Andrew Feibus
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2815 Burnham Ct.
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Consultant
CustomBytes - Atlanta
January 2003 - Present.
Restarted I.T. Services firm after nearly three-year hiatus. See other CustomBytes description, below, for details on previous customers and projects. CustomBytes continues to provide high-quality/high-value consulting services to companies requiring professional and personalized I.T. outsourcing services without paying exorbitant rates or dealing with the problems of off-shore programmers. Projects include:
Contact lens manufacturer in Florida needed to upgrade infrastructure to more current technologies. Automation application was ported from SCO UNIX to Red Hat Linux, database was ported from Informix to Oracle 9i, and order entry and operator applications were completely rewritten in Visual Basic for Windows XP/2000. Primary technologies: Windows, Linux/UNIX, Oracle 9i, and Visual Basic.
Realty brokerage needed a database-driven web site with user registration features, complex searches, and web-based database management. I created all database-driven web pages for this project. Primary technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Active Server Pages, SQL Server 2000.
Matchmaking Service wanted to grow their web capabilities beyond where their existing programmers could take them. They turned to CustomBytes for assistance with site improvements to make it easier for their members and franchisees to interact. I am currently engaged in finding and fixing defects, improving existing features, managing their web site administration needs, and identifying additional opportunities to reduce their corporate costs and improve their users' experience on the web site. Primary technologies: Linux, PHP, mySQL.
Logistics company needed a new web-based workflow application for managing the process of partnering with transportation firms. I created the ASP.NET-based web site for managing the workflow and an automated XML-based tool for processing incoming partnership requests from their marketing web site. Primary technologies: ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server.
Start-up Software Company specializing in Document Management in the Pharmaceutical industy wanted to relocate their I.T. efforts from India back to Atlanta and chose CustomBytes to handle all of their I.T. needs. The application was not completely operational and needed to be integrated with BizTalk 2004 as well as general user interface improvements. I am responsible for all programming and any additional outsourcing or hiring (none so far, but some expected in 2005). Primary technologies: Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server, BizTalk 2004 Server, SQL Server, ASP.NET, C#.
Chief Technology Officer / Sr. Software Engineer
MobileBriefs - Atlanta
January 2001 - Present.
Designed and
developed a web-based personalized audio deliver service. The site captures audio information from
users, studio talent, and text-to-speech, and delivers it to a variety of
mobile devices based on preferences chosen by the user for the type of audio
content they want to hear. Part of
senior management team that determined strategy and direction for the
company. Designed and personally wrote about 95% of all the software used
in the site. Hired and managed the IT and support team,
including programmers, network specialists, quality assurance, and
customer/sales support engineers.
Responsible for negotiating and managing outsourcing contracts for
tactical needs. Responsible for office
technical infrastructure. Primary
technologies: Windows 2000, Solaris/UNIX/Linux, Java/J2EE, Oracle 8i/9i server,
streaming audio, Perl, JavaScript.
Position became part-time in January 2003 due to financial constraints.
Chief Technology Officer / Sr. Software Engineer
e-train.com - Atlanta
July 1999 to December 2000.
Designed and developed an e-learning web portal that sold for $18 million. The portal combines online training courses with training management and was deployed using a 3-tier architecture that supported well over 2,000,000 daily page hits with better than 99% uptime due to hardware and software redundancy. Worked closely with senior management team to determine strategy and direction for the site. Researched desirability of “cutting-edge” technologies to determine if the technologies would help company reach its goals faster. As part of site deployment and subsequent releases, hired and managed the entire IT team, including programmers, quality assurance, and customer/sales support engineers, as well as managed a $3 million per year budget. Responsible for office infrastructure of PCs, network and Internet connectivity. Primary technologies: Windows 2000, ASP/VBScript/JavaScript, ISAPI/CGI, COM, C/C++, Microsoft SQL Server, streaming audio/video.
Consultant
CustomBytes - Atlanta
November 1996 to September 2000.
As
“CTO For Rent”, provided full IT services for several clients. Customer successes include:
A
recruiting firm with multiple offices and no computing infrastructure
contracted with me to architect their network and create applications to
support their recruiting and accounting procedures. Designed and implemented an Internet-based networking
infrastructure that links their offices, resulting in improved e-mail
reliability and lowered costs for inter-office communications. Also designed and developed client/server
applications that dramatically decreased their labor costs and improved their
ability to service their clients and candidates by centralizing the information
about both. Primary technologies:
Windows NT, Visual Basic, COM, SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange and Outlook,
Access.
