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Professional Background
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Primary Services
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Solve business problems by analyzing business processes, determining requirements and designing and developing custom software applications,
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Accelerate a client's own software development efforts by evaluating and improving processes, tool sets and software development environments, and
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Identify commercial software packages that address a client's business need, integrate that software with existing systems and processes.
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Core Competencies
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Business Application Design & Development
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Software Configuration Management
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Software Development process, tools and environments
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Object, Data & Process Modeling
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Technology Recommendation & Integration
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Case Studies
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Client:
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An international bio-tech company
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Industry:
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Pharmaceuticals
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Background:
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A biotechnology firm located in Cambridge, MA, focuses on a wide range of technologies to provide human healthcare products and services for unmet medical needs,
such as drugs for rare genetic disorders.
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Duration:
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6 years
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Challenge:
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Data from a Phase IV clinical study was being accumulated in a ClinTrial Oracle database. The only access the staff had to this data was through tablular
reports. There was no facility that would allow physicians to visually understand how effective the treatments were or to spot trends that might
indicate that changes to dosages or frequencies were needed.
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Solution:
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Developed a cross-platform (Windows/Macintosh) solution that allowed client to produce publication-ready patient case reports (PCR) that provided physicians with
a comprehensive look at all clinical data for a patient in both graphical and tabular form. The effectiveness of the solution relied heavily on an
object-oriented design. The graphs were heavily-nested objects. Each object understood how to display or print (via Postscript) itself and
command each object it contained to display or print.
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Challenge:
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Clinical data was recorded by client-physicians using paper forms. When these forms were received, they were keyed in twice to ensure an accurate
transcription. A time-consuming, manual review process would then begin, where each piece of data was scrutinized for validity and
reasonableness. The simplest of errors would trigger a process of telephone calls and paper exchanges. There was considerable overhead to
ensuring data integrity.
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Solution:
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Developed one application for client-physicians and staff that would allow entry of clinical data. A battery of domain and reasonableness tests was
performed on all data before it was accepted. The entry of data was seen to be a cooperative effort, requiring both the client-physican and staff to agree before
the data was considered final. Coordination of data entered at the client site and at client was accomplished via import/export of database
transaction logs.
A second application was developed to synchronize changes from the master application database with the data maintained in a ClinTrial Oracle
database.
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Client:
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John Hancock Financial Services
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Industry:
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Financial Services
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Background:
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John Hancock Financial Services Inc. is a financial services company that provides insurance and investment products and services to retail and institutional
customers, primarily in North America.
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Duration:
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4.25 years
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Challenge:
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A major software development effort of every client/server retail application was planned. There was great concern that such large scale changes would
quickly become unmanageable.
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Solution:
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Engineered policies and procedures for using a commercial version control system that allowed 6 teams of developers to succefully complete a 2-year effort without
incident. Established environments for development, QA and UAT, as well as policies for promotion of code between environments.
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Challenge:
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The need for an enterprise-wide Software Configuration Management (SCM)solution was identified by IT management. Several hundred software efforts were
using a full range of version control solutions. A comprehensive solution that addresswed both tools and process was needed in order to achieve CMM
Level2.
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Solution:
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Reviewed available enterprise-level SCM solutions. Selected Raional ClearCase. Developed a pilot program for windows desktop applications;
established processes and procedures for ensuring effective use of the product.
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Client:
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TPMS, Inc.
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Industry:
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Healthcare Software
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Background:
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TPMS specializes in PC-based products for the healthcare financial industry. Their principal product, Harvest, provides contract management tools to private
physicians, multi-facility healthcare enterprises such as hospitals, group practices and physician/hospital organizations. The product tracks claims and
remittances from Medicare, Medicaid and commercial healthcare insurers, determines prospectively what the allowed payment should be and allows modeling of past
claims, giving financial managers an edge in negotiating healthcare contracts.
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Duration:
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6 years (multiple engagements)
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Challenge:
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Solution:
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Client:
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Industry:
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Healthcare
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Background:
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United
States. It is the only cancer center in New England to be both a federally designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a Center for AIDS research. It is
home of the Jimmy Fund.
