Key Staff

Deborah Ness The CEO and Founder of L D Ness Inc, Deborah Ness, has provided broad oversight, direction and management since the company's inception in 1983.

Deborah received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from West Virginia University in 1981.

Lawrence Ness The CTO of L D Ness Inc, Lawrence Ness, has been developing software since 1983. His current focus is in developing unique user and data interfaces for web- and desktop-based products, employing C#, PHP, Visual Basic, C/C++, Javascript, and Transact-SQL.

Prior to coming to L D Ness Inc, he worked as a systems programmer for GTE Business Communications Systems, supporting a user community of over 350 software developers on VAX/VMS platforms. At GTE, he adapted a set of Digital Equipment Corporation device drivers developed for use in Europe to operate on US networks, deploying one of the first wide-area-network systems for VAX computers in North America.

From 1978 to 1981, Lawrence worked as a software engineer for CSC contracted to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center. At CSC, he developed several wide area data links for receiving and storing satellite telemetry, and co-developed a more powerful replacement of the IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO) for use by spacecraft attitude operations.

Lawrence received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University in 1978, specializing in operating systems, assembly language programming, and minicomputer communications software. He had a minor in mathematics and a grounding in electrical engineering, which he studied in his first two years.

Jie Wang Jie Wang Jie has 10 years of solid programming experience, with demonstrated skills in Visual Basic, VB Script, JavaScript, ADO, SQL Server, MAPI and HTML. She has strong skills in JavaScript and database-driven web applications. Her current responsibilities include designing and development of interactive websites for online survey, test, and data analysis, as well as real-time reporting, using Active Server Pages and MS SQL Server back ends. She has developed generalized navigation systems that form the backbone of numerous websites, using a unique dynamic behind-the scenes interaction between the client and the server to efficiently distribute large quantities of data on demand. She also developed a multi-party E-Commerce evaluation system for a sales training client. This application has been used by more than 200 franchisees across the country to evaluate thousands of salespeople. Jie holds a Bachelor's degree in Information System Management from Jilin University, China.

Kamal Soni Kamal has 11 years of solid programming experience, with demonstrated skills in Visual Basic/VB Script, C, JAVA, Java Script, ADO, COM, SQL, XML, WAP and DHTML. He is also involved in managing of networks on Windows NT. He has strong skills in web server (IIS, apache), SQL Server, Windows NT administration and management. His current responsibilities include designing and development of web automation products. He is involved in enhancing the performance of existing products by changing backend from MS access to SQL server. He recently integrated our sales evaluation product with Verisign for online credit card payments. Kamal began his IT Career in 1997, starting in C++ application development and gradually shifted to web based technologies. He worked for Infosys India Ltd (CMM level 5 company) in India for 2 years before coming to the US. His previous projects include developing and porting a website on PDA's and cell phones using XML and WAP, management of networks on Unix as well as on NT based networks, developed a billing software for VSAT provider company using VB and crystal reports. Kamal received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Pune, India. His coursework included extensive study of operating systems, assemblers and network management concepts. He also attended XML conference held in New York to learn latest trends in web development.

Yamilet Rodriguez Yamilet is currently working as a SQL Server and ASP Developer. Her responsibilities include Microsoft SQL Server™ Transact-SQL programming, as well as creation of web pages using VBScript and Javascript. She has 10 years of solid programming experience, with demonstrated skills in Visual Basic 6/VB Script, T-SQL, HTML, SQL Server 2000-2005, Crystal Reports 8.5. Prior to joining to L D Ness Inc, she worked as a database developer for MAPFRE (worldwide insurance company) in San Juan, PR. Her project at the time was to help in the migration of car insurance data from an old FoxPro system to Oracle, using SQL Server DTS. From 1998 to 2002, Yamilet worked as a Systems Consultant for Abaco Mobile, Atlanta, GA. Inventory Management applications were created for warehouses (Goodyear, TX and Hewlett Packard, FL) using Delphi 4 and Oracle 8. TOAD was used as a tool to improve the productivity of the database development. She participated in the whole development cycle including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, support.

Yamilet received her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Metropolitan University (UMET San Juan, Puerto Rico) in 1996, specializing in software development. During the summers of 1994 and 1995 she interned as a researcher for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM as part of an internship program with UMET. In 1996, she worked as a software developer for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories in Berkeley, CA.