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Intermediate XML February, 2001

This course is designed to teach programming in XML by example. The course covers upgrading HTML skills to XML, how to use XML with HTML browsers, customizing content, creating tags, validating DTDs, manipulation of XML with scripting and DOM, building 3-tier applications with XML, and use of XML namespace to extend documents.

Basic XML January, 2001

This course covers what XML is and how it is used to solve real world problems. Topics covered are rules and techniques for creating well-formed and valid XML documents based on the official specification of the W3, how to display XML documents using CSS and XSL, how to display XML through HTML using databinding and DOM.

Advanced Active Server Pages July, 2000

This course covers application development in Active Server Pages including data access with ADO, OLE SB, XML and RDS. Developing components with ASP and features of COM+ is covered as well as improving performance and security of web pages.

Site Server Course Boston University Corporate Education, April, 2000

The course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement, support, maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot Web sites using Site Server. This course will cover some basic Web site development tasks requiring knowledge of hypertext markup language (HTML) and Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition

Plumtree Portal Training March, 2000

This course is intended to provide a basic understanding of the Plumtree Corporate Portal product and component architecture and demonstrate understanding using key advanced features, such as Gadgets and Web Administration. Hands-on lab exercises reinforce the knowledge transfer in the course.

Boston University, March 99-Feb 2000 Boston, MA Client/Server Application Developer Certificate Program Boston University, Computer Career Programs,. Boston, MA March 99-Feb 2000

Gained experience as a Software Developer designing, developing and testing client server applications using PowerBuilder, SQL, Oracle, Visual Basic, HTML, CGI and JavaScript in a Novell NetWare environment.

	Designed, developed and tested a Car Rental relational database application utilizing PowerBuilder6.5 as the client front end communicating with an Oracle Server. This application provides functionality for on-line query and table maintenance required to make reservations, reserve rentals, check-in, checkout, and payments. Based on user requirements supplied, determined attributes and relationships, developed entity relation diagrams. As a key member of the Development Team, designed and developed the end user graphical interface (mainly responsible for the rental and close-rental sections) using PowerBuilder with embedded SQL, stored procedures and many user-defined functions.
	Led the team in designing a multi table Car Rental relational database application utilizing Oracle 8.0. Wrote scripts to retrieve and update records (delete, add, insert) in the database while enforcing referential integrity. Determined attributes and relationships, entity relation diagrams for the creation of the RDBMS. Created and tested views, triggers and stored procedures, and conducted the whole project integration.
	Developed numerous GUI client/server features for this application that incorporated PowerBuilder 5.0 objects, properties, methods, events, MDI, DataWindow Controls, and animation techniques. Used objects such as transaction, data window object control, view object and dynamic linking.
	Developed an order processing application called Northwest Winds Trading using Graphical User Interface(GUI’s) with Visual Basic5.0. The system was created using Menus, Standard Controls, and Data Controls. Created executables and assembled distribution diskettes.
	Developed Web Pages using HTML and JavaScript for a restaurant which incorporated frame tags, table tags, image-map, on-line form, and animation features.

ArsDigita – Cambridge Massachusetts October 1999

An intensive hands-on immersion program where I gained experience as a Web Application Developer coding web applications using AOL server, Oracle 8.0, UNIX, GNU Emacs, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Tcl in a Sun Microsystem environment

	Learned to run Tcl from the AOLServer administration page, create simple Tcl pages and Tcl pages that query foreign servers and Tcl pages the communicate with an Oracle Database. Utilized SQLPlus from the Emacs shell to communicate to Oracle. Used AOLServer operations in the ns_set API. Invoked SQLLoader to load data into Oracle tables.
	Built a new web service that takes the ISBN number of a book from a form and then used API call to query several online book stores to find prices and stock information and displayed the results in an HTML table. Personalized web services with the use of cookies. Created a Tcl program that queries a table in an Oracle database, produces an XML document and returns if to the client. Wrote a program to import date from a collaborating XML page.
	Built a program that keeps track of users, groups of users, rooms, and room reservations. Installed the ArsDigita Community System. Created data model, built tables, wrote Tcl procedures to perform transactions on those tables for the room reservation system.
	As part of a development team, built, from the functional specifications, a content management site that is system that records who is contributing and in what role, records, publishing and design decisions, collects programs and content. This included building a data model, admin and public page and creating a system for content management.

Learning GMU Emacs Interactive Course Oct, 1999

Course covers using Emacs as an internet tool, Emacs online help, editing files with Emacs, using Emacs as a shell environment, using multiple buffers, Emacs window and X windows, writing macros, Emacs as a programming environment, basics of Emacs LISP.

Computer Based Technology Self Study – Boston Massachusetts

Cold Fusion 4.5 Jan 2000
JavaScript 1999
GNU Emacs 1999
IIS 4.0 1998
MSCE Core Requirements 1997
CGI for WWW 1996
Front Page 1995