I'm never really sure to put in these one paragraph descriptions, so I'll try to do it in a single page. You can get the short form by looking at my answers to the Pivot questions from the Actors Studio.

I'm the Chief Technical Officer for Kaloke Technologies. We are a J2EE consulting / development company. We've done some pretty major development in the last decade. Our expertise is in systems integration with legacy systems. Since we are based in the Philadelphia area we cover the US East coast. We've also done projects in Canada, and completed a project for a bank in Brazil. While we are strong in financial services I've been working on an Identity Management project for the last few years.

I've been doing systems development for the last 20+ years (yes, I know Cobol) and have been doing web development since 1995. A large part of my work has been in software engineering, but it is mostly now Software Architecture with some project management. One of my new focus areas is Getting Things Done and Risk Analysis.

I also have been teaching for over 20 years for colleges and universities along with private training companies.

Schucker.org is my personal site. I'm in the process of moving a much older site into the JSPWiki code base. Most of my personal work is in Java, Logo, or Awk for quick and dirty 'one time' programs. I'm currently using Waba for Java development on the Palm Pilot. I'm also a contributor to the JSPWiki software project, and I have a wiki todo list for this site. The site is a collection of information that is important to me and makes it easy for me to find rather than hunting in hundreds of other sites.

If you are really interested in my resume, send me an email: Foster at Schucker (dot) org and I'll send you a current one. You can look at the jobs I've had.

I also have a great set of children that I'm very proud of and like to spend time with.

To relax I spend time on my boat, the Quo Vadimus and flying kites along with some personal software development -- Project One. Most of my free time in the fall and winter is spent working on VEX Robot project and with the local teams, the Downingtown Area Robotics / VEX Competiton Robotics and trying to set up new teams in the area.

I'm part of a non-profit called STEMRobotics (STEMRobotics.org) that is the financial support for starting these teams. STEMRobotics gathers grant money and donations and leverages them into the robotics teams.

In 2009/2010 I was asked to serve on the core team for the proposed Downingtown Area School District STEM Academy.

A current project is the creation of a PVR or personal video recorder. I'm kind of done with Comcast and want to be able to get video entertainment in a different way. We have (and love) Tivo, so something to replace that.

List of things to remember:

• Packing list for the beach
• Bug9

Links

• Internet Economy article with some quotes from me about the BEA/Weblogic server

• Dysfunction Junction - holding area for some odds and ends.

• Demo.com - New Emerging Technology Conference - very cool ideas!

• The Cluetrain Manifesto a way to get people to think.

• I've started the study of Zen Buddhism. There is a lot to learn, but it has day to day applications. Here is some other Zen information.

• Next Generation Japanese Notebooks and Electronics - I'm fascinated by the current trends in new electronic devices.

• Assembly of electronic kits is something I wish I had more time to do.

• How To Ask Questions is a great piece by Eric Raymond on the right way to get help and ask questions.

• Career Tips, learn how to make small talk

Schucker is the #28362 most common last name.
0.0005% of last names in the US are Schucker. Around 1250 US last names are Schucker.

So odds are in my favor of being the only Foster Schucker
Source is Namestatistics.com

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