My Innovations
In Tech
It’s always interesting to see what we view today as common place among Technology. It’s sometimes even more interesting when you see a time stamp on where you were when it all started.
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Details: Real-time, collaborative, individual and team response framework for incidents / events utilizing modern Ai tools in complex action responses. A replacement to current ticket and documentation processes.Â
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: Microsoft Loop, CoPilot / Google Docs, Gemini / Any quick save and associated Ai RAG system
Skills:Â Technical Operations, Business Innovation, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Management Leadership
Final Stage: In Process of presentation and part of my Cap Stone projects for MBA. Tested in live Incident Response environments.
Details: Consumer product Business Intelligence startup that helps businesses better understand their market by streamlining and modernizing the product registration process for consumers by way of a unified device platform that allows registration in under 30 seconds.
Innovation Role: Team Member / Advising CTO
Tech: PHP, Android / iOS, Web services, Administrative back-end, Client front-end
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Patent Focused Design, Budget Management, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, Sales and Marketing, Director Level Decision Making, Management Leadership
Final Stage: Winner Detroit Power Moves $20,000 competition 2015, TechStars incubator finalist spring 2016. Currently seeking investment opportunities.
Details: Automated logistics auditing Business Intelligence startup that downloads, analyzes, and identifies shipping discrepancies and refunds due for FedEx, DHL, and UPS carriers.
Innovation Role: Team Lead / Director
Tech: PHP, MySQL, AJAX, Web services, JSON, API, Python, Backend administration, Client facing frontend, AngularJS, Bootstrap
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Team Development, Programming / Scripting, Project Management, QA Testing, Patent Focused Design, Technical Support
Final Stage: Initial scaled production system completed and in use by over 100 companies. Business sold.
Details: SLAVE is a unique single address line entry system that simplifies address entry and verification into a single product that predicts and corrects in real time as a user types. This entry system is extremely useful in the emerging mobile device market as entering registration and shipping information via multiple form fields is extremely inaccurate and time consuming â often to a point where people will not make purchases via their cell phone. Any address inside the United States can be typed and submitted in less than 8 keystrokes into a web form.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: PHP, MS-SQL, USPS CASS address data, android / iOS compatibility, AJAX, Web services, API, JSON
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Team Development, Programming / Scripting, Sales and Marketing, Director Level Decision Making, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, QA Testing, Patent Focused Design, Project Management
Final Stage: Successful proof of concept and public beta testing of over 10,000 users. Provisional patent acquired. Potential for seed investment funding to expand full product capabilities.
Details: Address Logics is an industry first, and only, provider of âgenetic-programmingâ based USPS address validation, correction, and postal data standardization. Developed in 2007 as an R&D project to improve upon the current USPS AEC (Address Element Correction) program, Address Logics genetic intelligent core resulted in 8x more corrections in head to head testing and standardizes to exact postal standards on average 72% of all addresses currently left invalid with industry leading software.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: genetic programming, genetic algorithm design, C#, MS-SQL, PHP, Java, Python, Web services, Backend administration, Client facing frontend, Encryption, AJAX, AngularJS, Bootstrap, JSON
Skills: Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Client Relations, Management Leadership, Team Development, Technical Support, System Administration, Network Administration, Telephony, Programming / Scripting, B2B & Government Sales and Marketing, Director Level Decision Making, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, Federal Regulations / Policy Compliance, QA Testing, Project Management
Final Stage: Successful proof of concept beta test. The production system built and live to public 2010 and currently has processed data for over 500 clients, over 10 million addresses, over 30,000 files. Business closed and sold 2016.
Details: An interdisciplinary electrical and software engineer design project to build the first open-source commercial grade (TEMS) technology environment monitoring system. A secure monitoring, alert, and audit rack-mountable box that monitors all required ISO-IEC audit points with custom variable thresholds for less than $750. Monitoring is universal on any platform such as PC, tablet, or smartphone. Audit point features include: Room temperature, Space humidity, Room lights on or off, Vibration: Rack has been bumped, earthquake, or being moved, Door Open: Rack door has been opened / closed, Power: Monitor spikes in power, power outage, and voltage indicating a machine is down, Sound: Able to monitor room sound, sound detection recording, Video: Video monitoring, motion detection recording, Smoke: Smoke presence.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: Main board housing Arduino or custom processing unit, Webserver capabilities, USB or custom electronic module sensor connection, Electrical power pass through, Sensor features, Wi-fi or network connectivity, Sensor bus, Local storage of logs, API to box.
