Introduction
Intro
A Piano playing, code writing, and sci-fi watching
Information Technology Professional and Entrepreneur.
I am Daniel Horning, an Information Technology Professional with an entrepreneurial spirit that creates accessible, secure, and easy to use websites. I am also a serial learner constantly reading and taking online courses for various technologies and tools. I also love photography.
I write safe, efficient, and self-documenting code (mostly C#/PHP/JS and Cold Fusion), and enjoy listening to all sorts of music (while occasionally playing the piano/keyboard). Since starting a small company in 1998, I work quickly and logically to resolve support requests and all issues.
Most recently, being able to build WCAG compliant websites for NYS DMV and helping advance green tech through building a couple of off-grid power systems (one had 1000 solar panels – to date still the largest in the world for a residence).
Life Experience
Software I Love
PHP, CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, etc…), XML, Java Script, MySQL, SQL Server, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows Servers, Windows Desktops, Adobe Creative Suite, Linux Servers, Linux Desktops
Digital Media Production Head
City Harvest Family Church
Daniel has created a video production environment, upgraded in house networking, built a social media presence, and continues to manage and train teams and team leaders.
Work Experience
Partner / Designer, 1998-Present
American Digital Services
Design client web site(s) and intranet tools using PHP and other languages. Create and deploy Customer e-Commerce websites using open source and custom software packages (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Opencart, and others). Manage multi-server intranet and internet hosting systems in house and on AWS, Azure, and other cloud and traditional hosting platforms. Create custom SQL databases for price management and sales reporting on customer’s state sales contracts.
ITS3 – Programming – 2018 – Present
NYS Office of Information Technology Services
Daniel supervises a team of developers and is a developer for eDMV/MyDMV and DMV’s Payment Gateway systems. Daniel and his team work with applications built upon ColdFusion 2016, ASP.NET, C#, VB.net, and other platforms. Daniel’s web development work follows WCAG 2.0 AA or better accessibility standards using current HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and high-security standards and has created new procedures to allow for a streamlined accessibility development vs. auditing process. Daniel is also leading a charge to migrate old ColdFusion code into newer code structures and ultimately into ASP .NET applications.
ITS2 – Programming – 2017 – 2018
NYS Office of Information Technology Services
Daniel is responsible for the software used by TSLED Ticketing Systems and other interagency/cluster projects. He programs efficiently in multiple programing languages (primarily CFML, C#, VB, and T-SQL) while utilizing skills and imagination to create new software, solve problems, and enhance software and high availability systems for our users, all while documenting everything for future users and programmers. Daniel ensures highly sensitive data remains secure by following the latest ISO standards and creating systems to prevent internal abuse of data. Daniel creates application deployment MSI’s for complete installation of applications.
Chief Technology Officer, 2013-Present
New York Renewable Energy, Engineering and Recycling
Design client web site(s) and intranet tools using PHP and other languages. Create and deploy Customer e-Commerce websites using open source and custom software packages (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Opencart, and others). Manage multi-server intranet and internet hosting systems in house and on AWS, Azure, and other cloud and traditional hosting platforms. Create custom SQL databases for price management and sales reporting on customer’s state sales contracts.
Jr. Document Processing Analyst, 2005
Amici LLC
Handled incoming data from secure sources in multiple formats and converted into proprietary legal formats. Developed tools to speed up slow data recovery processes. Worked with client managers to ensure 100% data integrity.
Systems Administrator, 2004
Design & Disaster Recovery Consulting, Ltd
Managed and built high availability servers and networks for in house and state enterprise contracts. Maintained internal Windows Servers (2000, 2003) including connections into Exchange, Cisco Unity and Blackberry Servers. Maintained and deployed ny.gov hosting. Configured and maintained a LENEL security system for access control and monitoring.
Education
Eastern Gateway Community College
in pursuit of an Associates Degree
Business Management with a Cyber Security Focus
eLearning
Ongoing Education
Dan continues to study many areas including business management, electrical engineering, and other interests.
Microsoft
Online Partner e-learning
Continuing Education, Enhance both product and administrative knowledge of the entire Microsoft network of applications.
Shenendehowa High School
Technology focused education, Diploma, 1998
Helped support the network infrastructure and hardware of the High School while a student.