When lots of kind people grace this blog with their attention every day, why didn't it occur to me to just tell you all who I am, what I do, and see if maybe, just maybe someone out there knows someone who knows someone in need of contracting the sort of someone I am to outsource the sort of thing I do?
If it's never too late to be present, then here 'tis.
| Internet Applications Social Software Consultant |
R�sum� #580108 |
| OBJECTIVE | "Architecting Internet communities" means more than portlets or hitcounts, it means fostering the conversation we call "doing business". There's no magic in this, yet so many Internet projects, whether in B2B transaction spaces or P2P application spaces, so often overlook what is most human about what we do: Business is conversation. |
Gary Lawrence Murphy
7 Forest Place
RR#1
Sauble Beach, Ontario N0H 2G0
Canada
Phone: 01-519-422-1150
Email: garym@teledyn.com
URL: http://blog.teledyn.com/
Professional Objective
I have many names. names of glory. names of shame. some shots in the dark: Community Architecture, Interaction Designer
| TARGET JOB | Target Title: | New Media Planner |
| Alternate Title: | Social Software Visioneering |
| Desired Job Type: | Service, Temp, Contract, Project |
| Work Load: | Full/Part-Time, Ad-Hoc |
| Site Location: | Telework |
 Description of my perfect job:I've already had my ideal job: President of a ruthlessly small business twenty years at the very forefront of IT, enjoying the professional company of top players and bleeding edge innovators, all from the beautiful vista of Sauble Beach. I loved it, and it must have shown because my clients could all afford hired guns from anywhere, but, for two decades, they kept coming back our humble family business. |
| Career Level | Senior Late-Career, Greying at the Temples |
| Date of Availability: | Negotiable |
Social Science
- Conducting research & presenting findings
- Cultural awareness, appreciation of diversity
- Interpret text, graphs, charts, and tables
- Cooperating with and teaching others
- Understanding of cognitive behaviour
- Understanding correlation
Information Technologies
- interaction design engineering
- web server technologies
- servlets, jsp/velocity
- web scripting: PHP, mod_perl, fastCGI
- Java, C++, C, Perl, Lisp
- MoveableType Blogserver
- Drupal Community Portal
- Jetspeed/Turbine/Struts/WebSphere
Data Management
- Entity-Relationship/OOD
- Oracle 9i, Sybase System 11
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP/JNDI
- JDBC, XML and Embedded RDBMS
Employment History
Senior Consultant
Teledynamics Communications Inc
January 1983
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December 2003
Teledynamics began in 1983 in response to contract offers from the Canadian Banking Association and the Bank of Montreal. Our clients included the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Bell Global, New Music Concerts, JBE Enterprises, TorStar, Worldlinx, John Cage and Udo Kasemets, Cognos and Mitel.
Teledynamics provided interaction design and web applications contracting to internet communication and knowledge management projects in Canada and abroad, consulting on deployments and design, business requirements, purchasing and technology evaluation, project management, architecture and interaction design, installations, configuration management, training, administration and programming.
- Editorial Consultant, Prentice Hall
- Topic-Map Consultant, Pearson Publishing
- DocBook/XML Consultant, Macmillan Publishing
- First Community of Practice Extranet (1995)
- Topic-Map website navigation system (1998)
- Integrated SOA portal (2002)
- Business weblogs (2003)
Asset Management System Architecture
AKA
2003
Architecture and interaction design of a prototype municipal asset management system for rural municipal public works compliance reporting. Included portable patrol unit for deficiencies reporting with delayed synchronization of peers over SMTP.
Web Portal Architecture
Sentry
2002 - 2003
Architecture, design and development of a prototype emergency response planning SOA portal. Included response call-center with notification (instant message, email and voicemail) and hooks to add third-party remote sensing, vehicle tracking, and GIS systems; also used an innovative distributed contact management system on federal ERP specifications.
Webserver Architecture and Development
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
April 1997
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May 2002
Webserver architecture for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news and sports websites. Included backend Oracle-based XML data and webservices for merging live feeds.
- 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics
- CBC Regional News publishing
- CBC Sports live XML data feeds
- Migrated CBC to servlet webservices
- First fully distributed multimedia news CMS
- First public GPL collaboration by the CBC
Webservices Architecture
OpenCola Inc
December 2000
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June 2001
Webservices and webserver research, design and development in support of P2P 'swarmcast' content delivery network applications from OpenCola and OnionNetworks.
- Swarmcast P2P Content Lease Gateway
Bell Professional Services Consultant
Bell Advances Communications Services
July 1996
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March 1998
Bell Professional Services (July 1996 to March 1998) Design Consultant for web/database, webserver farm and ``secure community internet'' intranet/extranet and 3rd Generation Webservices solutions on behalf of Bell Canada ACS.
Associate Editor
Oxford University Press
September 1989
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June 1996
Associate editor for the Institute of Physics Publishing.
- Handbook of Neural Computation
Senior Web Developer
Medialinx Interactive
January 1998
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September 2000
Hired as contract consultant via Worldlinx, then later under Teledynamics and finally hired outright to head the Sympatico homepage redesign, news portal and personalized portal projects for Canada's largest ISP.
Architecture and engineering of browser-independent, webservices for nationally distributed servers with over 500,000 subscribers across Canada and 40M page-reads per week. Included personalized portal, breadth-first non-redundant network web searching, distributed multimedia newswire delivery, automated help-desk and advanced adaptive interfaces.