A
client with a baking facility was having difficulty managing and reporting
their quality issues to comply with FDA regulations. Designed and developed applications that allowed them to reduce
the number of “lost” pallets of product, and reduced by days the time required
to create the necessary FDA and management reports. The resulting real-time data collection infrastructure also
provided a way for them to reduce the response time for handling problems
detected in various areas of the facility.
Windows NT, Visual Basic, Access, specialized network protocols to
production monitoring devices.
Two
clients (one in Florida and one in Switzerland) wanted to automate their
contact lens manufacturing abilities in order to significantly increase their
production of high-quality lenses.
Before the automation applications were written, their daily output of
lenses was between 100 and 250 with over 50% production loss due to
poor-quality results. Designed and
developed process automation and order management software that increased
production at the larger of the two facilities to over 2000 lenses per day with
less than 5 percent loss. Primary
technologies: SCO UNIX, Informix, Access, Visual Basic.
A
cable company advertising sales department needed software had trouble easily
determining their weekly sales pipeline.
Designed and developed a new reporting process as well as software to
support that process, that turned a 12-hour-per-week task for their sales
administrator into a 2-hour-per-week task.
Primary technology: Access.
Also
helped start e-train.com as a consultant during this period. See above.
Vice President/Technology and Sr. Software Engineer
Process Systems and Integration - Atlanta
January 1993 to November 1996.
Partner
and head of technology for small manufacturing consulting firm. Responsible for all technical staff hiring;
budgetary job estimates for clients; technical decisions, execution and
delivery; and managing change requests from clients. Also acted as Sr. Software Engineer on several projects, including the
first phases of the contact lens automation project described above, a real-time
quality tracing system for a large baking facility, and an automation control
package that interfaced with a mainframe ERP system for a large leather goods
distribution warehouse in the Southeast. Primary technologies: Windows NT, UNIX, C, Visual Basic, Access, Informix, Oracle
Server, Microsoft SQL Server.
Consultant
AMF Enterprises - Atlanta
March 1990 to July 1994.
A
geographic imaging company with an application written for one operating system
contracted with me to re-write the application so that it would run under
several operating systems. Once re-written,
the client was able to sell the application to significantly more customers,
increasing their sales volume and market acceptance of their solutions. Responsible for propagating all subsequent
feature changes to these operating systems.
Responsible for mentoring entire programming staff of the company on
software portability issues. Primary
technologies: UNIX (including IBM, Digital, Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics), C,
FORTRAN, Motif/X Windows.
Also
provided manufacturing software development services to Process Systems and
Integration during this period. Primary
technology: specialized manufacturing hardware, SCO UNIX, Windows, Access.
Sr. Software Engineer
Bradley Ward, Inc. - Atlanta
August 1987 to June 1989.
Re-wrote complex manufacturing software application package that ran on a specialized computer so that it would run on a UNIX-based system. The resulting application, which could be run on either system, helped the company double the number of customers. Also re-wrote their entire documentation set to improve their usability and readability and designed and helped implement a very successful advertising campaign that improved their sales by 50 percent in the first six months. Responsibilities included software development, porting, documentation, marketing (including sales development, trade shows, and advertising), and customer support for entire product line. Primary technologies: HP UNIX, C, FORTRAN, Motif/X Windows, specialized manufacturing devices.
Bachelor of Science in
Engineering (Computer and Information Sciences).
University of Florida,
December 1984. With High Honors.
Co-op programmer with IBM
during Junior and Senior years.
Master of Business
Administration.
Kennesaw State University,
May 1999. GPA: 4.0.
I authored a book to assist beginning users with the UNIX operating system and have had over 250 articles published in major industry publications between 1990 and 2000.
CMP Media - New York
Regular contributor to Information Week magazine, June 1995 – December
2000. Writer/Researcher for Home PC's
"Ask Dr. PC" column. December
1994 – January 1998. Standards in
Progress columnist and regular contributor to Open Systems Today
magazine, March 1992 – March 1995.
Contributing Editor for SCO Magazine, March 1993 - April 1994.
Professional Press, Inc., Horsham, PA.
UNIX Editor and regular contributor to HP Professional magazine. February 1989 – March 1992. Author of UNIX, Quick!, a book for
new UNIX users, published by Professional Press Books, May 1991.