As a founder and Principal of FourthFrame Technologies LLC, Jeff has over 22 years of wide-ranging IT experience.  For the last 6 years, Jeff’s primary focus has been on Java, J2EE, and Web Services.  He has 12 years of experience developing object oriented systems in both Java and C++.  As a FourthFrame consultant and J2EE Architect, Jeff has helped customers with J2EE Application Server evaluations, technology investigations, prototypes, and software development.  Jeff is also very active in a variety of business development activities for FourthFrame.

Prior to FourthFrame, Jeff was a Principal Architect at LION bioscience, a leading solution provider for the life science industry, specializing in delivering enterprise-wide software solutions to improve the drug discovery process.  Jeff served as the Senior Architect of the company’s Corporate Architecture Group.  The group shaped the software architecture of all LION products across development sites in Germany, England, and the U.S.  He was instrumental in helping drive the integration of the company’s three product lines into a unified Service Oriented Architecture based on J2EE and Web Services. 

Jeff also served as the Lead Architect for DiscoveryCenter at NetGenics, Inc.  DiscoveryCenter is an n-tier life science integration platform for research scientists, based on J2EE, Web Services, and Oracle.  He also worked very closely with NetGenics’ largest customer, a German pharmaceutical company, as a Solution Architect.  In that role, he was in involved in all phases of the project lifecycle to ensure a successful project delivery.

Jeff began his career at Chemical Abstracts Service, where he helped build a number of large n-tier, object oriented systems, using C++, UNIX, and Oracle.  He held team leadership and software development responsibilities for SciFinder, a research tool used by tens of thousands of research scientists, and for internal workflow systems used to build the company’s large text and chemical structure databases.

Jeff is a Sun Certified Java Programmer.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kent State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.