Mobile Developer / Designer for Education & Business |
Todd Fincannon |
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I concentrated on developing Windows desktop applications for years, first as a consultant, then as co-founder of an ISV startup in San Francisco. For me, designing products is as much fun as writing the code. I'm always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing. It led me to web application development starting in 1997. I found a natural outlet for my long-time interest in typography and design. At my next startup, I learned how to build high availability web systems from the ground up. I was focused on delivering a great user experience above all else, but I spent many hours in the data center too. These days I am trying to understand where the mobile computing revolution is taking us: somewhere we can't anticipate yet, I'm sure. |
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Selected Projects
Space Station Alpha :: Developed an Android mobile application to predict International Space Station sightings at the user's location using orbital parameters downloaded from NASA.
PropertyBridge platform :: Developed a next-generation web application platform based on a service-oriented architecture using Microsoft .NET 3.5 technologies and a business process management approach.
PropertyBridge applications :: Developed a web application framework for online payments in the multifamily housing vertical market. Supervised construction of customized community manager, resident, and corporate applications. Extended to support an AJAX-based desktop check scanning application.
PropertyBridge network :: Helped develop a high availability data center network for web applications, including hardware specification, a web farm, network load balancing, firewall rules, DNS, and Windows Server 2003 application deployment.
PropertyBridge IVR :: Developed an interactive voice response system for making rent payments over the phone. Hosted at Angel.com using their custom site builder and our own web service for data access and the payment gateway.
GroupShops.com :: Developed an e-commerce site in ASP.NET and SQL Server using the Amazon Web Service and SOAP. Enabled community groups to raise money through the Amazon Associates program by opening an online store with no technical expertise required. No longer online.
DancingSaints.org :: Developed an ASP.NET website promoting a fundraising event with online registration in a SQL Server database. Provided a secure SSL registration form for credit card payments. No longer online.
JhaiCoffee.com :: Set up a shopping cart for Laotian coffee sales with online credit card processing at Wells Fargo. No longer online.
Sacred Dying Vigil Program :: Produced and edited two printed training manuals to support training for volunteers who sit vigil with the dying.
C-COR :: Wrote developer documentation for a cable modem provisioning SOAP web service.
Commercial Title & Escrow :: Developed UI and database in Microsoft Access VBA for a multiuser, secure title insurance application.
Archaeological Resources Technology :: Created the culturalpro.com website for this archaeological consulting firm.
Mountain View Construction :: Created the mvcsandoint.com website for this Idaho custom home builder. No longer online.
Remote Access Manager 4.0 :: Developed web-based HTML UI for an enterprise network management application. The management information was stored in a MySQL database and an LDAP server to implement an enterprise-wide RADIUS authentication service.
Remote Client Manager 1.0 :: Designed UI and developed an application framework in Java using Swing. Network managers used this application to establish remote access policies. Pre-configured client software was delivered to end users with a Java servlet.
Internet LanBridge 1.0 :: Developed Windows UI to configure Internet connection sharing software for the consumer OEM market. Winner of the Windows Magazine WinList best-of-breed award two years in a row. Wrote and produced online help with printed and PDF manuals for end users.
Internet MailBridge 1.0 :: Developed Windows UI to configure this Internet email server for the SOHO market that became part of the Microsoft Small Business Server product. Wrote and produced online help with printed and PDF manuals for end users.
Remote Access Manager 2.0 :: Architected a distributed Windows application based on DCOM. Developed Java AWT UI for local and remote users. Used XML over HTTP for network data transfer.
Remote Access Manager 1.0 :: Developed Windows UI to configure remote access policies for Microsoft RAS servers. Bundled with RAS server hardware from Compaq and U.S. Robotics. Wrote and produced online help with printed and PDF manuals for end users.
Real Software :: Developed Windows utilities for Xircom's pioneering Netwave wireless LAN product. Also developed an NDIS network driver that shipped in the Windows 95 box at launch.
NanoSoft :: Developed Windows petroleum engineering applications under contract to Exxon.
American General :: Wrote the DOS system layer for a suite of life insurance illustration programs used by agents.
Informa :: Developed a DOS terminal emulator, a multiuser bulletin board system, and a Novell file server boot ROM clone.
Lagrange Systems :: Developed a CP/M front end to the U.S. Postal Service's E-COM electronic mail system.
NASA Johnson Space Center :: Rewrote the navigation subsystem for the Shuttle Engineering Simulator from the final specs.
Southwest Data Resources :: Developed a terminal UI framework for accounting applications running on Microdata and Prime minicomputers.
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