CV for Sean Wenzel

Top 3 Roles

• Technology consulting and implementation geared to the needs of the business process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve all thing technical and/or challenging.
• Strategically work the "white space" as required.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive computing and information systems experience (20+ years).
• 12+ years online/Internet, systems integration and business development experience.
• Skilled in strategic planning, market analysis and project budgeting.
• Familiarity with all phases of software development life-cycle (RAD).
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Innovative, dynamic, detail-oriented problem solver.
• Thrive on challenge and making near impossible deadlines

Work Experience/Projects

• BIG Inc. Technical consultation and implementation. Troubleshooting and general think-tank services. Also providing corporate ISP hosting services.
  
  
• metro.isp Inc.
  (Director Technical Development)
  President and CEO. Providing consulting and Internet related networking and strategic planning services. Not only limited to consulting but including the implementation of technology solutions. (We don't just propose it, we actually do what we propose).
  
  
• musicmusicmusic Inc.
  Member of Board of Directors/Director Technical Development
  Co-founder (Director Technical Development) of digital MP3 delivery company musicmusicmusic Inc. that became publicly traded. Like Napster but before Napster. Only we respected the artists rights and paying royalties. First ever license granted by RIAA (Recording Industry of America) for music on the Internet. Responible for all facets of the technology including liasion and deployment of franchise in Abu Dabi, UAE.
  
  
• www.recipeland.com
  Developed and maintain highly popular recipe web site (50,000 recipes). Originally a mass of text, massaged with Perl script into a SQL database. As of Oct 2001, 2.2 million unique visitors in the last year. Well over two gigabytes of data delivered every day.
  
  
• www.webpersonals.com (IMG)
  Originally sole administrator a text database driven web site purchased by Interactive Media Group(IMG). Remotely administered the legacy Sun Solaris SPARC 5 server. Later single-handedly developed (wp 1.0) into a proper SQL database driven highly interactive web site and administration of same. Extremely high-traffic site.
  
  
• Hitachi America Ltd. Networking and technology support across Canada. Support for Hitachi applications in third-party remote sales offices. File servers, WAN, cc:Mail, backup process. Remote management of servers/gateways over WAN.
  
  
• P.A.S.S. (Profitable Advanced Software Systems
  Lead developer of F&I Manager. A commercial software package for F&I Managers of automobile delearships. Application deveopled in Borland Pascal and is still in use today. Provides finance calculations and analysis for a sales centric environment as well as data collection and forms printing of Finance and Insurance contracts.

Education

Continuous and ongoing. A frequent user of the University of Waterloo library. Took a college course in an esoteric language called 'FORTH' at 15. Various private courses taken in fields such as security, animal behavior, sales and or course computer related topics. Involved in studies of digital electronics and computers since the age of 12.

Technical Qualifications

• Advanced HTML, SSI, CGI scripting, Javascript, Perl development.
• Internet/intranet architecture, web transaction processing, proxies, security, etc.
• Cross-platform client/server application development on Macintosh/Windows/Unix.
• SQL data definition, retrieval, manipulation and optimization.
• Remote administration via Internet and WAN connections.
• Software requirements analysis and design specifications.
• Specialized secure HTTP (web) server and servlet-engine design and development.
• Database design: entity relationship, logical/physical, process modeling.
• Relational database analysis/programming against Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Tandem, Interbase
• Network design and remote administration.
• Technical support from low-level hardware through high-level software.

Platforms

Linux, SCO Unix, Sun Solaris, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 (server/pro), Sinclair ZX81, Novell, BeOS(briefly)

Languages

Perl, Embedded Perl, Basic, FORTH, Pascal, Prolog, Z80 Assembler, HTML, Java, Javascript, C, C++, shell scripting, Pascal

Applications

Numerous including MS Office, Visio, Arcserve, cc:Mail, IP tools, Apache, mnogosearch, MySQL, MS SQL server, sendmail, Tripwire, Big Brother, Emacs, MS IIS, NFS, DNS (bind), sendmail, various mailing lists, UUCP, Photoshop, Veritas Backup, Arkeia, Solid SQL server, mnogosearch (web indexing)

Hobbies/Other Interests

Saltwater aquaria www.fishncoral.com, Golf Pinegrove G&CC, computers, Internet, networking, electronics, technology in general, and all other things interesting.