Offering professional design and implementation services for computer application development

Offering professional design and implementation services for computer application development.

Who Am I?

I am a software engineer with more than two decades of experience including both application design and development. I am also a professional author who has published more than two dozen books on computers and computer-programming - not including translations into other languages. Special experience includes extensive development in graphics, optical and electronic imaging systems as well as the design and development of numerous GUI interface systems with an emphasis on human-factor engineering.

Peripatetic by both nature and preference as well as widely traveled, I am able to relocate - when appropriate - but also enjoy the convenience of telecommuting, maintaining a sophisticated local system with high speed Internet access via synchronous satellite.

Because I am more than simply a literate hacker, when not writing software applications or working on books on programming, I also enjoy writing fiction with an emphasis on mysteries. While computers and technology do play a part in many of my plots, the themes hinge on human rather than technical factors.

Prospective publishers and interested readers are welcome to peruse on-line titles including Brother, Can You Spare A Crime, Handcrafted Murder and A Death In Memory.

Background:

Author of two dozen-plus books on computer programming including:

First books introducing object-oriented programming in both Pascal and C++
Programming for DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT (3.1, 3.51, 4.0)
Published by Addison-Wesley, Modern Age Books, O'Riley and Associates, Sybex Press, W. H. Sams, Wrox Press, and Ziff-Davis Press.

Computer industry experience includes:

Designing and directing development of multi-platform hardware and software applications.
Designing and directing development of a pre-Windows, object-oriented GUI for use by the international gem industry.
Designing and developing optical-based manufactured parts measurement and tolerancing systems.
Developing and patenting optical imaging process for gem stones.
Designing and maintaining image database and transmission systems.
Teaching Windows / Windows NT programming for major software companies.
Developing Windows / Windows NT APIs for database interface services (Sybase/Oracle).
Designing and developing network database utility- task management programs.
Designing and directing development of on-line and hard copy product documentation.

Experience in newspaper and publishing industries.

Extensive electronics and computer electronics background.