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Ken Gary
1172 North Calhan Ave
Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
Email: kengary@kencinnus.com

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Kencinnus Design ::

1172 North Calhan Ave
Castle Rock, Colorado
80104

January 1998 to Present

Self Employed Part-Time

www.kencinnus.com

Since I built my first web page in 1995 I’ve become involved with numerous web design projects eventually free-lancing on a part-time basis beginning in early 1998. Every project I've worked on has given me new skills that are useful for dealing with people and for choosing the correct design approach for achieving the goals set for their web sites. My clients are people with whom I've become closely familiar and whose businesses I have come to understand. As a result I have been able to help guide their web strategies; from choosing and dealing with their domain registration and web site hosting to providing technical support as necessary to establish their web presence. Each of their sites is considered to be a success when the target audience can use it to accomplish the purpose of their visit with ease.

I am well versed in most of the web-based languages, tools, and environments necessary to prototype or otherwise implement my client’s requirements. I’m fluent in the latest standards of HTML and CSS. I’m experienced in PHP3, Perl, Javascript, Java, and MySql database. I’m currently picking up skills in Dynamic HTML and XML and I keep my eye on other emerging web technologies. I’m a passable graphics designer using Adobe Photoshop 5.5 or Microsoft Image Composer. I know that the web imposes certain restrictions on graphics including a limited color pallet and the requirements that graphics download quickly. I know how to work within these limitations. For web page authoring and site management I’ve used everything from Windows Wordpad (my favorite) through Microsoft Front Page 98 and Macromedia's Dream Weaver. I’ve worked on Windows NT and Unix platforms and am familiar with the Apache web server. Most importantly I know that the technology of the Internet changes rapidly and it is my duty to keep up.

I have designed, implemented and maintain the web sites listed below:

Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. ::

8042 S. Grant Way
Littleton, CO 80122
303-730-8193 x128

June 2000 to Present

Web/IT Developer

www.sonlight.com

At Sonlight Curriculum, my job title is Web/IT Developer, but I wear a lot of "hats" as necessary — including duties that range from what a Webmaster to a Chief Technical Officer does in some cases.

I've redesigned their web site, creating a template system using a combination of validated HTML 4.0, CSS, XSSI and PHP3. With the template system it will be very easy to convert to XHTML 1.0 (or anything else as desired) with a minimum of time (and money). The redesign's main purpose was to create a unique brand identity and to ensure that every page on the site looked the same and had the same navigation. Other benefits to the redesign were that I was able to remove a lot of bloated HTML code so that the site loads faster and that the content was optimized for search engines. They find the content on a page before they find the site's navigation. I created a server-side script to serve a unique CSS file to each browser as necessary so that the site looks relatively the same on all platforms and all browsers.

The Sonlight Forums is a set of WebBBS scripts (written in Perl and running on a Unix platform) that make up an intimate homeschool community. I'm responsible for ensuring that they run smoothly and for adding new forums as the community grows. One of the things that I've done is to tie the curriculum forums to the actual basic curriculum packages that Sonlight sells in their Sonlight Curriculum Online Purchasing System (SCOPS) which has been a big help to people before they buy who want to ask questions about the level of curriculum they're interested in and to get answers from the people who use it.

The original SCOPS was hosted on the same server as the rest of our site. It really didn't handle the volume of traffic we have and it wasn't tightly integrated with our business system, Southware. Even though it had quite a few unique features that gave our site many advantages, we still needed to replace it.

I began looking for a replacement for our business system and eventually hired a consultant who specialized in narrowing down the choices to the best three. We had each of those three demonstrate their products to us and had settled on one when we heard about a company that offered a hosted product that integrated with the business system we already had. We felt it wise to keep costs down and avoid the time it would take to learn a new business system so we signed up for their product and had them customize it for us.

Other things that I do for Sonlight are researching and ordering new hardware and software products and services as needed. I manage and coordinate the work that our vendors do to keep our IT infrastructure up-to-date and working properly. I learn from them and perform the small day-to-day tasks that come up, but call them in for the larger, more complicated tasks that they specialize in. I teach as much about these systems to the rest of the Sonlight staff as possible. Using the vendors for their skills and teaching staff to do for themselves leaves me with more time to do what I can do best.

Booz•Allen & Hamilton ::

Houston, TX

October 1995 to June 2000

Senior Consultant/II

www.bah.com
www.raytheon.com

I've worked as the lead engineer on the Space-to-Space Communication System (SSCS) upgrade to the Space Shuttle simulator at NASA's Johnson Space Center as a team member with Raytheon (formerly Hughes Aircraft):

Responsible for all delivery milestones for this project including the design and implementation of Audio Communication model changes in the Shuttle Mission Training Facility (SMTF). These changes are a result of the real-world upgrade from the current UHF radios used between the shuttle orbiter and up to two EVA crewmembers to a new RF radio system used between the shuttle orbiter, the space station and as many as five EVA crewmembers.
Responsible for defining and coordinating the interface between the Space-to-Space Orbiter Radio (SSOR) software models with the Vehicle Audio Distribution System (VADS) modifications that this upgrade requires in the SMTF. The VADS system is being updated by United Space Alliance (USA) and therefore I work with their software engineers to coordinate the interface and the integration schedule for this project.
Responsible for defining and coordinating the interface between the SSOR software models in the SMTF with the Space-to-Space Station Radio (SSSR) software models in the Space Station Training Facility (SSTF). Another department at Raytheon is writing the SSSR models on the SSTF.
Responsible for meeting with the NASA Training Division representative concerning clarification of requirements for simulator models and instructor displays on this project.

