ENGENUITIES is I.T. consulting with the approach that information is a product not a possession. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island and serving clients in the United States of America, ENGENUITIES was founded by Bob Sullivan in 2013.
Bob has extensive I.T. experience and has been an I.T. professional since December 1987. Bob has developed and supported systems hosted on Unix and/or Windows that utilize SQL databases and has worked with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure services, too.
Among Bob's specialties are the analysis, exchange and transformation of data, systems analysis and integration. Bob has worked with nearly every SQL database (Informix, Progress, Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle), Microsoft Access and NoSQL (Amazon Dynamo DB). Years ago, Bob mastered the esoteric skill of coding in ESQL/C. That combination of C code with embedded SQL is notoriously difficult to debug.
Bob is well versed in integration, disaster recovery, systems administration, SDLC, shell and Perl scripting, C language programming, software documentation, database design, data center, performance tuning, business analysis, data warehousing, ETL, requirements analysis, software project management, ERP, technical support, I.T. management and vendor management.
Bob was inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, on May 6, 2011 as an alumni of Rhode Island College (RIC). RIC has the alpha chapter of UPE in the State of Rhode Island.
Bob was published in Medicine and Health/Rhode Island and Stanley Aronson, M.D. acknowledged Bob's contributions in additional articles of the primary publication of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
Bob adopted the slogan "information is a product not a possession" from Patricia Nolan, M.D. In the late 1990s, Dr. Nolan applied that slogan to efforts in the public health arena of the R.I. Dept. of Health, where Bob was employed for over ten years.
Bob recognized that there is an acquisition cost to information, but when that information is shared effectively within a team or a business unit or an entire organization, not only does the acquisition cost of the information decrease, but the knowledge base of the team (or business unit or organization) increases as well.
In 1982, Bob Sullivan founded the New England "COCONUTS" Color Computer Club, after meeting Andy Nulman and Jim Yakey and Bill Ferrante in the COCO SIG on CompuServe. Bob wanted to learn more about his home computer hobby, but he learned more about people and how they interact with technology, which has served him well ever since. Over the club's 9 year history, Bob served N.E.C.C.C.C. in various roles including president, vice president, newsletter editor and secretary and some memories of the club are at https://engenuities.com/about_necccc.html