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Thank you for visiting my personal website. I'm a Jamstack/Full-stack/LAMP(PHP) application developer. Please visit Commercial Grade to contact me directly.

My Background

In 1994 I had the honor of interning under research professor Dr. William Boeck on NASA's Optical Transient Detector (OTD) project. Later that year I graduated cum Laude from Niagara University, New York with a Batchlers in Computer Information Science (CIS) with a minor in mathematics.

Shortly thereafter I was hired as a software developer where I maintained existing applications in FoxPro. I refactored this application into a client-server application using Borland's Delphi IDE (TurboPascal) with Interbase as the database engine. The resulting system could handle dozens of connections, which was considered very good back then. I was made a partner and continued to build many commercial applications including: commissary/inventory control (ACTFAS), education (ImageFilter K-12), booking/line-up (ImageFiler LE) as well as a host of security-based applications (ImageFiler ID, Evidence-Trak, etc.). Many applications were even released with automatic installation disks, another breakthrough at the time. Installation locations included Massachusetts State Police Department (a Citrix-base OS), counties throughout New York state and even correctional institutions such as San Bernadino and Santa Anna, California.

In 2003 I transitioned to building LAMP applications. Programmed in PHP/JavaScript this new technology handled an order of magnitude more client connections than previous generation client-server applications. From inventory control to pool covers, e-commerce to motorcycle parts, my PHP(LAMP) framework has proven to be a powerful and flexible framework for dozens of applications. PHP is a robust programming language which still dominates the market and I still maintain and build applications in it today.

Over the past few years I've been focusing on frameworks like Jamstack, MEAN and MERN applications. These architectures allows for reduced development time, better scalability, higher flexibility, better performance, extreme code optimization, delivery size optimization, and even cheaper hosting. Combined with Docker these platforms are highly scalable. The biggest reason for these improvements is that these applications frameworks produce almost all static content.

This blog is a Jamstack application. It is written in TypeScript and includes React.js, Next.js, and other markdown libraries. Check Google PageSpeed Insights and you will notice this Jamstack application rates extremely well compared to a WordPress websites. That's because Jamstack/MEAN/MERN applications can be highly optimized for speed, which is a large factor in search engine optimization (SEO).

Hope you've enjoyed this blog. Contact me if you have any questions. I'm always happy to help.