Faith Sloan

Current

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant at Idaho Power Company

Past

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Sr. Web Technology Consultant at State of West Virginia, Office of Technology for Fenwick
• Sr. Web Technology Consultant at Lockheed Martin Logistics Services

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant at TeleCommunication Systems
• Real Estate Investor at FRS Associates
• e-Commerce Instructor at PC Training Center Institute
• President/CEO at FRS Associates, LLC
• Advisory Board / Consulting Partner at Bedrock Inc. / Libida.com
• Sr. Collaboration Architect/Software Integration Engineer at Intraspect Software - acquired by Vignette
• Consultant at Logitech
• Research Analytics Manager - Consultant at Engage - I/PRO
• Consultant at Encirq
• Co-Founder/CTO at Lenos Software
• Consultant at Eba Systems
• Consultant through FRS Associates, LLC at Winkler Advertising
• Consultant through FRS Associates, LLC at U S WEST
• Consultant at Chastain Research Group
• Sr. SAS Programmer Consultant at AT&T
• Sr. Project Manager Type at Syntex
• Manager, SAS Programming at Fujisawa
• Senior Programmer Analyst at Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert
• SAS Statistical Programmer at Allergan Pharmaceuticals
• SAS Programmer at CooperVision
• Statistician/SAS Programmer at National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA)

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Education

• Argosy University Dallas
• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
• University of Southern California

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Someplace on Earth

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• A few Papers written by me
• The Best WebHost on the Net
• Loans That Change Lives...

Faith Sloan’s Summary

Life is grand! Praise and Prayer are Key. Believe and then Receive in Abundance.

Let us get married today ... in change.

Follow me here: http://twitter.com/faithsloan

I Micro-finance entrepreneurs in other countries. Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.
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1st PC: Timex Sinclair ZX81 from UK hooked up to b/w TV & cassette recorder
2nd PC: Tandy Radio Shack 4P 'luggable' (Trash80P)

Current Readings: Janet Evanovich's "Fearless Fourteen" critiquing loads of business plans
Last Readings: James Patterson's "Sail", Catherine Coulter's "TailSpin"

Currently pursuing MBA Finance & MBA Certificate in Entrepreneurship

Co-founder of the "NEXT BIG THING!" It's HUGE!

Do I sleep?

10 years as a Self-Directed Investor

20+ years experience in various industries as a Technologist, CEO and CTO.

Built a profitable company which delivered cutting-edge software solutions to solve real-world business problems. As one who has endured trials/tribulations of being CEO of FRS Associates, Lenos.com co-founder/CTO, I am generally rounded.

An independent thinker w/the discipline to set long-term goals and the adaptability to veer yet stay on course.

Highly accomplished public speaker who enjoys taking the mysticism out of technology for the lay person, C-level execs, and children.

Communicator, Mentor, Motivator, and Learner.

Out Of The Box and Off The Wall Thinker with an Aversion for Analysis Paralysis

I ain't no programmer. Dem's fightin' words. I possess deep technological capabilities which I use to automate business processes of which I am a subject matter expert (SME). Huh? Get Real!

Since I am an Open Networker who evangelizes collaboration, feel free to invite me to link to you. If you can truly see value in both you and I 'hooking up' one day, then ping me here: d e v e lo p er [<a t->] f r s a <[d o t->] com

Faith Sloan’s Specialties:

CTO, StartUps,VCs, Real Estate Investing, Consultative Selling, WordPress Customizations, Training,ColdFusion,Fusebox, PHP, JavaScript, XML,Apache,databases,SVN,Dreamweaver,Eclipse,SAS Software,BioTech, Eating, Laughing

EDUCATION
*Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speaking and Human Relations
*MS Syst Mgmt, U of Southern Cal (USC)
*BS Quant Methods, UIC

ColdFusion-12yrs
JavaScript-10yrs
SAS(Analytics/Reports/Web)-13yrs
DataBases-20yrs
Management-Too Long
Laughing (A Lifetime)

Faith Sloan’s Experience

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant

  Idaho Power Company

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IDA; Utilities industry)

  August 2008 — Present (3 months)

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant

  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)

  Completed under-budget and ahead of schedule.
  
  charged with mentoring, entertaining, developing applications for the Human Resources Personnel Action workflow process Re-tooling Project. Mentoring, Architectural Brainstorming, ColdFusion MX 7/8, FuseBox 5, CFCs, Dreamweaver 8, Oracle 10g including stored procedures, TOAD 9, SVN, W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 compliance, wForms - JavaScript Forms Validation library, jQuery javascript library, CSS and table-free design approach, unit testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, write test cases including expected results, and laughing.

