Alan Ray Young

Privacy Statement

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:26:59 +0000

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Thank you for visiting www.alanrayyoung.com (our “Site”). We appreciate the opportunity to interact with you on the Internet and are committed to protecting and safeguarding your privacy. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to inform you about the types of information we might collect about you when you visit our Site, how we may use that information and whether we disclose that information to anyone.

What Information We Collect and How We Use It

Any information we collect on our Site generally falls into the Personally Identifiable Information category.

Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets us know specifically who you are. In general, you can visit our Site without telling us who you are or revealing any Personally Identifiable Information.

Ordering - When you place an order for products or services, we collect Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, contact and billing information, credit card, and other transaction information). We use this information to deliver your order, process payment, and to communicate with you about the status of your order. Credit card information submitted with your order is used only for payment processing and is not retained on our Site. You may request your purchase be shipped by common carrier, in which case certain information will be shared with the respective carrier for delivery purposes.

Sharing Your Information

Except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, we do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise retransmit any Personally Identifiable Information we collect online unless we have your permission. Any Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us will be used for your purchases and retained in hard copy form of the original invoice as well as within our database system, which generates our invoices.

From time to time, we may be required to provide Personally Identifiable Information in response to court order, subpoena, or government investigation. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful. We may release Personally Identifiable Information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Limited Warranty or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.

Links To Other Web Sites

Links to third-party Web sites may be provided solely for your information and convenience, or to provide additional information for various other goods and services. If you use these links, you will leave our Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those Web sites linked to our Site, nor do we control their content or privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.

Changes To This Statement

Any updates or changes to the terms of this Privacy Statement will be posted here on our Site and the date of the newest version posted below. Please check back frequently, especially before you submit any Personally Identifiable Information at our Site, to see if this Privacy Statement has changed.

By using our Site, you acknowledge acceptance of this Privacy Statement in effect at the time of use.

If you have any concerns about our use of your information or about this Privacy Statement, please send an e-mail to info@alanrayyoung.com. We will make every reasonable effort to address your concerns and remedy any problems you bring to our attention.

This Privacy Statement was last revised on January 20,2009.

What my customers say …

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:17:43 +0000

Here are some comments from my customers!

Alan set up an anti-virus / spam scrubber firewall for us that has reduced our time wasted on spam by 90%!
Health food manufacturer, Riverside,CA

Alan built a secure Virtual Private Network system so that now I can reach my office files from home!
Vitamin manufacturer, Huntington Beach, CA

Alan created a Windows-Mac network in our office so that now our Windows and Macintosh computers talk to each other effortlessly!
Commercial Printer, Orange, CA

Alan and his team built a web site that has dramatically increased our foot traffic coming into our store through the creation of on-line coupons!
Furniture Store, Anaheim, CA

Documents

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:39:31 +0000

Click on these links to download documents

Non-disclosure agreement

Consulting Agreement

Service Commitment to Clients

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:18:47 +0000

Quality timely service, fast response time
Industry-standard best practices and best effort for customer satisfaction
Quantified strategies, services, and customer expectations
Qualified expertise and best practices including integrity, respect, and customer support

Service Options

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:15:10 +0000

One-Time Computer Tune-up & Optimization Service - What’s included? A One Time complete computer tune-up, OS and registry optimization, resolve system and software errors, system De-fragmentation, Virus and Spyware scan and remove, install latest updates.

Only $129.95 per pc (one time maintenance)

Note: cost of one-time maintenance may be applied toward any monthly maintenance plan.

Periodic In-source IT Maintenance Service - assist you on a regular periodic basis for a set monthly fee.This is very attractive for companies who do not wish to support the expense of a full time IT employee and is specially designed to simplify your computer tech-support needs and protect your computer operations by performing a periodic maintenance to each PC registered under the retainer as well as ensure that issues such as backup and security do not slip through the cracks.

Using the retainer you will benefit from knowing that your PCs are well maintained and less prone to the unexpected breakdowns, all while keeping your computer repair budget in check.

The Tech-Support Service Retainer Includes:

Emergency on-call service.

Weekly and Monthly Maintenance:
Supervise and implement data backup strategy,
Ongoing Proactive security audit activity. Data backup provided by Jungle
Disk.

Quarterly Service:
Run necessary Microsoft Update services
Virus and Spyware database update, scan and infection removal
Registry scan and optimization
Hard Disk defragment
System performance optimization

Open Box Annual Services:
Vacuum clean dust from all cooling parts and fans
Air blast internal parts to ensure proper cooling operation
HD scan for disk errors and bad sectors

Gold Plan - Weekly Maintenance: One onsite visit per week:
$1995/month - includes all above-mentioned services plus an on-site
visit once a week to handle any issues that may come up (up to 12 PC’s,
additional PC’s $29.95/mo).

Silver Plan - Bi-Weekly Maintenance:
One onsite visit every two weeks: $995/month - includes all
above-mentioned services plus an on-site visit once every two weeks to
handle any issues that may come up (up to 12 PC’s, additional PC’s
$14.95/mo).

Bronze Plan - Monthly Maintenance: One onsite visit every month:
$495/month - includes all above-mentioned services plus an on-site visit
once every month to handle any issues that may come up (up to 12 PC’s,
additional PC’s $9.95/mo).

