Bios

Robert Folie

Robert Folie has over 20 years of experience in IT, successfully completing over 100 medium to large projects for a variety of clients in varied industries. Some of these clients include: The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, The Port of Seattle, Siemens Medical Systems, 3M, IBM, Airborne Express, Medco (division of Merck), and Metlife.

Robert’s project experience ranges from small, quick development projects to leading an IT department of 18 in a successful effort in delivering a custom $3.8 million cutting edge direct marketing solution for a leading educational travel organization. Robert’s experience covers the entire range of projects: from the analysis and requirements gathering, to the design, development, and deployment.

Along with Robert’s strong project skills he possesses strong technical skills. He is skilled in a variety of languages and technologies (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, streaming media, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, IBM DB2).

Paul Reed

Paul R. Reed, Jr. is president of Jackson-Reed, Inc. (www.jacksonreed.com), a training, design, development firm that specializes in the analysis, design, and implementation of Object-Oriented systems for clients in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He is the author of, "Developing Applications with Java and UML" and "Developing Applications with Visual Basic and UML" both published by Addison-Wesley.

Paul has assisted many organizations with their application assessment and development needs. These companies cover a broad spectrum of services and among of few of these are Visa USA, Visa International, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, The Department of the Treasury, Eli Lilly, Nordstrom's, and Sallie Mae.

Along with Paul’s strong mentoring and education skills he possesses strong technical skills. He is skilled in a variety of languages and technologies (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, IBM DB2, Sharepoint 2007).