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Larry C. Lyons is an Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer with over 12 years of experience in designing and
developing complex database-driven commercial and informational web sites. His clients have included
federal and state governments, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, digital media companies,
small businesses and large enterprises. Aside from dynamic web development, his areas of expertise include usability,
WAI and Section 508 accessibility. Using such tools as ColdfusionMX, Eclipse, HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets,
Larry works closely with clients to ensure their web sites are easy to use, fast to load and fully web standards and
accessibility compliant in order to achieve the goals for their web sites. For more information and examples, please see his
Portfolio page.
Larry has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology
from the University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada), and
a Masters of Arts in Psychology from Hollins College (Roanoke,
Virginia). He was a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Experimental Psychology,
with an emphasis on Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology from Virginia
Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia).
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Contents:
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Hardware:
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Apple Macintosh; Intel PC/Windows platforms
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Operating Systems:
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Software:
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Certified Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Developer, (December 18,2006). Advanced skills in ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, JavaScript,
and Web Page Design (DHTML and HTML 4.0)
Intermediate skills include Macromedia Authorware, and Digital Video with Adobe Premier and Asymetrix Digital Video Producer.
Digital Audio applications include Macromedia SoundEdit and Sonic Foundry SoundForge.
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Email:
cc:Mail, Eudora, QuickMail, MS Exchange,
Novell Groupwise
FTP:
Fetch; Ws-FTP
World Wide Web:
ColdFusion Studio/HomeSite+,
DreamWeaverMX, Microsoft Front Page; Eclipse IDE, CFEclipse, Aptana, MyEclipse IDE
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Database and Spreadsheets:
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel; Microsoft SQL Server; |
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Presentation and Graphics:
Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Fireworks, Corel CorelDraw Suite, Microsoft PowerPoint. |
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Word Processing:
Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect |
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Education:
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Ph.D.
Candidate,
Applied Experimental Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
MA,
Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology, Hollins College, 1989, Roanoke Virginia
BA,
Arts (Psychology), University of Winnipeg, 1985. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Professional Experience:
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| January 2004 to June 2008 |
American Type Culture Collection
10801 University Blvd.
Manassas, VA 20110
Web Analyst |
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Designed and developed static and
dynamic/database driven web sites for ATCC (a bioscience repository
organization). Developed the ColdFusion parts of the affiliated
site BEI Resources (http://www.beiresources.org),
a web site for bioterrorism and emerging infections researchers.
Designed a new approach to the ColdFusion aspects of the ATCC
and affiliated sites (search, shopping cart system, registration,
site security and user management) that takes advantage of
the new capabilities of ColdFusion MX, including ColdFusion
Components, accessing java objects, EJB objects, and other
aspects of J2EE integration. |
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| September 2003 to January 2004 |
Voyager Telecommunications, Inc.
8780 Centreville Road Suite 203
Manassas, VA. 20110
Web Application Developer |
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Contract Position. Developed a web
based land title tracing application that queried various
county records offices for land title data. Included in the
application was a user management, shopping cart and personalization
modules. |
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August, 1999 to September 2003
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Pacel
Corp. / EBStor.com
8870 Rixlew Lane Suite 201, Manassas, VA
20109-3795
Senior ColdFusion/Web Developer |
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Designed and developed static and
dynamic web sites for a variety of clients using Macromedia
DreamWeaver and Cold Fusion. Created an electronic shopping
cart system that steps the consumer through the buying process
from initial selection through credit card payment and order
confirmation. |
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| May, 1998 to September 1999 |
George
Washington University Medical Center
2300 I Street, NW, Washington DC 20037
Senior Web/Computer Aided Instruction Developer |
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Developed computer assisted instructional
(CAI) CD-ROMs and web sites for medical education. Designed
and developed the main Web pages for the George Washington
University Medical Center (forthcoming). Designed and programmed
a CD-ROM series to assist Introduction to Pathology students
with their small group lab course. Developed the web sites
for several GWUMC departments. One current project involves
adapting a physician's database for the Web using allaire
Cold Fusion. |
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| March, 1998 to May 1998 |
Social
Consultants International
1925 N. Lynn Street, Suite 304, Arlington, VA 22209
Programmer Analyst |
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Contract position. Using Asymetrix ToolBook
II Instructor version 6.1a, I developed a set of pre-
and post test computer mediated educational assessment applications
for either English or Spanish speaking students in grades
4 through 6. These assessment tools directly interfaced with
a MS Access database via SQL and an ODBC ActiveX object
to record performance data, and student information.
