Welcome & A Word of Explanation

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Dr. Michael Bisconti

Welcome to the tenth generation of our website!

- Dr. Michael Bisconti

A Word of Explanation

Including this post, the next, several items on our home page are fixtures (permanently located content) - the item you are reading and the items starting with “fx.”  The updated feed (posts and tweets) begins after these eight items.  Our website access shortcut is btechy.com.

fx: Quick Skill Search

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You can quickly find out if we have a given skill by typing the skill’s keyword in the search box at the top of our website.  You will get a quick response if we have the specified skill.  The posts and pages that reference the skill will be listed.

Highlighted Search Terms

If you hit return after entering your search term or click on “View more results” in the search dropdown box, the search engine will find text containing your search term in the same posts and pages and highlight the search term in that text.

Dropdown & Search Results Page

You will obtain results both from the dropdown box and from the search results page you get when you hit enter while the cursor is in the search box.

fx: Accelerated Hiring Instructions

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There are a number of things we can do to save everyone’s time.  In addition to resume information there are a number of common questions that employers and recruiters have.  Here is an FAQ that addresses these questions.  (We may expand this FAQ over time.)

Frequently Asked Questions

 

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Last Contract Technologies

This  was a cloud-computing project that utilized multiple technologies, including  AWS (Amazon Web Services), including RDS and EC2, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Redshift,  SQL Server, MySQL, MySQL Workbench, and SSIS.   SQL Server and MySQL databases and SSIS were hosted in the AWS cloud and  the following tasks were completed:

  • Upgraded SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 then applied SP3.
  • Created SQL Server and MySQL logical and physical models.
  • Created SQL Server and MySQL databases on both local and cloud servers.
  • Created SSIS packages to load SQL Server databases on both local and cloud servers.
  • Created and compiled SQL Server digital, educational library.
  • Created and compiled MySQL digital, educational library.
  • Designed SQL Server to SSIS to MySQL architecture.
  • Installed SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on both local and cloud servers.
  • Installed MySQL and MySQL Workbench on both local and cloud servers.
  • Installed SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
  • Developed  accelerated, table generation tools.
  • Performed troubleshooting of numerous system components, including SSIS packages.
  • Used Embarcadero to translate diverse RDBMS DDL database generation SQL scripts.
  • Used Visual Studio 2008 to create SSIS packages.

Infolinks

We have removed Infolinks (dark green, double-underlined links) from our website.  These links provided pop-up advertisements for other websites and both the links and the pop-up advertisements took you to those websites if you clicked on them.  We only made 45 cents in around 2 and 1/2 weeks and our visitorship dropped dramatically.