Louis P Marquette 111 Sebring Rd Dickson City, PA 18519 MarquL@gmail.com http://www.LouisMarquette.com 570-504-4304 Objective I would like to work as an independent consultant developing large-scale, database-driven websites and prototyping electronic devices. 1999-Current EventLister.com & CraftLister.com / Devity.com + Designed and self coded what is now the largest free online directory of art & craft shows, festivals, etc. It has over a quarter million registered users, nearly 100,000 events listed per year, and sports a database of nearly 100,000 artists, crafters, and vendors. + Focused on a simple, intuitive design, since most users are older and non-technical. + Coded and manage over a thousand php files and millions of lines of code. Uses MySQL to manage over 2GB of data across nearly 300 interrelated tables. + Responsible for all aspects of the business, including: advertising, hosting setup, server installs, merchant account setup, domain name selection, database architecture, php code & backend scripts, client calling & event data updating, processing of event applications received by mail, and customer service online and by phone. + Actively stay on top of trends in the craft show industry and keep myself in the war-zone by helping my parents each weekend sell their handmade products at shows across PA, NY, and NJ. + Provide advice to exhibitors about finding suitable shows and to promoters about advertising, etc. 2008-2009 WholesaleSilverOutlet.com + Envisioned, Designed, and Implemented a sterling silver jewelry findings wholesale online store that used a drop-shipper to fill orders. + Maintained a low overhead by not maintaining a stock of inventory, advertising frugally & tracking campaigns, and performing all web and business tasks myself. + Grew from nothing to over $15,000 per month in sales within a year, though dealing with fraudulent sales made the business unprofitable because of the small margin of wholesale silver components. 2002-2004 DigitalFour.com Inc + Designed a handful of complex, database-driven websites for DigitalFour itself and dozens more smaller sites for clients. + Most successful site was an online dating site, peaking with over a quarter million users and a few hundred thousand dollars per year in sales. + Responsible for maintaining servers and office network for 6 workstations. This included 24/7 helpdesk function. 2001-2004 DoseCue.com + Served as sole Design Engineer for a company seeking to market electronically-enhanced pharmaceutical drug packages for use mainly in trials and investigations. + Developed numerous prototype electronic packages, including: - a bottle with an LCD that reminded, instructed multilingually, and detected and logged lid-opening - a blister pack that recorded time/date of each pop-out - a matchbook-sized thermal excursion monitor/temperature recording device. + Responsibilities included designing for lowest unit cost & low power consumption, reader or interface devices to retrieve logged data, and online website processing and storing of the data. + Met target dates for prototypes used in small scale pilot program studies. 2000-2002 Cadence Design Systems + Served as a Senior Applications Engineer dedicated on site to a single client, Agere Systems in Allentown, PA. Responsible for architecting and implementing a web interface and backend server-farm interaction allowing Agere clients to upload silicon design files for simulation by Cadence software on Agere's dedicated farm. Website used ColdFusion on Windows NT over an Oracle DB. + Lead a team of 3 others and interacted with other departments to meet project goals. AdditionalWork Experience in Sales and Promotion + Produced/Promoted 2 Computer Shows with Starr Technologies (1997) + Produced/Promoted a 50 booth Christmas Arts & Craft Show (2000) + Personal Computer Assembly and Sales with Starr Technologies (1997 -19 99) + Client Contacter for the Dun and Bradstreet Corporation (1995-1997) + Jewelry salesperson for business of my parents (1990-present) Larger Web Design Projects EventLister.com / CraftLister.com BeTheStudy.com / HiddenCorrelations.com WestWindJewelryCompany.com Devity.com HouseOfGemstones.com - online but closed WholesaleSilverOutlet.com - online but closed internal site subsection of Agere.com - paywall MyWebCounter.com - offline ShotByCupid.com - offline PhlashCards.com - offline Typical Smaller Sites: KnollwoodPartners.com, ArtifactsOfTheNile.com, PhilvilleUSA.com, HypnosisForGrowth.com Operating Systems: DOS, Windows ( 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP), OS X, Solaris Unix, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu Hardware: Assembled nearly 50 computers from basic parts. Upgraded ram, cpus, drives, etc. Also have lots of experience with actual circuit design, pc board