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J.D. 35 Hrs. Graduate Work B.S. |
Law Computer Science Computer Science |
Thomas Jefferson School of Law University of Florida University of Florida |
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Member: California Bar CAREER
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MIS management ·
Project management ·
Systems development · Planning/budgeting · Design/specifications · Staff supervision/training · User relations/training · Testing/implementation · Major conversions ·
Turnaround strategies |
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Outside Service
Contracting/Management ·
Customer support/service · Database Management Systems ·
Contract Negotiations/drafting ·
Marketing & Sales ·
Business Development · Network & Systems Administration · Negotiated Technology Transfers · Prepared Technology License Agreements · Software Development
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CAREER
ACHIEVEMENTS · As the Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Counsel at Employment Screening Partners, Inc. (ESP), brought critically needed cooperation and discipline to the 2 director and 35 manager/employee MIS department: instituted a major project redesign, network redesign, and improved reliability; chaired status meetings; and upgraded relations between Systems and its internal and external clients. · Led the troubleshooting and resolution of project-threatening problems with the in-house software packages on which the above (ESP) system is based, identifying and correcting 100’s of major “bugs” and major design flaws in the original implementation. Brought the project in on schedule after it had been on the verge of complete failure. · As corporate counsel at ESP, negotiated and reviewed the work of outside counsel in the sale of a $10,000,000 subsidiary. Re-drafted clauses, and persuaded buyer and buyer’s counsel on the need to accept our changes. · Made Director of Marketing at Modular Computer Systems, Inc. (MODCOMP) after selling interest in super-mini computer start-up venture to MDOCOMP. Increased revenues from $56,000,000 to $76,000,000. Managed a $6,000,000 outside development effort to deliver a prototype fault tolerant super-mini computer with the ability to dynamically alter instruction sets on the fly in less than two years. · Resolved serious start-up difficulties at TranSec Systems, Inc. by developing the Company’s first revenue generating product within 60 days, writing and selling private placement memorandums and raising $243,000 in venture capital and by a direct marketing campaign designed to generate revenues at a 4 to 1 ratio of sales to cost. Sales went from $0 to $1,800,000 in less than a year. · Converted Kennedy Space Center’s obsolete IBM tape database system, installing new Control Data Corporation (CDC) Cyber 6600 systems and rewriting the database programs to work on the 6600. Modified the NOS to meet Air force C-1 security concerns. · Managed group of 17 programmer analysts at CDC to provide pre and post sales support, product customization and proposal estimating and preparation at CDC resulting in exceeding annual revenue goals of $2,500,000 while staying under operating budget. · Met living expenses while attending law school on a full-time basis by maintaining a full-time computer consulting service to numerous clients in fields as diverse as a modeling agency, and architectural firm, an electrical contractor and various medical offices. |
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CAREER
EXPERIENCE
Current Employment Omitted: 12/00-Present EMPLOYMENT SCREENING
PARTNERS, INC., Los Angeles, CA 11/99–5/00 Chief
Technology Officer, Senior Vice President/Corporate Counsel Total responsibility for the IS operations for two subsidiaries, NMRO and its large multi-laboratory database system and the implementation and support of the eScreen clinic instant drug testing system, a 3,500 nationwide clinic delivery system via the Internet: · Direct, manage and train the professional staff. · Interact closely with outside manufacturing to resolve design issues. · Coordinate the internal software development with the outside software suppliers on the next release. BARJOHN
CONSULTING, Riverside, CA 6/91–11/99 Principal
MIS Consultant As owner & principal consultant, provided
contract services to a wide range of business clients.
These services encompassed Project Management, systems analysis,
systems design, hardware selection and installation, software selection
and installation, network design and implementation and systems
maintenance. Specialty was in
thin client systems utilizing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server
Edition and Windows 2000 Terminal Server (TS).
Established a web site (www.barjohn.com) to provide technical
support to TS Professionals. TRANSEC SYSTEMS, INC.,
Del Ray Beach, FL 6/83–5/91 President Responsible for founding the company and all functional areas including, marketing and sales, operations, accounting, and software development. Developed business plans, raised venture capital, developed products and managed the company and its employees. Developed and programmed the Company’s award winning product family (see last page). MODULAR COMPUTER SYSTEMS,
INC., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 6/81–5/83 Director
of Marketing Provided management and strategic direction to four directors and 63 employees. Functional areas included customer support, product marketing, advertising & PR, publications, government systems marketing, marketing requirements and procuring outside development expertise and managing the $6,000,000 outside development contract when a recalcitrant engineering department rebelled against using technology not developed in the company. HARRIS (COMPUTER SYSTEMS
DIVISION), INC., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 6/80–6/81 Manager
CPU’s and Systems Marketing Provided product marketing management and strategic direction to the Company’s engineering and development department. Analyzed competitive systems, performed benchmarks, reviewed engineering designs for compliance with specifications developed within the department. CONTROL DATA CORPORATION,
Los Angeles, CA 6/81–5/83 District
Professional Services Manager Promoted to District Professional Services Manager Los Angeles, after successfully completing the management of a major data base conversion and the development of a new database system at the Kennedy Space Center. Managed a team of 17 programmer analysts providing pre and post sales support to major clients including Rockwell, TRW, General Dynamics, Hughes, and Ford Aeronutronics. Services ranged from on site contract NOS support to product customization and proposal estimating and preparation. Exceeded $2,500,000 sales quota for both services and hardware on major government projects (Achieved $3,086,000). Prior duty was as project leader/lead programmer/analyst on a major D.O.T. project |
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· WINDOWS 2000/NT · WINDOWS TERMINAL SERVER · WINDOWS ME/98/95 · MS OFFICE 2000/98/97 · CDC NOS 6600/3300 · FORTRAN · HTML · SQL · AN/USQ-20 · COURSEWRITER · PEACHTREE ACCOUNTING · IBM 360/7090 |
· MS-DOS · OS/2 Warp · IBM 1500 · IBM 1130 · PASCAL · VB · ASSEMBLER (IBM, INTEL, CDC, DG) · TRW 130 · BASIC · QUICKBOOKS PRO · ACCESS · GREAT PLAINS ACCOUNTING |
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Invented (co-inventor) and prosecuted patent of an anti-counterfeiting technology (Patent # 4,825,050) for the financial transaction marketplace. Patent involved the unique combining of two different encryption technologies to provide a series of specific benefits to financial transactions CourseWriter Macro Language, A User’s Manual CourseWriter Macro Language II Automatic Data Mapping Into an Associative Structure Text Analysis and Associative Retrieval Retrieving from Semantic Structures Computers and the Classroom: An Open Marriage Unlock Albums A, B, C, & D (see awards below) The Secrets of Copy Protection and How UnLock Works |
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U.S. Navy First Class Petty Officer (Electronics Technician 1st Class), Honorable Discharge, Graduated ET ‘A,’ ET ‘B,’ and ET ‘C’ schools.
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