Independent Projects

 
MATLAB Themes
June 2007 - July 2007

Website: Matlab Themes
See: MATLAB Central

A MATLAB m-code project to apply MS Excel 2007 plot themes to a MATLAB line plot. Fully documented and submitted to MATLAB Central.

RoboCup 2007 @ Georgia Tech
June 30, 2007 - July 8, 2007

I acted as a lead volunteer for the the international soccer RoboCup 2007 games hosted at Georgia Tech. Spent over seventy hours building league tables, distributing equipment, managing participants and volunteers and spectators, and acting as a security gaurd.

CMS Connections Media
October 2006

Developed a logo and misc. media for the Cleveland Municipal Schools (CMS) Connections endeavor  to connect students to students, students to teachers, and students to community.

Resonable Velocity Potato Launcher
November 2005 - April 2006
 
See: Potato Launcher Page

Working with Adam Collins, Chris Wolfe, and others to develop a remote controlled, pneumatic, semi-automatic potato launcher. Users many of the same concepts as UAH Rover I.
Sudoku Helper
November 2005 - January 2006
 
Creating a small application to assist in the drudgery of solving Sudoku. Displays  possible values and impossible values for each cell, and allows the user to mark cells as "Board Specified", I'm Sure", or "Just a Guess".
Project Management
October 2005 - April 2006
  
Working with Dennis Conover to read, review, and assimilate Estimating Software Intensive Projects by Richard Stutzke in order to better manage software projects.

Meetings are held on Tuesday evenings.
HAM License
July 2005 - September 2005

See: Project Log

Worked with Adam Collins to get an  Amateur Radio License. This was the second project with Adam and it was a great sucess.

UAH Rover I
January 2005 - May 2005

See: Project Website

Worked with Adam Collins and Fred Tajalle to complete a simple telemetry system using a large remote control car a suite of sensors attached. This project served as our Senior Project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), but was conceived and implemented independently.


Vital Solutions
2004 - 2005

Provided consulting and small application add-ons for a local startup called Vital Solutions. Vital Solutions develops several software packages for doctors to facilitate the writing and transmittal of referral letters.
Kids' Kloset
Main contract: Early 2000
Updates and Support through 2004

Kids' Kloset is a bi-yearly children's consignment sale in Huntsville, Alabama run by two local families. I have been providing technical support for Kids' Kloset since early 2000. Activities include the development of an electronic cash register and accounting system that automates almost every process of the sale, website creation and maintenance, and consulting.
 

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