Education

1985 – 1987 University of North Texas, Denton, TX

MS, Computer Science, August 1987

1982 – 1985 University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

BBA, Systems Analysis, Management Science and Marketing, May 1985

Experience

2002 - Travelworm Inc , Las Vegas, NV

Developer, Designed and built the following systems:

· (In Progress) Revenue Management System

· Redesigned Existing Booking Engine For Selling Hotel Rooms On The Internet Via The Merchant Model

· Telephony (Call Center) Interface With Booking Engine

2001 - 2002 Saturn Reservations Inc , Greenwich, CN

Contractor, Designed and built the following systems:

· Global Distribution System For Ground Transportation That Interfaces With Apollo, Sabre, And Worldspan

· Inserts Prices And Availability From The Saturn Database Into Apollo, Sabre, And Worldspan Pnr’s (Passengers Name Records)

· Monitors The Apollo, Sabre, And Worldspan Queues To Detect When A Ground Transportation Reservation Has Been Made, Retrieves And Updates The Pnr, Then Updates The Saturn Availability Accordingly

· Xml Booking Interface With Apollo/Galileo That Enables Travel Agents To Book Ground Transfers

· Windows Dde Interface With Apollo’s Focalpoint Booking Program That Enables Travel Agents To Book Ground Transfers

2000 - 2001 NewsGrade corp., New York, NY

Executive Vice President of Technology.

· Member Of The Executive Management Team Of This 120 Employee Company

· Recruited The Software Development Team And Product Operations Team

· Set Up Compensation Program For The Technology Department

· Designed And Built The Data Center To Support Product Operations

· Designed And Built Tcp/Ip Based Software Systems That Receive Financial Data And News From The Global Financial Markets And Generate Automated Financial Market News In Multiple Languages Simultaneously

· Designed Time Series Database To Support High Speed Access To Financial Data

· Designed “Real Time” Financial Alert System

· Designed Financial News (Programming) Language To Enable Financial Analyst And News Editors To Produce Financial News In Multiple Languages Simultaneously Based On Real Time Financial Events

· Designed System To Produce Financial News In Many Different Formats Including Xml, Html And News Feeds

1999 – 2000 HomeSpace.com Pasadena, CA

Chief Technology Architect, Consultant

· Provided Overall Technology Architecture For Software Systems That Provided Home Services, Including Mortgages And Customer Contact Services Over The Internet

· Provided Overall Technology Architecture For The Data Center

1998 – 1999 Freedom Link Communications Inc., Sarasota, FL

President

· Built Out Development Offices In Sarasota Florida

· Recruited Development Team, Which Included Artist, Musicians, Technical Developers, Quality Assurance, Sales, Marketing And Administrative Staff

· Designed And Built Software Systems On Hand Held Devices To Deliver Audio And Animation Over The Internet Via Wireless And Wired Medium

· Provided The Architecture For The Software And Hardware Components Of The Project

1995 – 1999 Sabre Inc., Fort Worth, TX

Chief Technology Architect for www.Travelocity.com, Consultant

· The Chief Technology Architect Directly Responsible For The Architecture, Design, And Development Of Www.Travelocity.Com

· Provide The Architecture, Design And Development For The Travelocity Software And Hardware Systems That Are Still In Use Today (Travelocity Was Launched March 12, 1996)

· Designed A Travel Programming Language That The Business Analyst Used To Program Travelocity Which Is Still In Use Today

· Provided The Architecture And Design For The Travelocity Asp (Application Service Provider), Co-Branding, Over-Branding Software And Hardware Systems. Companies Such As American Airlines, Canadian Airlines, Rosenbluth Travel, Japan Airlines, Cheap Tickets, Us Airways, Etc Used These Services

1999 Qantas Airways, Sydney, Australia

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With Qantas Airways (QA) ( Www.Qantas.Com ) To Define The Functional Requirements For Their Electronic Commerce Project

· Worked With QA’s Marketing And Technology People To Design And Define A Electronic Commerce System That Could Respond To The Needs Of Their Customers And Their Marketing Department

· Designed Qantas’s Systems To Sell Airline Tickets, Cargo, And Other Products And Services On The Internet In Real-Time (Transaction Processing Links To All Backend System Within Qantas).

· Designed All Connections To Qantas Backend Systems That Enabled Qantas To Use Multiple Selling Channels, E.G., WWW, Kiosk, Interactive Voice Response, Etc.

· Design Enables The IT Department To Make Changes To Their Backend Systems Without Effecting The Electronic Commerce Solution

1997 – 1998 SwissAir, Zurich, Switzerland

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With Swissair (Www.Swissair.Com) To Define The Functional Requirements For Their Electronic Commerce Project

· Designed Swissair Systems To Sell Airline Tickets, Cargo, And Other Products And Services On The Internet In Real-Time (Transaction Processing Links To All Backend System Within Swissair)

· Designed All Connections To Swissair Backend Systems

· Designed The Tools That Swissair Used To Build Their Electronic Commerce And Web Site.

· Worked With Swissair’s Marketing, Sales And Atraxis (Their Information Technology (IT) Company) To Develop The System.

