Goals

    Impossible Projects

    Have an impossible project? You may need me!
    Please take a look at     Personal Skills Synopsis.

    Consulting Clients

    Database & Network

    Acquire more consulting clients for database and network management.

    Since 1990 our clientele has developed local to the Bay-Shore Area of New Jersey. Small Novel NetWare and Windows NT networks have been installed and multi-user database applications have been installed, set up, and personnel trained. Ongoing support and maintenance has been provided. Also, collaboration is provided to clients when they work with technical support people for proprietary-vertical-market-database applications.

    WWW Marketing - Website & E-Commerce

Acquire more consulting clients for Website & E-Commerce

Since 1986 on-line marketing has developed through computer Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and by 1994 the transition to the World Wide WWW (WWW) was underway. E-Commerce opportunities are sought with new companies that seek to market their products and services via WWW. Fee arrangements are flexible and geared to encourage new growth opportunities.

Home Based Work

Develop home based work opportunities for single mothers and homebound clients of Agape Computer Ministries. This includes all keyboarding:

Typing of manuscripts both in English and foreign languages native to our clients.

Data Entry of any type of data with accuracy ranging from 90% to 99% based on the fee.

Word Processing of papers, thesis, and annual reports including large projects with close deadlines.

Personal Skills Synopsis

  1. Those who know me point out I have the ability to discover order in the midst of chaos. After the discovery, this includes the ability to organize, communicate and get rapid progress in what are otherwise nearly impossible projects.
  2. Unique blend of electrical and mechanical skills. My dad was U.S. Army Signal Corps so I was exposed to significant radio equipment as a young boy. Tests revealed I have significant special skills: puzzles, packing vehicles, drafting, printed circuit board layout, surveying, descriptive geometry, and machine shop all come very easy to me.
  3. Presentation skills developed in Forensic League debate and extemporaneous speaking activities in high school and college. The ability to give a three minute in three minutes.
  4. Graphics arts skills for organization and presentation of technical and non-technical information. Early experience with Ventura Publisher and other Desktop Publishing and Word Processing applications made these approaches part of the tools available. Also, included is the use of Microsoft Office Professional and the Presentation Manager. Recently the website development tools with frames have been added.
  5. Good math skills through integral and differential calculus, statistics and linear programming.
  6. The ability to teach nearly anyone, once the manner in which their mind works to associate things they learn is discovered. Analogies are commonly used to help make the learning fit the student's past experiences..
  7. Computer skills dating back to 1964. BASIC
  8. IBM Clone Personal Computer application program software and hardware specific details are listed below.

Examples:

    1. Write code to combined and enhance data from several public source NJ database files including 2.8 million property tax records for the use of appraisers, attorneys, lenders and individuals.
    2. Develop Fox base code to convert client names and addresses into the import format of Quicken to allow cutting Property Tax Appeal Rebate checks to be drawn on an attorneys trust account.
    3. Microsoft came to a meeting of the ACGNJ in 1987 when the first version of Excel was introduced in the New York metropolitan area. The door prize went home with me and I have been a reasonably proficient user of Excel. Excel allowed me to develop an adjustable rate mortgage audit application the included calling via MODEM the Federal Reserve Board Bulletin Board System to get the rates for the financial instrument to which the mortgage is tied.
    4. The Franklin Institute hired me as a Drexel Coop to package a Title II Chemistry Program to be moved about in a van and presented to Junior and Senior High School Students in the Bradford, PA area. The collection of reactions to be demonstrated had to be determined before their packaging into the van could begin. They had been unable to finish the presentation as it lacked organization and cohesiveness and some of the reactions were not viable because they did not add to the students understanding. Some could not bee seen and others just took too long or were boring or were too involved for the time available. I said all this when asked for an opinion and was asked if I thought I could fix the presentation. Two days later I did a run through of the concept. It was approved and I had it packaged and on the road by the following Monday. The pay off was that I also got to do the presentations. The extra money was greatly needed for school at the point this happened.
    5. I worked for the largest digital and analog computer companies in the world. Then, at the point I was hired out of college, Ford Motor Company was the largest company in the world as measured by gross revenue. My job was to find a way to manage the Preventive Maintenance for the Metuchen Assembly Plant in Edison. Please follow the link above for more details.

Computer Related Information

Formal Computer Training

    1. USMA, West Point

      CadetTRAN was taught at the academy to all cadets for use in batch processing of homework assignments. This is a language similar to assembler and FORTRAN as it was later developed. The course of study and the homework assignments taught fundamentals of program structure.

