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The following are Adobe Acrobat PDF documents that profile specific projects, emphasizing my creative approach to technical solutions.

Hypothesis Manager

A graphical tool for organizing documentary evidence relative to various hypotheses. I conceived, designed, and prototyped the tool in HTML/Javascript, with an XML/XSLT back end.

Special: If you have a broadband connection, you might want to look at one of these Flash presentations, built to sell the concept of the Hypothesis Manager, before building the prototype:
      With voice-over narration: Hyp_Manager2.swf
      With text block overlays: Hyp_Manager1.swf

Port Authority Standards & Guidelines

Port Authority of NY & NJ
Technical Services Department Standards and Guidelines

Service Oriented Architecture Repository (SOAR)

An index into GSK's internal service-oriented programming modules:
  • Web Services
  • Message Queues
  • Data Stores
  • Applications

Assessment Wizard for Educational Testing Service

A tool for developing standards-based assessments. Local standards, guidelines, samples, and newly built assessments are stored in a searchable database.

Union Carbide SILWET Surfactants Encyclopedia

Hypertext long before the Worldwide Web: A hyper-linked database to assist the sales force, providing essential information about a line of specialty chemicals with wide-ranging application.