Consulting

I provide consulting services in several IT areas.

Oracle Database

Having used, administered, and developed against Oracle since 1996, I am intimately familiar with versions 7-11g.

  • Tuning ($150-$300/hr)
  • OCI Development ($150-$300/hr)
  • Internals Research ($250-$500/hr)

PostgreSQL Database

As a long-time Postgres user, developer, administrator, and consultant, I offer consulting services around Postgres.  And, while it may sound egotistical, having been the primary benchmarking representative and performance analyst at EnterpriseDB, I know more about Postgres performance and how it operates under both OLTP and DSS workloads than anyone else.  Similarly, I’ve recovered a significant amount of data from several corrupt Postgres databases.

  • Data Recovery ($300-$600/hr or negotiated on a project basis if > 100GB)
  • Tuning ($150-$300/hr)
  • Training ($3000/8 hour day)
  • Feature Development ($150-$350/hr or negotiated on a project basis)

General Development

While I know many more programming languages, these days, I’ve cut down the number of ones I will perform consulting-based development on.  If you have another language in mind, contact me and I may decide to do it.

  • Ada ($150-$250/hr)
  • Assembly Development ($175-$300/hr for x86/x86-64)
  • C Development ($125-$225/hr)
  • C++ Development ($125-$200/hr)
  • COBOL Development ($150-$250/hr)
  • FORTRAN 77/90 Development ($175/$275/hr)
  • Java Development ($125-$200/hr)
  • Pascal Development ($150-$250/hr)
  • PHP Development ($125-$200/hr)
  • PL/SQL Development ($125-$200/hr)
  • PowerBuilder Development ($175-$275/hr)

Reverse Engineering (Employing Clean Room Methodologies Only)

Having performed clean room reverse engineering on everything from desktop applications to low-level operating system details for several different companies, I offer professional software specification development services.

  • Specification Review/Development ($175-$300/hr or negotiated on a project basis)