    2. Drexel

      Drexel operated an IBM 3060 computer for batch processing of homework assignments. Programs were written for analysis of variation of variables for internal combustion engines and analysis of linear programming equations.

    Self Educated

    1. Ford Motor Company - Cards

      What follows deals mainly with the use of mainframe peripheral units including the card punch, sorter, and collator. The constant presence in the data processing center caused me to become very comfortable in the environment. This allowed me to become very familiar with a lot of the ideas about the operation of the computer and the department that I had never be exposed to as a student in a similar facility. I believe this experience allowed me to pick up far more readily

      While at Ford Motor Company 1968 to 1973, a preventive maintenance system with under 500 inspections was replaced with over 10000 individual inspections. The time required to administer the old system was two full-days a week. in contrast the new system took only two half-days per week. During the three years the program was implemented the management team earned more in bonus than they did in salary and the plant performance moved from 23 of 24 assembly plants to number 2. The only plant that did better was new and the maintenance costs were still those of a new facility.

      The scheduling was done by creating 80 column cards for each inspection and sorting out the masters for duplication in the appropriate week of the year - this also deals with seasonal issues. Once a master deck was in hand it was duplicated twice; once for the department and a copy for control. The copy to be issued as sorted by shift and trade and delivered to the general foreman of the shift.

      Cards returned were reviewed for equipment condition, sorted to the order of the control, and compared in the collator to the control deck. Cards not returned were reissued along with the cards for the next week.

      The genius and success of the program came from surprising quarters. First access to the computer was nearly impossible because of its use for production and financial purposes such as billing. Second, the original program used blue line paper that turned to mush in the pockets of the workers in the plant where the heat and perspiration was extreme. Paper when put in shirt pockets would give paper cuts and in tool boxes they came back covered in dirt and grease. So, the shorter cards we liked by the men since they easily fit into shirt pockets. Finally, in an era where messages not to bend, fold, staple, or mutilate the cards were common, I told the men to just do the inspection and not to worry about anything else. out of hundreds of cards per week I would have to replace fewer than ten a week to sort the returns for comparison with the control deck.

      Oddly, management and supervision said it would never work because the union would not go for the program and it was actually the men who wanted it. Everyone knew their jobs were on the line since it was costing more to fix the cars than it would to ship them East from other plants. The bottom two plants were here in NJ and both were warned they had five years to fix the problem or they would be closed down. Metuchen is still running but Mahwah was in fact closed down. Ford even sent my boss to Mahwah to try to save the plant - it was even too much for him.

    2. BASIC from a TRS-80 Pocket Computer I and a Sinclare ZX-80

      Learned BASIC from a TRS-80 Pocket Computer I and a Sinclare ZX-80 to which I interfaced a full-size keyboard and a pair of 5.25" floppy disks. A check book program written in BASIC was modified to allow one hundred categories. Then about 5000 check from eack of two businesses were entered covering a ten year period.

    Computer Subjects (Software)

    I am able to teach the computer application packages listed to all but the most advanced user.

      Basic Concepts
      The basic concepts of the use of a computer with a particular ability to relate with older people. I have found older people are afraid of the computer because they do not understand the concepts. They do not understand how everything can be a file and that is further complicated by the various kinds of files and the use of file name extensions to type them (executable, data, overlays, etc.).

      Hard Disk Organization
      Hard disk organization with the use of batch files and menu systems to allow easy invocation of commonly used applications and processes. This includes backup methods with the use of file compression applications such as ARC, ZIP, ZOO, etc. Also included is the installation and use of nine track streaming tape subsystems.

      Spread Sheets
      Spread sheets such as Lotus 123, SuperCalc, MULTIPLAN, and Microsoft EXCEL; the design of applications including proper initialization codes for output devices such as plotters and laser jet, dot matrix and daisy wheel printers. I developed an automated EXCEL application to audit adjustable rate mortgages with lookups for all the details including the property information, mortgage information and the financial indicator to which the mortgage is tied.

      Desktop Publishing
      Desktop publishing was originally learned in 1987 with particular emphasis on VENTURA Publisher. I have done the ACGNJ News and have two issues as examples. I have been exposed to First Publisher and the desktop publishing capabilities of Word Perfect.

      Word Processors
      Microsoft Word is used almost exclusively for my own work. Also, I have extensive knowledge of Word Star; it was used to prepare a Masters Thesis for a client. My test editor of choice is QEDIT (similar to Brief). I am able to use Word Perfect (both DOS v5.1 and Windows Versions) and Ami-Pro as well as many other shareware packages.

