Lucem Solutions specializes in ColdFusion web application design and development plus supporting technologies
(Mach-II, ColdSpring, Fusebox, & Spring Frameworks, JSP, JSTL, Java, XML, XSLT, CSS, Flex, OO Analysis & Design, SQL)

My experience encompasses over 9 years of professional business analysis and application programming including 8 years with American Power Conversion | APC and availability.com plus numerous clients including: Michiana Eye Center & Facial Plastic Surgery, FindHow Inc., The Landmark Conservancy, Priority Management Group, GJW Chicago Realty, CareerIntel, JobFitForLife, and PerformanceIntel.

I have been successfully involved in a web development capacity since 1999 and have excelled in each role I have held. My expertise is in the areas of Object-Oriented ColdFusion applications and Content Management Systems (CMS). For example, as a lead developer at a Fortune 1000 corporation, I was responsible for managing the development lifecycle of web applications through analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment on multiple multilingual ColdFusion content management driven websites that greatly exceeded expectations. I also managed a small team of developers and content managers. My current position is as Senior Web Developer and Subject Matter Expert, a position that requires the ability to communicate best practices, methodologies, and design patterns, critically assess business requirements, architect and develop solutions, delegate relevant tasks, and follow through on web application projects until completion.

Below is a summary of my skillset that could benefit your needs:

• Extensive Object-Oriented ColdFusion development experience
• Expert in Mach-II and ColdSpring Frameworks
• Extensive SQL, XML, Javascript, and CSS experience
• Expert in Content Management Systems (CMS) development
• The ability to effectively communicate with different audiences: program managers, business users, content managers, and all levels of management
• High level of self direction and motivation
• Ability to think strategically and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Proven abilities to grasp new concepts quickly and share new understanding with others
• Excellent oral and written communications skills

I have been an employee of 2 large organizations as well as a consultant for several small business clients. My experience, efficiency, elegant code, customer service, and dedication make me very qualified to fulfill your web development needs.

Framework Feeds
Story time with Spring! | Working on Mach-II 1.8 'Simplicity' - New Feature Specs Ready | Webinar: Apache Tomcat Tips and Tricks from the Pros | Mach-II now on Twitter | Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 Released | 7 Must have resources for the Mach-II Newcomer | Spring Exchange 2009 - London, United Kingdom | SpringSource getting Groovy with Grails | Spring for .NET 1.2.0 Released | Spring Day - Copenhagen, Denmark | Mach-II 1.6.0 RC1 Released | Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 Released | Spring Batch 1.1.3 Released | Spring 2.5.6 Released | Config File Reference is Ready for Action | Mach-II 1.6.0 Beta Released | A Warm Team Mach-II Welcome to Brian FitzGerald | New Mach-II Workshops (Feedback Needed) | Mach-II Dashboard Updated | What's New in Mach-II 1.6 Quickstart Available | CFC Primer Parts 3, 4 and 5 Published | CFC Primer Parts 1 and 2 Published | Mach-II Dashboard Module - Development Helper Application | New Documentation: Using the Threading Adapter Package and Utility Connector | New Documentation: Introduction to Logging and Introduction to Caching | Submitting Enhancement Requests for Mach-II | Don't Fear the Wiki! Or, How You Can Contribute to Mach-II | Using Mach-II? Let us know! | Get Involved in the Mach-II Project | Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong! |

Portfolio

Experience

A results oriented person with a strong technical background. Highly motivated with proven abilities to grasp new concepts quickly and make strong contributions in a minimum period. Excellent oral and written communications skills are complemented by the ability to execute projects in their entirety and to motivate others to superior performance. Ability to think strategically and handle multiple projects simultaneously enables excellence in working with all levels of organization. Demonstrated expertise in quickly learning and sharing best practices and new technologies with others.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EXPERIENCE
Lucem Solutions, Chicago, IL and Providence, RI – www.lucemograph.com/solutions/
Owner/Application Architect, April 2000 – present

• Technical consultant for small businesses and start-ups.
• ColdFusion web application design and development utilizing Mach-II, ColdSpring, and Fusebox frameworks.
• J2SE JavaServer Pages MVC web application development utilizing Java, JSP, JSTL, Spring, JSF, JPA, JDBC, JNDI, JUnit, AspectJ, and Tomcat.
• Developed multiple ColdFusion web sites, intranets, and extranets which incorporated Fusebox, MySQL and Access databases, CFX_Cybercash credit card transactions over SSL, dynamic content management, and administrative reporting functionality.

American Power Conversion, West Kingston, RI – www.apc.com
Team Leader Content Management Applications, September 2001 – May 2007
Internet Specialist, May 2000 – August 2001
Web Developer, August 1999 – April 2000

• Supervised global web content management systems (CMS) development team consisting of web developers and content managers.
• Functioned as advisor, provided trainings, and recommended best practices to marketing managers, business users and other developers.
• Lead Developer and Project Coordinator responsible for managing the development lifecycle of web applications through analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment of multilingual ColdFusion sites.
• Researched new development methodologies, made corresponding recommendations, and implemented emerging technologies of XHTML, WML, and Fusebox framework throughout global internet development team of Fortune 1000 Corporation.
• Architected and built www.availability.com, a ColdFusion, Fusebox, and Macromedia Spectra (CMS) powered information portal.
• Developed several dynamic XML applications which exposed company products encyclopedia to resellers and distributors.
• Constructed multilingual dynamic ColdFusion WAP sites including mobile.apcc.com.

EDUCATION
University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
Master of Fine Arts, May 1996

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 1994

TRAINING
Secure Coding for ColdFusion, Aspect Security, Chicago, IL, 2008
Software Development Framework Using the Unified Process, ROITraining, Chicago, IL, 2007
Technology Project Management, ROITraining, Chicago, IL, 2007
TeamSite 6.7.1 Developer Series, Interwoven, Chicago, IL, 2007
Transact-SQL Programming, Learning Tree, Chicago, IL, 2007
Visual Basic Programming, CCRI, Warwick, RI, 2001
Fast Track to SQL, Macromedia, Newton, MA, 2001
ColdFusion Performance Tuning, Allaire, Newton, MA, 2000
Allaire Spectra For Developers, Allaire, Cambridge, MA, 2000
Advanced ColdFusion, Allaire, Cambridge, MA, 2000
Fast Track to ColdFusion, Allaire, Cambridge, MA, 1999

CONFERENCES
CFUnited ColdFusion Technical Conference, Washington, DC, 2008
Macromedia Max Developer Conference, Anaheim, CA, 2005
Macromedia Max Developer Conference, Orlando, FL, 2002
Allaire Developer Conference, Washington, DC, 2000
XML Developer Conference, New York City, NY, 2000
Allaire Developer Conference, Boston, MA, 1999

SITES
www.apc.com, www.availability.com, www.findhow.com, www.mecfps.com, www.landmarkconservancy.org, www.lucemograph.com

Current Activities

Flex
Currently I'm learning Flex and find it extremely useful for building Rich Internet Applications. The user experience is greatly improved via an enhanced user interface that provides return of data without having to leave the current page.

AJAX
Lately I've been working extensively with AJAX to acquire RSS feeds with Google APIs such as news and weather. I've also used AJAX with other Google APIs such as maps and spellchecker which provide significant enhancements to the user experience.

CFUnited
I recently attended the CFUnited ColdFusion Technical Conference in Washington, DC which was excellent. There were many sessions on Object-Oriented ColdFusion techniques which reaffirmed my strong belief that Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion is the most efficient way to build applications.

I particularly found the following sessions to be top notch:

RAD OO
Object-Oriented Best Practices
Leveraging Basic Object-Oriented Concepts in Coldfusion
Leveraging Popular ColdFusion Frameworks to Make Better Applications
ColdSpring: Better Living Through Configuration
ColdSpring: Advanced Tips and Techniques
Writing Secure CFML
From ColdFusion to Flex: Model-View-Controller
Flex 3 For ColdFusion Developers
Refactoring to Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

CF8
I have also been experimenting with some of the new ColdFusion 8 tags such as cflayout, cfwindow, cftextarea, cffeed, cfthread, and cfgrid using cfajaxproxy and cfajaximport.