- MySympatico
- Sympatico News
- Nationally Distributed Search
- Sympatico Homepage Re-engineering
- Canada's first personalized portal
- Canada's first nntp/web news portal
- The first opensource product in BCE
- First Linux server in Sympatico
Senior Developer
Worldlinx/Bell Global Systems
July 1995
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August 1997
Lead on all Worldlinx web applications deployed to ISDN customers of BCE. Worldlinx was the original Internet supplier of BCE, later transformed into Bell Global Services.
- Autolinx: Community of Practice web portal (1996)
- Canadian Tire EDO Supply Channel System (1995)
Senior Scientist of Information Technology
Government of Ontario
March 1994
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May 1995
Assigned to the Research & Exhibit Planning at the Ontario Science Centre; responsible for research, design, public and corporate relations, content and exhibit development for the Information Highway exhibit. Featured on many TV technology programs and conferences, and invited by Moses Znaimner to host a panel on New Media services; this talk is permanently on file at the Museum .
- Ontario Science Centre Website (1994)
- Techno-Art exhibit (1994)
- The Information Highway exhibit (1995)
- First Website for Ontario Culture/Tourism (1994)
- site cited by Premier's website (Bob Rae)
- Information Highway Exhibit (1995)
- Raised $0.5M corporate sponsorship.
- Ontario's first public Internet Cafe
Research Associate
Defense and Civilian Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM)
December 1991
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March 1994
Assigned as information-transfer liason to Professor Paul Milgram at the Human Factors Lab, U of Toronto (1992-1994); provided design, development and hardware/systems support for augmented reality projects using Amiga, MsDOS, Mac, IBM and SGI workstations; systems administration, technology evaluations, and conference presentations.
- Augmented Reality through Graphics on Sterovideo
- 3D Collaboration with Hiroshi Ishii of NTT
- Telepresence Collaboration with Bill Buxton.
- First 3D Clearboard Telepresence
- First Linux deployment in DCIEM
- First Website for UofT IE (1993)
Programmer III
Mitel Semiconductors
May 1991
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November 1991
Contract to create the channel manager for the Mitel ISDN switches, then assigned to the QA team to oversee deployment on the embedded Motorola-based device. Involved unit and branch test suites and producing the reports on the output.
Programmer III
Product Engineering, Cognos Inc
December 1989
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May 1991
interaction design engineering research for object oriented database applications
- the legendary Zeus OO-4GL project
- design of Impromptu interface
- HEET programming outliner
- EIT OOP (Java-like) language (1989)
Publications
- Thomas Schenk (principle). Opensource Web Site Construction KitSAMs.
- Bill Ball (principle). RedHat UnleashedSAMs.
Academics
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BSc in Cognitive Science, May 1978, University of Toronto
Artificial Intelligence Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |  I'll be honest. I'm not any single-focus one-trick pony completely and totally devoted to a blindsight niche in technology. I am a real person with a life that I live, just like you. I've learned what I've learned by necessity of needing to get somewhere and skilled as I am, I am not in love with my weapons. I'm only interested in the results, and in the results with a very wide-angle lens.People do not hire me just for my code. Yes, like all my peers, I do Java/JSP/EJB/JDBC/RMI, I code in C/C++, perl, prolog, ruby and python, and I can create systems in HTML/DHTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT/XMLRPC, with servers running Tomcat, Turbine, Velocity, PHP, ePerl and a great many more hot buzzwords ... these are only tools. People hire me because I know how to use them. Really know. And they hire me for my vision. Internet applications, even robot-to-robot webservices and slick Ajax backchannels, they are all about people and conversation, about connecting people in ways they can actually use; finding that sweetspot is a rarer talent than cobbling class diagrams in a UML. It is not an obvious thing; there is no theory of interaction design, you just have to feel it. I have lived at the edge of the wire for almost 20 years, teleworking for top tier clients on bleeding edge world-class internet applications, all from deep in rural Canada. I walk the walk. Internet is not my research toy, it is my way of life, and my strategies have been honed since the days of ARPANET. Twenty years at the end of a long thin wire. I have done industrial and military scale methodology, human factors research, AI and real-time, and research in the social dynamics of net-based communications. Put together, my clients discover a breadth of whole-world knowledge and understanding in industry, finance and the arts;  while I always start with a client aimed at some new fringe project prototype (the usual role for the hired architect), I invariably end up on everyone's rolodex -- when Melissa and SirCam hit, I really began to appreciate just how far my name gets spread!And I do love what I do. There is nothing better than that moment when people discover that the internet speaks to them, when the awkwardness of the technology vanishes like a Magritte background, and when they find themselves face to face with a planet full of people. For me, this is what it is all about, whether it is a banking app or peer-to-peer gaming networks, or even superficially a news and information service, Internet is about bringing people together, it's about people and their passion to talk and exchange. Making that happen has got to be the best occupation around. |
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Five years later, y'know, no
Five years later, y'know, no one has ever contacted me on the basis of this resume. No one. Not a single email, not even an idle inquiry or a curious onlooker, not a peep, nada, nothing. Stone dead brutal silence.
I think that's one of the biggest reasons I stopped looking for any tangible occupational engagement from this industry.