      Computer Communications
      Computer communications with numerous packages Cross Talk (including the Windows version), Q-MODEM, PRO-COMM, BIT-COMM and others.

      I have been a CO-SYSOP on the High Frontier in Holmdel (7393693) and have had a conference at the Club House in Cranford (2722073). I am familiar with TBBS and RBBS computer bulletin board software. I can configure a bulletin board and set up conferences and sub-boards to meet individual needs with the appropriate security levels.

      Integrated Packages
      Integrated packages including GeoWorks, First Choice, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, and Lotus Smart Suite.

      Multi-Tasking & Network Packages

      Multi-user packages including DESQVIEW and Back-and Forth.
      I have machines running:

      Novell NetWare v4.0

IBM's OS/2 and IBM's C++ Package.

Microsoft Windows v3.1,
Microsoft Windows for Workgroups v3.11,
Microsoft Windows 95,
Microsoft Windows 98,
Microsoft Windows NT Server,
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation.

Data Manipulation
I am adept at moving files between machines and different disk file formats. This ability then extends to different application file formats including moving files between different spreadsheets, word processors and databases.

Databases
Aston-Tate’s dBASE II, dBASE III, dBASE III Plus, dBASE IV and several of the xBASE clones including FOX-PLUS and WAMPUM, a shareware
version.

    Computer Equipment (Hardware)

    1. Personal Computing System in Use

      The computers I use personally are presented here separately from the other computers I have available for various projects that are listed below. There are the Windows NT and Novell NetWare files servers along with the desktop systems and the two portable units I use.

      I have a Personal Computing System made up of two groups of four computers each. Each group has a four position KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch that will select one of four computers and connect it to the single keyboard, video monitor and mouse.

      1. Group I

        Pentium 233 w/W95B (workstation)
        486DX-33 w/W95A & Always IN-200 SCSI HD Controller
        486DX-33 w/ Novell NetWare v 4.0
        486DX-33 w/ DOS v6.22 Watson Communications System

      2. Group II

        486DX-33 w/ DOS v6.22 W31 BITCOM Voice Mail System
        486DX-66 w/W95A & Always IN-200 SCSI HD Controller
        586-166 w/ Windows NT Workstation
        586-166 w/ Windows NT Server

      3. AT&T Safari 386SX-20 Laptop 8 MB RAM and a stacked 80 MB hard drive

        DOS 6.22a with Windows for Workgroups v3.11 is used for mobile word processing and as a means of attaching to client desktop computers via LapLink Pro. Most of the utilities and other support information needed is available via fifty (50) cataloged 100 MB Zip Drive Disks carried in a train case to client locations. All other files are available via MODEM either through direct connection to my system accessed in host mode or through the WWW.

      4. Sharp PC1500 Pocket Computer

      This little unit is very handy as a great high powered calculator with the ability to run simple programs in BASIC.

    2. Computer Hardware

      1. TRS-80 Pocket Computer I

        Memorial Day 1983 Radio Shack offered on sale the TRS-80 Pocket Computer I discounted to $149.99 and I could no longer stay out of the modern computer generation.

      2. Sinclair ZX81

        A Sinclair ZX81 with a full sized keyboard and a pair of floppy disk drives. The system was used with a BASIC program to enter and tabulate ten years of my business checks for taxes. Records were subsequently transferred to other systems below.

      3. TRS80 Model I

        Several TRS80 Model I computers configured in different ways. Two of the more unique configurations:

        a set of four 80 track 5.25" (96 TPI) drives

        a pair of 8" floppy drives both with CP/M.

      4. TRS80 Color Computers

        A TRS80 Color Computer I which is a controller of the house electrical system (especially lighting) through the use of BSR modules and controllers. I program controllers for my clientele to their specifications to operate units twenty-four hours a day seven days a week.

        A TRS80 Color Computer III that is running a 10-megabyte CMI hard drive through a host adapter and an XT controller. The operating system for this machine is OS9.

      5. Sharp PC1500 Pocket Computer

        A Sharp PC1500 (TRS80 Pocket Computer III) which is equipped with the printer and a modem. It has been used for remote data acquisition for transfer to another system for processing.

      6. TRS80 Model 100 Laptop Computer

        A TRS80 Model 100 Laptop Computer which is used for notes, address lists, class notes and general use.

      7. Epson Geneva PX8 (CP/M)

        An Epson Geneva PX8 which is used for its portable Word Star and portable SuperCalc for preparation of elaborate estimates on the job site.

