Resume of Randall O. Steward

* Remote Gauge AI was developed entirely in-house, employing machine learning to provide accurate tracking of oil well performance, timely reporting of state data and events, avoidance of spills and emissions, theft detection, and prevention of toxic exposure deaths. The single-page SaaS system runs in a LAMP environment and is fully Ajax-driven through internal APIs and micro-services. Features a proprietary server fail-over sub-system that ensures 100% availability. An innovative device-specific screen and content adaptation function negates any need for iPhone or Android app development. Blockchain data mirroring provides immutability of event records.

* HomePros.com debuted "social media marketing" in 2010, designed to directly engage Facebook users with Home Depot's product and contractor offerings. Results were generated by a proprietary language parsing engine that monitored user posts for keywords and actions, somewhat resembling today's LLM AI implementations. LAMP environment.

* WhoDelivers.com was the first nationwide Web app to list restaurants offering delivery services reaching the user's cell phone or specified location. Generated results were derived from the geo-fencing services of Google Maps, compiled in real-time by a complex Linux server cluster. LAMP environment, advanced Javascript.

* MLSEarthview.com was the first real estate listing and deep-dive financial analysis technology with national search capability based on geographic area, using criteria such as work & school location, subdivisions, neighborhoods, freeways, subways, and other user-customizable boundaries. Query results were at first fed to Google Earth and later shifted to Google Maps for public access. Heavy API interaction with local/regional MLS providers and GPS sources produced very large record sets and photo image caches, all stored in a novel data lake arrangement. Patented in 2006, its "Google magnet" SEO function achieved the impossible feat of consistently placing client agencies listings in the coveted #1 result position in related searches. Managed a DevOps team of six. Directed contractors in design and installation of the company's data center and communication systems including automated SMS text messaging capabilities. LAMP environment. Sold the company's IP assets in 2009 to a well-known competitor.

* Invented the Internet "toaster" for Creative Puzzle LLC in 2002. Inspired by the radio ad scheduler developed by 'Wild Bill' Goldsmith at KPIG in California (and now RadioParadise.com), this patented system replaced old-school static banner ads with rotating, non-repeating multimedia-capable content. Written in Perl and Javascript, the toaster relied on user fingerprinting to inform its Impression Selection Engine. The technology was later acquired by Google.

* Strong technical, electrical, and mechanical skills. Experience with more than 20 programming languages. Often labeled a "guru" for the ability to quickly analyze and resolve problems.

* Successfully represented myself and all Texans in an action before the Texas Public Utility Commission involving minimum broadband standards for home and business Internet connections.

* Founded Polestar Communications, LLC in Kerrville, Texas in 2000, successfully dethroning the incumbent local telecom carrier by combining advanced VoIP solutions, Internet access, and cable TV service. Gained a wealth of knowledge concerning carrier regulation through direct experience with the FCC and the Texas Public Utility Commission.

* Founded Texxa Internet Services in 2002, the first Texas Hill Country ISP to deliver secure, local connectivity solutions to area convenience stores, self-storage facilities, RV parks, security systems, large ranches, water production services, surveyors, emergency services, and others in remote locations via its private microwave network. Several of Texxa's customers could monitor their entire operation from home without their network traffic ever "hitting the ground." At its peak, Texxa's wireless footprint covered the largest geographic area of any independent ISP in Texas. Resources of its sister companies were combined to create a wireless backbone that could operate independently of line power or telco circuits to maintain connectivity for local disaster & emergency services via San Antonio and Austin.

* Founded Carrera Corp. in Houston, later operating a proprietary secure storage system coined the first online "data warehouse" with a custom management solution to store data securely. Carrera's Internet-based application gateway products were the very first examples of Software-as-a-Service.

* Founded Custom Business Systems in 1986 and incorporated it as CBSS, Inc. in 1989. Later that year, CBSS partnered with UU.net and PSI.net to become Texas' first Network Access Service tailored for connectivity to resources available on the fledgling NFSNET, an outgrowth of my prior relationship with Rice University and ARPANET. In 1992, CBSS.com debuted one of the earliest public-facing Websites and soon became the Internet's first commercial Web hosting company. CBSS played a key role in driving demand for all things Internet in Houston throughout the 1990s. Wikipedia reports that CBSS.com is among the oldest domain names continuously held by its original registrant.

* One CBSS project was the design and provision of Internet broadband connectivity to all units in a new apartment complex that was home to mostly NASA employees.

* Another project was to create a Fiber-to-the-Premises implementation as part of a marketing experiment for a local developer.

* First to implement a fully autonomous real-time Internet credit card gateway. Initially written in Perl, this implementation became the reference model championed by CardServices, Inc. as the standard on which all modern online payment acceptance systems are based.

* Key consultant for a major teaching hospital system in Houston. Designed and implemented the largest Novell Netware installation anywhere in the mid-1990s, supporting thousands of simultaneous PC and mainframe users. This was the core component of a multi-year network consolidation project to eliminate dozens of departmental servers and return mission-critical resources to the data center. Involved in the evaluation of pre-release networked medical equipment and related systems, getting to "play with all the latest toys." Provided business intelligence services as requested.

* Key consultant to Novell, Inc. in development of their "Netware Certified" competency testing program, the first of its kind. Copied by all others since, this work led directly to today's superfluous testing and certification industry. Ironically, there still remains much untapped potential to glean meaningful results from such examinations.

* CBSS worked closely with Motorola in the late 1980s to introduce data pass-through via their MicroTAC mobile phone. It was slow but could deliver usable text-based results to a connected laptop.

* CBSS was the first ISP anywhere to offer a completely automated sign-up and provisioning system for dial-up access accounts via the credit card gateway.

* CBSS was Compaq Computer Corporation's lead implementation partner for the Houston region throughout the 1990s, specializing in global corporate network systems.

* CBSS participated with Shell Oil in a series of shakedown runs of Microsoft's early attempts to migrate MSMail mailboxes, calendars, and gateways to their new Exchange platform.

* CBSS provided technical training services to telcos and other network operators in data circuit design and implementation.

* Authored several data processing articles in computer magazines of the 1980s and 1990s.

* Prior to founding CBSS, one product of interest was an early contender in the nascent field of PC virus detection and eradication. Later coupled via the Internet with my "Virus Zoo" and a central reporting facility, parts of this technology were used in McAfee anti-virus products.

* Creator of IdIoT, a pre-processor for then-current BASIC implementations on PDP, CP/M, and DOS variants as a direct challenger to COBOL. IdIoT was inspired by advanced training from Control Data Corporation on their PLATO IV platform, first of the super-computers.

* Beginning in the late 1970s, acquisition of a dial-up account at Rice University in Houston allowed me to collaborate with Jon Postel at USC and others to contribute to the formulation of several core Internet standards and protocols. No one knew at the time that I was a teenager. This early exposure to the future of computer networking cemented my career path.

* Dozens of honor rolls, merit awards, and professional certifications. MENSA and other societies, IQ 186. Thousands of hours of specialized study in a wide range of disciplines.