... finding the pleasure in unraveling technological mysteries.
... helping people not get taken advantage of.
... enjoying the constantly changing nature of the technology that surrounds us.
... the experience of starting, growing and running a successful business venture.
My name is David Smith, and Upstate Digitools represents that which encompasses all these things and more. I appreciate your visiting the website, and hope you will bookmark the site for the day you may have a technological question to ask or want a second opinion.
Skills and experience:
Daily oversight of 200+ user network across five locations.
A decade worth of Microsoft operating system experience from Windows
95 on up.
Internal Microsoft beta tester during Windows Vista and Windows 7
development cycles.
C# application and development experience with multiple published
commercial releases.
Integrated Microsoft Office toolbar development experience.
Linux application development using the Mono toolset.
Linux operating systems including the Linspire, Debian and Ubuntu
distributions.
Virtualized computing with Sun VirtualBox and Microsoft Virtual PC
platforms.
Website development spanning HTML, CSS, Flash and Silverlight
platforms.
Windows Mobile application development from release 5.0 and up.
Microsoft Silverlight application development with Expression Blend
development platform.
Extensive FTP application development, including asynch and encrypted
FTP.
Microsoft Sharepoint portal development.
Published author of technical commentaries in leading automotive
journals.
No-charge remote support provider for over 30 individuals and
charitable organizations.
Extensive experience with professional development toolsets including:
Microsoft Visual Studio
Adobe Flash and Photoshop
Microsoft Frontpage and Expression Suite
... and dozens more smaller specialized development tools.