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Sales and Marketing, Team Development, Programming / Scripting, QA Testing, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, Project Management
Final Stage: Successful proof of concept device designed, built, and implemented in production environment. Potential for seed funding to expand into full product.
Details: The most comprehensive and modern solution for businesses and individuals seeking confidential, secure, and auditable file sharing services. The unique LiquidShare system focuses on three core ideas previously unavailable; no installation software, public firewall friendly, and built in usage alert services. LiquidShare stems from a design challenge for select governmental and financial clients in need of federally compliant, auditable, secure file transfers that are easily accessed from multiple locations using firewall friendly HTTP and FTP Internet protocol. Our design utilizes a modular approach which supports the advanced services listed above as well as meeting HIPAA, GLB, and other federal security compliance measures. Designed and implemented 1 year before DropBox.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: MS-SQL, PHP, Python, AJAX, JAVA, WebServices, realtime compression / encryption, Dual encryption transfers on both file and transport levels, Anonymized meta file server storage, Integrated alert system via e-mail and SMS, Full action oriented client accessible audit logs, Mandatory password complexity requirements, QuickShare technology using CURL, Open browser and OS support for MS, Mac, and *NIX, Integrated front-end platform for automated server-side production and FTP services.
Skills: Business Innovation, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Client Relations, Team Development, Technical Support, System Administration, Network Administration, Programming / Scripting, Sales and Marketing, Director Level Decision Making, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, Project Management
Final Stage: Production system designed, built, and implemented with over 300 active daily clients. IP and all assets sold to investor.
Details: A concept that stemmed from a separate project in laser based wound healing acceleration, this idea was to utilize new GPU technology perfectly suited to simulate mass micro events and chemical interactions that commonly take place inside a human vascular system. Â This technology would be best suited to supplement and/or replace current âslow to marketâ human drug testing trials.
Innovation Role: Team Member
Tech: GPU accelerated collision simulation, meta-particle interaction
Skills:Â Business Proposal / RFP Writing
Final Stage: Paper proposal. Unfunded project.
Details: A new, production scale manufacturing business created to meet the increasing demand for DVD and game disc repair. Objective was to provide consumers and businesses with an easy, inexpensive, and fully guaranteed solution to solve the issue with expensive disc repurchasing. While some damage is irreparable, SI employed a technologically advanced âsmoothing and resurfacingâ process, which restores damaged discs to their original quality. Timing coincided with Sony Entertainment being investigated for faulty disc drives causing scratching on customer discs.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation, Team Lead / Director
Tech: Large-scale warehousing, Logistics, USPS partnership, manufacturing automation
Skills: Business Innovation, Business Proposal / RFP Writing
Final Stage: Implementation ready business proposal with investor interest including Sony. Un-funded project.
Details: An innovation that allowed for a single point receiver to provide accurate 360 degree directional tracking of a transmitting object. Normal tracking requires an antenna three points to triangulate an object, two points with heuristic logic software, or potentially use a focus directional antenna in only one area. Jon proposed an idea loosely related to a reverse radar where a single high gain antenna can be used with a rotating shield that would provide directional drops in dB strength that can then be used to calculate position.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation
Tech: N/A
Skills: Business Innovation, Computer Science, Genetic Algorithms, Geo-spacial Positioning / Tracking, Electronic Engineering
Final Stage: Paper proposal for use in emergency responder tracking.
Details: Designed and pitched a new concept to expand Wise Solutions current package installer to work like an âapplication store kickerâ with a centralized database for business software and application that incorporated Yahoo Business Messenger in first iteration as a centralized secure OS installer for quick internal applications such as Office, PKZip, VB, and other proprietary business software. Later versions would have Wise Solutions itself providing the installer application.
Innovation Role: Original Innovation.
Tech: N/A
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Business Proposal / RFP Writing
Final Stage: Idea proposal drafted and submitted to CIO and VP of Marketing.
