Bachelor's of Science
in Computer Science Information Systems

1999
Marist College – Poughkeepsie, New York
Learned and utilized Systems Analysis and Design Methodology, Database design concepts, general business concepts, computer programming theories and practical application, and computer hardware mechanisms. [www.marist.edu]

High School Diploma,
Regents Diploma

1995
Hunter College High School – New York, New York
Accelerated high school which required entrance exam. College credit required for graduation.
[heimdall.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/]

Web design and programming.

My work objective is to acquire a position in a stable, challenging, and fun environment where the breadth of projects is large, and my expertise will be utilized and sharpened.

My goal is to create higly usable and fast loading web sites that effectively convey the content presented. This should be accomplished using clean code that is fully cross browser compatible. If development time and money does allow though, the ideal is to create a dedicated version for each platform and serve it dynamically.

February 2001 - present
De Beers Jewelers – Bayside, New York
Consultation about the long term role and integration of database and accounting systems. Planning of database integration with website frontend. Design and incremental implementation of the website. (In Progress) [debeersfinejewelers.com]

Secure Ventures, inc. – New York, New York
Consultation about the role of IS and the web in the company's strategy. Design and implementation of the website. (In Progress) [securevnt.com]

Wax Poetic Productions, inc. – Long Island City, New York
Website's most recent redesign and implementation. [www.waxpoeticproductions.com] Working on addition of new features to site, and redesign. [www.waxpoeticproductions.com/dev]

Wax Poetic Productions, inc. – Long Island City, New York
BluntWraps account
Desinged and implemented the site used to report status to client.
[www.waxpoeticproductions.com/bluntwraps]

Knickerbocker Realty – New York, New York
Troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrading of existing network. This client has a network of old systems, running windows 95 and 98, and had no previous maintenance and no security policies. I am in the process of consulting the client on what technology path to take.

Costello Studios – New York, New York
Troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrading of existing network. Implemented small office network from ground up in Windows 2000 to increase efficiency. Consulted on performance and efficiency enhancing software and practices. Trained employees in maintenance of network to minimize the necessity for outsourced help.

November 1997– present
Wax Poetic Productions, inc. – Long Island City, New York
Responsible for directing the company's use of information technology and online services, creation and implementation of all sites, creation and implementation of technological and information strategy, networking and network administration in a mixed Mac and PC environment.

March 2000 – February 2001
J. Walter Thompson Specialized Communications – New York, New York

Updated internal and external sites with new information and design improvements. This was done for the company intranet web resources site, an internal training site, the main company site [www.jwtworks.com], a human resources info site [www.hrlive.com], and a company diversity program info site [www.diversitydirect.com].

Migrated print version of a quarterly publication to web [www.workingwire.com/winter/2000/ww.htm].

Troubleshooting and HTML/Javascript consultation for graphic designers working on client websites.

Trained person who took over my content engineering and design position prior to switch to client work. Replacement was located in LA offfice (where supervisor was located).

Hired to work on client sites. Implementation of sites designed with my consultation or from specifications. Maintained and update information daily for certain client career sites.

Created simple database in MS Access for project scheduling to be used intermediately prior to a companywide implemented project management system.

June 1999 – March 2000
Manpower – New York, New York

Work as an administrative assistant for investment firms and banks. Occasionally did computer work involving presentations and data entry. Branch office was not geared toward specialized work.

January 1999 - May 1999
Marist College– Long Island City, New York
Information Systems Project Course
Developed website for Wax Poetic Productions, inc. from the ground up using the Systems Development Life Cycle. Managed project team to create content, produce logos and design layouts. Implemented layout, design, and most graphics.

August 1998 – December 1998
Marist College– Long Island City, New York
Russia to 1850 Course
Produced final paper in online form.
[Minin & Pozharsky]

January 1998 – May 1998
Marist College– Long Island City, New York
Database Design Course
Was part of development team for the development of a reservation system for a hotel in Sugerties, NY. In charge of GUI design and implementation using PowerBuilder 4.0. Database was actually put to use at site since one member of team worked there.

