Résumé
Experience
IT Manager, Time Warner Cable Media Sales; July 2006 — Present
(This is a continuation of the Comcast postion; same job, location, etc.)
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Build and maintained an extensive intranet site of tools for submitting spots, tracking them from
client submission to placement on cable video insertion equipment, and reporting run rates.
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Small website development for short-horizon marketing projects, contests, client
advertising-related events.
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Maintaining a multi-domain marketing website for all Southwest ROC (Regional Operations Center)
markets (austinondemand.com, hotxondemand.com, whatsondfw.com, etc., for a total of 16 domains).
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Build and maintained an extensive intranet site of tools for submitting spots,
tracking them through to placement on cable video insertion and reporting run-rates.
- Continuation of job from Comcast Spotlight.
IS Manager, Comcast Spotlight; March 2004 — July 2006
- Built and maintained an extensive intranet site touching almost every area of the business
from video production, traffic, sales and sales reporting, engineering and master control.
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- Function areas include job tracking, inventory, reporting, video library, and research.
- Regional franchise was sold to Time Warner Cable
Freelance Consulting, Self-Employed, July 1992 — December 1995, October 2001 — March 2004
- Various small development and IT tasks for numerous clients.
Manager of Developer Relations, Micrografx, Inc.; November 1990 — July 1992
- Responsible for a team of 3 and budget of approximately $1M per year.
- Managed an ISP program with numerous clients developing applications that worked
with the retail drawing applications, including Mobil Refining and Landis and Gyr.
- Maintained Vendor relations with printer manufacturers such as HP and Tektronix and
with other software developers such as Microsoft to foster adoption of the
Micrografx graphics formats program interoperation.
Contract Software Developer, Organon Teknika; June 1986 — December 1986
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Developed software for an automated lab test system designed to test for HIV and for what was
then known as Non-AB Hepatitis virus (now known as Type C), using an early version of
Microsoft "C" language tools.
Contract Software Engineer, Mostek, Inc.; March 1985 — August 1985
- 1985 Job was a contract to build software to control automated test and IC handling equipment
Senior Systems Programmer, Harris Data Communications; June 1983 — March 1985
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Developed new products, and maintained a line of products for SNA (layered communication)
architecture for the 3270 data terminal, using PL/M 86.
Lead Software Developer, Commodore Computers, Inc; January 1983 – June 1983
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Supervised a small software team for an experimental entry-level personal utility robot,
ultimately shown at a trade-show as 'Chester', but never marketed.
Senior Software Engineer, Mostek, Inc.; January 1981 — February 1983 / and 1985
- Built an in-circuit
emulator (ICE) for the Motorola 68000, called the Radius.
Project included a command-line system, a 68000 disassembliler, processor control, breakpointing and
memory tools. Project consisted of about 6000 lines of Z-80 assembly and approximately 1000 lines
of M68000 assembly.
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- Wrote interface software for an EPROM Programmer
Systems Programmer, Rockwell Collins; January 1980 — January 1981
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Developed and installed communications software for bank data commuinication switch in
proprietary Collins programming language.
Associate Systems Programmer, Harris Data Communications; January 1979 — January 1980
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Built various tools and operating system (OS) software for a Perkin-Elmer mini-computer based
communications cluster controllers, and for a later model 8086-based data terminal
communications cluster controller.
Teaching and Instruction
- "C++" Programming — Lectured, prepared exams and programming projects.
- Two Sections of Introductory Computer Science — Lectured, prepared exams and programming projects.
Education
- Master of Business Administration, Southern Methodist University, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, August 1987.
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Minor in Mathematics, University of North Texas, December 1978.
Volunteer Work
- Dallas Amateur Radio Club (W5FC), Vice President, 2007 — 2008
- Board Member, Dallas Housing & Finance Corporation, 1995 — 2002.
Appointed by councilmembers Craig McDaniel, Veletta Lill.
- Manager, 1992 Artfest music and outdoor arts festival, 1992
- Executive Member of The 500, Inc., 1992 — 1993
- Dallas Arboretum volunteer, 1991 — 1992
- Disk Jockey and On-Air Announcer, KNTU-FM, Denton, 1977 — 1978
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