welcome

who is Brent and what is Solvix?

Brent (me) has many years of software experience in the industry.  At present I have spent the past 5+ years managing a support and development team, as well as serving as an individual contributor, for a prominent hardware manufacturing firm in Folsom, California.  I spend most of my time designing and developing various solutions using Microsoft-based platforms, but love challenges and am open to anything new.

Solvix is the business name I use to conduct my technical consulting and development as.  'Nuff said.

I have taught a number of technical courses at local colleges, have been developing solutions for the enterprise since the late 90's, and am well-versed in multiple programming languages and toolsets.  C#/ASP.Net/SQL are my preferred tools.

This website is essentially a springboard for my web presence, but also a place to showcase some of the technologies I am actively involved in.  The most up-to-date information can always found at my blog at http://solvix.blogspot.com, if I ever get to updating it.

 

what I know

I can provide extensive consulting and support assistance in the following, but am not limited to:

• Programming: Microsoft ASP.NET/C#.NET/VB.NET, Macromedia Cold Fusion, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Microsoft Active Server Pages, Web Services, HTML/xHTML, XML, HDML/WML/WAP, JScript/VBScript, C/C++, PASCAL, PalmOS and Microsoft Windows Pocket PC environment development experience.
• RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS/SSRS, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, Oracle, Sybase, mySQL. Well-versed in standard languages: SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL.
• Software Applications: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Microsoft SQL Management Studio, Macromedia Cold Fusion Studio, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe PageMaker, Crystal Reports, various network-troubleshooting applications, and many other well-known off-the-shelf PC applications.
• Operating Systems: Microsoft DOS/Windows, Apple Macintosh OS, AT&T UNIX, Linux, Novell Netware, Sun Solaris, AS/400, HP-UX, Palm OS, Windows Mobile.
• Other: project management approaches implementing fundamentals proposed by the PMI, small business and enterprise level architecture planning and implementation, general PC/Mac support, and more.

 

 

what I'm doing

Althought web technologies are my favorite, I'm also actively working with ...

• ASP.Net Scaling
  Optimizing existing ASP.Net applications to scale well.
• Virtualization
  True enterprise-ready virtualization solutions in both Windows Server 2008 R1 and R2, as well as other familiar workstation solutions (VM Ware, ...).
• Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)/Silverlight
  Next generation web-based technologies.
• Microsoft BI
  Attempting to port over existing solutions to a more extensible format.