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant

  State of West Virginia, Office of Technology for Fenwick

  (Government Administration industry)

  June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

  Mentored and Developed Work Order Scheduling application using Fusebox framework, ColdFusion components, Ben Nadel's CSVToArray component, the DirectoryWatcher Event Gateway, DB2 database, and the old reliable JavaScript for client side validation sprinkled with CFScript. This meal ended with a large portion of documentation dessert sprinkled with an abundance of laughs.
  
  Kudos to the Big Whig, the Tech Lead, Mr. Business Analyst/QA Expert, the Database Man, and of course, the internal client, Distribution Services
  
  Mercenary project: On-time and within budget

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant

  Lockheed Martin Logistics Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)

  Formerly Lockheed Martin Aircraft and Logistics Centers (Greenville, SC)
  
  Consultant charged with ColdFusion Migration and Testing efforts; Interfacing with Clients to create Statement of Work (SOW) and Feasibility Assessments; Creating IT Change Requests including Risk Assessments; Creating Project Plans including Budget Estimates; ColdFusion Applications (Eclipse, Dreamweaver, and SVN, Aqua Data Studio) Maintenance and Database Mgmt using Oracle and MS SQL Server; Integrating Novell LDAP authentication; Creating Test Plans, Write test cases including expected results; Using Results of in-house web application security audits to check for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities and creating Remediation Plans; Fixing All vulnerabilities and documenting the same.

• Sr. Web Technology Consultant

  TeleCommunication Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TSYS; Telecommunications industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

  (Seattle, WA)
  Consultant brought on board immediately after 2 previous consultants terminated their relationship because they were not able to understand the application and provide the bottom line deliverables.
  
  Tackled an undocumented ColdFusion/Java/WebServices(XML and CFCs) reporting extranet on Linux/JBOSS/Oracle/MySQL architecture. application by reverse engineering it and documenting the same.
  
  Implemented production Back-Out Plans and deployed the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product to support external telecommunication clients' real-time performance/availability reporting needs in the Enhanced 911 (E-911/E911) wireless data solutions industry.
  
  Designed and implemented reporting facility for new VoIP customer solution using ColdFusion MX 7, Remedy Provisioning Database and an in-memory TimesTen database.

• Real Estate Investor

  FRS Associates

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Purchased, rehabbed, flipped or rented for profit. Used traditional lenders in the early phase and hard money lenders in latter phases.
  
  End-game: decided to pull out with plans to do it again but at the commercial level mixed in with a cornucopia of corporate restructuring and other lessons learned.
  
  Excellent education.

• e-Commerce Instructor

  PC Training Center Institute

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  Taught students intense hands-on use of Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, VB Script/ASP, and Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition to prepare for certification exams. Taught A+ Certificate Level Core Hardware and OS Technologies course material.

• President/CEO

  FRS Associates, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 2002 (7 years)

  FRS Associates, LLC was one of the first corporate intranet companies specializing in web to database integration.
  
  Provided SAS Software consulting services with emphasis upon SAS/IntrNET, Executive Information System(EIS), and Multi-Dimensional Database (MDDB).
  
  Sold services and products within our practice and ensured satisfied clients and successful project delivery. In addition, developed new solution offerings and methodologies to grow the capabilities of our practice.
  
  Clients: Netscape, CyberCash, Sprint, US West, Pacific Bell, EBA Systems, Logitech, Hewlett-Packard, University of California, San Francisco Chronicle, etc

• Advisory Board / Consulting Partner

  Bedrock Inc. / Libida.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

• Sr. Collaboration Architect/Software Integration Engineer

  Intraspect Software - acquired by Vignette

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

  Intraspect Software (purchased by Vignette) provided collaborative knowledge sharing and virtual workspace solutions to the professional services, advertising & media, and financial services industries.As Senior Collaboration Architect, I was charged with performing complete project life-cycle and pre-/post-sales support for integrating the web-based collaboration/portal server w/customers' back-end systems; developing new business and servicing existing client base through consultative selling; developing custom applications using template languages and API programming (Java/Python, etc); creating technical documentation; project management; documenting customer application configurations and solutions; and providing account status reports. Used XML, Python, Jython, and other languages depending upon the clients' existing architecture to facilitate integration. (On assignment to KPMG - in London, England, a major telecommunications company - in Zurich, Switzerland, etc)

• Consultant

  Logitech

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; LOGI; Computer Hardware industry)

  2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

  Logitech (Marketing, Internet Communications) , Fremont, California
  Installed/Administered ColdFusion on UNIX Solaris w/Netscape Enterprise Server to support multiple global e-commerce applications. Developed/Maintained B2C e-Commerce application using ColdFusion, JavaScript, and Oracle.
  