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| June, 1997 to March, 1998 |
Advanced
Engineering and Research Associates.
1919 South Eads St., Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22202
Multimedia Programmer/Analyst.
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Developed computer based training (CBT) CD-ROMs
for several federal and private industry clients. Each module
in the courses used very comprehensive remediation and testing
components, and made extensive use of animation, and digital
audio and video, using either ToolBook II Instructor or Macromedia
Authorware.
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| December 1996 to June, 1997 |
Star
Mountain, Inc.
3601 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria Virginia 22304-6496
Training Analyst. |
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Developed CD-ROM and Internet/Web based computer-based
training (CBT) programs for several Federal clients. These
projects made extensive use of digital audio and video, including
streaming video for Internet/Intranet delivery. The Internet/Web
projects extensively used of JAVA, and HTML 3.2 |
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| February 1996 to November 1996 |
Illustructions
Inc.
2139 Espey Court, Suite 4, Crofton Maryland, 21114.
Multimedia Developer. |
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Developed multimedia CBT programs using Asymetrix
Multimedia ToolBook (CBT Edition) versions 3.0 and 4.0 and
Macromedia Director 4.0. Made extensive use of digital audio
and video (AVI, MPEG and Quicktime formats) and text based
presentations of information and training materials. All
the projects included remediational exercises and complex
simulations that duplicated different process and control
systems. |
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| September 1995 to January 1996 |
Stackig Advertising and Public Relations
7680 Old Springhouse Road, McLean, Virginia 22102
Assistant LAN Manager |
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Supported and maintained an 80-note Ethernet
based Macintosh network. Provided help desk and user support.
Performed network administration and maintenance, as well
as general systems support. Developed several training manuals
for database, remote access, and Internet connectivity applications.
Performed network back-up, E-mail administration and hardware
and software troubleshooting and repair. |
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| September 1990 to May 1995 |
Virginia
Tech, Department of Psychology
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061- 0436.
Graduate Assistant. |
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Graduate teaching assistant for several psychology
courses. Taught learning theory courses and labs. Developed
several multimedia instructional programs using Multimedia
Toolbook and a faculty/student advising database system using
FileMaker Pro. |
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May 1993 to August, 1994
Summer 1991 and 1992
May, 1988 August 1990 |
Hollins
Communications Research Institute
P. O. Box 9737 Hollins College, Roanoke, VA 24020.
Research Associate. |
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Designed, developed, programmed, then later
upgraded and improved the Hollins Fluency System, a computer
based stuttering therapy system. Setup, installed, and administered
a 35-node network. Provided computer, network, and software
support and instruction for clients, staff and therapists.
Developed several databases for light accounting, inventory
management, and client performance tracking. |
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Professional
Organizations and Awards:
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Certified Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Developer, December, 18, 2006.
Certified
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Developer, December 10, 2001
Organizations:
Member, Apple Programmers and Developers
Association
Member, Psi Chi National Honors Society in Psychology
Awards:
Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
Research and Travel Scholarship, 1991, 1992. Hollins Communications
Research Institute Research Fellowship, 1988 - 1990.
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Publications:
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| Lyons, Larry
C. & Crawford, Helen J., (1997) Arousal Seeking, and Hypnotizability:
A Factor Analytic Study. Personality and Individual Differences
26, 1071-84.
Lyons, Larry C. & Woods, Paul J. (1991). The
Efficacy of rational emotive therapy: A quantitative review of
the outcome research. Clinical Psychology Review, 11, 357-369. Available
On-line.
Shadish, William, R.,
Matt, George, E., Navarro, Ana, M., Single, Gregory, Crits-Christoph,
Paul, Hazelrigg, Anthony, J., Lyons, Larry C., et al., (1997).
Evidence that therapy works in clinically representative conditions.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 355-65.
Woods, Paul J. & Lyons, Larry C. (1990). Irrational
beliefs and psychosomatic disorders. Journal of Rational Emotive & Cognitive
Behavior Therapy, 8, 3 - 21.
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References
Available on Request
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