Industry: Rohm and Haas produces specialty chemicals, biocides, and genetic engineering that enhance the performance of household goods such as adhesives, personal care products, and computing and electronic equipment.

Duration: January, 1998 – September 2000.

Primary Objectives:

1. Create a method for analyzing desktop applications and determine what impact their components have on the OS (Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 9x workstations).
2. Create a method for accepting application submissions from globally distributed business divisions and reporting on their impact.
3. Create a method for distributing information on application standards and accepting submissions via the corporate Intranet.
4. Create/manage the SQL Server database for workflow control.

Tasks Performed:

• Coordination and management of a Visual Basic developer team. The team engineered custom tools for application analysis and results reporting.
• Capacity Planning/Installation/Management of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Red Hat Linux server farm to host results and provide corporate personnel with a location to deposit applications for testing.
• Created/Managed Web sites providing common interface (via ASP with a MS SQL-Server back end) for application submissions as well as results reporting.
• Acted as the client’s technical liaison to software vendors and when corporate management directed the implementation of complex technologies (for example: SAP).
• Began analysis and early deployment of Microsoft Windows 2000 servers to replace the NT 4.0 server farm.
• Coordinated effort to examine how and to what extent native Windows 2000 technologies (such as DLL redir) made the OS protection effort unnecessary.
• Creation of paper and web-based documentation (‘knowledge transfer’ material) to support the client after my departure.