Providing online coverage for the Winter Olympics was both challenging and rewarding. The IOC provides a continuous feed using an encyclopedic collection of XML schemas, covering national teams, athletes and coaches, medal counts, competitions, venues, statistics by athlete, sport and country, and real-time event data. Data can be fairly static, like the athlete list, or dynamic, such as medal counts, and real-time like slalom split times.

I built the site in Drupal. Because of the numerous permutations of data requests I deposited the data into MongoDB via a queued batch process that first converted it to JSON. Making this voluminous information available to fans was almost as satisfying as winning a medal!

I served as both project manager and analyst for a complex sales order system modernization. The client's existing process involved a large number of order line item types to which each product and product category mapped, some line items, themselves, dynamically spawning additional line items.

The challenges were corralling the myriad business rules—I’ve always enjoyed translating client business requirements into clear specifications—and writing the process controller code that consumes and acts upon those specifications.