About Jeff
I act as a kind of “part time Chief Technology Officer” (virtual CTO) and help with things like:
- Translating feature requests into technical language and specific tasks
- Improving design/architecture which improves developer productivity
- Taking advantage of cloud hosting (Azure and AWS) in a cost-effective way
- Acting as technical representative on client/prospect calls to “speak Geek” with the other side’s technical staff
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Technical Specialties
- Cloud computing/hosting – most of my projects are in Azure, but I also work with AWS
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Authentication – single sign on (SSO) functionality with SAML and OIDC/OAuth2 (Azure AD, B2C, Okta, Identity Server)
- Electronic payments and integrating with accounting systems
Bio
I went to Auburn University and earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Finance. In 1994 – I started Westglenn Software to do Visual Basic programming. For many years, Westglenn was a Microsoft partner whose specialties grew to include C#, SQL Server, BI, and Microsoft Dynamics SL (an ERP system formerly named Solomon).
I’ve been an independent consultant for most of the last 30 years, but I did work as the CTO of a medical (orthopedic) practice for a couple of years, which was invaluable for learning about healthcare operations and technology. I also spent about a year as a product owner of a SAAS application (hosted in AWS) that archives medical records for physician practices who are switching EMR systems. Consulting work is done via Circlebox LLC, my current company that specializes in portal applications to connect organizations with their customers/members. CBITS is a division of Circlebox specializing in IT services and security.
Sampling of projects (past and present)
- Application that allows students to write experiments in Python to take measurements from a Raspberry Pi expansion card on the International Space Station
- Online marketplace for landowners to offer short-term leases to hunters (like AirBNB)
- Software as a service application to help life sciences companies maintain compliance with the Physician Payments Sunshine Act
- Provided single sign-on (SSO) functionality for a facial recognition application
- Application to help Wal-Mart vendors digest transactional reports provided by the company in a dashboard
- A custom LMS (Learning Management System) for a non-profit that certify coaches in sports first aid. The LMS has been used to certify over 10,000 coaches.
- An online (web) ordering system for the caterer than manages the luxury boxes for several SEC stadiums
- An Android app to help baseball coaches track pitch counts
- An iOS bar code scanning app to help craft brewers track keg inventory
- A software package to process aerial surveying data generated by laser from small airplane tied into GPS to create survey maps of transmission lines for power companies.
- A Multimedia CD (pre-Internet era) for Auburn University football with video highlights, pictures, historical statistics, etc.
- SessionBridge – a utility for software developers (when Microsoft’s .Net framework was new) that helped ease website migration from ASP to ASP.Net.
- Managed (as CTO) the expansion of a medical practice from 2 sites/35 employees to 9 sites/100 employees in just a few months. Included new construction, telecom services, fiber deployments, VOIP phone systems, WAN/VPN connections, WiFi infrastructure (private for doctor’s iPads and public for patient waiting rooms), in addition to typical computers and printers.
- A reporting portal for a large telecom company that needed to provide operational response times to the FCC.
- A manufacturing system for a large lumber mill to track timber purchases and production of lumber and flooring.
- Financial reporting system for a large financial services company that manages timberland as an investment product
- Web application to help athletic trainers, coaches, team doctors, and parents communicate about injuries and rehabilitation to high school football players