting and was a best seller on Cincinnati in the bookstores.

I have for many years worked in the Information Technology field. One of my great creations is a communications center which takes orders for Italian food for delivery or take away. This site serves about fifty restaurants in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and has over 500,000 active accounts. The center communicates in real time with all of the stores and when a customer calls back for an order status, information on the order is available.

I recently worked on the conception of an Internet commerce site for a large maker of consumer electronics. There, I also created reports for data warehousing, SAP and manufacturing. I also created many white papers on issues around the company's intranet.

I currently am a consultant and Director of Technology and Electronic Commerce for Exinom Technologies, Iselin, NJ.

I have working knowledge of UNIX, including administration, Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu OLAP and reporting tools, restaurant POS systems, NeXTStep, various spread sheet and word processing products, various graphic products (on NeXTStep), and various other software products.

My less recent knowledge includes PRIMOS, CBASIC, CP/M, DEC RST11, Dartmouth Time Sharing System, Intel 8080 machine language, and various versions of BASIC.

Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio 1971 - 1988

Bachelors Degree in General Studies

Majors in Physics, Pre Med/Natural Science

Minors in Communication Arts with concentrations in Film and Theater, made two films, produced one play and coordinated one psycho drama.

Worked extensively with the Dartmouth Time Sharing System. Designed an interface board too collect data from laboratory equipment and provide the data to a D17B Minute Man Missile computer which was used to perform experiments at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio that were being controlled by the Dartmouth system in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Photography Coordinator for year book

Fine Arts Festival Committee

Publicity Director for The Xavier Players

Produced Strindberg's The Father

University of Cincinnati 1969 - 1975

Studied Physics (undergraduate and 1st year Graduate School), Nuclear Engineering (Junior year), Photographer and writer for year book and newspaper, Treasurer for Society of Physics Students.

System/Technical Skills

Data Mart & Database Development Experience

Conducted a study to determine what would be required to complete a strategic project that was jeopardized by the exodus of a substantial portion of the IT Department. Produced a plan that involved a restructuring of roles and responsibilities of remaining employees and made recommendations for outsourcing of specific functions.

Conducted research in Internet Commerce. Evaluated software vendors for best of breed e-commerce solutions. Developed the Internet Commerce Team into a broad skill base. Consulted with clients and created solutions proposals.

Conducted a search for a reporting tool to use globally. Identified potential vendors. Created the proof of concept work activity. Ported the existing FoxPro database to a new SQL Server 7 database for the proof of concept. Conducted a proof of concept with four major vendors. Presented the findings of each vendor’s proof of concept. Prepared the final results of the study with recommendations.

Created reports, written in Cognos Impromptu for the HSE&R (Health, Safety, Environment & Remediation) reporting project.

Created table structures to de-normalize the HSER database for efficient reporting.

Set up processes to "print" the Impromptu reports to PDF files for viewing from the HSER Intranet site.

Created reports, written in Cognos Impromptu for the Logistics Data Mart reporting project.

Created the intranet site, written in HTML, for the delivery of reports and other support items for the reporting functions. Prepared standards for requesting and documenting reports. Developed the format and forms for documentation and user requests. Created table structures to de-normalize the data mart database for efficient reporting. Conducted a GAP analysis of existing reports, running against SAP, and reports and PowerPlay cubes available in the Cognos BI Mart product.

The client was in the implementation stage of an ERP called Movex for which reports had to be generated and Cognos impromptu was used for this purpose. The database was DB2 running on an AS 400 system. Work involved Creating Report specifications, documentation of the Database, Creation of Reports. Reverse engineering existing reports from the Legacy system. Creating catalogues for the main Sales info. Creating specifications for the views & Summary Tables for some of the Reports Creating an Intranet site for delivering the reports to the users.

Provided project management functions for the Human Resources Data Mart reporting project. Created the intranet site for the delivery of reports and other support items for the reporting functions. Worked with several teams to bring the project into production on time. Cognos PowerPlay Web Server version 5.0 was used to deliver cubes through the thin clients and Cognos Impromptu Web Server was used to deliver reports. Wrote the documentation for the on going maintenance of the intranet site.

Project Manager and Implementation Specialist, Cognos Implementation / Internet Commerce.

Project duration: 2 years

Project manager of the Internet store for Philips Consumer Communications – 1998

Worked with the SAP Team on back end integration of the commerce software

Worked with the sales and marketing teams to develop programs

Created the job description for the Catalog Manager position

Conducted extensive evaluations of commerce software products

Conducted presentations to the employees on aspects of Internet Commerce

Project went on-line on time

Philips Consumer Communications no longer is in business.

Project manager of the intranet based Employee Store of Lucent Technologies 1997

Wrote reviews of various Internet Commerce technologies for senior management at Lucent and Phillips. Prepared paper on Internet/Intranet Commerce for Global Phillips Conference. A variety of White Papers on Internet Commerce, Bandwidth consideration for Frame Relay, and Policy Guidelines for the implementation of the Intranet.

Worked with the Product Creation Team to modify the global network to handle the unique requirements of the design files. Created addendums to the Data Connection Agreement between Lucent Technologies and Philips Consumer Communications which provided for changes in the firewalls.

