Bill Donner’s Old Webpage
Music
My friends and I have been playing in a few bands at various parties, bars, and other functions in Westchester, NY and lower Connecticut. We always appreciate more work.
At age 50 my family gave me an electric piano and headphones. Nowadays I play keyboards with these guys PlanB and these guys AboutHalfDead. I also play with others who prefer to remain invisible.
I am pretty much the only one left in these two bands with any time to dink with our websites. After 15 years, they remain a work-in-progress
Contact me at billdonner@gmail.com to book the PlanB and Abhd bands. PlanB Bronxville has a page on Facebook.
Family
My own Millennial kids never cared much for code, but my grandkids will have to. So I am getting ready…
I have recently been shooting a bunch of photos with my new iPhone 11. I am particularly focused on black and white wide angle photography and posting some images on Instagram. But I am pretty disappointed with the way these photos are presented so I am looking for something better. And I have an IOS app on the bucket list that presents these same photos from Instagram in a full screen viewer.
Software
I was fortunate to learn to code in Fortran on an IBM7094 at Columbia University when I was a sophmore in high school.
I am both a certified Apple Teacher and a Swift Playground Teacher. My certifications are down at the bottom of this page, and I am eager to investigate the new curriculum materials with some actual human students who would like to learn Swift.
After teaching for a few years at DEC I had a career in software engineering and management at both big corporations and small start-ups, I’ve worked on or as:
- COO, CTO, CEO, Chief Architect
- Big Data Analysis on Very Small Machines
- OLTP on Very Old Machines
- Internet Cloud Radiology
- Trading Room and Stock Exchange Floor Systems
- Board Member of iRobot
Here's a traditional resume.
I work at various software related endeavors:
software therapist
I read your team's code. We discuss your system and software problems, pay only when happy.
software coach
I am doing some freecoaching in my own neighborhood with the new Apple Swift Curriculum
pro-bono software developer for Selfish Software
Projects I selfishly write. for myself and my music friends Projects I [write] for selfish/personal reasons. Mostly for myself and my music friends
open source
Here's the link to Medcommmons ⁃ A mothballed Internet Radiology Cloud Service built on Amazon Aws, source code in Java, JavaScript, PHP and objective C and is available on Github. Runner up finalist in 2008 Amazon Cloud Projects
miscellany
Is this the Bill Donner you're looking for? This is William L. Donner Freeport, MIT, DEC, Chase, TMI, PBS, Reuters, Fenway, MedCommons. Accept no substitutes.