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Duration:
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10 years
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Challenge:
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Solution:
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Client:
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Lechmere Sales
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Industry:
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Retail
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Background:
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New England's beloved regional retail chain
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Duration:
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1.5 years
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Challenge:
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Solution:
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Client:
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Fenway Community Health Center
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Industry:
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Healthcare
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Background:
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FCHC provides primary health care and specialty care (HIV/AIDS, obstetrics, gynecology, gerontology, podiatry and nutritional counseling, mental health and
addiction services) to the local community, particularly to those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Fenway operated the nation’s
first community-based HIV research program. The center is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. All physicians hold faculty
appointments at Harvard Medical School.
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Duration:
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4 years
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Challenge:
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Solution:
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Client:
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Industry:
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Computer hardware and software
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Background:
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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer™" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.
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Duration:
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6 months
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Challenge:
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Sun was interested in penetrating IBM's PL/I application server market. A 3rd party PL/I compiler was available for the Solaris platform but its PL/I
syntax differed from IBM's. A further complicating factor was that IBM had coded a number of processing-intensive operations in hardware.
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Solution:
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Developed a PL/I code interpreter and converter using lex & yacc that allowed programs written in an IBM dialect to compile on a Sun platform with the Liant
compiler. Code optimizations (such as data type changes and calls to external C routines) were automatically performed to offset the performance
advantages of IBM's micro-coded instructions.
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Client:
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HBO & Company
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Industry:
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Healthcare Software
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Background:
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HBO & Company provides integrated patient care, clinical, financial, managed care and strategic management software solutions for the healthcare industry. In
January 1999, it merged with McKesson and achieved Fortune 100 status.
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Duration:
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4 months
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Challenge:
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Solution:
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Designed and developed a NetBIOS socket server-based software version control system that allowed 30 people in 3 departments to develop, test and support a dozen
PC software products in various stages of development, upgrade or customization.
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Toolbox
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Platforms
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Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98
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Red Hat Linux
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Sun Solaris
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VMware
Databases
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SQL Server 2000
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Oracle 7, 8i, 9i
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dbVista
Internet Technologies
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DHTML, XHTML, XML, XLST, CSS
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Javascript
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HTML Applications (HTA), HTML Components (HTC)
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Windows Scripting Host (WSH)
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ADO
Software Development Tools
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Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
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Visual FoxPro
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Rational Enterprise Suite
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TopStyle Pro
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Stylus Studio
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Sybase PowerDesigner
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Perforce
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Sapien PrimalScript
Multimedia Tools
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Paint Shop Pro
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Sound Forge 7
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Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6
Business Tools
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Microsoft Office XP
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Microsoft Project
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Quickbooks
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Quicken
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Personal Background
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Previous Employment
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HBO & Company
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HBO & Company provided integrated patient care, clinical, financial, managed care and strategic management software solutions for the healthcare industry. In January
1999, it merged with McKesson and achieved Fortune 100 status.
Technical Development Manager
Coordinated technical enhancements to a micro software environment supporting two dozen products. Initiated software engineering practices in the areas of
enhancement control, software fault reporting and formalizing software development lifecycle practices.
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STSC, Inc.
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In its prime, STSC (originally Scientific Time Sharing Corporation) was the largest U.S. supplier of APL-based time-sharing services and software. From 1974
to 1982, the company grew from 30 to 300 employees, with two dozen offices in the US, Europe and the Orient. Sales of its APL*PLUS® products and
services peaked at over $27 million/year. Due to the impact of the personal computer on the mainframe time-sharing business, the company suffered a major
down-sizing in 1984. It subsequently repurposed its business and was known as Manugistics, Inc. and was frequently
mentioned by investment analysts. In recent years, Manugistics was acquired by the JDA Software Group, Inc.
