Principal Consultant Greg Jorgensen has over 25 years experience programming and managing databases. He has worked for Nike, Apple Computer, Metrowerks, and the Bonneville Power Administration. More details below under ancient history.
selected recent clients and projects
PDXperts can't take credit (or blame) for the design or look & feel of most of the web sites listed below. PDXperts specializes in programming and database work; we leave design, graphics, and art production to the professionals.
CodeInstruction.com: Online examination and class registration for plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and structural contractors and engineers. Real-time credit card processing, web-based administration. codeinstruction.com.
Hahn Consulting/Thermo: Web-based sales training/scoring using Flash, PHP, mySQL. Flash content and design by Intermedia Design.
Welch, Bruun & Green, attorneys at law. PC and network support for 15 PCs (Windows 98/XP), one Mac (OS X), and Linux-based file server.
Cantel Sweeping: PC and network support, upgrades, office networking, web site, cantelsweeping.com.
Northwest Legal Counsel: Legal forms browser/downloading using ASP, SQL Server, integrated with already installed Daypoint extranet package.
Anthro Corporation: Cleaned up e-commerce site back-end and database, fixed numerous bugs and security problems, integrated site with Clippership freight rating and Verisign credit card authorization systems. www.anthro.com.
Oregon Catholic Press: Two years of contract work for OCP developing four web sites. PHP/mySQL, Linux. Responsible for e-commerce and integration with Universe (Pick) back-end. www.ocp.org, www.liturgy.com, www.printandpraise.com, spiritandsong.com.
Integrity Logistics: Integrated legacy freight brokering application with public web site with a custom "screen scraper" program (written in Python) that queries Integrity's internal freight database from the (ASP-based) web site in real time. www.integritylogistics.com.
Consumer Finance Service: Web site back-end programming (PHP) and integration with Authorize.net, PayPal, and Google for e-commerce and targeted ads.
Crazy Fingers Design: Several web site projects with this exceptional Portland-based design firm. www.crazy-fingers.com.
Echo Marketing: Portland-based marketing and web design consultancy. www.echopdx.com.
Fred's RV World: Web site back-end database and programming (PHP) to maintain and display new and used RV inventory. www.fredsrvworld.com.
Oregon Association of Mortgage Professionals: Web site back-end database and programming (PHP), integration with existing site. www.oamb.com.
Vector SCM/Menlo Worldwide: Member of large programming team collecting data from rail carriers in an Oracle database, and making that information available through a web-based application. This project was a joint venture between Vector/CNF and General Motors. Lots of Oracle-to-HTML programming.
Babcock & Jenkins Direct: Lots of projects for Portland-based internet/direct marketing company. In their heyday B&J would turn out a couple of sites a week, for clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Sun, InFocus, Merant, Compaq, and lots of startups now forgotten. I developed tools, put sites together on ridiculous schedules, cleaned up databases, hooked B&J sites to client back-ends, and managed programmers.
MotoEssence: online magazine for motorcyclists. "PDXperts quite literally saved the day for MotoEssence. Greg Jorgensen fixed a multitude of errors made by our previous programmer, and in the process created code that's far more efficient and reliable. Because of Greg’s expertise our web site was able to launch without a hitch." -- Kent Bransford, President, MotoEssence LLC. motoessence.com.
Dillon & Associates: PC, network, web site support for office/retail fixture liquidator.
Greater Portland Homeschoolers: Volunteer webmaster since 2002, responsible for web site hosting, management, and much of the content editing. www.gphomeschool.org.
Geekschool: Free programming classes for homeschooled kids and teens. I organized everything, presented the classes, and worked with the kids. The site is still up but the classes aren't going on anymore. www.geekschool.org.
ancient history (in no particular order)
Nike, Inc. (when it was still called Blue Ribbon Sports): Hired me out of college as a junior programmer on a big conversion project. I learned from some great mentors, trained by DEC in COBOL and TOPS-20 assembly language. Eventually in charge of inventory programming and database.
Trans-Ocean Leasing and Skyway Freight Systems: Two fairly large transportation companies (ocean container leasing and just-in-time shipping) I worked for back in the 1980s. These companies represent the beginning and end of my time with PR1ME/Information programming, a PICK variant that was very popular for a while then disappered when minicomputers went extinct.
Oil Finding Technologies/Finder Exploration Systems: San Francisco startup developing oil and gas exploration software. I learned more at this job than at any other job I've ever had. Lots of smart people and hard/interesting problems. The company was eventually sold to a French oil conglomerate. The system ran on a PR1ME minicomputer, an ORCATECH (later SGI) graphics workstation, and after 1984 a Macintosh. Programmed in FORTRAN, 80x86 assembly, PR1ME INFO/BASIC, Forth and C on the Macintosh, and a couple of graphics languages.
Apple Computer: I was hired into MacDTS (Developer Technical Support) by mistake, quickly got involved with the Hypercard project, and answered lots of tough questions from Macintosh developers. Besides Hypercard I specialized in C and Pascal compiler questions and the Mac OS memory manager. I also put together the first couple of developer CDs and came up with the idea to name them by punning on movie titles: I have a framed "Phil & Dave's Excellent CD" to show for it.
Blyth Software (later OMNIS Software): Hired me to get ownership of a hack I wrote that allowed OMNIS 3 and 5 to launch Hypercard external commands (XCMDs). I did some custom development and re-orged their support group, then ended up spending a lot of time with the OMNIS development team in Saxmundham, England.
VICOM Software: England-based communications software company hired me to work on their terminal emulation software, which was the high-end of Mac terminal software at the time. I took over the projects left by a departed programmer, then sped up the REGIS graphics emulation code by a factor of 100 in a couple of weeks by cribbing a simple state machine from a magazine article.
Thompson Publishing, Steck-Vaughn Publishing, South-Western Publishing: I worked on quite a few educational multimedia titles, mainly CD-ROM products. Many of these started as Hypercard and/or Director projects but all the good ones ended up as C++ code. I eventually found my way to Creative Multimedia in Portland, which turned into Ledge Multimedia then went out of business.