Framework Feeds
Story time with Spring! | Working on Mach-II 1.8 'Simplicity' - New Feature Specs Ready | Webinar: Apache Tomcat Tips and Tricks from the Pros | Mach-II now on Twitter | Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 Released | 7 Must have resources for the Mach-II Newcomer | Spring Exchange 2009 - London, United Kingdom | SpringSource getting Groovy with Grails | Spring for .NET 1.2.0 Released | Spring Day - Copenhagen, Denmark | Mach-II 1.6.0 RC1 Released | Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 Released | Spring Batch 1.1.3 Released | Spring 2.5.6 Released | Config File Reference is Ready for Action | Mach-II 1.6.0 Beta Released | A Warm Team Mach-II Welcome to Brian FitzGerald | New Mach-II Workshops (Feedback Needed) | Mach-II Dashboard Updated | What's New in Mach-II 1.6 Quickstart Available | CFC Primer Parts 3, 4 and 5 Published | CFC Primer Parts 1 and 2 Published | Mach-II Dashboard Module - Development Helper Application | New Documentation: Using the Threading Adapter Package and Utility Connector | New Documentation: Introduction to Logging and Introduction to Caching | Submitting Enhancement Requests for Mach-II | Don't Fear the Wiki! Or, How You Can Contribute to Mach-II | Using Mach-II? Let us know! | Get Involved in the Mach-II Project | Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong! |

Blog

Click here for my web application development blog.

This blog is about web application development, specifically ColdFusion, Mach-II, ColdSpring, Flex, AJAX, Javascript, CSS. Entries feature web development techniques, observations, experiments, and discoveries.

Framework Feeds
Story time with Spring! | Working on Mach-II 1.8 'Simplicity' - New Feature Specs Ready | Webinar: Apache Tomcat Tips and Tricks from the Pros | Mach-II now on Twitter | Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 Released | 7 Must have resources for the Mach-II Newcomer | Spring Exchange 2009 - London, United Kingdom | SpringSource getting Groovy with Grails | Spring for .NET 1.2.0 Released | Spring Day - Copenhagen, Denmark | Mach-II 1.6.0 RC1 Released | Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 Released | Spring Batch 1.1.3 Released | Spring 2.5.6 Released | Config File Reference is Ready for Action | Mach-II 1.6.0 Beta Released | A Warm Team Mach-II Welcome to Brian FitzGerald | New Mach-II Workshops (Feedback Needed) | Mach-II Dashboard Updated | What's New in Mach-II 1.6 Quickstart Available | CFC Primer Parts 3, 4 and 5 Published | CFC Primer Parts 1 and 2 Published | Mach-II Dashboard Module - Development Helper Application | New Documentation: Using the Threading Adapter Package and Utility Connector | New Documentation: Introduction to Logging and Introduction to Caching | Submitting Enhancement Requests for Mach-II | Don't Fear the Wiki! Or, How You Can Contribute to Mach-II | Using Mach-II? Let us know! | Get Involved in the Mach-II Project | Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong! |

Contact Me

For web development inquiries, please contact me via email at lucemograph@gmail.com

Framework Feeds
Story time with Spring! | Working on Mach-II 1.8 'Simplicity' - New Feature Specs Ready | Webinar: Apache Tomcat Tips and Tricks from the Pros | Mach-II now on Twitter | Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 Released | 7 Must have resources for the Mach-II Newcomer | Spring Exchange 2009 - London, United Kingdom | SpringSource getting Groovy with Grails | Spring for .NET 1.2.0 Released | Spring Day - Copenhagen, Denmark | Mach-II 1.6.0 RC1 Released | Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 Released | Spring Batch 1.1.3 Released | Spring 2.5.6 Released | Config File Reference is Ready for Action | Mach-II 1.6.0 Beta Released | A Warm Team Mach-II Welcome to Brian FitzGerald | New Mach-II Workshops (Feedback Needed) | Mach-II Dashboard Updated | What's New in Mach-II 1.6 Quickstart Available | CFC Primer Parts 3, 4 and 5 Published | CFC Primer Parts 1 and 2 Published | Mach-II Dashboard Module - Development Helper Application | New Documentation: Using the Threading Adapter Package and Utility Connector | New Documentation: Introduction to Logging and Introduction to Caching | Submitting Enhancement Requests for Mach-II | Don't Fear the Wiki! Or, How You Can Contribute to Mach-II | Using Mach-II? Let us know! | Get Involved in the Mach-II Project | Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong! |