Joseph Oakes

EXPERIENCE:

Penn State University Abington, PA 19001-3990 www.abington.psu.edu

Undergraduate IST Lecturer 8/01-5/08

Undergraduate IST Senior Lecturer 5/08-Present

IST - Information Sciences and Technology www.ist.psu.edu
This undergraduate program blends learning theory and real world applications together.
Developed the following course lesson plans and taught the following courses.

• CMPSC 203 Principles of Programming: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic .NET
• IST 110 Introduction to Information Systems: OOP, UML, ERP, MIS, and Security
• IST 240 Introduction to Programming: XML, .NET C#
• IST 250 Web and the New Media: XHTML, Expression Web, CSS, Fireworks, and Flash
• IST 297 Linux: Tomcat, Jboss, Apache, Beowulf Clusters, and Webadmin
• IST 297 IST in Germany: Traveled to Hof University with ten IST students
• IST 402 Emerging Technologies: Web Services Apache AXIS, SOAP, and WSDL
• IST 402 Emerging Technologies: Linux and Cluster Networks
• IST 402 Emerging Technologies: Cryptography: DES, AES, and SSL
• IST 402 Emerging Technologies: Electronic Commerce: ASP .NET C# 2.0 and MS SQL 2005
• IST 402 Emerging Technologies: Gaming: Microsoft's XNA C#, Poser 3D character modeling, and 3D Studio Max
• IST 420 System Integration: Web Services, DAL, SPROCS, SQL Server 2005
• IST 440 Senior capstone course: Hershey Park RFID implementation

Continuing Education Instructor 1/99-Present

Developed the following course lesson plans and taught the following adult continuing education professional programs.

• Electronic Commerce
• Getting to Know Your PC
• Linux
• Introduction to the Internet
• Fundamentals of Networking
• Web Server Security and Administration
• Security and E-Commerce
• Introduction to OOP using C++
• Introduction to OOP using Java
• Gaming using Flash
• Gaming using 3D software Gmax

ConNetX INC Bensalem, PA 19020

IT Business Solutions Provider
President and manager responsible for overseeing all business functions and customer relations.

• PC and Server installs
• On-site Training Programs
• Open Source Solutions
• Security Solutions
• Web Site Development
• System Integration

Prophet 21 Inc. Yardley, PA 19067 www.p21.com

Prophet 21 develops and supports enterprise software applications for both the UNIX and Windows server platforms.

Manager of Internet Development 10/00-7/03

Prophet 21 Trading Partner Connect is an Enterprise to Enterprise Internet trading hub.

• Built the team from the ground up: Java Developers and Web Masters
• Designed the technical architecture for the B2B marketplace and B2B Seller
• Technologies: .NET, Java, JSP, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Apache, & Tomcat
• Maintain all the hardware servers for the development environment

Manager of e-Business Consulting Department 7/99-10/00

The e-Business Consulting department provides total Internet solutions for Prophet 21 customers.

• Trained all team members: web masters, network consultants and project consultants
• Designed the technical architecture for the e-commerce solutions
• Technologies: Java and Microsoft (IIS, ASP, COM)

Manager of Electronic Commerce Development 10/97-7/99

The e-commerce team developed a middleware Internet interface for the Prophet 21 business system.

• Designed a n-tiered distributed object Java client/server based system
• Integrated the Prophet 21 framework with IBM e-commerce merchant server
• Technologies: Java, IBM’s Net.commerce\WebSphere, Netscape Enterprise web server

Manager of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Development 8/94-10/97

The Prophet 21 EDI application is a fully integrated and automated electronic document platform.

• Educated and managed a team of EDI developers
• Maintained and enhanced the EDI application
• Team leader for the EDI task force

EDI Programmer Analyst 3/86-8/94

Developed an in-house custom integrated EDI software application.

• Over 700 Prophet 21 customers use this package
• Transacting business with over 7000 trading partners

EDUCATION:

Penn State University Great Valley Malvern, PA www.gv.psu.edu

MSIS Master of Science Information Science 12/03

Philadelphia University Philadelphia, PA www.philau.edu

Bachelor of Science Degree Management Information Systems, 8/96

Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA www.bucks.edu

Associate of Arts Degree in Computer Science 12/85

PRESENTATIONS:

Philadelphia Area Computer Society www.pacsnet.org

• Networking Topologies for Web Server Environments
• The Power of LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Web Services - XML SIG
• Cocoon Web publishing framework - XML SIG

Penn State University Center for Information and Computer Technology

• The Three Things You Need to Know to Prepare your Company for E-Commerce
• Creating an Information Security Policy

ASSOCATIONS:

• Philly Java Local Users Group
www.phillyjug.org

PUBLICATIONS:

Electronic Distribution Today Magazine

• VPN Virtual Private Networks