Daniel J Billingsley

Oceanographic Technicion (OT) and Scuba Diver - paygrade E5 (Petty Officer Second Class)

Focus on azeotropic distillation and fractionating columns.

As a student at URI, I worked for the EPA Narragansett Bay facility and was assigned a task - take Potomac River data and determine if waste water restrictions were influencing nitrogen and phosphorous compounds. I finished the model in under a month, then called my uncle Pat, Director of Physical Oceanography at NOAA. He sent me charts of the river which I digitized and overlayed the data in 3D. The only reason I was not hired post graduation is because I stupidly insulted the PhD scientists who were studying cow farts (I was lectured on methane scrubbers and barn explosions).

I was hired by Innaphase to lead the development of Enterprise Pharma-Kinetics (EP), an enterprise level PK/PD Bio-Analysis application. Shortly after, the company was purchased by Thermo Scientific after a bold move by the current CEO who hired Davey Jones to sing "Daydream Believer" at a pharma conference as she announced a new product using only artist renditions (the product was not developed yet). Just prior to the purchase, she provided management training to most Engineers and promoted them to Managers.

This would turn out to affect many careers.

My team, including long term friend Anthony Terra, were one of the first teams to implement the "ASP" Model - Micrsosoft Active Server Pages (ASP) an an Application Service Provider (ASP). We worked with IT to create load balanced servers to host the Knowledge Pathways application and wrote C# DLLs to maintain state across the platform (don't judge - this was 1995).