James H. Zisch
Technical Resume

JHZ-CS (James H. Zisch - Computer Services)

Operation of a software application systems design and development services company. Services include: systems requirements analysis, design, development, integration, migration, trouble shooting, problem analysis, support and training. Product development and distribution including: designing, developing, maintaining, distributing and supporting a series of website application systems solutions. Technologies used include: PERL, SQL using PERL DBI/DBD, HTML/XHTML, CSS 1 thru 2, DOM 1 thru 2, Javascript, XML, SSL, SMTP and others.

Solution Products - designed specifically for easy installation, use and maintenance; written in open source PERL, Javascript, HTML and CSS; with strict adherence to W3C approved standards; and, platform/OS specific extension nuance workarounds. Solution products include, but not limited to:

• Page Generators: - dynamic page generation for websites requiring support for frequent data modification using customizable web page template merged in real-time with data sources as either ASCII (TAB or CSV comma delimited formats) flat files or RDBMS (PERL DBI/DBD: Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, DB2, Informix, xBase, mSQL, MySQL, MS SQL via ODBC and other ODBC supportive RDBMS). Provides rapid deployment and update capabilities with minimal file creation/modification and upload. Supports a series of integrated functions including automatic generation of Item Compare and Search controls, and Banner Rotator alternating content and banners with display and click-thru tracking.
  • Item Detail/List - generates item detail pages for a specified item supporting multiple and alternative templates, with supporting for display of an all items list when no item is specified.
  • Category List - generates item list pages for a specified item category
  • Subcategory List - generates item list pages for a specified subcategory
  • Manufacture List - generates items list pages for a specified manufacture grouped by category and subcategory; optionally qualified for a specified item category
  • Item Compare - comparative display of user selected items with controls automatically generated by reference in all Page Generator solution templates
  • RTPG (Real-time Page Generator) - page generation of index, group and detail pages using centralized data and customizable templates supporting template syntax for conditional and calculation processing. Supports multiple configuration files and templates by reference as input for enhanced reuse. This solution is template, data and input parameter driven.
• Website Search - a series of search capabilities assisting site users to rapidly locate what they seek.
  • Item Search - provides item data specific search capabilities including search constraint to item categories, subcategories and/or manufactures dynamically generated by Category List, Subcategory List, Manufacture List and Item Detail solutions. Also supports "search all" user specified option.
  • Text Search - a combined system including a back-end site spider component (for accumulation of searchable data) and an end-user component supporting user text based search with output formatted using a fully customizable template sorted by weight of search criteria found.
  • Manufacture Directory - a dynamically generated alphabetically directory display of all manufactures represented at a website with qualified display based on input display-from display-to range parameters. Includes: automatic generation of links to Manufacture List solution.
• Ecommerce - solutions providing or supporting online revenue generation.
  • Shopping Cart - provides order creation with online and offline processing user options. Add to cart controls and links are dynamic generated by Category List, Subcategory List, Manufacture List, Item Detail, Item Compare and Item Search solutions by simple reference within their respective templates. Cart contents are written to disk on the server accessed by reference via user's browser cookie. Supports customer information last used data and order history information supported by Order Processor solution. Check out options supported include: online credit card orders, telephone call center orders, fax orders, mail-in orders, and company PO (Purchase Order) orders.
  • Banner Rotator - provides alternating content display in web pages supporting specification of proportionate frequency of display per banner, provides display and click tracking with a back-end online reporting facility. Alternating content supported includes hyper-linked text and/or images. Display location for each content item may be constrained to display at top and/or bottom of page.
  • Banner Affiliate - an affiliate system supporting a front-end user account creation, real-time reporting facility and automatic affiliate markup generator. Back-end system supports affiliate website click-thru routing and tracking with click-thru resulting sales crediting. Back-end administrative facility provides affiliate account management and reporting.
  • Order Tracking - a front-end process for online order status tracking of FEDEX and UPS shipments

Acucorp, Inc. - Assisted in establishing systems engineering group and new release of Internet enhancements to existing business software development tools; providing domestic and International product education, support and onsite trouble shooting to distributors and customers; including, American Stores, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, IBM, IDC, Informix, National Data Systems, Oracle, Samsung, Seagrams, Warner Brothers and others; presenting product demonstration and education at user conferences and industry trade shows; performed onsite customer support and trouble shooting at locations domestic and International including: Boston, Burbank, Chicago, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seoul, Sydney, Taipei and others, supporting CEO on multiple domestic press tours meeting with editors of leading IT industry trades including; Application Development Trends, Byte, CIO, CMP Reseller News, CMP VAR-Business, Computer World, Datamation, Dr. Dobb's Journal, ENT, Enterprise Systems Journal, HP Professional, Info World, LAN Times, PC Week Software Development, Software Magazine and others.

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, Inc.) - An International systems integrator and high tech solutions provider. Design, development, quality assurance & claims testing, maintenance and support of distributed multi-user interactive application systems for multiple governmental agencies and computer manufactures clients in highly structured parallel co-development environments. Hands-on management of design, development, test and support teams. Project tracking, reporting and technical liaison for regular client status meetings. Co-dependent parallel development dependencies and requirement coordination providing liaison to multiple client technical task teams. Platforms included: IBM CM/VMS, IBM MVS/TSO/ISPF, UNIVAC 1100, VAX. Languages included: COBOL, SQL, REXX, ISPF, PLS-3, PL-X, PL/AS, JCL, CLIST, HLLAPI. Database: S2K, DB2, DMS 1100, Oracle. Details protected under mutual non-disclosure agreement.