      8. CompuPro S100 (CP/M)

        A 20 slot CompuPro S100 with a Wyse200 and a Wyse50 monitor running Concurrent CP/M86 used for general business applications. This machine came with many software applications and since it belonged to a systems and applications programmer it has multiple compilers. It reads MS-DOS 360K diskettes and run generic MSDOS applications.

      9. IBM Based Computers (Inventory of over 100)
        1. PC
        2. PC-XT

          A PC-XT Clone with an expansion box for an additional seven cards and another hard drive. It uses a Multi-Sync EGA monitor with an EVGA EGA controller card. It has a FMB expanded memory card and many other features including a 64K parallel printer buffer.

        3. 286 PC-AT
        4. 386
        5. 486
        6. 586
        7. 686

 

  1. Work Experience
  1. 1985-1999 President & CEO 100% KLEAN, Inc., Aberdeen, NJ

    Deal with the contraction of the economy and the volume of business as major employers of the users of our services move out of the metropolitan area (AT&T, Charles of the Ritz, Squibb, Bell Laboratories and others).

    Develop people to function as area managers responsible for the training and the supervising of new people in their area. Develop a systematic way to add work and especially the workers needed to service our clientele.

    Develop a computer based scheduling and financial control and reporting system to operate the growing business. This included learning to use many different types of microcomputers, their hardware idiosyncrasies, their operating systems and many application programs as presented in the attached detail. It is also responsible for the very heavy involvement in the nation's (world's) oldest Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey.

  2. 1980-1985 President 100% KLEAN, Inc., Aberdeen, N. J.

    Settle with all suppliers of goods and services of the company at locations in Moorestown, Freehold, Matawan, Rahway, Livingston, and Paramus. The arrangements with New Jersey Bell was the most notable because of the heavy use and extreme dependence of the business on telephone services.

    Quickly develop a means of operating with very limited resources including a central scheduling facility for all workers using toll free 800 service, and then, systematically shut down all of the above remote offices.

    Develop the advertising used, the system to monitor the response to the advertising, the changes in our methods to meet the needs of the customer, the training of new personnel, a new contractual arrangement with the workers. One new person was added each year from 1980 to 1984 and two people in 1985 (one of whom is the first woman ever to be associated with the company as a worker).

    Accomplish all of the above very quickly in order to meet the financial commitments made to suppliers consistent with the agreements contained in the settlement in Superior Court.

  3. 1978-1980 President 100% KLEAN, Inc., Aberdeen, N. J.

    Acquired control of the company rather than continue as a minority owner (and franchise owner) with an outsider in control. The founder was unwilling to be involved in an impending legal battle. The "Distributor" for New Jersey, owner the rights to 80% of the New Jersey franchise fees, found it necessary to sue the franchise owners for nonpayment of fees. It took two years working with the attorneys to effect a settlement of this suit in Superior Court of New Jersey. The solution developed forced most of the franchise owners to leave the system.

  4. 1974-1978 Vice-President, 100% KLEAN, Inc., Aberdeen, N. J.

    Acquired a minority interest in 1974. Primary responsibilities were the equipping and training of sixty new franchise owners. Arrange and/or contract for all services and supplies needed for franchise owners at all offices established. The territories include parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut as well as all of New Jersey.

  5. 1973-Now Franchisee, Del Rosso's 100% KLEAN, Matawan, New Jersey

    Purchased a franchise (organized as a sole proprietorship) in Eastern Monmouth County from Red Bank south to the Manasquan River. Developed this business to include six to eight workers depending on the season. One of the workers (an employee of thirteen years) is a deaf mute and this has meant learning how to deal with their special needs and the customer related situations associated with employing a person with such disabilities.

  6. 1972-1973 Ford Motor Company, Automotive Assembly Division, Dearborn, Michigan

    Maintenance Engineer to transport the unique maintenance scheduling techniques developed at the Metuchen plant to the other 23 Assembly plants in continental North America. The Metuchen plant went from second to last to second form best in facility cause for loss of production in three years.

  7. 1968-1972 Ford Motor Company, Metuchen Assembly Plant, Edison, New Jersey

    Maintenance Coordinator responsible for the complete preventive maintenance program of the plant including the appropriate spare parts inventory valued at nearly ten million dollars. Develop, schedule, follow-up the work performed in this area for the three-hundred-fifty-man Plant Engineering Department. Maintenance procedures were prepared for all plant equipment in eighteen different classifications of skilled trades including: electrician, machinist, millwright, pump-man, carpenter, blacksmith, oiler, and vehicle mechanic. Other personnel included one hundred janitors, twenty paint spray booth cleaners, and seventy supervisory personnel (foremen and general foremen).