  Implemented internationalization and localization.
  
  Recommended source control, stress-testing/load balancing and web site log analysis solutions.

• Research Analytics Manager - Consultant

  Engage - I/PRO

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  I/PRO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Engage, Inc., a CMGi operating compn (Now acquired), San Francisco, CA
  Implement and manage the InfoCharger data mining technology to efficiently process and analyze billions of Web hits and 100's of millions of page views per day for various clients. Developed Python and database applications to analyze web logs and e-commerce databases. Managed a team of data mining engineers and acted as vendor liaison.
  
  Managed full lifecycle application development projects, project scope, budget, and client expectations; primary client contact once engaged. Provided architecture review, and project milestone sessions for project sponsors. Conducted and lead analysis/requirements workshops and interviews with key stakeholders at client companies. Managed and delegated responsibilities and priorities to technical lead and development staff. Prepared formal documentation (requirements and design specifications). Provided mentoring for project team members

• Consultant

  Encirq

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Encirq, San Francisco, CA, Start-up
  Developed an internal web-based application using ColdFusion, MS-SQL Server, and ColdFusion Studio on an NT platform in the development environment and ColdFusion and Oracle on Solaris Unix as the production platform. The application is used by advertisers and banks to facilitate uploading of logos and banner ads which integrate with the personalized, targeted marketing product. Also used by internal staff to review the data before pushing it to the production data warehouse.

• Co-Founder/CTO

  Lenos Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years)

  1999, STARTUP - Today, a PROFITABLE Company.
  
  Assessed marketing opportunities and target markets, gathered competitors intelligence, generated sales leads, recruited Board members, VC presentations, etc.
  
  Designed and developed version 1 of a meetings/conference Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product using FuseBox methodology, XML to return a CF structure containing the XML document, and session management. Including registration, log-in, meetings website builder, search/add, on-line exhibitor registration form creator, exhibitor lead generation site creator, on-line attendee registration form creator, agenda/sections/tracks/sessions creator, attendee agenda builder, calendar/schedule tool, address book, and expense tracker.
  
  Went forward with our vision of Lenos offering a hosted service to take an event management system beyond registration and logistics into one that provides CRM capabilities.

• Consultant

  Eba Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Startup
  Developed ColdFusion applications while taking into consideration limitations of palm pilots and cellular phones displays. The application tapped into the backend database of Siebel Sales Force Automation in order to provide field sales reps the ability to have access to real-time inventory, pricing, etc information.

• Consultant through FRS Associates, LLC

  Winkler Advertising

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  A Winkler Advertising spin-off, TeamToolz, Inc., a marketing collaboration/workflow software company which was acquired by Artesia Technologies, a leading digital asset management company, in the fall of 2001. TeamToolz software was named one of the most innovative products of the year by Seybold.
  
  Very fun and rewarding Informix/Netscape Live Wire Pro/ColdFusion-based collaboration and workflow product.

• Consultant through FRS Associates, LLC

  U S WEST

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; USW; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  Team Intranet Architect in Littleton, CO
  U S West had over 80 CLECs in 14 states and they needed a way to quickly analyze and report on more than 250 service measures in order to facilitate legal and regulatory processes. Responsible for conceptual and physical design architecture as well as development of a secure business-focused intranet tapping into a multi-dimensional database, using the components of SAS including SQL, statistical procedures, SAS/IntrNet, and SAS/MDDB (SAS/EIS interface).

• Consultant

  Chastain Research Group

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

• Sr. SAS Programmer Consultant

  AT&T

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  November 1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  Formerly named, Pacific Bell in San Ramon, California. Developed reporting software to process terabytes and terabytes of residential and business telecommunications data using the SAS Software in an MVS mainframe environment with JCL, etc.

• Sr. Project Manager Type

  Syntex

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  1992 — 1995 (3 years)

  At Syntex/Roche BioSciences specialized in kidney, liver, and heart transplant clincal trials for New Drug Appications (NDAs). Charged with the responsibilities of a Sr. Project Manager supervising both permanent and contract SAS developers including prioritization, scheduling, interviewing, hiring, perfomance appraisals, etc
  
  Member of the International Global Clinical Trials team which included our UK counterparts; Creation and Implementation of SOPs; project management, etc.

