Objective
Interested in completing comprehensive web app projects which demand strict discipline in the areas of SEO and PCI compliance. Examples include e-commerce, web client database interfaces, and highly specialized web services.
Profile
Rowland is a creative award-winning software architect with extensive complete life cycle experience with secure data-aware .Net web applications including OEM e-commerce systems. Strong team-building, project management, and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to innovate, assimilate, and communicate ideas articulately.
Experience
ecWare Corporation – Honolulu, HI & Carlsbad, CA 1995 – Present
Chief Software Architect
Responsible for all areas of design, production, testing, deployment, project management, and ongoing change management. Released the first ever online international turnkey e-commerce software product in 1995.
• Adapted and re-invented traditional POS concepts for internet-based deployment of retail sales
• Integrated various technologies including major credit card and shipping industry APIs
• Designed several ancillary components used for everything from facilitating CGI processes (pre-ASP era) to data-aware email systems to monitoring real-time Internet processes
• Received Editor’s Choice Award and 5 Star rating from Ziff-Davis who cited ecWare as “technically superb”
• Received highest ratings from E-Commerce Guide and several top-ranking awards from a multitude of publishers
• Over 10K user licenses sold to a wide variety of businesses, including Hilton Hotels, Zone Perfect, Sony, Nissan, Elmer’s Glue, Technicolor, Reggie Jackson, Xerox, the U.S. Marine Corp
South Pacific Publishing – Honolulu, HI 1993 – 1996
Publisher, Chief Editor
Founded Hawaii’s first high tech publication, PC Currents, in an effort to capitalize on a much needed high tech advertising medium for the state of Hawaii, Guam, Singapore and the Pacific Basin.
• Responsible for overseeing administration, editing, marketing, graphic arts, layout, paste-up, copy writing, and public relations
• Ran high tech product test lab for the evaluation of new high tech products
• Kept current on all cutting edge computer technologies
• Established role as the authority on computer technologies in the Pacific Basin
• Worked closely with government agencies, public schools, and the Maui High Performance Computing Center, home of the world’s second most powerful supercomputer
• Sucessful execution of exit strategy in 1996
Education
Polytechnical Institute – Santa Clara, California
BSEE
Completed an intensified private college course equivalent to Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Maintained a 4.0 grade average.
Special Projects
Various Independent Projects
Web Application Architect
Designed and built numerous web-based software business solutions and web-based data access applications for notable companies and organizations:
• Web Portal - United Nations Association of the United Arab Emirates (UNA-UAE)
• Online Dental Clinic Patient Portal – U.S. Navy
• Morale, Welfare and Recreation Data Collection System – U.S. Marine Corp
• NAF Employment Application System – U.S. Marine Corp
• Online Information and Reservation System – Castle Resorts & Hotels
• Online Insurance Risk Information – Hawaii Insurance Bureau
• Online Commercial Property Listing System – York & Company
• International Payment System Integration – HyperToyo Japan/CyberCash
• Registration and Document Distribution System – Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company
• E-Commerce Gift Registry System – Roth Interactive
• Launched First Windows Web Server (O’Reilly WebSite) in Hawaii – HyperMedia Corp.
• Conducted First Live Internet Payment in Hawaii – Colorcom/CyberCash/Bank of Hawaii
University of Hawaii – Honolulu, Hawaii 1996 – 2001
Course Writer and Casual Lecturer
• Wrote and lectured the official curriculum for a three-part, nine session series on building presentations for the Internet.
• Wrote and lectured a three-day course on using e-commerce for retail.
Certifications
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
Microsoft Certified Partner – Microsoft Corporation
Supporting Windows Server – Microsoft Corporation
Assembly Language Programming – San Jose Vocational Center
Proficiencies
Programming
• OOD / OOP
• Agile Proponent
• ASP / ASP.Net
• ADO / ADO.Net
• VB / VB.Net / C#.Net
• COM / COM+/ DCOM
• HTML / DHTML / CSS
• VBScript / JavaScript / jQuery / PERL
• XML / XSLT
• AJAX
• SQL / T-SQL
Familiar with PHP & MySQL (LAMP) development
Server Admin
• MS Windows Server
• MySQL, MS SQL Server
• MS ISA Server
• MS IIS
• SMTP / POP Servers
• Stats Servers (LiveStats, WebTrends, Google Analytics)
• E-commerce Servers
• Akiva Conference Server
• BlogEngine.Net
• Oracle (experimental)
• LINUX (experimental)
• Apache (experimental)
Miscellaneous
• MS Project
• MS VSS
• MSI, WISE, InstallShield
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Distiller
• Sysinternals Test Tools
• Google Analytics / AdWords / Calendar