· Worked With Swissair To Design Their Payment And Fulfillment Systems, Using Both The SET Protocol And Secure Credit Card Transactions Via The SSL Protocol

1998 Leading Hotels of the World, New York, NY

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked With Leading Hotels To Develop An Internet Strategy For Marketing And Selling Their Hotel Rooms Online

· Designed Solutions For Linking The Backend Reservation System To The Internet

1998 International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, Switzerland

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Designed A 81 Country Travel Network That Enables IOM To Manage Travel And Immigration Of People Worldwide:

· Use Of Combined Internet/Intranet Electronic Commerce Solution

· Manage Travel And Immigration Of People Worldwide

· Uses A 81 Country Localization And Cultural Program

· War And Disaster Mobile Offices Use The Internet Protocol Via Satellite

· All User Interfaces Were In The Local Language And All Transactions Were In Local Currency

· The Public Network Infrastructure (Internet) Was Used In A Secure Manner When Possible To Reduce Cost

· In Many Cases The Private Intranet Protocol (IP) Had To Ride Or Piggyback On Existing National Network Infrastructures Such As X.25

· Communications With All Major GDS’s (Global Distribution Systems)

· Use Remote Satellite Links Where No Infrastructure Exist

· Migrant Database And Tracking

1998 Air China, Beijing, China

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With Air China And The CAAC (China’s Civil Aviation Body) To Design An Online Booking System That Can Interface With The CAAC’s Reservation System

· Designed An Interface To The CAAC Reservation System

1996 – 1997 Singapore Airlines, Singapore

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With Singapore Airlines (SIA) ( Www.Singaporeair.Com ) To Define The Functional Requirements For Their Electronic Commerce Project

· Designed Systems To Sell Airline Tickets, Cargo, And Other Products And Services On The Internet In Real-Time (Transaction Processing Links To All Backend Systems Within SIA)

· In Order To Fulfill SIA’s Electronic Commerce Functional Requirements Lawrence Designed The Following:

o Functional Requirements Specifications

o Hardware And Hosting Infrastructure

o Networks

o Interfaces To Backend Systems And Mainframes

o Electronic Payment Systems, E.G., SET, Secure Credit Card Transactions

o Capacity Planning Model

· Helped SIA Select Local Vendors For Development Work That Could Be Done Locally In Singapore

· Worked With SIA’s Acquiring Bank, Citibank Singapore (Www.Citibank.Com/Ipb-Singapore), And VISA To Define The Functional Requirements For The Electronic Payment Systems

· Designed The Payment Systems Including The Implementation Of The SET Protocol And User Interfaces (Wallets) To SET

1997 British Airways, London, UK

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With British Airways (BA) ( Www.Britishairways.Com ) To Define The Functional Requirements For Their Electronic Commerce Project

· Introduced BA To The Tools Used To Build Travelocity Which Made It A Flexible And Dynamic System

· Worked With BA’s Marketing And Technology People To Design And Define A Completely New Electronic Commerce System That Could Respond To The Needs Of Their Customers And Their Marketing Department

· Designed A Solution To Interface With All Of BA’s Backend Systems Including Their Selling Systems Which Their Phone Operators Used To Sell Promotions And Specials

· Designed User Interfaces For The World Wide Web, Kiosks In Their Executive Clubs, And Sales Systems For Their Phone Operators

1996 – 1997 Walt Disney World Travel, Orlando, FL

E-Commerce consultant and Technology Architect

· Worked Onsite With Disney Travel To Design Online Store Front That Will Enable Consumers To Purchase Disney Vacation Packages Over The Internet/Intranet

· Designed System To Create Disney Vacation Packages That Interface With The Following Reservation Systems:

o SABRE And Apollo For Air and Car Travel

o Disney’s Hotel Reservation System

o Theme Park Ticketing System

o Dinning Reservation System

o Sports And Shows Reservation System

1996 – 1996 IBM, New York, NY

Contractor

· Designed and developed a distributed global directory service (DGDS) product for use in ISSC’s outsourcing business.

· The DGDS is built with industry standard interfaces such as X.500, LDAP, and NIS. The DGDS runs on distributed heterogeneous hardware and software platforms, e.g., MVS, RISC 6000, AIX, MS Windows, and Windows NT.

· The distributed data stores are in Sybase, DB2 MVS, and AIX, and native directory service formats for OpenMail, Profs, MS Mail, MS Exchange, CC Mail, Lotus Notes, and Unix Mail.

· Interfaced the DGDS with distributed system management using industry standard protocols SNMP2 and CMIP. Interfaced the DGDS with two different help desk systems.

1993 – 1995 GTE, Dallas, TX

Contractor

· Designed and developed GTE’s electronic mail infrastructure that runs on a world wide TCP/IP network with multiple email gateways to other networks and legacy email systems

· Designed the graphical user interfaces (GUI) to access email

· Designed and implemented a system for global, corporate, and local network directory synchronization

· Designed and implemented a multiple server and multiple access email system on TCP/IP

· Designed and developed all user interfaces using the X Window System and Motif

1988 – 1993 Academy Computing Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK

Director of Software Development, Reporting Directly to the President

· Recruited The Software Development Team

· Responsible for designing and developing seven commercial software products in the areas of client/server data communications, satellite communications, real-time transaction processing and geographical information systems using GPS (Global Positioning System)

· These products performed real-time mission-critical functionality in the telecommunications industry

· Developed a standard protocol to interface disparate geographical information systems using the X Window System, Motif, and TCP/IP network programming

1987 – 1988 University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX

Teaching and Research Position while Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Texas

· Research areas are software engineering and data structures, i.e., high-speed access to large volumes of data