Previously I worked on the Multifunction Electronic Display System (MEDS) upgrade to the Space Shuttle simulator at Johnson Space Center as a team member with Hughes Aircraft (formerly CAE Link):

Developed a C++ software application to control a Dynair Series-36 video switcher from a Motorola based UNIX platform over an RS-232 connection.
Updated instructor display pages for the new MEDS hardware configuration. This involved updating existing UNISYS Aydin page format code and implementing new C and SAMMI page format code, which resides within an X-Windows environment on a Silicon Graphics machine.
Provided detailed design inputs for software updates required for the MEDS upgrade.
Presented design reviews and training classes to managers, co-workers and NASA representatives.
Responsible for creating and implementing software symbol dictionary and data file updates for the new MEDS hardware upgrade.

I have designed and implemented and the Houston office web pages on Booz•Allen & Hamilton's public web site at www.bah.com/houston.

United Space Alliance ::

formerly
UNISYS Space Systems Division

Houston, TX

February 1986 to September 1995

Senior Software Engineer

www.unitedspacealliance.com

My responsibilities included developing and maintaining software for the NASA Integrated Shuttle Mission Training Facility at the Johnson Space Center:

Learned HTML syntax and the Mosaic browser plus early versions of WYSIWYG editors such as HoTMetaL and Hot Dog as part of ongoing training in new technologies. We began creating departmental web sites as part of what would later become the company's intranet.
Lead Engineer for maintenance of the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator Vehicle Audio Distribution system that provides digital voice communications between the astronauts and the training instructors during astronaut training simulations. This system was developed at CAE Link (formerly Singer - Link Flight Simulation).
Project leader for the MCC Command Generator upgrade, which is a PC based ADA application that provides uplink telemetry commands to the simulators.
Wrote and maintained a portion of over a million lines of offline software used by the Simulation Applications department to create and configure the Shuttle Mission Simulator software at NASA.
Created an automated software submittal and regression-checking tool called Electro-SMURF that was adapted by the entire department.
Performed software moves, compiles, installations and distributions for integration into development test and master software baselines.

Singer - Link Flight Simulation Division ::

Houston, TX

October 1983 to February 1986

Computer Operator II

I started my computer career operating and maintaining three UNISYS 1100/44 computer systems, one UNISYS 1100/91 system, one IBM 4341 with MVS/JES operating systems, one Perkin Elmer 8/32, one Concurrent 3254, and one Calcomp 925 Plotter computer system. I have also trained operators and worked with secure mode operations.

Computer Skills ::

SKILL NAME
SKILL LEVEL
EXPERIENCE

Ada
Intermediate
1994-1996

C
Expert
1985-2000

C++
Intermediate
1995-1998

Cascading Style Sheets
Expert
2000-Present

Cold Fusion
Intermediate
1998-1999

Concurrent CSS
Expert
1989-1996

FORTRAN
Expert
1984-2000

HTML 4.0
Expert
1995-Present

XHTML 1.0
Expert
2001-Present

Java
Beginner
1998-1999

JavaScript
Intermediate
2000-Present

MySQL
Expert
1999-Present

Perl
Intermediate
1998-Present

PHP3,PHP4
Expert
1999-Present

UNISYS SSG
Expert
1986-2000

XML
Beginner
2000-Present

Adobe PhotoShop 5.5,6.0
Intermediate
2000-Present

Alsys ActiveAda
Intermediate
1995-1996

DreamWeaver
Intermediate
2000-Present

MS FrontPage 98
Expert
1998-1999

MS Office 95/97/2000
Expert
1995-Present

(Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access)

SAMMI Page Format
Expert
1995-2000

VxWorks
Beginner
1995-1998

Apache Web Server
Intermediate
1995-Present

Concurrent 8/32-3280
Expert
1983-2000

MS Windows and NT
Expert User
1986-Present

UNISYS 1100/40-1100/90
Expert
1983-2000

UNIX
Intermediate
1990-Present

(Motorola Based and Silicon Graphics)

Education ::

WEBAUSTIN '99 Seminar - Austin, Texas

BOOZ•ALLEN & HAMILTON - Houston, Texas
Client Presentations

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT CLEAR LAKE CITY - Clear Lake City, Texas
BA, Computer Information Systems

SAN JACINTO JUNIOR COLLEGE SOUTH CAMPUS - Houston, Texas
AA, Business Data Processing

CLEAR CREEK HIGH SCHOOL - League City, Texas
High School Diploma

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