"Outside of the box" professionalism...

If you seek "outside of the box" originality innovation and imagination in your personnel, then you must apply "outside of the box" rationale to your hiring decision...

A pressed suit, tie, corporate haircut along with the correct "buzz words" and "catch phrases" are too often the key to winning a corporate position.  Employers often hire professionals based at least partly upon their own "image" of a professional; wholly "inside of the box" thinking.

However, when you seek innovation and creativity in a system, you seek no less of a talented artist than if you were commissioning a painting or a sculpture; you seek someone unrestrained by the bounds of current reality.  In this context a professional is someone whose mind is capable of applying socratic method and intellect across interdisciplinary boundaries, drawing from experience in a multitude of areas of expertise to create new concepts, methods and techniques to suit the needs of the system/application at hand.  Moreover this person must be capable of assembling, guiding and motivating the team of equally creative people to make that system a reality.

Having been blessed (or cursed depending upon circumstances and point of view) with a 180+ IQ and a curiosity driven intellect, my life both professionally and personally has always been unencumbered by the artificial constraints of societal image or "the box".  I attribute my persistant  success across multiple unrelated industries to the freedom from artificial constraints, stereotypes and living and observing the world from "outside of the box".  It has led me time and again, to be called upon to apply my research and analytical skills in a number of diverse areas for government and business.

My experience spans the following industries:

• Space Systems
• Nuclear Weapon Systems (Ballistic)
• Automation/Robotics
• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Retail
• Aviation
• Medical
• Defense/Military
• Emergency Management
• Law Enforcement/Forensic Investigations
• Communications
• Education
• Insurance
• Real Estate
  
• Mortgage
• Imaging
• Internet
• Oil, Gas & Mineral Exploration
• Direct Marketing
• Services Industry

Integration of web-based GIS to cell phones and PDAs

"If you are satisfied with your knowledge, position and career progression, you don't need to be working for me.  I need people with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and new skills, and who want my job."

Areas of Specialization...

• Development of dynamic new and innovative concepts, systems, and applications not previously attempted including the pioneering of numerous internet based concepts, methods and techniques.
• Business, system, and applications requirements analysis; performance based, quantifiable goal & objective development; system design, development and implementation
• Total Project Management
• Team Building, consensus building, motivating and directing resources to fulfill project requirements, and managing change within the organization.
• Secure integrated networks, network clusters, distributed processing, data communications, database
• Internet programming: HTML/DHTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, RSS, PHP, PERL, AJAX, MySQL & PostgreSQL Databases, UNIX/LINUX High Volume, High Availability Systems, Clustered load balancing systems, media - photo/audio/video/PodCasting/WebCasting, full-scale, feature/media rich Social Networking/Community sites... new and innovative user experience/user interface features... more...
• Investor's Technology Consultant - Providing in-depth assessments of technology, IT personnel and management of potential investment targets, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, etc.  Also, evaluation of requirements analysis, functional goal & objectives, system design, development and implementation plans.  Available to consult entities anticipating investor scrutiny in cases where no conflict of interest exists.
• Legal aspects of computers and computing

Project Experience

EMCOM National Command Center
Entire system designed/developed/implemented by Eric

