
President and Principal Architect at International Software Architects
Washington D.C. Metro Area

President and Principal Architect at International Software Architects
Washington D.C. Metro Area
IT industry veteran, software architect, software scientist, trainer, and educator. Over 33 years of experience in all phases of the software development life cycle. Broad and deep experience and knowledge of software development and underlying theoretical foundations of computer science. Strong in both theory and practice of computer science. Have a strong passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. Would like to contribute more to educating future generations of computer scientists and practitioners.
Software Architecture, Software Development, Enterprise Java Development, Relational Database Development, Application Frameworks, Performance Engineering, Performance Modeling, Performance Testing, Computer Science Fundamentals.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
ISA offers consulting and training services in software architecture best practices to international clients.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 2 months)
In the Common Applications Frameworks group of the Research and Development department of VeriSign. Contributing to defining, implementing, and testing applications frameworks to support highly available, robust, high performance, high quality transaction processing systems. Particular emphasis on developing best practices in software architecture, and performance engineering.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
March 2004 — February 2005 (1 year )
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2003 — March 2004 (9 months)
Providing support to the Performance Testing Team for Project Enterprise in analyzing performance testing results and to monitor and determine application and system performance bottlenecks., and to troubleshoot performance issues and problems. Represented the application architects and developers perspective to the performance root-cause analysis task.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 10 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 6 months)
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
(Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year )
(Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year )
Masters , information and computer science , 1973 — 1974
Software Architecture. Software Development. Computing. Science. Technology. Linguistics. Computing Linguistics. Philosophy. History. Learning. Teaching.
IEEE Computer Society, IASA
Sun Certified Java Architect. IBM Certified Solution Provider.