Skills

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:40:10 +0000

Languages and Tools: Have programmed and deployed successful, profitable products using C#, VB.NET, Java,T-SQL, PL/SQL, MS-SQL 2005, 2000, MS-SQL7, MS-Access, PHP, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 7,8,9,10, C++, Pascal, Delphi, Clipper, dBase, NT, XML-SOAP, XSLT, Web Services, n-tier architecture.
Operating Systems: Have programmed and deployed successful, profitable products using Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
Networking Highly skilled in network architecture, firewall design and construction, including CISCO, FreeBSD, Squid, Endian Firewall, ipTables, and other firewall security products
eCommerce Highly skilled in eCommerce products such as Verisign, PayPal,LinkPay,Nova as well as shopping carts such as ZenCart, osCommerce, Magento, Ubercart, AspDptNetStoreFront

Professional Experience

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Leadership and Supervision

Successfully implemented the vision of a venture capital group. Developed hardware and software architecture, interviewed, made hiring recommendations and supervised a staff of network technicians, software developers, and data base administrators who created an original software product specialized in the real estate home valuation vertical market.
Mentored software developers in the exercise of their craft, providing advice and technical supervision.
Successfully supervised overseas outsourced software developers in India, Vietnam, and South America

Technology / Software Development

Commended by NASA for excellence in software engineering, receiving an Instant Compensation Award for original problem solving, creativity and technical excellence in the Shuttle Payload Bay documentation project.
Architected and implemented software and hardware infrastructure for vertical market solution for print shop industry (“Printerrific”). UPS awarded UPS Ready certification to the product in August 2008
Architected and implemented firewall high availability security infrastructure including CISCO PIX and F5 load balancers.
Wrote curriculum and developed software for Chevron teacher technology initiative.

Summary of Qualifications

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:37:48 +0000

Has a proven track record of leading a team through the full product development cycle, taking a product from concept to million-dollar profitability.
Outstanding motivator and builder of teams. Works well in both team environments and individual assignments.
Sought-after problem-solving consultant for Fortune 500 companies and small companies alike, including The Disney Company, Chevron, Yamaha, Nissan, Veros Software, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Superb communications skills, capable of writing for an executive or specialist audience, able to create and present briefings to executive audiences.
Exceptional teaching skills. Successfully taught C++ computer science curriculum for 15 years

Windows/ .NET Experience

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:32:31 +0000

Languages and Tools: Have programmed and deployed successful, profitable products using C#, VB.NET, Java,T-SQL, PL/SQL, MS-SQL 2005, 2000, MS-SQL7, MS-Access, PHP, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 7,8,9,10, C++, Pascal, Delphi, Clipper, dBase, NT, XML-SOAP, XSLT, Web Services, n-tier architecture
Architected/ built a web site with ASP.NET / Oracle ODP, managing 90 million records. Used C#, XML,XSLT, ODBC, and Oracle 10g ODP connector
Boeing Relational Signal Information Modeling System. Designed and coded system for GPS IIF using Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0 and Access. Very large data base project encompassing the comprehensive modeling of command, measurement and telemetry avionics for GPS IIF satellite. Skills used: Modeled data base schema using entity relationship diagrams (Erwin/SQL). Coded embedded SQL statements. Designed custom ActiveX/COM components . Wrote and implemented Visual Basic applications
Boeing Space Shuttle Payload Interface Control Documents Web Site at http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/icd.Designed schema and Visual Basic code for HTML generator that takes Access data base and generates HTML/JavaScript code from data base information. Received NASA Instant Compensation Award for excellence in the coding and design of the web site. Wrote XML DOM based tool to print multiple PDF’s as one large batch job
Other tasks performed: Designed and Programmed Grafcon, a utility for converting legacy mainframe vector graphics to postscript graphics. Assisted web development project using Cold Fusion. Performed preliminary research and development for Shuttle Payload Modernization project using XML and XSL.
Designed and programmed data base driven web sites at http://www.plasticsurgery.com using MS-SQL Server 7.0, MS-Index Server 2.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, COM/DCOM Interfaces. Designed T-SQL modules for SQL Server 7.0. Installed and configured SQL Server and Index Server. Performed administrative maintenance on MS-NT 4.0 Server, MS Internet Information Server, MS-SQL Server, MS Index Server
Designed and programmed Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode system for Pioneer LaserDisk player, with RS-232 interface using Win16 serial communications API and VB for Windows.
Wrote MASM 8088 Assembly Language analog to digital conversion drivers for temperature measurement.
Created real-time embedded firmware for 8051 microcontroller (Dallas DS2252). Client/server controller network implemented using proprietary RS-485 networking protocol.
Using C/C++ and MASM assembler, programmed an ultrasonic distance measurement system for IBM PC platform hardware, including low-level assembly routines modifying the IBM-PC system clock using BIOS system routine calls.

Outsourcing

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:30:44 +0000

I have a team in South America who are highly skilled in bespoke software development (web and desktop). Frequently I can save my customers time and money by coordinating an outsourcing engagement.

You as the customer do not need to learn a foreign language and/or get up at 1am to have a meeting with an overseas programming team. I do all that for you and I speak English.