• Military Space Program
• Launch Control Systems
• Guidance & Telemetry
• Fault Locator Systems
• Communications Systems
• Nuclear Weapons Systems
• Process Control, Automated Systems, Robotics
  • Naval and Air Force Systems (ASKARS, DISARS, NISTARS)
    • Norfolk, North Island, Pensacola, Long Beach, Oakland/Alameda NAS
    • Warner Robins AFB
  • Naval Avionics Facility (Indianapolis)
  • XEROX
  • NORTEL
  • Hallmark
  • Unit Rig
  • CBSI
  • Gast Manufacturing
  • Green Country Castings
• Designed work-in-process tracking system for Northern Telecom Ltd (NORTEL) of Toronto, CA
• Designed automated systems for Xerox's "Factory of the Future" project at their PCB assembly plant in El Segundo, CA
• Designed/developed/implemented the first PC Integrated Spectrographic analysis systems for the foundry industry
• Designed/developed/implemented psycho/biometric analysis systems for pain quantification and recommended analgesic administration in conjunction with Dr. Samuel Ray McElroy at City of Faith Hospital, Tulsa, OK
• Detailed requirements analysis and design study for Indianapolis Airport operations system's RFP
• Macro level design study for integrated systems at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA
• Designed and developed the first PC based Chyron(R) and master switcher integrated, remote controlled election tracking system for CBS
• Designed/developed/implemented state-of-the-art MRP/JIT inventory management and control systems for Creata-Data, Tulsa, OK
• Designed/developed/implemented the EMCOM national emergency alert notification system for emergency notification, communication, coordination, public education and situation reporting
  • Satellite based inter-agency and pubic alerting/communications/notifications
  • Integrated GIS System
  • Single point entry for text/voice alert deliver to specified geographic areas via email, text messaging, telephone, cell phone, pager, internet pop-ups, weather alert devices, etc.
  • Situation reporting and display system
  • Integration of cell phone/PDA voice/text communications
  • Emergency Victim Locator
  • Much more
• Designed/developed/implemented a totally integrated real-time insurance agency management and tracking system for the Wells Group Insurance Companies, Tulsa, OK
• Designed and developed a totally integrated mortgage management and tracking system for Truman County Mortgage, Independence, MO
• Designed and developed an integrated Marketing, Forecasting, MRP/JIT system for Cardinal Scale, Webb City, MO
• Created enterprise class retail web site for Flowmaster Mufflers that began generating $20,000 / month within 90 days of launch (at MSRP!).
• AJAX - Was a pioneer in the concept now known as AJAX (as well as numerous other concepts/disciplines now commonplace on the internet), having implemented numerous applications involving "back side" communications without the need to load or refresh web pages. The Emergency Victim Locator utilizes the technology almost exclusively, and it is widely used in the EMCOM National Emergency Alert Notification System to display status data without web page updates. The first implementations of the technology were for database record create, update, locate, search and delete functions, and progressed to a complete auction website for war collectables where users could display virtual real-time bid action without the need to refresh the web page. These were implemented before the use of XML, utilizing only frames and javascript in a unique synergism. This early concept is still utilized today since it works even when a foreign web site is in the primary browser display, a method that obviously cannot be used in today's IFRAME/XML based AJAX implementions since you have no control over the page source of the foreign display. The methodology thus became particularly powerful in applications involving predictive analysis for banner ad display when coupled with unique elements of our "Power Portal" methodologies. The methodology also became the foundation for the first extensive "Live Help" web application, the first "group conferencing" web application, etc. It is also an integral part of a current development effort for innovative new applications adding significant operational dimensions to "MySpace" type websites.

• Called to Washington, DC after 9/11/2001 to participate in the drafting/development of the National Strategy on Public Warning.
• Participated in USAF Strategic Weapons Systems conception for SALT treaty, and later provided submissions to the Scocroft Committee on Strategic Missile Systems Basing.
• Published author on the subject of Requirements Analysis/Systems Design
• Convention Key-Note Speaker
• Has given seminars and workshops world-wide
• Developed 6 week "Training the Trainer" course for teaching technology subjects
• (Former) Member American Society for Training and Development
• Consulted on the development of comprehensive, student-oriented technology training programs for Planagement, Inc.
• Managed the development and implementation of the technology marketing department for Farmland Data Services ($11 Million subsidiary of Farmland Industries)
• Training Instructor for UNIX based operating systems
• Ghost wrote educational software for Apple and Atari computers for Random House Publishing, Inc.
• CTO/CIO and General Partner, Commercial Open Systems, Inc. - Commercial Internet Access - Systems Design & Development Company
• Founder of Software Solutions and Microsolve, Inc.
• Co-Founder of Technical Legal Consulting, Inc.
• Mr. Forsman and his projects have been featured in numerous newspaper articles and he has appeared on dozens of radio and television interviews regarding his projects.
• Featured in an in-depth "first person" profile in the Kansas City Business Journal
• Designed and developed the theory of "Environomics" as applied to business; worked with such elite and internationally recognized figures as Gerardo Budowski (World Wildlife Fund) and Dr. Oscar Arias (Nobel Peace Prize winner)