“I worked with Doug over the past year and was incredibly impressed by his ability to understand and implement new concepts that are rarely approached or considered. Doug was able to balance the software architecture, management of a project, leading a team, and communicating highly technical concepts to business stakeholders with ease.”
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Serving the Needs of Business with 15+ years of Exceptional People, Process, and…
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How can you adapt to changes in database technology?
As a few others have noted the most fundamental thing is to understand the mission(s) in detail -- what needs to be accomplished -- and to select the best tool for each job. The database technology best suited to capturing highly-normalized business entity data, i.e. "data in" -- a relational database management system (RDBMS) -- hasn't changed significantly in 50 years. Likewise, the database technology best suited to supporting reporting, analytics, decision support, etc with de-normalized, enterprise-wide data, i.e. "data out" -- a dimensional database or data warehouse -- performs much better now and provides better tools but is still structured in much the same way. And NOSQL databases for documents and other needs now exist.
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What are the best practices for designing a solution architecture that helps your team acquire new customers?
Solution architecture is an activity -- something we do, not something we create, as illustrated by the 5 preceding actions: Understand, Align, Use, Focus, and Incorporate. We need a better name for the thing we are designing, e.g. "What are the best practices for designing an *integrated business and technology approach* that helps your team acquire new customers?" Architecture is a verb, not a noun. ;) https://medium.com/@frickingruvin/defining-architecture-edcb334d5cbb
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I had a fantastic conversation with James Lewis about microservices (it's all his fault!), platforms, and complexity. The most fun thing to me is…
I had a fantastic conversation with James Lewis about microservices (it's all his fault!), platforms, and complexity. The most fun thing to me is…
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<<“The history of CCS is depressing … and no significant innovations have improved CCS’s prospects,” said Charles Harvey, professor of environmental…
<<“The history of CCS is depressing … and no significant innovations have improved CCS’s prospects,” said Charles Harvey, professor of environmental…
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Half-Marathon Training and Fund-raising
TeamFX Austin
- 9 months
Children
Half-marathon training and fund-raising, benefitting the Austin Children's Shelter
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Avoid Bad Apples in Business Transformation
Medium
See publicationSolving deeply entrenched problems in large organizations can sometimes like an insurmountable challenge. What’s at stake? Who to trust? Where to start?
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The Software Architect Role, Organizational Culture Fit, and Influencing Change
Medium
See publicationOrganizations seeking a software “architect” usually have one of two very different ideas in mind about what an architect is and does and about where and how s/he can be effective.
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What Is Software Product Personalization?
Medium
See publicationSoftware products can change structurally and can intentionally alter the behavior of their features as the result of explicit or implicit subscriber decisions and actions.
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Defining Architecture
Medium
See publicationThere are a number of inadequate and (therefore?) fairly tortured definitions for the word “architecture”. They all seem to miss what I consider to be the main point and to focus instead on methods or motivations for physical construction and the differences in the meaning of the term when used in various domains, e.g. physical structures, information systems, etc.
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The Greatest User Story Ever Told
Medium
See publicationUser stories can be a great way to capture requirements for software development, but striking the right balance between simplicity and detail depends on understanding your goals, your organization’s culture, and the value user stories can provide.
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3 Ways to Stretch Your Tech Budget
InformationWeek
See publicationToo many companies waste money on tech initiatives that do nothing but slow them down. When harnessed correctly, technology can help businesses flourish in ways otherwise impossible. This article outlines the three biggest wastes of tech budget and what CIOs, IT leaders and business owners can do to guarantee return on their digital investments.
Patents
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System and Method for Managing File Content
Issued US 6473749
A system for managing file content, such as Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows (TM) presentation slides, is provided. The system includes an upload interface that can receive files, such as a file containing slides, from an upload client. The upload interface can extract data structures, such as slides or images, from each file, and index data from each data structure. The system also includes an index system that is connected to the upload interface. The index system can receive the index data…
A system for managing file content, such as Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows (TM) presentation slides, is provided. The system includes an upload interface that can receive files, such as a file containing slides, from an upload client. The upload interface can extract data structures, such as slides or images, from each file, and index data from each data structure. The system also includes an index system that is connected to the upload interface. The index system can receive the index data from the upload interface and store the index data. A content storage system connected to the upload interface and the index system can receive data structures for storage from the upload interface system, and can provide a storage address for locating each data structure to the index system. A download interface is connected to the content storage system, and can be used to identify data structures matching a query and to download the data structures to a download client.
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Team Tech
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The Team Tech course teaches anyone how to be an informed and effective technology team member, including the major areas that make up the information technology landscape, the crucial roles and how they depend upon and benefit each other, the major technologies, tools, and processes used by real organizations, etc.
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Fandango.com
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First-ever entertainment portal destination for movie ticket purchase, trailers, reviews, and general information designed, built, and operated for eight (8) competing theater chains, including Cinemark, AMC, Sony Loews. etc.
Customers view common movie descriptions, view trailers, etc and are presented with nearby theaters that may belong to any of the consortium members.
Once the customer selects a theater, the ticket and concession purchase experience is customized and branded…First-ever entertainment portal destination for movie ticket purchase, trailers, reviews, and general information designed, built, and operated for eight (8) competing theater chains, including Cinemark, AMC, Sony Loews. etc.
Customers view common movie descriptions, view trailers, etc and are presented with nearby theaters that may belong to any of the consortium members.
Once the customer selects a theater, the ticket and concession purchase experience is customized and branded for that theater chain, including real time interaction with the selected theater's point of sale (POS) system, ensuring efficient and accurate seat inventory.Other creators -
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StudentBuilder.com
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Designed and implemented a scalable, multi-tiered, service-oriented state education portal using
Microsoft .NET to assist secondary school students in career selection and educational planning.Other creators -
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UK Online Lottery
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Software Architect on the first true online lottery, i.e. prizes up to pounds £1MM (GBP) determined by a random number generator (RNG) rather than printing up a known, finite set of prizes beforehand. This means that it was theoretically possible for there to be more than one £1MM prize.
We also were required to "geo-fence" the application to prevent play from the U.S. where gaming was illegal. This was long before there were APIs that solved the geo-fencing problem.
In addition…Software Architect on the first true online lottery, i.e. prizes up to pounds £1MM (GBP) determined by a random number generator (RNG) rather than printing up a known, finite set of prizes beforehand. This means that it was theoretically possible for there to be more than one £1MM prize.
We also were required to "geo-fence" the application to prevent play from the U.S. where gaming was illegal. This was long before there were APIs that solved the geo-fencing problem.
In addition GTECH wanted not only to deliver a successful UK solution but to develop an online lottery system that they could sell in any country.
This all-star Viant team made it all work.Other creators -
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English
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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