Joshua's bio

PROFILE
Project management and production for information technology and new media environments. Interface and instructional material authoring and design. Internet and intranet site design and development. Process and workflow analysis for integration and strategy.

SKILLS - AT - A - GLANCE

o Project Management - Internet/Intranet/Extranet/Software Development

o Networking Protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, Appletalk, IPX

o Operating Systems - Linux/Unix, Macintosh, Windows95/NT 4.0

o Databases - Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, MSQL, Filemaker Pro

o Programming, Scripting & Markup Languages+ - HTML (including tables, frames and CCS) , XML, XSL, Perl(5), Usertalk, Javascript, C, Java, SED, AWK, Applescript, SQL, various Unix shells.

+N.B. I am not a 'programmer's programmer. What a conductor is to a composer, I am to a programmer.

o Help Desk/Employee Training - Mac/PC desktop and network support, ISP Customer support for Mac and PC users.

o Webservers - Setup, Configuration & Administration of Apache, Webstar, QuidProQuo, Netscape, Sun Webserver

o Applications (partial list) - BBEdit, Dreamweaver, Homesite, Cyberstudio, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Debabelizer

o Website Architecture, Development, Management, Content Editing

o Other Technologies - Meta-HTML, PHP/FI, Realmedia (Audio, Video), Quicktime

o Self-starter, Responsible, Organized, Directed, Efficient

o Excellent Spoken and Written Communication

EMPLOYMENT

Current - INTERNET PROGRAM MANAGER
ScanSoft, Inc., a Xerox Company (Peabody, MA)

ScanSoft produces OCR/scanning software. Our products include TextBridge Pro (OCR) and Pagis Pro (scanning suite). In this role, I am responsible for all aspects and components of ScanSoft's web presence:

WEBSITE COMPONENTS
o product information
o product/customer support & solutions
o electronic commerce
o complementary software products (from other companies)
o hardware partners

RESPONSIBILITIES
o project strategy
o project management
o web marketing
o choose platforms and web-related software
o specify, hire and manage in-house and third party development resources

April 1998-September 1998 - INTERNET SERVICES STRATEGIST
Christian Book Distributors (Peabody, MA)

CBD is the leading retail catalog company serving the Christian market. As ISS, I architected a phased strategy for converting an outsourced, off-site e-commerce website into an in-house, on-site one. During the course of the project, I was accountable for all aspects of CBD's web-based business including: project development/management, hardware/software purchasing, scheduling, promotion, content development, staffing (internal and third party). Conducting Internet training seminars for the customer service staff.

July 1997-April 1998 - SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
USWeb Boston Practice (Waltham, MA)

Projects:

WSI Corporation PilotBrief website- Project managed the design and implementation of a subscription only e-commerce weather website product for Airline Pilots. Technology included: Java, Netscape SuiteSpot server, NetDynamics, Oracle8 and custom built applications written in C.

Ethical Culture Fieldston School- Managed the design an implementation of the school's Internet Website. The site is hosted in-house on an NT4.0 server running IIS and includes some javascript.

Saint Vincents Hospital- Managed the design an implementation of the hospital's Internet Website. The site is hosted by USWeb on a shared Unix server (running Apache 1.2.6) and includes some javascript.

ICOMS E-commerce providers- Managed USWeb Engineers providing Unix systems administration work for ICOMS.

Johnson and Johnson Professional Inc.- Architected a phased plan to create and deploy a full-featured Internet website for the Codman division of JJPI.

General Responsibilities on all projects:
o Client point of contact
o Determine project scope
o Write project plans, statements of work, process documentation, milestone schedules, etc.
o Co-ordinate website design, construction, maintenance including any backend applications
o Confer with and guide website designers and back-end application engineers
o Co-ordinate/manage any relationships with third party vendors
o Research new Internet applications and tools
o Write post-mortems for all projects
o Train and mentor website staff at clients' office locations

1995-1997 - INTERNET SERVICES MANAGER
New Mass Media, Inc., (Hatfield, MA)

NMM publishes six alternative weekly newspapers serving 2.1 million readers from Westchester county, NY to Southern Vermont. What began in October 1995 as a project to place the newspapers' film listings on line evolved into a project to create a fully developed online presence for all six newspapers, including some of their main advertisers. The challenge was to come up with a low-cost technical strategy to build the online product with minimal impact on the print product. While working with NMM, my responsibilities included:

o Strategic planning
o Project planning
o Hiring and oversight of all third party developers
o Webserver administration
o Internal network administration
o Oversight of TCP/IP connectivity issues for all office locations
o Consultation on website architecture
o Webpage design
o Image and sound file (realaudio) processing
o Msql database administration
o Employee training

1992-1994 - NETWORK SYSTEMS ADMINSTRATOR/TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST
Saatchi and Saatchi/BSB Worldwide (Budapest, Hungary )

Responsibilities:
Install/Administer Novell 3.x network: 1 WAN comprised of 3 LANS
All PC and Macintosh Desktop support: hardware and applications
Oversight and implementation of all communications networking for the Budapest office's three locations.

Prior to 1994 - MUSIC DIRECTOR/ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR
(separate resume / repertoire list on request.)
ACCOMPANIST/REHEARSAL PIANIST
(separate resume / repertoire list on request.)
Instrumental Skills/Teaching Experience
(separate resume on request.)

EDUCATION
1987-1989 Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Fine Arts in Conducting.
1979-1983 University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition.

LANGUAGES/OTHER INTERESTS
Speak / write / read Hungarian and German on an intermediate level
Read Spanish, Italian and French on an intermediate level
Speak Spanish, Italian and French on an elementary level
Founder of the Boston Frontier Users Group
Amateur Mongolist
Member of the Boston Village Gamelan, a Javanese Musical Ensemble
Practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga