He helped build the database engine in SQL Server 2000, co-founded Spathe.com, and served as Director of Technology at Progress Software and as chief technology officer at AppZero.com.

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Knowledge of SQL Server database and programming (Shellscript, PHP, Mysql, Javascript and HTML) environments.

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