Rich Acuff Consulting

Computer Programming and Technology Assistance

Contract Objectives

I am interested in short term or part time contract work helping people make better use of computers to solve real world problems.  I am particularly interested in clinical health care, dentistry, and aviation applications.

I can provide assistance with software design, programming, testing, documentation, system integration, and system support.

Projects have included:
• Coding for an international clinical psychiatry system (DocOptions)
• Devloping a web application to assist businesses with account collection (Inzap)
• Testing a medical oncology patient management system (Varian)
• Building low-level infrastructure in support of a complex modelling system (Kestrel)
• Computerizing data processing in a dental office (Amy Guthrie, DDS)
• Automating transfer between a web-based scheduling system and a Palm Pilot (West Valley Flying Club)
• Research on pen-based mobile computing in clincal healthcare (Stanford SMI)
• Porting a large medical expert system (ONCOCIN) to a new computer system (Stanford SMI)
• Building and supporting computing infrastructure and software tools for a large artificial intelligence research laboratory (Stanford KSL)

During 12 years at Stanford University's Knowledge Systems Lab and Section on Medical Informatics as a staff member of the SUMEX and CAMIS projects I became intimate with a variety of technologies, ranging from early Lisp Machines to wireless networking with pen-based computers. This experience allowed me to build a broad understanding of what modern technology can and cannot do, and how to get it to do what I want.

I am comfortable authoring in HTML, JavaScript, ASP (VBscript), Java, C++, Common Lisp, Visual Basic, various scripting languages. Others can be added as necessary.

I have been using and developing applications for the Internet since TCP/IP first came into use on the ARPAnet, and 3 megabit EtherNet was the hottest thing around.

For more information, see my details.

Rich Acuff
853 Middlefield Road, #4
Palo Alto, CA  94301
Acuff@Dr-Amy.com
Voice: 650-888-1313
Fax: 650-323-5479
(Please, no 'junk' mail or calls)