Smart, gets things done
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Product Management Director at SchoolDude.com
- Past
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- Writer, Administrator, Programmer at HealYourChurchWebsite.com & blogJordan.com
- Senior Developer at Westat
- Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI) at Principle Systems Engineer
- Senior Systems Analyst at Falcon Microsystems
- Senior Systems Administrator at Telic, Inc.
- EDP/Systems Manager at W.P.Stewart & Co., Inc.
- Manager of Data Processing at P.K.Chrstiania (US) Banking Corp, NYC
- Programmer at Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee, Inc. (HANAC)
- Education
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- Hood College
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- East Carolina University
- Robert E.Peary High School
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Dean Peters’s Summary
Analyst, writer, developer, manager - I'm the guy who can juggle all four of these spinning plates that often make or break the successful deployment of your commercial web application. Don't worry, I'll get along just fine with client services, sales and even marketing; offering my expertise to the latter in the delivery and maintenance of the corporate website. I'm also not too bad at that writing, teaching and mentoring thing. Oh, and did I mention I'm passionate about usability and work-flow?
Dean Peters’s Specialties:
* Professional writer of books, magazines, e-zines & blogs.
* Expertise in CSS, C#, HTML, Perl, PHP, SOA, SQL, XML
* Hands-on systems administration & security including Linux, Windows, Solaris
* Proven leader, mentor, teacher interfacing well with co-workers & clients
* Experience in:
education, medical research, banking, stocks & bonds, charities, law enforcement, biometric identification, card access systems & geographic information systems.
Dean Peters’s Experience
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Product Management Director
SchoolDude.com
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Directs and mentors a great team whom together, manage the company's industry leading suite online products. From strategic definition to end-of-life planning with some opportunities to code in between, Dean is involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle.
Living by the credo "smart and gets things done," Dean is a direct report to VP of product development whose other duties include developing the product strategy for the user experience, translating customer/clients needs into new features and new services, and documenting product specifications and use cases. -
Writer, Administrator, Programmer
HealYourChurchWebsite.com & blogJordan.com
(Internet industry)
May 2002 — December 2007 (5 years 8 months)
As a hobby - and after collaborating with Vincent Flanders on his second book "Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design" - I got tired and frustrated with church and para-church websites that look like visual vestiges from the dark ages. This after running a church website for about 7 years. So from time to time, I hammer my own virtual brand of the a more usable 95 Theses to the door of the Internet at http://HealYourChurchWebsite.com. I've also had the opportunity to travel to Jordan twice to write about religious tourism at http://blogJordan.com
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Senior Developer
Westat
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
May 1996 — September 2004 (8 years 5 months)
Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software programming applications. This includes developing thick clients, drivers to interface PCs and Sybase Database to real-time medical and media devices, and Intranet based reporting.
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Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI)
Principle Systems Engineer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CDSI; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1991 — March 1996 (4 years 5 months)
Technical team lead and developer for the company's biometrics and smart-card-based facilities access systems, geographic information systems, and PC to radio-frequency device integration as it related to CDSI's Department of Justice, Border Patrol contract.
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Senior Systems Analyst
Falcon Microsystems
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1990 — November 1991 (1 year 10 months)
Reviewed, analyzed, and modified programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and maintaining client/server applications support an organization's sales and marketing departments.
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Senior Systems Administrator
Telic, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 1989 — February 1990 (1 year)
Primarily installed new software releases, system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software related problems. Performed system backups and recovery. Maintained data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity. Secondary functions included modifying programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support an organization's PC and mini computer software applications.
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EDP/Systems Manager
W.P.Stewart & Co., Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
March 1986 — February 1989 (3 years)
Primarily installed new software releases, system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software related problems. Performed system backups and recovery. Maintained data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity. Secondary functions included modifying programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support an organization's PC and mini computer software applications.
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Manager of Data Processing
P.K.Chrstiania (US) Banking Corp, NYC
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)
March 1985 — March 1986 (1 year 1 month)
Primarily installed new software releases, system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software related problems. Performed system backups and recovery. Maintained data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity. Secondary functions included modifying programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support an organization's PC and mini computer software applications.
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Programmer
Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee, Inc. (HANAC)
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 1983 — March 1986 (3 years 1 month)
Modified programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support an organization's PC and CP/M computer software applications.
Dean Peters’s Education
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Hood College
Masters , Computer Science , 1995 — 1997
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Columbia University in the City of New York
CTA , Software development & networks , 1986 — 1988
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East Carolina University
BA , Music (opera/voice) , 1978 — 1982
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Robert E.Peary High School
1974 — 1977
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Dean Peters’s Interests:
Raising my daughter, writing, blogging about other countries and people, blogging about usability and charity operations, sweating at the gym, getting my garden green.
