
Product Development and Software Consulting
Greater St. Louis Area

Product Development and Software Consulting
Greater St. Louis Area
Concept Development
Software Development
Project Management
Product Management
In 1996 I founded and have since been a prinicipal partner of InterCorp. We develop software and provide consulting services to help scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishers and other knowledge-based companies satisfy the clinical information needs of physicians, academicians, nurses and allied health professionals.
We have had the good fortune to successfully develop some of our own products, and to work with some of the largest and most influential companies in the business. They have trusted us to develop and even manage some of their most important projects and products.
I am proud to have had several opportunities to lead teams of software developers and other professionals in successfully creating some extraordinary products. I am equally at home with technical programming responsibilties, project management, and product management.
Experience with numerous programming languages.
Extensive specialized knowledge of search, tagging, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies. Experience with search engines such as Fast, Verity and Lucene. Experience with WordNet and the Unified Medical Language System (NLM UMLS) and related vocabularies such as MeSH, SNOMED, and ICD-9 coding systems.
InterCorp is an Organizational Member of HL7.
Experience leadng mission critical customer-facing software projects.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
1996 — Present (13 years )
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)
1996 — Present (13 years )
(Public Company; Biotechnology industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
(Graphic Design industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years )
Managed a software development team producing CD-ROMs for medical publishing and eLearning applications.
(Public Company; Retail industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years )
(Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1990 (3 years )
Post Graduate Work , School of Technology and Information Management , 1984 — 1985
BSBA , Management Science , 1982 — 1984
Search, on-site search, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, the semantic web, software development, the Agile process. Professional publishing, web publishing, electronic publishing.