Commissioned to design and build a custom, semi-automated framework for back-office tracking of multi-site business activites in construction processes. Stakeholders cancelled before the full integration PoC was ready; well-known old lessons re-learned.

Researched, designed, and built a cloud-based intelligent platform that augments Peachtree’s workflow functionality for certain types of small businesses.

Sales orders and their various states with respect to unique, site-local processes are not visible in the lower-end of the Sage family. My solution is triggered to intercept the Client’s information flow, and provides a web-based work-tracking augmentation suitable for manufacturing and highly customized service workflows.

More specific details soon.

This project was probably one of the more meaningful ones I have worked on, because of its significance to public safety and the dashboards’ decision-support potential. I learned a great deal about U.S. fire service, and was futher rewarded by meeting some dedicated technology professionals working in the context of public safety and computer-aided dispatch operations.

The project is archived since (1) I am no longer employed to the department that sponsored it, and (2) the last I heard, a supporting vendor’s systems went offline, leaving the dashboard systems inoperable. It is possible that my former employers are continuing to develop it.

I still look back at this accomplishment with pride. The job required rapid insight into intended application behavior and design logic before the application existed. There were no in-person meetings, just a few phone calls. End-user requests were provided “on paper” (so to speak—there were spreadsheets, but no UML). The emergency delivery was “third-normalized” (3NF) SQL code that was validated, accepted, and imported as the core model for a global logistics application. Looking back, this success was also greatly attributable to the person(s) who articulated the requirements without UML or specialized software.

I’d certainly like to know where this project is today. Working for Info Tech (FL), I devised, coded, and implemented a lightweight PHP/SQL REST application for IT operations knowledge management (with Semantic MediaWiki core). The system was used “in production” to provide automatic, real-time documentation status reports to appropriate stakeholders, with event-triggered publishing and workflows. This application reconciled policies, processes, systems, and detailed IT procedure documentation within a single framework.

Below is a graphic I used to explain the phases and events in the “life” of each article that the system hosted. The graphic itself was designed and produced by Claire, of course :-).

More details shortly…stay tuned.