Jon DiPietro

I founded a web site called “Our ISA,” which is a sort of social media experiment that I’m calling the “open source association.”  This WordPress blog is intended to be an open community of persons concerned with and/or interested in the International Society of Automation and invites them to write articles about its future and comment on those ideas.

I created, maintain, manage, and host this web site using a hosted WordPress site.  The site is also tied into several social media accounts and a Facebook fan page.

The New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) contracted Bridge-Soft to build a new web site, which was commissioned in May, 2009.  The site was built using the DotNetNuke open source Content Management System.  This allows NEWEA to act as its own web master, being in complete control of the pages and content on the site without the need to pay a web developer to make these changes.

The site includes many advanced features including member only features, a blog, job postings, and more.

This web site is built using WordPress and if you’re curious about how it was put together, I have a blog post on Domesticating IT that describes the process in detail, “Create a Compelling Resume Online With WordPress.”

One of my new year’s resolutions was to get my online identity sorted out, which means making the most of the available tools and delivering a consistent message. After taking inventory of the various professional sites to which I belong (e.g. LinkedIn, VisualCV), I decided that I needed an aggregator to take charge and deliver my message, my way, in my style. I had registered my own name as a domain many years ago but not done anything with it, and so I decided to use WordPress to tell my professional story.

What Are the Benefits?

• If you think about your career as a product that you’re selling, wouldn’t it make perfect sense to have a web site? Of course it does, and you want your personal brand to have the same benefits:
• More and more, clients and employers are performing online searches to learn more about the people with which they are considering to engage. Having a search engine friendly web site makes it more likely they will find you.
• Indexing your experience through the use of keywords makes it easy for people to zero in on the skills and/or expertise in which they’re interested (more about that later).
• Multimedia capabilities (i.e. images, video, presentations, links) make it easier for you to tell your story in a vivid and interesting way.
• You can use specialized links to direct people to specific content areas of your profile.
• While this practice may soon be common place, for the moment at least it will help you to stand out from the crowd.

WaWWGO (Water and Wastewater Groups Online) is a freemium web hosting service that offers web sites to non-profit associations.  Three service models are available; basic (free), professional, and enterprise.  The site is driven by the DotNetNuke portal framework.

WaWWGO is a freemium web site hosting service.

When I took over as president of the Boston Section of the Internation Society for Automation in 2008, my main objective was to implement an Internet strategy for the Section that included electronic newsletter, social media, and a new web site.  I developed the site using DotNetNuke.

ISA Boston Section web site was built using DotNetNuke

I redesigned and launched the Bridge-Soft web site in April, 2008.  This is a static HTML site built using Microsoft Expression Web.

Bridge-Soft web site

Domesticating IT is my solo consulting and web design business, and also serves as my professional blog (be sure to subscribe).  Since its main thrust is to serve as a blog platform, the site is built on the WordPress platform.

ASP.NET development consulting contract from January, 2008 through April, 2008

This consulting project involved the development of a custom web server control suite for global ASP.NET web site in order to display language-specific pages to users for HP Partner Program.  The localization is stored in the database (not resource files) and are dynamically configured in-place via a control panel that is displayed for users with appropriate security credentials.

ASP.NET development consulting contract in September, 2007

Developed automated marketing collateral generator for HP Partner Program that incorporated partners’ contact information, solution description, and logo into dynamically created PDF, PowerPoint, and HTML files that could be downloaded on demand and immediately incorporated into marketing campaigns. Developed in ASP.NET using VB.NET 2005, SQL Server 2005, Aspose Slides, and Dynamic PDF Generator by ceTe.

Web design contract in February, 2006

Bridge-Soft was awarded a contract to design and maintain a web site for the New Hampshire Water Works Association. This is a static HTML web site that I designed using Dreamweaver (now maintained with Microsoft Expression Web).

New Hampshire Water Works Association "About" page

Bridge-Soft client;VB, VB.NET and SQL Server consulting contract in from June, 1999 – September, 2005

The original development of QMS occurred through a contract with specialty chemical manufacturer Shipley Company of Marlborough, MA (later acquired by Rohm and Haas).  It was an enterprise quality management system that maintained QC specifications for over ten thousand part numbers and managed the data entry of test results and created certificates of analyses for product shipments.  Technical details of the project included:

• Developed using Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 with a SQL Server back end.
• A central unattended application automatically rendered and delivered certificates of analysis for every product shipment.
  • The company could not ship product without this system functioning correctly.
  • In the original implementation, warehouse pick lists were pulled from querying the MRP system (PRISM). 
  • This was later replaced with an interface to SAP using the Developer’s Toolkit.  It retrieved the pick list from SAP in XML format, parsed the contents, and then rendered the certificate.
  • The certificate was automatically routed to the appropriate location based upon dynamic customer profiles.  They were printed to one of thirteen warehouses in North America and Europe, exported to PDF and emailed directly to the client, and/or exported to customer-specific XML formats and then uploaded via FTP.
  • Certificate results were wrapped into XML format and uploaded to SAP quality module via SAP Developer’s Toolkit via SOAP protocol.
  • I also wrote a web service to respond to data warehouse requests for data.  This service would retrieve results from the database in XML format and perform a bulk upload to the SQL Server data warehouse using XSLFO.
• An external web portal was written for Shipley customers to log in and download certificates online.  Security authentication was retrieved from a Lotus Domino server via SOAP protocol.