About Peterson Technologies |
Who is Peterson Technologies?
Peterson Technologies is a small, family owned and operated, consulting
company. Because we're small, we can be flexible and responsive to your
needs. Our staff is our managment, so there is never any disagreements
between the consultants serving you and the company telling them how to
work.
Our primary consultant is also our founder and co-owner. Jan L. Peterson
has twenty years of corporate computing experience. Studying Computer
Science at Montana State University (a premier engineering school in the
western United States) in the early to mid eighties, Jan received a firm
grounding in computing principles and developed a strong work ethic. His
first job, porting software for a small software company, gave him a base
of experience working in the small corporate environment. It also gave
him the background to understand the intricacies of software development
projects both large and small. Having the development background has been
critical to his success as a systems and network administrator. Working
six years at Brigham Young University, he was instrumental in growing the
computing environment in the Department of Mathematics from two Mips
workstations to a diverse collection of over two hundred systems from vendors
such as Sun, HP, and SGI (among others). On leaving the University, Jan
worked on one of the premier electronic commerce (business to consumer)
web sites of the day, the iMALL. iMALL originated to fill a need... the
need of small companies to be able to market their products on the Internet
without having to maintain their own technical staff. iMALL provided the
infrastructure for these small companies to get "on-line." Jan's other
companies provided him with experience working for government contractors,
interacting with other large companies, managing large-scale, high
volume web sites, grid computing, and insider thread management in the
corporate space. Now, with Peterson Technologies, Jan can put his
extensive experience and broad background to work for YOUR company,
solving YOUR problems.
Kerry L. Peterson is our chief web designer and graphic artist. Kerry
has a background in computers from the time he was born, having grown up
sitting on his father's lap, in front of terminals and computers. He
has worked on various projects, including developing images for Monarch
Door and designing the fan website Xmech. His strengths include graphics
design and a good sense of structure and layout, as well as a firm
programming background in scripting languages commonly used in web design
such as PHP and Ruby. Kerry's studies at ITT Tech and the Salt Lake
Community College have also given him a strong grasp of Java programming
techniques and database interaction.
Zackary A. Peterson is our QA representative. Zack, also with an extensive
background and history in using computers, applications, web sites, and
games, can give you the insight you need when seeking the customer's
perspective. His determination and inquisitiveness combine to help him
evaluate all areas of a user interface and to discover problems that others
might not notice until a product or site is deployed.
In addition, we have the ability to draw on additional experience from
our extensive network of professional contacts. This contact pool includes
web designers, graphical artists, technical writers,
systems administrators, network administrators, and other
consultants, each with five to twenty-five years of experience. We also have
relationships with marketing companies giving us insights that purely
technical companies simply do not have.
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