STG has been active in promoting the application of XML (Extensible Markup Language) and standards based upon it, including TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and OEB (Open Electronic Book). Compared to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) these standards offer two advantages:

• They promote better separation between the structure and appearance of documents. The benefits include better control of rendering on a variety of devices, and internationalization and accessibility.
• They allow tagging that captures the purpose or meaning of sections of text. The benefit here is improved searching.

In the first two projects described below, XML provided for comprehensive tagging of subject text sections as, e.g. people, places, things, events and concepts:

The Lincoln Log, at http://www.theLincolnLog.org/

was done by STG for The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. I used XML / XSL, PHP, and MySQL to present a searchable archive of Lincoln data.

Monarch, formerly at http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/Monarch

The Monastic Architecture Project, will present a interactive tour of the Abbey at Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. Soissons, France. As my part of this continuing project, I used XML / XSL, PHP, and MySQL to provide searchable access to the Customary, a document dating from the year 1089, which describes ritual and daily life of the time. Both the original Latin text and the English translation are tagged, so that searches may be done in either language, and matches are shown in both.

Teaching Modules, formerly at http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/TMod/

provides a searchable catalog of teaching resource materials, using keywords from a set of controlled vocabularies. Since teaching different subjects has similar but different needs, the fields of a catalog may be configured for each subject area. Written in JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL.

I worked on several Java-based projects at IPD:

• A planning tool for the US Navy, a user-programmable spreadsheet in which each row represents a planned task that is subject to weather constraints, such as visibility and sea conditions, and the columns show forecast intervals. The operator may fold groups of rows into summary tasks, and groups columns into summary intervals.
  For ease of use by both US and allied operators, both the rule-writing and operating displays made extensive use of graphic analog displays (knobs and sliders) with labels and values in either US or Metric system.
• A remote visual command shell, a Java application telnet client, presents a GUI for the remote commands supported, submits the commands, and displays their results. This provided authorized users with internet-based access to some, or all of the commands on the remote system.
  The GUI is generated dynamically, according to a profile describing the commands each user is authorized to run. This provides for access control down to the level of command line options and their values.
• A video game console for casinos, a Java application over Linux. The object oriented design supports configuring various animations, such as spinning slot machine reels and image fades, thus changing the appearance of what are in fact the same games.
  This project occupied a team of eight to ten programmers for a year. Custom Java class hierarchies were developed for game logic, game visuals, and accounting and regulatory requirements.

In addition to my design work, I wrote and presented user training sessions.

I was retained by GE and ARS, the following contractors.

While working for AUTEC, I earned an MS in Computer Science, at the University of Rhode Island.

Also at CSC, I wrote several sections of a public-access telephone information system providing stock quotations, sports results, weather and other types of information.