Jerome's Resume: Since 1989: BRIDGE Scientific Services

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Since 1989: BRIDGE Scientific Services

In 1989 I started BRIDGE Scientific Services to apply my research and design skills to the application of technology to solve a wider array of business problems. Quite often during my education I found myself being asked for answers or help about a broad array of issues, being responsible for the support of several different research labs, and being a naturally curious fellow. At the same time I was involved with technology transfer work involving the University of Alberta and the Provincial Government, and found myself traversing several bridges between the two, both physically and metaphorically. Thus BRIDGE seemed an obvious choice, combined with Scientific Services because I believe the best business solutions arise from applying methods that derive from the rigors of scientific research tempered for use within such a fluid domain as people. After a tenure as "Systems Manager" in the corporate environment, managing a large number of diverse users and applications, I decided to move on to newer adventures with BRIDGE. The following is a walk back in time through projects now on the go and in my past.

Since 2001

Total Integration Inc.
BRIDGE provides outsourced technical support for a 10-station network, first running Windows NT4, and most recently Windows 2003 SBS.

Since 1999

Avra Software Lab Inc.
I am employed by Avra to manage their computing infrastructure and develop Perl-CGI applications using their Prothos web- application framework. Our primary product is iPRSM(TM), used by Imes Engineering for auditing and managing pressure safety valves for the petroleum industry.

I also operate the SizeMaster MkIV Help Desk, providing registration and e-mail consultation for this engineering worksheet product.

2002

Alberta Venture Magazine
BRIDGE designed and hosted a web application for the (inaugural) Alberta Venture 2002 Executive Salary Survey.

1998 - 2000

Great North (Communications, Productions and International)
Three separate divisions of this film and video production house, with only peer-to-peer interconnectivity, move into new quarters and a new phase in their computing life. BRIDGE implemented first an intranetwork using Novell Netware 4, and later an internetwork for 80 people.

1996 - 2000

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation - Farris Engineering (Edmonton)
BRIDGE took this branch-office Novell Netware 4.1 WAN node, and its clients, through a five-stage retrofit: Reconnaissance, Forensics, Normalization, Education and Extension. On the shop floor, two generations of bar-coding were implemented, first serial-, then LAN-based.

1996

University of Alberta Software Engineering Research Group
Part of the Software Engineering Application Framework (SEAF) project for the Software Engineering Research Group at the University of Alberta, working on TRAP-funded development of SizeMaster, an engineering software tool for Pressure Safety Valve Engineering, for Teledyne Fluid Systems. I was responsible for authoring Help, developing Reports, network Testing, and production Packaging.

Dominion Messenger
Project Manager for IRAP-funded development of DAD: Dominion Automated Dispatcher, OO-based courier-management software for stand-alone or networked Windows client environments. I coordinated the development effort, designed and developed parts of DAD, and authored its Help.

PCL Constructors Ltd.
As part of a 1500-station OS/2 roll-out the headquarters of this worldwide construciton company needed to provide dynamic workstation configuration. BRIDGE modified a dynamic IP utility and attached it to a customized startup script to configure network, host and system management facilities at boot-time.

1995

IBM Canada Education and Training, PBSC Computer Training Centres
I was contracted to teach introductory and advanced (certification-level) OS/2 Warp and OS/2 LAN Server courses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

IBM Canada, Western Marketing Division
I performed a one-year contract as an OS/2 Marketing Specialist, covering Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. My mission was to educate retailers, VARs, ISVs and interested audiences about IBM's OS/2-based products and demonstrate their marketability and utility in consumer and business markets.