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TJX enlisted Lexicon Systems to develop reporting modules for their nationwide Time and Attendance Kronos system.  Over 3000 employees will be reported on at thirteen distribution centers.

MAXIMUS, a Massachusetts state-funded health-care vendor, hired Lexicon Systems to interface legacy apps with newer systems.  Systems include State Medical Coverage mainframes and patient information databases.  Lexicon’s designs create a more seamless workflow for clerks and customers, as MAXIMUS manages very high call volumes for services and information.

Estateworks, an estate software company in Massachusetts, enlisted Lexicon Systems to build an extensible XML interface to connect to business partners. Rick Gansler, CTO of Estateworks says, “Central to our integration with Merrill Lynch, Bank of America,and Thomson, Lexicon Systems makes our complex and ambitious projects work.”

“At Fidelity, the ability to work in teams while under extremely tight deadlines and stressful situations is imperative. Lexicon’s professionalism, integrity and diligence ensure success.” – Tracie Childress, Project Manager, Fidelity Investments

We recently completed a nationwide deployment strategy for a leading health care equipment manufacturer for distribution of B2C and B2B e-commerce sites to dealer partners.   Tying in .NET architecture with teambuilding and deployment policy, the team I led formed the infrastructure to install and customize a turnkey e-commerce solution throughout the United States.  I also organized and oversaw the design team responsible for content management, customer branding, templates, logos, color schemes, and ad copy.
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Senior consultant Dan Hermes gives talks and workshops at .NET user groups at Microsoft in Waltham, MA:
Configuration in ASP.NET 2.0
At the hub of ASP.NET applications are configuration files: web.config and machine.config. Configuration settings determine critical aspects of your app: authentication, state management, and database connections, among others. Here are some of the hands-on issues covered:
Web Site Administration Tool (WAT): GUI access to the web.config file
Authentication types: Forms, Windows, and Passport – Which to use and when
Custom Errors: what they’re good for, and when other options would be better
State Management: in …

Podcamp Boston came to town this week, bearing news of podcasting and social media.
Podcasting is a broad term for online video or audio. It may or may not be consumed on an iPod. Video blogs, marketing trailers, music mixes, instructional videos, and entertainment media can all fall under this umbrella of “podcasting”.

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Dan Hermes Fine Art was featured in one of the hotel design industry’s highest award ceremonies, Boutique Design magazine’s Boutique 18 : 2009. Eighteen boutique hotel designers were awarded on May 15th at Tao restaurant in Las Vegas.
Boutique 18 takes place during the week of the HD Expo 2009, where Dan Hermes Fine Art is also exhibiting. Dan Hermes Fine Art creates moving digital paintings, an exciting new art form which captures the contemporary imagination with motion, color, form, and beauty. Visit http://www.danhermesfineart.com/ for more details.

 
Twitter may be the next small step in the evolution of humankind. Social networking ala Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. are the next step towards a real-time collective consciousness, intellectual and emotional, where each human being is a single cell in a worldwide human master mind and master heart. Twitter tags and blogspheres are the evolution of clubs, families, boards, organizations, and other communities, with a scale and speed formerly unheard of. We are swiftly moving towards a unified body of collective organisms, self-organizing into cyber-organs or cyber-lobes around social circles, …

For a technology training firm in Connecticut, Lexicon Systems provided a four-day intensive class in C#.NET. Former VB.NET, C++, VB6 and COM developers learned the ways of the CLR, MSIL, the GAC, and the .NET Framework. Topics included C#.NET grammar, data types, ADO.NET, web services, Reflection, Serialization, COM Interop, and .NET 2.0.