1995: Back before PCI compliance existed, shortly after SSL was first developed, vendors wanted to have the ability to have an e-commerce store but not take the risk of having credit card information sent via email or stored unencrypted.

Worked with one of the largest florists in the United States to develop a system that allowed web orders to be sent to via fax. Setup a contract that charged a percentage of each order instead of a monthly fee.  Within a year they were making more orders per month than they usually made all year.

1997 was before PHP, JSP, MySQL or ASP.  The web consisted of static pages and dynamic via CGI. The University of Northern Iowa asked if I could create a “talent database” where individuals could login via a web interface and volunteer as local experts in various fields and keep in contact via email. 

Written entirely in Perl via CGI using DBD/DBI libraries with a mSQL back-end (the precursor of MySQL). In order to make the system completely automated I created a Perl to sendmail to database interface.