  8. Prior Work Experience
    1. Before Entering College

      1961 Fifteen (15) months Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Holmdel, N. J.
      Mechanical, electrical & logic drafting for the Electronic Switching System (ESS). ESS includes the fancy telephone features: call waiting, call back, answer call, second line pickup and call redirection, etc.

    2. During Cooperative Education at Drexel:

  1. Education
    1. 1957-1961 Red Bank High School Class of 1961

      Curriculum College Preparatory
      Elective Drafting (3 Years)
      Language Spanish (3 Years) Honor Society

    2. 1962-1964 Drexel Institute of Technology
      1. Major Mechanical Engineering
    3. 1964-1965 U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY

      Section I Math - All Year (two years Calculus in one year)

      Language Portuguese (1 Year)

    4. 1966-1968 Drexel Institute of Technology B.S.M.E.

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering - Class of 1968
Elective Business Administration
Activities Vice-President Student Union
Founder Drexel Debate Society

    Personal Information

      Personal Background Highlights
      I have served on the Board of Directors of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey (ACGNJ) and fulfilled the role of Membership Chairman. Unknown to many, the ACGNJ is the oldest (June, 1973) personal computer group in the world since the Home-brew group (May, 1973 to June, 1996) disbanded two years ago. The 700 member ACGNJ owns and operates The Trenton Computer Festival, Inc., the oldest personal computer festival in the world (June, 1974) which draws around 20,000 people each April.

      I continue to be an avid sailor, especially small high performance (planing) sailboats such as the McAlpen-Downey designed Sidewinder I own. I have participated in, placed well and won races under the Portsmouth Handicap System for rating dissimilar sailboats. I also have had a significant though more moderated interest in both meteorology and astronomy. I currently am restoring a vintage Soling (3-man-Olympic-keel boat) to racing condition. I also have a wind-surfer.

      I am interested in raptors and their environmental needs and have made annual trips since 1983 to the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton, Pennsylvania; it was a featured annual trip for Troop 73 since my tenure as Scoutmaster.

      I have served as Scouting Coordinator for Pack 173 and Troop 73 in Monmouth Council, Boy Scouts of America. I am a counselor for several merit badges including small boat sailing, archery, riflery, personal management and citizenship in the state, country and world. I have served on the Troop 73 committee since 1982, including three years as Scoutmaster from 1984 through 1987, a year as leader of den one in Pack 173, and three years as Scouting Coordinator. I was also asked to serve a year as Cub Master of Troop 126.

      I have been a member of the Jersey Coast Sport Fliers, a group which promotes the activities of radio controlled flying enthusiasts. My especial interest has always been in sailplanes since building my first free flight sailplane with a six-foot wingspan in South America in 1954.

      I have also been a member of the Indian Hill Bowmen of Keyport, New Jersey, a member club of the National Field Archery Association and served as the representative to the state association.

      I am an Army brat and have lived in Korea and Bolivia; I was a Cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point until a prior injury forced my withdrawal.

    Born:

    9 August, 1943 at Brooks General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas

    Residences:

    1943-1957 Lived in the greater Philadelphia Area except for:

    1948-1949 Soul, Korea

    1953-1955 Cochabamba, Bolivia

    1957-1964 171 Pinckney Road, Little Silver, New Jersey

    1964-1968 14 Prince Place, Little Silver, New Jersey

    1968-1980 B3 Fredwood Place, Matawan, N. J. 07747

    1980-1981 31 Buttonwood Place, Hazlet, N. J. 07739

    62 Avondale Lane. Aberdeen, N. J. 07747

    Interests:

    Sailing, Tennis, Archery, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Astronomy, Radio Controlled Aircraft & Boats, Raptors, Business Administration, Business Computer Applications

    Organizations

These are organizations in which I have been a member with significant interest. Those in which the contribution or interest merit comment are discussed in "Personal Background Highlights."

American Institute of Plant Engineers; Brookdale Community College-Business Computer Users Group; Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey-Board of Directors (2 Terms 1986-1990), Membership Chairman; New Jersey Church Computer User's Group-Founder and Director; Indian Hill Bowmen-Representative to State Field Archery Association; Jersey Coast Sport Fliers-Member; Gideon's International-Camp President; Matawan United Methodist Church-Certified Lay Speaker, Lay Leader; Chairman, Work Area on Evangelism; Director, Founder of The Computer WORKSHOP - since September. 1988, Member, Chancel Choir (Bass & Tenor), Aberdeen Environmental Board (1992-1996), Bayshore Regional Environmental Board (1994-1996), Arcadian Chorale (Bass) September, 1999.