What you do in public is your business, but what I do is private!
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Author: Lon Hosford
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What Did the Programmer Say to the Class?
I don’t like your methods.
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What is OOP?
Poop without the P
Business Science and Information Technology
Sought out by the University of Phoenix Online to build their computer science faculty of practicing educators. Conduct high tech programming courses in an online discussion environment.
Web Master Seminar Presenter
NJIT, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, sent out a recruiter looking for an Instructor that could pull together the highly popular Web Master Certification program. They found that instructor running self-developed like courses at a local community college, Raritan Valley Community College. Lon quickly became the popular instructor in the program both on-line and in live classrooms. His command of the written language and general communication skills proved essential to the success. NJIT requested Lon to develop additional course for the program and was often called in for special clients. Lon became the Web Master´s Mentor.
Web Master Courseware Developer
NJIT´ Web Master´ Program expanded from core courses to include specialized advanced topics. Lon participated in the application of the core course materials and from his analysis and feedback was choosen to develop the Java programming courseware. The Java courseware was designed to work in both online and live seminar programs. The courseware included realistic business software applications. To handle the difficult problem of presenting such detailed and comprehensive examples, Lon pioneered with “incremental exercises;”. These exercises showed a complicated Java programming solution in sequential exercises that highlighted the changes. The changes in the software was linked to the incremental topics presented.
Video production of 500 hours of software development training for major software developers including Fujitsu, Corel, Motorola Metrowerks and Webgain.
Comprehensive developer level courses covering Java, C, C++, Fortran, COBOL, UML, Corel Office, Jasmine OO database, and Linux.
Worked as producer handling contract management, script writing, content preparation, actor selection, video studio management and client liasion.
Videos involved coordinating content experts located in Japan, Austrialia, Canada and the coasts and center of US.
Clients required delivery into US and international locations such as India, the United Kingdom and Canada in multiple formats.
Allied manufactured chemicals meeting strict customer specifications. Because of the hundreds of variables and the tight tolerance measurements, Allied wanted to automate the manufacturing process control reporting, improve quality, and expand capacity.
The system accumulated data for multiple manufacturing processes. The system used statistical formulas to produce mean and range charts (statistical control graphs) on any one or more of the hundreds of measurements. This required working with engineers and statisticians to convert the complicated formulas into computer code. Printed reports and graphs are used in proposals as well as documentation to deliveries.
In 1990, the Bergen Record adopted dBase III plus as their programming language. Lon was hired to create a training program for their “mainframe” COBOL programmers to retrain and use dBase III plus. The course involved 3 days of intensive programming level training.