Created the top-level conceptualization for the global network for Philips Consumer Communications.

Authored conceptual design document used as a guide for the types of use for the network.

Authored a white paper on the impact of the various applications on a frame relay network.

Wrote the addendum’s to the Digital Connectivity Agreement between Lucent Technologies and Philips Electronics. The addendums were legal documents granting individual and application access through the firewalls.

Created Impromptu Reports to replace existing reporting systems. Enhancements and flexibility were major goals in the initiative. Replaced the existing FOCUS Reporting System working against the National Sales Data Warehouse with Impromptu reports and PowerPlay cubes. Converted several reports to HTML Format for viewing by browser. Create reports for Quality Assurance, Defects of Components, during production. Also implemented Pass/Fail Reports based on various stages of testing.

Proficient in implementing the Cognos "24 Ways" Program.

Provided project management for all personnel, applications, technical architectures and overall delivery of this engagement. Responsibilities include leading a number of different teams, including developers, web programmers, networking professionals, database specialist and other support and maintenance personnel.

Oversaw the planning for the technology lifecycle for all infrastructure components. Member of the team who architected, developed and implemented the data warehouse. Managed all vendors associated with the Internet/Intranet commerce project including selection and outsourcing arrangements where necessary. Developed methodologies, policies and gained consensus for the program. Managed all phases on time and on budget. Installation & Implementation of Impromptu and PowerPlay tools at various sites.

Comfortable with handling expectations for deliverables, multiple projects and managing separate teams and different technologists and vendors.

Developed communications center that takes orders for Italian food for delivery or take away. This site serves about fifty restaurants in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and has over 500,000 active accounts. The center communicates in real time with all of stores and when a customer calls back for an order status,

information on the order is available. Architected and ran all IT operations for the restaurant chain.

1995 - 1996 Redesigned the WAN for the 1 Number system to take advantage of ISDN and 56K leased lines (for sites without ISDN availability). Selected hardware and software including having the communications of the POS application upgraded to allow for TCP/IP.

1991 implemented a "1 number" call center system to take carry out and delivery orders for, then, 46 restaurants. According to Cincinnati Bell Telephone this was, at that time, the largest network of computers over leased lines in Cincinnati, Ohio. System has a UNIX machine in each store as well as the call center. Designed POS enclosures to assemble POS stations from off the shelf parts, video terminals, 40 column printers, 300 key pads. Evaluated and selected, software, hardware (computer and telephony), and assisted in facility design. Since implementation of system sales have more than doubled for the chain.

1988 - 1990 Studied various types of order taking systems (POS and remote) used at a variety of restaurant chains throughout the United States and in Canada. Spent a great deal of time in Toronto studying the original one number system at Pizza Pizza.

Designed an interpreter to write scripts for a DTMF to ASCII converter to allow touch tone phone users to "call in" data to the computer and respond to voice requests.

Designed and wrote (in CBASIC using CP/M operating system on Z80 based systems) the first restaurant management system for LaRosa's: Variance, Food Costing, Menu Formulas, Inventory, and Sales Analysis.

Note: The above period overlaps the Lucent period since I was transitioning out of LaRosa’s and still involved in transferring knowledge to my successors.

1996 - 1997 Vice President of the Tri-State Telecommunications Association, an organization of communications professionals in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area.

Past president of the Southwest Ohio Prime Users Group (Prime Computer users)

1983 - Produced, directed, filmed the social documentary film "Day of Many Moons" which received some theatrical distribution. This film developed a small cult following.

1983 - present Member of the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Film Society Four term, and current, president

1982 - Editor of THE CINCINNATI COMPANION a resource and guide book to the Cincinnati area

1977 Co-founded Software House, a computer software training company which filled the need of small systems software training which did not exist in the early days of the microcomputer revolution.

1976 - 1979 Founded, owned, and operated Digital Design, the first computer store in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first 100 computer stores in the world. Designed computer systems from the board level up personally built computers, including soldering parts to the boards. Manufactured joysticks and RF interfaces for small computer systems. Produced turn key industrial computer systems and small systems for business and home. Resold computer kits, parts and accessories.

June, 1979 Speaker at the National Computer Conference in New York. Topic: Small Industrial Robots.

1979 Appeared on several television and radio talk shows to promote microcomputers and small robots.

1975-1976 Owned and operated, Peterson's, a retail textile store which evolved into a retail computer store.

1976 Attended the first World Altair Computer Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a result developed a relationship with most of the other people involved with the new microcomputer revolution.

1975 Acquired one of the first MITS Altair 8080 based microcomputers. Became one of the first people to become involved in the microcomputer revolution.

1966 - 1976 Scandinavian Art Handicraft Worked in parents' wholesale/retail importing business. Involved in sales (to the public and to resellers), display, purchasing (required traveling to Scandinavia and Mexico), national and local advertising design and marketing, product design and production.

1968 - 1969 Produced photography and collage sculpture which was chosen to be included in the Annual National Scholastic High School Arts Competition in New York as examples of the best art produced by high school students in the United States. Won a total of three awards over both years.

Worked, after school, at the Laser Lab at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. The lab developed almost all of the original work in laser safety in medicine and also many medical procedures using lasers, including removing skin cancer and tattoos.