Publications, Education, Software Tools
This page lists my publications, education, and some of my favorite software tools. This page does not include my salary-based employment or contract-based project work.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please contact me for more information.
Please also see the other parts of my résumé
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Publications
- “The Java EE 5 Tutorial”; Addison-Wesley, 2006, 2008, 2010 (contributing author); ISBN-13: 978-0321490292
- “The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0”; Java Community Process (JCP) specification, April 19, 2006 (contributing editor)
- “Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) 1.0”; World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Note 8, August 2002 (contributing author, editor)
- “XML Pipeline Definition Language Version 1.0”; World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Note 28, February 2002 (contributing editor)
- “Wabi 2: Opening Windows”; Prentice-Hall, 1996 (wrote, illustrated, designed; named a “Best Book of 1996” by Unix Review magazine, June 1997); ISBN-13: 978-0134616179
- “Visual distress signals”; SAIL magazine, December 1980, Volume 11, Issue 12 (writing and photographs for article about safety flares and other visual distress signals)
- “Cross-Atlantic Yacht Race”; Nikon World magazine, January 1977, Volume 9, Number 3 (photographs for article about transatlantic sailboat race)
- “A Seaman They Called ‘Young Boy‘”; Long Island Newsday magazine, April 25, 1976 (photographs and was interviewed for article about transatlantic sailboat race)
Education & coursework
Tufts University
B.A. English
Medford, Massachusetts
1982
- Minor focuses in Fine Arts and Engineering Sciences
- Completed four Independent Studies at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School:
- Animation
- Choreography
- Painting (x2)
- Fulfilled University Language Requirements in German and Spanish
Ab Initio, LLC
Lexington, Massachusetts
2011–2024
- Ongoing coursework and lectures in Co>Operating System, Graphical Development Environment, Technical Repository, Metadata Hub, Express>It, Authorization Gateway, Control>Center, Co>Relate, Query>It, and Active>Data
JPMorgan Chase
Jersey City, New Jersey
2016–2021
- Completed twenty-four courses mandated for software developers
- Completed twenty-seven courses mandated for general employees
Sun University (SunU)
Burlington, Massachusetts
1993–2010
- Ongoing coursework and lectures in Java programming, MySQL development and administration, numerous XML technologies, Solaris operating system administration, enterprise management technologies, and SGML authoring
Software tools
The following are alphabetized lists of some of my favorite software tools. These lists are not comprehensive summaries of all of the software that I have used over the years. If you have questions about my experience with any software that is not listed here, please ask me about it!
Writing & authoring
- Arbortext
- Bear
- Byword
- Drafts
- Editorial
- Emacs
- FrameMaker
- FreeMind
- LibreOffice
- Notepad++
- NoteTab Pro
- oXygen
- Scrivener
- SimpleMind
- Sublime Text
- TEXShop
- TEXstudio
- Ulysses
- vi/vim
- Word
Graphics & illustration
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Amadine
- Concepts
- Focos
- GIMP
- Illustrator
- Inkscape
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
- Pixelmator
- PowerPoint
- Procreate
- Snagit
- Visio
Audio & video
- Audacity
- Camtasia
- Ferrite
- ffmpeg
- GarageBand
- HandBrake
- ID3 Editor
- iMovie
- MakeMKV
- Premiere
- Reaper
- Subler
- TMPGEnc
- Vegas Studio
Scripting & coding
- Bash/KSH/ZSH
- CSS
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Python
Source control & issue tracking
- CVS
- Git
- Jira
- Perforce
- Subversion
Deployment containers & automation
- Ansible
- Docker
- Helm
- Kubernetes
Ab Initio suite
- Active>Data
- Authorization Gateway
- Co>Operating System
- Co>Relate
- Control>Center
- Customer Interaction Platform
- Enterprise Meta>Environment
- Express>It
- Graphical Development Environment
- Metadata Hub
- Query>It
- Technical Repository