• Manager, SAS Programming

  Fujisawa

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years)

  At Fujisawa USA, specialized in liver, kidney, and heart transplant studies. Charged with creating a SAS Programming Department from the ground up. This entailed hiring, mentoring, and assessing full-time staff members and contractors; building relationships with technical recruiters and Clinical Contract Research Organizations (CROs) such as Quintiles; recommending hardware/software solutions; creating Standard Operating Procedures; creating standard applications and macros/subroutines; and project management. including budgets; and building scalable and repeatable software development methodologies.
  
  Succeeded in delivering a sustainable, productive, and efficient department.

• Senior Programmer Analyst

  Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WLA; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  1988 — 1990 (2 years)

  Was Parke-Davis and then Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert

• SAS Statistical Programmer

  Allergan Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AGN; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  1987 — 1988 (1 year)

  Worked as a Statistical Programmer for the Eye and Skin Care Clinical Trials. Responsible for creating ad hoc and standard regulatory reports and listings. Instrumental in creating the Computer-Assisted NDA (CANDA) Task Force with the long-term goal of a paper-less NDA.

• SAS Programmer

  CooperVision

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  1986 — 1987 (1 year)

• Statistician/SAS Programmer

  National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  1983 — 1986 (3 years)

  Analyzing data from non-profit community-based programs using SAS.

Faith Sloan’s Education

• Argosy University Dallas

  MBA, Finance, 2008 — 2009 (expected)

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  MBA, Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate, 2008 — 2009 (expected)

• University of Southern California

  M.S., (Information) Systems Management, 1989 — 1991

• University of Illinois at Chicago

  B.S., Quantitative Methods (Business and Statistics), 1977 — 1983

• Someplace on Earth

  Diploma, General Studies and Science Stuff, 1901 — 1977

  Activities and Societies:

  Loner and Valedictorian
  Hung around and mentored by the principal. Joan and my favorite instructor, Cheryl. They counseled me regularly and took me to expensive restaurants and awesome theatre. Additional mentors: Mike (took me to Evanston to see my first university - Northwestern University. I opted not to attend), Michael (taught me trigonometry in his spare time).

Additional Information

Faith Sloan’s Websites:

• A few Papers written by me
• The Best WebHost on the Net
• Loans That Change Lives...

Faith Sloan’s Interests:

family, eating, drinking, laughing, sushi, global travel, CH Angel, New technology,esoteric, design patterns, methodologies, Open Source software; post-modernism and Christianity, object models, strategies, patterns, new ventures, entrepreneurialship, did i say, family? yes, family again...

Faith Sloan’s Groups:

Former member,Society of Women Engineers (SWE),
Section Chair for SUGI Conferences,
Program Chair for WUSS 8th Annual Conference,
American Bar Association (ABA) TechShow Invited Speaker.
Have graced the pages of national medium such as USA World Today,
WebGrlrls 1996-1997 President,
Women on the Web (WOW) 1997 President, Open Networker, LION, TransCAP Foundation, Digital Clubhouse Network Silicon Valley, Foodies, Dave Mendoza and SixDegrees, ThinkLink, DallasBlue Executives, IASA, Linking Power Forum

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (23,000+ members)
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Obama for America
•    OpenNetworkers.info < 50.000+ members across 60 social networks >
•    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
•    Foodies
•    Sustainability Working Group
•    Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
•    Education in Developing Countries
•    Success Minded African Americans

Faith Sloan’s Honors:

H.S. Class Validectorian (I had no life)

A few Best Contributed Paper and Best Invited Paper awards from past SUGI conferences. And of course, being a member of the winning team of SAS Bowl!
Western Users of SAS Software, Conference Co-Chair, 1997

Played on many state's top Women's Rugby teams and won many awards as a National Physique Committee (NPC) and Unity Games amateur bodybuilder from the states to Amsterdam.

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Papers written (incomplete list):

SUGI25 Introduction to Dynamic Web Publishing
SUGI24 SAS Software and the World Wide Web: Simplified
SUGI24 Rocky Mountain Web: Telecom Network Interconnection Quality Measurements
SUGI23 SAS/IntrNet Software: JConnect and Jtunnel Dance with SAS/CONNECT Software
SUGI22 Developing a PC SAS World Wide Web Database System
SUGI18 Is the System Analysis Phase Really Necessary?
SUGI19 Biostatistics Study Management System Using SAS/AF® Software FRAME Entry
SUGInn Database Normalization vs DeNormalization

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