Details: First solo data center build of over $1 million from the ground up in under three months. Complete multi-floor re-configuring of all IT assets including physical space, complete office network / telephony rewiring, HVAC, fire suppression, electrical distribution, rack space, storage systems, and security to meet HIPAA and ISO-IEC federal compliant regulations. Project design saved the business $400k off outsource bid. Codename: fishbowl.
Innovation Role: Team Lead / Director
Tech: Building construction, Electrical distribution systems, HVAC, Fire suppression, Physical and digital security, purchasing, building safety codes, HP, CISCO, Windows / *NIX, fiber channel, storage, backup library automation.
Skills:Â Business Innovation, Management Leadership, Business Development, Federal Regulations / Policy Compliance, Budget Management, Team Development, Vendor / Purchasing Management, Technical Support, System Administration, Network Administration, Programming / Scripting, Director Level Decision Making, QA Testing, HVAC, Fire Suppression, Emergency / Disaster Recovery, Business Proposal / RFP Writing, Project Management
Final Stage: Data center designed, built, and moved into production.
Details: Assisted in building and testing first generation IVR system on Windows NT platform resulting in Home Depotâs 3rd acquisition Call Center. Technology was based on custom C++ coding built from the ground up before voice interaction software platforms were available.
Innovation Role: Supporting member.
Tech: C++, Windows NT, DigiTech muti-modem cards
Skills: Business Innovation, Technical Support, System Administration, Programming / Scripting, QA Testing
Final Stage: Business acquired by LabTech in 1999, which was then purchased by Logitech.
Details: Part of testing and QA group for industriesâ first 6 dimensional DoF serial gaming controller by SpaceTec IMC which was used in the first âunofficialâ national FPS eSports competitions via WAN. Controller was ball based and allowed a user to control a gaming object (Quake, Doom, Rise of Triad, Decent, etc) in any direction simultaneously with a single hand.
Innovation Role:Â Supporting member.
Tech:Â Custom scripting per game, 6-DoF SpaceOrb
Skills:Â QA Testing, Programming / Scripting, Technical Support, Sales / Marketing
Final Stage:Â Business acquired by LabTech in 1999, which was then purchased by Logitech.
Details: Assisted in building what is / was assumed to be the worldâs first, and largest, non-profit digital music album archive library supporting over 230,000 complete albums digitized via Frohoff algorithm. Library consisted of mass scale private peer to peer file storage, encrypted transfer, and first of a kind automated scripting bots validating QA requirements on all library albums.
Innovation Role:Â Supporting member.
Tech:Â DC++, Compiled C programs enforcing environment QA controls, Encryption protocols, Mass scale private P2P, Large scale data hosting
Skills:Â Community Leadership, QA Testing, Technical Support
Final Stage:Â Functioning community for audio enthusiasts over 10 years.
Details: Developed, managed, and grew first 24-hour technical support department for one of the first direct connect public ISPâs (internet providers) in the state of Michigan. Department grew large enough to expand into solo entity supporting other ISPâs across the nation including overflow from larger online entities such as AOL.
Innovation Role: Supporting member.
Tech: NetBEUI, IXP/SPX, TCP/IP, HTML 1.0, Windows 3.x, Linux, PBX telephony, LAN, WAN, RADIUS authentication, eMail, dial-up digital systems.
Skills: Business Innovation, Business Development, Client Relations, Management Leadership, Team Development, Technical Support, System Administration, Network Administration, Telephony, Business Intelligence, Programming / Scripting, Sales and Marketing, Director Level Decision Making, Project Management
Final Stage: Department grew in success and began taking on support for other nationwide ISPâs including national ISP overflow such as AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy.
Details: Developed and implemented possibly the first intranet based HTML knowledge decision tree. Department support staff would use the âconnection bibleâ for use in training and during support calls assisting people in connecting to the internet via modem and ISDN. The support knowledge base consisted of information such as current modem scripts, common FAQ requests, dial-in outages, and other relevant support information.
Innovation Role: Original innovation.
Tech: Apache web hosting, Red Hat Linux, HTML 1.0, TCP/IP, LAN
Skills: Business Innovation, Management Leadership, Programming / Scripting, Technical Support, Project Management
Final Stage: Designed and implemented into production.