Charles Calvert

 

                              Celtic Wolf, Inc.
                         Charles Calvert, President

3246 Gina Place                            Email: charles.calvert@celticwolf.com
Woodbridge, Virginia 22193                             http://www.celticwolf.com
Voice: (703) 580-0210
Fax: (703) 580-1205


Copyright 2000 Celtic Wolf, Inc. All rights reserved. This document may not be 
modified, duplicated, or distributed to any third party without the express, 
written permission of Celtic Wolf, Inc. 

Objective: To provide quality consulting services on a business-to-business 
basis via Celtic Wolf, Inc. in the areas of software design and development, 
project management, technical writing, research, and data conversion, 
extraction and manipulation. 

Projects 

Emma, a Win32 client for MCI Mail. Emma is a fully functional email client with 
an MDI interface, a multithreaded architecture, background communications, a 
spell checker, signatures, an address book, nested folders and support for up 
to 10 mail accounts. Completed substantial design and development work on Emma, 
using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, MFC 4.0, and Borland C++ 4.5. Also wrote the 
Windows Help File for the project. This file consists of approximately 300 
pages of documentation regarding every aspect of the program and serves as the 
program's user manual. It was produced using RoboHelp 6.0 and Microsoft Word 
97. 

Performed a survey of web site globalization and localization services and 
solutions. This involved identifying companies that offer such services and 
solutions, obtaining sales, marketing and technical data on the products and 
services, and speaking with representatives to obtain additional details. 
Composed a detailed report, analyzing the available services and solutions and 
their relevance to the client's needs. 

Created a review of content management solutions designed specifically for web 
sites, with a focus on globalization and localization capabilities. The review 
included offerings from Allaire, Broadvision, Continuus, Eprise and Vignette. 
Provided detailed report to client that covered product functionality, a 
summary of the underlying technologies, market share, major installations, 
pricing, partnerships and alliances. 

Created a lightweight, dialog-based user interface for a pending product from 
Pete Maclean. It was developed with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and the Win32 API. 
Its slim memory footprint results from the avoidance of bulky frameworks like 
MFC. 

Developed custom Microsoft Outlook forms for Outsmart Messenger using VBScript. 
This task included implementing the display of custom fields, utilizing the MS 
FlexGrid control, and parsing text to be displayed in the control using 
VBScript. Also developed a complete Windows Help File for this product, using 
RoboHelp 6.0 and Microsoft Word 97. 

Created two separate reviews of e-store hosting sites that allow customers to 
create an e-store and sell their products over the Internet. These services 
typically provide a framework onto which the customer can add their own 
graphics, items, and descriptions. Shopping carts, credit card processing, and 
order reporting are also standard features. 

Developed a MAPI address converter using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and CDO 2.0 
for Pete Maclean. It converts Personal Address Book (PAB) entries in the MCI 
Mail Enabler format to the MAPI standard SMTP format. 

Performed a survey of MAPI-enabled paging software that could be used to send 
pages via Microsoft Outlook. 

Co-managed decommissioning of non-Y2K compliant equipment in an X.25 network. 
Responsible for all customer-related portions of the project. Assessed the 
customer impact and worked with a project team to minimize it. Created customer 
notices, set timelines for notification, and worked with the co-managers to set 
an overall project timeline. In the course of performing these duties, worked 
with the Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Communications, Billing, and 
Customer Support departments. 

Helped manage introduction of Concert Packet Services as a dial-up access 
method for MCI Mail. This required extensive architecture redesign, performance 
testing, billing system development, access testing, documentation development, 
and customer-oriented notification. Worked with the project team to coordinate 
all of these activities, evaluate their customer impact, and report to 
executive management. 

Performed substantial work on executiveONE Mailer (a custom version of the MCI 
Mail Enabler). The MCI Mail Enabler is a MAPI transport for MCI Mail. The 
executiveONE Mailer was created to suit the needs of MCI WorldCom's senior 
executives. This project involved both design work and project management 
duties. Functioned as the liaison between management and the programmer, 
turning the former's general ideas into a design specification that could be 
implemented on time and within budget, overseeing development efforts, 
coordinating the development schedule with the overall project schedule, and 
reporting to and coordinating with executive senior management. 

Managed the MCI Mail Enabler beta test. Coordinated between beta testers, QA 
testers and the developer. This included the evaluation of problem reports, 
managing the project schedule and reporting to MCI's management. 

Created MCI Mail's Info Server, a custom autoresponder designed to suit the 
needs of MCI Mail Customer Support. It can handle up to 10 email accounts, each 
one with up to 200 rules/topics. InfoServer can process over 10,000 requests 
per hour. It runs under MS-DOS 6.2 on a 386SX 25 PC with 8 MB of RAM. It was 
developed with Borland C++ 4.5. 

Managed the design and development of MCI Mail Express 3.0, a client for MCI 
Mail. This required production of a design specification, coordination between 
MCI's Customer Support, Marketing and Engineering departments and the 
contractor hired to do the development. 


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