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Hire the RHINO team! We are determined and eager
to get the job done right. Let our experience guide your project to
success. We work as a team that you can outsource your entire project
to, or you can hire us individually to augment your current software
development team.
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|  Joel
A. Thompson - Owner
Manager/Architect/Designer/Sr. Programmer
Joel has worked in software development since 1989, ranging
from Manager and Architect to Developer. Joel understands product
development from a customer-centric, as well as "hands-on"
developer perspective. His strengths include managing people and
projects, architecting and designing systems, as well as hands on
programming.
Joel started his career at Oracle as a System Administrator and quickly moved
into software development, where he became a lead architect of Oracle software. He was promoted
into Management, and lead a group of 13 developers in the Server Technologies group.
After leaving Oracle in 1997, he became a consultant and worked with companies like American Express,
Celera Corp, Verizon, Lawrence Livermore Labs and the State of California - Currently he is with EBay as a
Sr Programmer, and key contributor to their Kernel Core Services.
He has contributed in all
areas of software development, ranging from Sr Developer to Architect and Lead Programmer.
Joel has worked mostly in Oracle RDBMS technology {plsql,sql, design, VLDB,
Datawarehouse, OLTP}, Java/J2EE, C/C++ and Windows & UNIX based systems.
He has personally developed dozens of Enterprise Systems, on systems that have scaled
to reach 250Million requests a day. He
is almost always involved with all phases of development: Analysis,
Design, Development, QA and Deployment/Maintenance. Joel believes
in open systems, code reuse, design patterns, and project lifecycles.
Seminars & Publications:
See my complete list of publications.
The Developer's Corner Author at Northern California's Oracle User Group.
Delivered a series of presentations in hibernate and JPA at various conferences.
Instructor for JAVA and Oracle Programming.
Education:
U.C. Berkeley, Bachelors in Applied Mathematics
U. Santa Clara, Masters Computer Engineering, OO & RDBMS |
| -------------------- Employees & Contractors -------------------- |
 Maria Adair - Accounting
and Office Manager
Maria handles all billing, invoicing and HR related issues with RHINO.
She also occasionally helps with business development. Without Maria
we'd be lost. |
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Isaac Inkumsah
Senior Programmer, Project Manager and Architect
Isaac Inkumsah, principal architect and software engineer, has extensive
industry experience in server side application architecture, engineering,
integration and deployment, banking, finance, semiconductor and POS
technologies. Responsible for server side loader architecture at KLA-Tencor
Corporation. His tenure at KT provided significant experience in document
management (document control) and the digitization of technical content
and the creation of appropriate tool set's for data analysis. Responsible
for the design and architecture of several financial systems including
loan processing, insurance rating, and internal audit and accounting
software for clients such as Bank of America (then Nations Bank of
Maryland), T. Rowe Price and Associates, Maryland Casualty, AARP etc.
Mr. Inkumsah also designed the onboard POS systems for Amtrak. Mr.
Inkumsah has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Computer
Science from the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Information
Systems Technology from the George Washington University. Designed
a claims management and billing software package while at GWU. Mr.
Inkumsah has a passion for the subject of document management and
this effort represents a culmination of over 15 years of industry
experience in various verticals that provide considerable leverage
in this subject matter. His most recent projects include serving as
the Senior Director of Engineering at Seabridge Software where he
was instrumental in the design and architecture of a world class Customer
Retention System. [contractor]
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 Josephine
Thompson, Planner - AICP
GIS System Designer, Implementer, Administrator
Josephine (Josie) Thompson, AICP, has over 10 years of experience
in urban design, environmental planning and geographic analysis. Areas
of expertise include training in the field of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) and Global Position Satellite (GPS). Her work, as project
manager, includes project planning and implementation, site, analysis
and environmental conservation. She brings a specific knowledge of
how to best use geographic information systems and analysis in the
planning process. Josie was born and lives in San Francisco and is
a 4th generation Californian who is very concerned about planning,
architecture and conservation. For nine years, she has worked as a
planning professional in Northern California and has focused on how
information can be spatially organized, managed and analyzed to promote
better land stewardship for both the public and private sector. She
has a Masters of Regional Planning from Cornell University and a BA
in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Her hobbies include mountain biking,
tennis, speaking Italian and travel. [contractor]
Education:
U.C. Berkeley Bachelors Architecture
Cornell University, Masters CIty & Regional Planning
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 Tom
Brown
Senior Programmer, Project Manager and Architect
Twenty-five years industry experience in database-applications
software, requirements through implementation and maintenance(Unix
and Windows C++, XML; Oracle 8i and SQL-Server) have taught me that
deeply understanding the problem, developing a living and transferrable
solution (database schema or software design) with high-level tools
that remain with the customer, will repay the customer's investment
many times over. [contractor]
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Octaviano Ledesma
Database Designer, Implementer, Administrator
UNIX, Windows, Oracle, database design/analysis/DBA/data-warehouse/VLDB.
Database and application design, analysis, data modeling, database
administration, architecture, tuning, special projects, data warehousing.
Sixteen years of Oracle design, development, and database administration.
Principal work over recent years has included development using Java
application servers. [contractor] |
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Natural Medicine.com
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| Architecting and Designing their JSF/EJB/Oracle RDMBMS to
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Lawrence Livermore Labs
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State Of California,
Legislative Data Center
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