OnlineMedicalRegistries is a digital medical records provider. They needed a web-application to let subscribers create their records along with Advance Directives. Emergency Room medical personnel can be authenticated and authorized to access the records in an emergency. Simultaneously, the subscriber's Care Community is automatically notified. I designed and delivered the application using Ruby-on-Rails.
IFX, an international collaboration of financial service firms, develops and distributes an XML message schema used for financial transactions. They have a web-application that lets architects publish designs and reviewers make comments as new releases are developed. They needed enhancements to function and user-interface. I was able to accomplish that with a combination of jQuery, AJAX, JSP and Servlets.
Ambric (since acquired by Nethra Imaging) designs multi-core processing chips. They have a language enhancement that lets users write programs to take advantage of their multi-processor technology. They needed to include the documentation in their Eclipse plug-in - both as linked HTML pages, and PDF documents available for pre-sales customers. I built an XSLT processor in Java that gave them what they needed.
Communispace builds electronic communities for clients to help understand what is important to customers. The resulting discussion forums are a rich source of content, but can be overwhelming to summarize. They wanted an interactive application to help them dig into the material and identify important themes. Rather than try a complex natural-language approach, I built an interactive application that identified noun-verb phrases that were repeated by other members in a discussion. An analyst could quickly see what pairs were mentioned, and drill down to actual quotes. This produced useful results. As an example, HP's business-printer division was able to identify calibration as an important issue.
A major consumer electronics company wanted to know what customers were saying about their products on the web. I built an application that obtains customer reviews from various web-sites, organizes them by product and category, and delivers the material as a web-zine. They get a Buzz report every two-weeks.
A manufacturer of automobile sound systems conducted extensive reviews of competitive products, having their engineers sit in these cars, writing down their impressions, and listening to where the sounds came from. They wanted a better process to capture the information in a consistent manner. I built an interactive application that stepped each reviewer through the questions and then used SVG graphics to let them indicate where in the car they perceived the sound. When all the reviews were complete, the application summarized them into a PDF document, and distributed the results to all the interested parties.
The Concord (MA) Free Public Library has a large collection of historic documents. They wanted to make these more accessible to researchers and interested people outside of the library. An example was the Town's reports from the mid-ninetennth century, highlighting such issues as Abolition and the Civil War. I arranged to have all the documents scanned, processed them through OCR and created a web-applcation that lets a user browse through the collection and search for specific terms.