o3
In July, 2007, I started O3 Consulting to provide Internet consulting and website development. As of the end of 2024, I am retired except for supporting several not-for-profit websites. Read more at O3.consulting.
other work
From June, 2000 to July, 2007, I worked at Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. Web Services, where I served as an Applications Administrator and Web Architect for one year each and as Manager for five years. While there, I created web applications and was an advocate for usability, information architecture and security.
Before LRS, I worked at St. John’s Hospital, where I helped to create the first hospital intranet, including a change request system and many small intranet applications. Before that, I supported a conventional loan origination division for a nationwide mortgage banking company, creating an award-winning collateral control system, a bar-coded label system and participated in several multi-division technology projects. And before that I worked for a nationwide life insurance company, where I supported agents’ contract file and commission payments and wrote an EDI for mutual funds.
A long, long time ago, I served an Applied Study Term in Lee Bertinoli’s basement, where I (mostly) blissfully ported games from System V to BSD Unix for AthenaNet. I’ve been in the business world since 1977, running two home-based businesses before going back to school to earn a bachelor’s degree.
interests
My professional and technical interests include usability, information architecture, agile & open source development, organizational & small group behavior, and community organizing. I’m active in Springfield ICON, Iles Park Neighborhood Association and ALUUC.
My personal interests include spending time with my family & friends, travel, photography, reading, gardening with native plants, fixing up old houses, kayaking & camping.
Read about my garden and the empty lot next door at nativeurban.garden.
Read about travel and other stuff at nephret.com.
education
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, 2000 University of Illinois at Springfield
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, with a concentration in Computer Science, 1990 University of Illinois at Springfield With Honors
