Smart, gets things done
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Current
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- Product Manager / Usability Director at SchoolDude.com
- Past
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- Senior Developer at Westat
- Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI) at Principle Systems Engineer
- blogger, technical writer, fun stuff like that ... at HealYourChurchWebsite.com & blogJordan.com
- 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
My professional experience can be summed up in these three things I've learned in the past two-and-a-half decades of providing technical products to a wide-variety of clients:
1. There are no small fixes - You never know what little change can foul-up an entire enterprise.
2. Eat your own dog food - Discipline yourself to solve daily problems using the product you provide.
3. Get intimate with your client - Do whatever it take to see your product through your client's workflow, problems & pain.
Oh yeah, my goals? To create and serve outrageously happy clients while enjoying and collaborating with intelligent and interesting people.
Dean Peters’s Specialties:
* Product management, technical writer & quality control guy
* Expertise in CSS, C#, jQuery, PHP, SQL & XML
* Professional writer of books, magazines, e-zines & blogs.
* 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 Manager / Usability Director
SchoolDude.com
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
I lead from the front a fantastic team, managing an industry-leading 'Software as a Service' product suite. I am involved with all aspects of the product life-cycle, from strategic definition to end-of-life planning as well as coding. I also coordinate product management efforts with global development teams in Malaysia and Romania.
I report directly to the VP of Technology, serving our clients under the credo "solve their problems, don’t tell them yours". My other duties include developing the product strategy for the product lines' user experience, translating customer/clients needs into new features and new services, and documenting product specifications and use cases.
Key Achievements
* Directly involved in the fielding of 4 new products while expanding several others
* Led the technical integration between SchoolDude partners Schedule Star & Whipple Hill
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Senior Developer
Westat
(Privately Held; Research industry)
May 1996 — September 2004 (8 years 5 months)
I designed, modified, developed, coded and supported software programming applications. This includes developing thick clients and drivers to interface PCs and Sybase Databases to real-time medical and media devices, and Intranet based reporting on a Sun platform.
Key Achievements
* Key hardware integrator for the nation-wide National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) IV project
* Helped build the development enterprise platform for the NHanes team
* Mentored and collaborated with other developers -
Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI)
Principle Systems Engineer
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1991 — March 1996 (4 years 5 months)
I was the technical team lead and developer for the biometrics and smart-card-based facilities access systems, and also led the integration of radio-frequency field devices to geographic information systems as part of CDSI's contract with Department of Justice, Border Patrol.
Key Achievements
* Winner of the company's 1994 Leadership Award in the area of Technical Innovation
* Led the team that developed and deployed INS’ first biometric identification system -
blogger, technical writer, fun stuff like that ...
HealYourChurchWebsite.com & blogJordan.com
(Internet industry)
October 1991 — February 1996 (4 years 5 months)
Don't let Dean's hack LinkedIn arbitrary time period fool you, Dean has and continues to write about all things geeky for quite some time.
As an ongoing hobby and after with Vincent Flanders on his second book "Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design" - I decided to vent my frustrations at the 'great cloud of witlessness' that was the state of church websites online.
So from time to time, I nail my own brand of a slightly geekier 95 Theses to the door of the Internet at http://HealYourChurchWebsite.com.
Along with that, I've twice been the guest of the Jordanian Tourism Board to visit and write my about my experiences at http://blogJordan.com -
Senior Systems Analyst
Falcon Microsystems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1990 — November 1991 (1 year 10 months)
I reviewed, analyzed, and modified programming systems – including encoding, testing, debugging and maintaining client/server applications in support of the sales and marketing departments.
Key Achievements
* Wrote a nightly commissions reporting system for ADABase using Software AG’s Natural
* Integrated the ADABase commissions system to MacIntosh systems using Apple’s DAL -
Senior Systems Administrator
Telic, Inc.
(Telecommunications industry)
March 1989 — February 1990 (1 year )
Senior Systems Administrator, 1989 – 1991
I served as a system administrator for the in-house VAX/VMS and PC-based systems. My secondary role included coding reports and integrating data between the two platforms.
Key Achievement
* Part of a team who successfully upgraded all of Ohio Bell’s communication systems in a single night without loss of any service -
EDP/Systems Manager
W.P.Stewart & Co., Inc.
(Financial Services industry)
March 1986 — February 1989 (3 years )
I provided immediate and on-going technical support for the trading staff while also maintaining the in-house VAX/VMS system. My work also included coding reports in dBase and incorporating data from the RDBMS system.
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Manager of Data Processing
P.K.Chrstiania (US) Banking Corp, NYC
(Banking industry)
March 1985 — March 1986 (1 year 1 month)
I was the system administrator for the in-house VAX/VMS and PC based systems. My secondary role included coding reports and integrating data between the two platforms.
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Programmer
Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee, Inc. (HANAC)
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 1983 — March 1986 (3 years 1 month)
I modified programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing software to support all branch offices' 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
Additional Information
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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.
Dean Peters’s Groups:
JTBNA EPA/ACP Press Tour, Leadership Network
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Web Standards Design + Development -
Software as a Service (SaaS) Group
