``If it's not worth doing well, then it's not worth doing at all.''

Udo Schuermann is a software engineer with Washington D.C.'s largest internet employer. His expertise with computers and software spans more than two decades, and he has been involved with the World Wide Web since its infancy in 1993.

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Software Engineer, Blackboard Inc., Washington D.C.

Programmer, Network Administrator, Webmaster, & Technical Support, University of Maryland, College Park, Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

Graphic design and implementation of commercial website for www.Waterwisp.com

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Waterwisp®, the Ultimate Dry-fly
Ringlord Technologies

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Senior Software Engineer
Blackboard Inc., Washington D.C.

• Assisted in specification process for the Educom/EduCause IMS effort; worked as part of a software development team to implement reference software and a distributed software architecture in Java, using RMI and CORBA.
• Responsible for design and implementation of software to perform large-scale data extractions, conversions, and reconstitution against multiple types of backend databases, using XML as an intermediary data representation format.
• Responsible for the creation of high-speed, high-capacity web-based discussion board software, supporting multiple forums, threads, public anonymity, multi-file attachments, and more.

Systems Analyst
KPMG Peat Marvick, Washington D.C.

• Operated as part of a technical consulting team in the design, construction, and delivery of an Effort Reporting System.
• Served as liaison to Educom during the design and early phase of the specification process of the Instructional Management Systems (IMS) project.

Programmer, Network Administrator, Webmaster, Technical Support
University of Maryland, College Park, Undergraduate Admissions

• Designed and maintained departmental website.
• Designed and implemented dynamic website form presentation and data validation software to effect the online applications process (in 1995 one of the very first such systems on the web).
• Designed internal email software and myriad networking tools.