Nathan Stott’s Bio

Nathan Stott is Whiteboard-IT’s Senior Software Developer. He is responsible for turning our client’s ideas into working strings of code. Nathan also has a lot of experience integrating older technology with newer technology. He is always looking forward and learning new technology before it becomes popular, all the while trying to integrate his existing knowledge to make what’s out there better.

Nathan began coding at the early age of 11 in GW basic. In high school, Nathan finished
first place all three years he participated in the Computer Science Division of
The Alabama State Science and Engineering Fair. In his last year of competition,
the U.S. ARMY purchased the source-code of his project, Optimizing Backpropagation
Neural Networks using Genetic Algorithms.

After graduating with a Computer Science Degree from Birmingham-Southern College,
Nathan moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he freelanced web development. Most of
the work involved PHP/MySql.

Nathan made contacts with an overseas company, Digistoft, and worked with them on
several projects, the largest of which was a specialized java applet reports-editor
for a real-estate firm in Ireland. The reports editor included MySql database querying
features and basic MS-Word style text-editing features for easy generation of house-data
reports that could include queried comparables from the MySql database. The
user was able to define limits for comparables if the defaults were insufficient.

In 2005, Nathan accepted a position as a Systems Programmer at Zortec International.
Zortec created and maintains System-Z, a system-independent COBOL based rapid application
development environment. Nathan made several improvements to the windows GUI
capabilities of the System-Z runtime, giving Z programmers more control over the
look and feel of their windows applications. This was challenging in that
the Z runtime must be able to run on any Unix/DOS system, so development of the
framework for windows-specific GUI components required development of the associated
text-environment functionality as well.

Nathan also developed the ZODBC product which allows Z-Base database files to be
accessed via ODBC. This project involved the creation of a larger Z Network
Services framework. In essence, the Z-runtime was altered to allow Z programs
to be called remotely via a network connection. The ZODBC product works by
creating on-the-fly Z programs based upon parsed SQL queries and exposing these
Z programs as services to be called via the ZODBC DLL. User security was implemented
for Z-Base via a customizable Z Program with a default service packaged included
with the ZODBC product.

Nathan’s Qualifications include:

Languages: ASP.NET, VB.NET, VB, Java, C/C++, C#, PHP, Perl,
XML, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Pascal, MySQL, TSQL, LISP, Scheme

IDEs: Visual Studio, Enterprise Manager, Lotus Notes, Dreamweaver,
and Eclipse/Websphere
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