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Consulting Projects of Note
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 At the request of Polaroid's chief scientist, developed computer
simulations of 3 circuits that calculated the distance from the camera to the subject of a picture using ultrasound. The circuit that provided the most consistent
estimation of distance and was subsequently used in the One Step® camera for many years. The circuit was also sold separately and was used by MIT's Media Lab in their robotics research. Amateur robotic engineers also found the circuit to be valuable and have
described how to modify the circuit here and here. Some of MIT's Media Lab's work may be found here.
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Co-designed a leading edge, asset/liability portfolio management system for large international banks, supporting trades in foreign and domestic
investment vehicles. Principal in extensive on-site interviews with senior international security traders in Washington, D.C. and Boston to
develop functional specifications. Pioneered an approach to system architecture that resulted in substantial savings in development
effort. Architect for the product's database manager.
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 Designed, developed and marketed a system for
managing bank liability portfolios (Certificates of Deposit, Repurchase Agreements). Performed the premiere installation, providing conversion,
customer training and technical support, resulting in the site serving as a showcase for the division. Established pricing strategy for product,
provided documentation planning and developed a marketing kit for the sales division.
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Other Clients
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Rockwell International
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Space Shuttle Avionics Systems Engineer
Member of the original engineering team that designed and built the first NASA Space Shuttle (OV-101). Assisted in establishing the operating requirements and
design of the Backup Flight Control
System. Validated proper operation of the air data computer which was used to compute roll, pitch, yaw, airspeed and air temperature from data received from a
noseboom used during the OV-101 test flights.
Although only 25 years old, Mr. Flanigan was given the responsibility for the planning, specification of engineering support services and execution of the integration
testing of the backup flight control software with the Space Shuttle avioinics and simulator in the Avionics Development Laboratory, completing the effort well ahead of
schedule. During this period, Mr. Flanigan had an opportunity to work with astronauts and fly the Shuttle simulator.
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Volunteer Leadership Activites
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Groton Emergency Medical Services
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EMT, Operations Officer (10 years)
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Defined Standard Operating Guidelines, ranks, and officer positions responsible for 6 functional areas.
Introduced process that ensured continual quality improvement and improved operations.
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Boy Scout Troop 2 - Ayer, Massachusetts
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Scout Leader, Troop Chairman, Order of the Arrow (10 years)
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 Led numerous wilderness backpacking trips for Scouts 12-17
years old, including 2 15-day high adventure trips to the 137,000 acre Philmont Scout
Ranch in the mountains of northern New Mexico, many 3-day backpacking trips on the Massachusetts Mid-State trail and a 10-day canoe trip in Maine.
Graduate of the Nashua Valley Council's SnoBull, a winter survival traning
program for adult leaders. Survived a night alone in a quinze (a hand-built snow shelter) on New Hampshire's Mt. Monadnock in -20° F
temperatures with a windchill estimated at 60 below (only 4 out of 11 students passed the test).
Planned and coordinated the Troop's 75th Anniversary celebration and banquet. Coordinated the troop's yearly Christmas tree sales.
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Central Massachusetts Search and Rescue Team (CMSART)
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Wilderness EMT, Founding Board Member, Training Coordinator (4 years)
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CMSART, Inc. is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to providing emergency rescue services to any person who is lost, stranded or infirmed in an outdoor wilderness
setting. The principal operating area is the 91 cities and towns in central Massachusetts and the 134 state parks (2.6 million wooded acres) run by the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Management. The team regularly works with organizations outside of this region and outside of the state.
The team was composed strictly of certified EMTs, Paramedics or First Responders. Many members were NASAR certified Search Managers. All members were skilled in land navigation (map and compass) and
were comfortable with spending 24-hours on their own in a wilderness setting . In the early 1990s, CMSART was the largest organization of trained ground searchers in the
state. The team was also capable of performing night-time searches.
Over a 4 year period, the team was activated several dozen times for lost persons, missing children, downed planes and body recoveries and was credited with saving at
least one life.
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Document Library
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CMSART 24-Hour Pack Requirements
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CMSART Clothing Requirements
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CMSART Hypothermia Presentation
187 KB
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Education
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St. Joseph's University
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B.S. Physics
Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society
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Software Engineering Training
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