In this area I would like to showcase some of the work I've done that may no longer be up, is behind a firewall, or is not accesible live for some reason.

I would also like to note that backing up data is a hard lesson learned. I have lost a lot of data between reports and websites over the past few years. So much so that I have become ultra paranoid and now save in triplicate. I have included a couple of screen shots from old sites where logically I should have the originals up and working, but alas the have been recycled into the universal soup.

De Beers Jewelers Site

Deloitte Print Work Site

Fun City Diner Menu

Gartner Alumni Site

Merill Lynch

McKinsey SouthEast Comp

McKinsey Insight Law Site

Old Dujeous? Site

Secure Ventures, Inc. Site

SCU Internal Training Site

Verizon IS Print Work Site

Viacord Print Proposal microSite

www.mtbr.com

Good resource for researching parts' specs and reliability. Also has a good user run parts exchange.

www.cambriabike.com

Good resource for buying parts.

www.universalcycles.com

Another good place to find inexpensive good parts.

www.undergroundhiphop.com

Name says it..

www.waxpoeticproductions.com

My company. Home of Dujeous?, Jigsaw the Puzzler, DJ Mista Vishus, Hammer Bros., and host to many other artists.

www.theonion.com

Hilarious independent spoof newspaper.

www.phonebashing.com

Madmen in England catching people on the street off guard.

www.geek.com

Good news resource for technology related subjects.

www.tomshardware.com

Great resource for researching computer parts. Has a good tech news page, but is most valuable for testing and reviews.

www.pricewatch.com

The best place to get hardware from the net to upgrade your computer. C'mon don't be scared. It's a metasearch engine of a couple hundred online stores that gives results sorted from cheapest to most expensive.

www.theregister.co.uk

This is a good site to get another perspective on tech news. A lot of it is the same as other sites, but I like getting another viewpoint.

Wax Poetic Productions, inc. is an artist collective that came together because of common interests.  The goal is to give people a chance to be heard who normally wouldn't be afforded that chance.  We break down cultural boundaries through the diversity of our group.  Each of us come from a diferent cultural background, with different talents and specializations.

    Through hard work and dedication we hope to acheive a status that will allow us to become the example of how to run business - free of the traditional constraints, with purity of artistic form.

De Beers Jewelers Site

This is a site in progress for a jewelry store. This is an incremental project that will evolve as we also implement computer based account systems, and a product database on site. The database will tie in to the web front end, and eventually fully automated order processing will be available online.

Deloitte Print Work Site

This site was made while working @ JWT Specialized Communications. It served as a reference of all print work done that year and a showcase for an account manager working with Deloitte.

The goal was easy navigation and fast download. It was made in 2 days initially in HTML.

Old Dujeous? Site

This site was the iteration 1.2 of the Dujeous? website. This served as the initial online presence of Wax Poetic Productions.

Fun City Diner Menu

version 1:

This menu was created for a diner in the Bronx, NY. Two versions were made for printing concerns.

Gartner Alumni Site

Created and maintained a Flash banner on the frontpage with the most recent upcoming events

Updated the weekly biographies.

Updated the images and summaries of the most recent events.

Overall I maintained the site, and suggested and implemented small improvements daily.

McKinsey Insight Law Site

This site was the 2001 version made from the 2000 site. Minor changes were made in layout and look details from the originals.

This was a form added. The form included validation features done in javascript.

McKinsey Southeast Comp

This is a comp for a new site navigation and layout scheme.

Merill Lynch Recruitment Site

Created an HTML version of this Flash frontpage for older browsers.

SCU Internal Training Site

This was a site that I updated and maintained daily. Most of the main navigation pages were done in Flash, and the schedules and forms were HTML.

This is a site in progress for a startup that will be consulting and securing venture capital for startups and small businesses.

Verizon IS Print Work Site

This is a site exhibiting print work done for the department.

This is a microsite exhibiting the most recent print work done for the account.