Walter Hardy -- Software Developer, Engineer
Walter Hardy
Software Engineer

A Sample of My Client List

Acadia National Park

Acadia National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the country. I built a reservation system to allow park staff to process camping and rock climbing reservations.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

I worked extensively with Cisco in 2011 to develop Best Practices and performance tuning techniques for the website, cisco.com. I was also hired to interview Cisco staff, and from those interactions, develop a series of documentation which remains active on Cisco's internal Wiki.

Ford Motor Company

I was as consultant to Ogilvy & Mather (New York) to help redesign the Ford Motor Company website. My staff and I provided competitive analysis, design guidelines and a visual site analysis demonstrating a new site structure.

Golden Books Family Entertainment

I was hired as part of a team to develop an innovative web guide that served to specifically assist in children’s learning. A comprehensive content management system allowed Golden Books staff to manage copy and populate an Oracle database with thousands of content entries. This website was developed to support a new set of factual children's books issued by Golden Books Family Entertainment.

MuleSoft, Inc. (now Salesforce)

Prior to the Salesforce acquisition, I participated in an extensive relationship with MuleSoft where I developed public documentation. Documentation included on-ramp and advanced tutorials to help with the wide adoption of MuleSoft as a new technology.

Oracle Corporation

I provided documentation services, and participated in document development on the Apache NetBeans project after Oracle acquired Netbeans from Sun Microsystems.

Ping Identity Corporation

I worked on documentation that was published on PingIdenty.com, for the companies Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies: the PingOne Cloud Access Service and the PingOne Application Provider Service.

Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)

I had an extensive ongoing relationship with Sun Microsystems since 2004 until they were acquired by Oracle. I was initially hired to develop a 12-article “Learning Curve” series on Java technology. I later hosted an Instant Messaging service for Sun developers on www.java.net, and later continued with additional hosting and documentation projects on Java technology.