WordWorm is a full-featured reading trainer application and curriculum for students (grade 6-8) and their teachers. The application helps students learn how to increase their reading speed by avoiding common problems with regression, mechanics and subvocalization, while honing the brain's natural ability to comprehend and recognize complex patterns. Lessons consist of drills, stories and questions to enhance comprehension and critical reading skills, using both symbols and words (or parts of words). Lessons are also highly customizable, allowing teachers create new material such as drills that dovetail current classwork. 

One of my most significant achievements to date, echo (formerly SiteRabbit) is a patent-pending and pioneering B-B-C application whose invention was the basis of the corporation for which I most recently worked. I designed this application to serve as an ASP (application service provider) and to meet the specific technology, mar/comm and management needs of tiered organizations, such as franchises, churches and school systems. Currently at over 150,000 lines of code, the multi-tiered, fully-customizable, web-based application collects, manages and disseminates a vast amount of information for and about the host organization, its affiliates and its customers.

After completing the fully functional prototype, several full-time developers were added to the project, mainly under my direction. In 2000 the application (and the company it started) sold for roughly $10 million and currently has several licensees in both the United States and Canada. I continued with the company for one year following its sale to assist with integration and transition.

The application continues development now at Primero Systems (previously Prosoft Corporation), whose developers originally helped bring the tool to market and who has licensed development and promotional rights for certain vertical markets. Many large scale web sites are currently driven by the echo software.

This application parses a user-selectable GEDCOM file (specification v.5.5) and from it, builds a complete, interactive client-side DHTML application from that data [screen]. Users may selectively hide information [screen]. The client-side application exists in one HTML page, and is powered exclusively by JavaScript and DHTML. The JavaScript is fine-tuned and intentionally obfuscated [screen] to mazimize code security and minimize download time.

The release version will be presented as a Web service through which users may upload GEDCOM files and retrieve the resultant Web page, suitable for upload onto any personal web site.

This application is spurring a new project, in which I will complete a full grammar parser and wrapper object. This wrapper object will make the contents of an imported GEDCOM file visible to the developer and will provide XML output suitable for use with XSLT.

This application was designed to streamline the helpdesk operations of a customer and franchisee support department that I once managed. With this application, support representatives could each keyword-query several internal databases of franchisee data and common support questions [screen]. Additionally, the support agents could print reports [screen], add new data, or edit existing data [screen] stored within the databases (based on permissions [screen]). This application, when extended to the Web and corporate intranet, saved the company substantial time and money. Users particularly like the hotkeys [screen], which offer quick access to all features.

Due to its popularity, the application was released shareware as well, with a complete compiled Windows help file (including index) [screen] and custom security and registration code.

Designed with a B-B-C business model similar to that of echo, TutorMeSmart.com is positioned as an online tutoring service management system for organizations such as universities, schools and churches [screen]. Served under an ASP (application service provider) model, TutorMeSmart.com subscribers can create a virtual community and meeting place for their members (e.g. students) and tutors/mentors [screen], or they can use the application online privately to administer a non-connected service. Additionally, tutors may be conditionally "shared" among communities, creating a sort-of global community for tutors and students.

The application benefits the ASP, the member (e.g. a school), the member's affiliates (e.g. tutors), and the students by providing detailed information [screen] including reports and listings [screen], ease of use and a high degree of customization for both the organization [screen] and the individual tutor [screen]. Using the TutorMeSmart.com service, an organization can have a fully automated tutoring service up and running online in just a few moments. Additionally, they can impose restrictions or qualifications on users of their service.

Due to the success of echo, this application did not receive the marketing and promotion is probably deserved.

Before online calendars were ubiquitous, this B-B-C application was designed to be served as an ASP was available to provide a unique kind of calendaring service. It is shown here in the proof-of-concept stage of development. With this application can create any of a number of publicly accessible calendars [screen], complete with styles [screen], icons, views [screen], and the ability to delegate maintenance on a per-calendar basis.

This application is perfect for organizations like churches, where several different schedules of events are often made publicly available. One subscriber is given the ability to create up to a specific number of online calendars [screen], each with its own URL, events, style and password. In the case of a church, each group of parishioners (such as the Bible study group, or the acolytes) may maintain its own calendar of events [screen], all linked to directly from the main church web site.

Begun in 1998, this application was one of the first that catered specifically to the B-B-C business model. Due to the success of echo, however, the application was not fully developed or marketed.