Phillip Rhodes

Current

President at Fogbeam Labs
Senior Software Engineer at Redwood Software

Past

Software Engineer at Lulu.com
Software Developer at Ineo USA
Application Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer at Ineo USA
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Application Designer at Voice Data Solutions
Assistant Fire Chief at Civietown Volunteer Fire Department
System Operator at Comar

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Education

Wake Technical Community College
Wake Technical Community College
Wake Technical Community College

Brunswick Community College
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Phillip Rhodes’s Summary

Fogbeam Labs is an Information Technology consulting, Management consulting, Information Technology training, and custom application development firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Fogbeam Labs specializes in helping small and medium sized businesses use computer systems and information technology to help their businesses grow, profit and succeed.

At Fogbeam we hold a passionate belief in the importance of entrepreneurship and small business to a strong economy and a society with opportunity for everyone to achieve their dreams. This passion for assisting entrepreneurs and small-business owners in becoming more successful is what keeps us coming to work.

Thanks to a number of advances in the last decade: the rise of open-source software, the advent of Agile development methodologies and Rapid Application Development tools, the emergence of cloud-computing and Software As A Service (SaaS), the evolution of Commodity Clusters, and the development of Social Media and the Social Web, small businesses can now leverage the same technological advances as the largest multi-national behemoths; and can compete on a playing field which is more level than it has ever been.

At Fogbeam Labs, our mission is to help our clients take advantage of these advances to compete successfully in the global, flat-world economy. We specialize in helping our clients understand the latest technological advances by translating the techno-babble and jargon into understandable, down-to-earth terms. By making technology more accessible and helping entrepreneurs and small-business owners find the point where advanced technology and management merge, we help them become leaner, nimbler, more responsive and agile, more efficient and - ultimately - more successful. This is what we call "Cutting Through The Technology Fog."

Phillip Rhodes’s Specialties:

Open source Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Intelligence, Groupware and E-Commerce solutions. We specialize in bringing the making sophisticated technological tools accessible to business of all sizes and degrees of technical sophistication.

Phillip Rhodes’s Experience

President

Fogbeam Labs

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Senior Software Engineer

Redwood Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Software Engineer

Lulu.com

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Software Developer

Ineo USA

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

March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year )

Development of Java based access control, auditing and single-sign-on product focused on the telecom industry.
Application Software Engineer

Red Hat, Inc.

(Public Company; RHAT; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Development of middleware, SOA, ESB for Enterprise Application Integration, using Java, Web Services, BPEL, Spring, Hibernate, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL, JMS and SOAP.
Senior Software Engineer

Ineo USA

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

Developed interpreter for XML based state-machine language used for managing handshaking / connection to remote systems using telnet, ssh and other protocols. Research and development related to multi-factor authentication and authorization using complex role-based permissioning.
Senior Software Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Computer Software industry)

November 2004 — May 2005 (7 months)

Developed portions of the Administrative Console for IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server using Struts, Servlets, EJBs, JSP, HTML, JAAS, WebSphere Application Server and DB/2. Use of JACL, batch language, and various command line tools to enhance and maintain sophisticated installer component, to install Premises Server into an environment consisting of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ and DB/2.
Developed systems management components, in Java, to integrate Premises Server with Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Enterprise Console. Developed custom Tivoli Monitoring resource models, Java ILT providers and logfile adapters for monitoring of the Premises Server using Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Monitoring for DB/2, Tivoli Monitoring for WebSphere MQ and Tivoli Monitoring for WebSphere Application Server. Assembled Software Package Blocks for remote installation of the application using Tivoli Configuration Manager.
Application Designer

Voice Data Solutions

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

April 2000 — November 2004 (4 years 8 months)

Developed mission-critical J2EE e-commerce applications to process millions of dollars of transactions per day, using Servlets, EJBs (session beans, CMP entity beans), JMS, and Struts.
Developed a sophisticated application monitoring / trouble alerting system for hosted applications, using JMS, JBossMQ, EJB, and a rules-based engine
spearheaded an initiative to develop a more formal development process at VDS, to replace the ad-hoc methodology in use. Took initiative in promoting the development and use of re-usable components and frameworks developed using Object-Oriented techniques in Java and C++.
Focused on the development of flexible, loosely-coupled architectures to enable rapid modification and extension of our applications, as well as the ability to quickly adapt the application to a specific customer's requirements with the least required changes to existing code.
Assistant Fire Chief

Civietown Volunteer Fire Department

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Public Safety industry)

May 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 9 months)

Served as Assistant Fire Chief for approximately one and a half years, after having previously held positions as Training Officer, Captain, Lieutenant and Chief Engineer. Administrative duties included assisting in formulating the department budget, interfacing with the County Board of Commissioners and Emergency Management Director on various issues, maintaining records required by local, state and federal agencies and training firefighters.
Operational duties included managing operations at the scene of emergencies in the absence of the Fire Chief. Employed the Incident Command System to coordinate teams to provide appropriate mitigation of various emergency situations. Coordinated with mutual aid departments and outside agencies to ensure efficient activities to prevent loss of life, or property, or damage to the environment.
System Operator

Comar

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Phillip Rhodes’s Education

Wake Technical Community College

A.A.S. , Business Administration , 2007 — 2009

Activities and Societies:

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Wake Technical Community College

A.A.S , High Performance Computing , 2004 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Wake Technical Community College

A.A.S , Computer Programming , 2001 — 2004
Brunswick Community College

A.G.E. , General Education, Computer Programming , 1992 — 1999
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Computer Science 1995 — 1996

Additional Information

Phillip Rhodes’s Websites:

Phillip Rhodes’s Interests:

Software Architecture, Asynchronous Messaging, High Performance Computing, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Service Oriented Architecture, Open Source, Web Services, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Management, Identity Management / Identity Federation, Social Software, Marketing, Management, Agile Processes, Rational Unified Process, Federated Social Networks, FOAF, SIOC, RDF, SAML, OpenID, OAuth, WS-Federation, OpenQabal, OpenSSO

Phillip Rhodes’s Groups:

Libertarian Party, Libertarian Party of North Carolina, IASA, Triangle Linux Users Group, Triangle Java Users Group, RTP Rational Users Group, RTP Websphere Users Group, ACM (past), IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, LinkedInnovators, LinkedIn Lions, Chapel Hill Startup Weekend, Chapel Hill Startup Weekend, Entrepreneurship & Social Entrepreneurship Meetup #11, Roller Dev List, OpenQabal, Entrepreneurship & Social Entrepreneurship Meetup #13, Raleigh LinkedIn Live, Twitter, IT Professionals Group