component & trace layout, soldering, and testing. Networking: Basic small office network skills, Wifi wireless network lockdown, router flashing with DD-WRT Software: PhotoShop, PageMaker, Corel WP, Microsoft Office, Open Office, Microsoft Developers Studio, Cadence simulators, Altera MAX+plus II, pspice, Waterloo- Maple V Release 4, vi, emacs, MAKE, RCS, FTP, TELNET, ssh, Sendmail, Apache, Bind, MySQL, Qmail, OpenVPN, VNC, g++, gcc, and many others. World Wide Web Page Design: HTML, Java applets, Java Scripts, extensive CGI in C and C++ for Unix and Windows based servers, browser plugins, cookie use, SSL, graphics and text copy. Languages: Basic, C, C++, Expect, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, SQL, HTML, Java, Javascript, Cold Fusion, Assembly level programing: Intel, MIPS, Microchip Pics, Motorola MC68xxx, DLX Working Knowledge: Fortran, Smalltalk, VHDL, ASP Rudimentary Spanish Skills Protocols: C++ implementation from scratch of POP3, SMTP, FTP, TELNET, HTTP CGI experience: (All done entirely by myself from scratch) User Database: signup, edit, delete File upload from browser Website Management Software: File UL,Edit,View,Copy,Del,Rename Pop3 Email client: (like hotmail) Mailing List Software: signup, remove, send mailing Shopping Cart: MySQL based, products (add,edit,delete,search), categories, SSL, databased orders Message board: Post, reply, flat file storage Counter: GIF output. MySQL based Banner sender software: Cookie support, priority levels Java 1.1 chat client: Server program processes client requests Delayed email system: Sends requested email on a given date E Greeting Card: MySQL, Notify on pickup, Delayed sending Personal Calendar: Add Events, View by month Event Database: MySQL, add, edit, search by criteria, delete Personal Web Page Software: Lets users sign up for a free homepage Form Mailer: Emails contents of form submission PHP experience: Web-hosting style online content management system Full-featured online-dating site Greeting card website Online stores with custom shopping carts, click-through tracking, etc. Multiple uses of PEAR modules Ad management system Banner exchange program Message board, Classifieds, Chat, Online Customer Service Interfaces Hardware Design and Prototypes of: + eMedicine Bottle - Reminds at dose time and logs if and when bottle is opened. LCD display, lid-open magnetic hall sensor, multilingual, data-logging of openings. + eMedicine Pill Pack - Detects when a pill is popped out and logs dose time for doctors. Punch-out sensor for each pill, flexible PCB, data-logging and PC interface. + Temperature Excursion Monitor - Records the temperature every 10 minutes. EEPROM memory, low power design w/ processor usually in sleep, ultra-low power clock. + Sonar Hat for Blind People - Ultrasonic distance ranging to voice recordings of distance warnings. Ultrasonic transducers, ultrasonic audio amplifier, audio playback chip, micro-controller. + Radio-Controlled Rocket Launcher - Voice and display countdown, key, wireless operation. Counter ICs, BCD->7 Segment ICs, audio payback chip, wireless transmitter and receiver. + CPR Voice Assistance Aid - Walks user through CPR, asking first if: adult or child; breathing or not. Micro-controller, audio payback chip, buttons, & speaker. + Mother / Child Separation Alarm - Device that does on mother and child and alarms if distance between them exceeds a threshold. RF rx & tx. + Audio-Playback Chip Recorder/Player - Device to record to audio playback chip used in other projects. + ISA PC slot data acquisition & IO card - basic IO used as a piece of design lab equipment. + Audio Amplifiers - batter operated portables and larger home-sized amps. + Telecommunications Interface - Started design on a telephone to VOIP device. Had hardware running, stopped development before software got beyond system initialization. Used: 168 pin MC68302, 16 bit data bus with SDRAM and EEPROM, DACs & ADCs, telephone line interface chip. 4 channel Parallel port A/D and D/A converters, 512k SRAM, 1M Flash Ram, 2 Serial Ports + Various forms of test equipment: signal generators, 16 line digital signal level detector, counters, etc Computer Arithmetic and Architecture Design + Complete VHDL description of the DLX microprocessor - Similar to MIPS, design is Multi-cycle and uses Microcode from a file + C Programs to output VHDL with accurate timing for N bit: Array Multiplier, Array Squarer, Dadda Tree simplified, Multiplier, 2's Compliment Dadda Tree Multiplier, Dadda Tree Simplified Squarer, Carry Look Ahead Adder, Carry Skip Adder Education 1993-1997 Scranton Preparatory School Scranton, PA 1997-2000 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA B.S. Computer Engineering - Dec, 2000 Also took core requirements for B.S. Computer Science (College of Engineering)