Year: 2022
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Mobile Device Management at a Large Enterprise
I helped choose and set up a third-party tool for managing all phones across the entire operation.
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Contracts Database and MRR Analysis
In the context of our work in entering customer contract data into Civic Elevator, we created a simple dashboard using Amazon QuickSite that provided a basic analysis of expected vs actual monthly revenue.
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Writing: Methods in Self-Publishing
Here’s a collection of posts I published last week showing specifics on how to use simple, inexpensive tools to publish real books: http://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/05/content-development-process-of-the-collected-works-of-prince-akbar-aka-jus-rhymz.html http://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/05/tools-for-modern-book-self-publishing.html http://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/05/making-book-covers-for-self-publishers.html http://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/05/printing-real-books-from-the-web.html http://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/05/how-to-use-amazon-kindle-direct-publishing-to-keep-your-irl-book-in-print.html
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The Complete Works of Prince Akbar aka Jus Rhymz
Today marks the publication of The Complete Works of Prince Akbar aka Jus Rhymz. I helped produce this book, which was edited by the artist Lajuana Lamkins. As part of my work, I designed and produced the book itself: I created the website supporting the book: I set up the Amazon store for the sale…
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Kickoff: Next Phase Enhancement of Legacy Product
Today we kicked off a project to help develop the next phase of a legacy elevator monitoring product with a deep installed base to move it from 1990s software to a modern web-based infrastructure and interface. The scope includes decoupling software functionality into separate integrated products, migrate to AWS, add more network tools for trace…
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Trade Show: Elevator Conference of New York / ECNY Annual Supplier Conference
Today the team and I displayed UpVate at the annual ECNY Showcase at Villa Barone on Throgs Neck Expressway.
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Civic Elevator All Hands #2, Long Island City
Today I led our second annual All Hands meeting here at Civic Elevator. I presented our plans for the integration of products from UpVate, Civic Site Service, and the home-grown tools we’ve developed at Civic from Day One. The one-day meeting was bracketed by onsite client meetings.
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Campaign for “Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist”
I created the strategy, website, and collateral for a campaign centered on expanding the conceptual understanding of Outsider art, specifically that Paul Jacoulet, a perpetually misunderstood and misclassified French artist working in Japan. The focus of the campaign was the Outsider Art Fair in New York, held this weekend.
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Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist
Today marks the publication of a new piece of art criticism I wrote. Subtitled “A reconsideration of Japanese Woodcut Art from a Parisian in Japan, 1934 – 1960”, the booklet has this central thesis: You can purchase here on Amazon:
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Intranet Knowledge Sharing Platform
Here’s some work we did at Civic Elevator on a system for pulling together the knowledge of geographically disbursed team members working across a dozen of newly acquired companies. This is one of the most common initial instincts in any consolidation effort– we’re certain that pulling together the intelligence of skilled people and getting them…