August 30, 1956 — Present :
Henry H. Lowengard, born Hartford CT, Aug 30, 1956 1:30PM

August 31, 1996 — Present :
Married Nancy Graham

April 25, 1997 — Present :
Raymond I. Graham Lowengard born

July 8, 1999 — Present :
Ada J. Graham Lowengard born

April 15, 1980 — December 29, 1993 :
Information Builders is one of the oldest privately held business oriented software companies. Its products run on a large number of platforms and operating systems. I worked primarily on the IBM Mainframe version, in CMS and MVS, and on the Macintosh of that time.
I wrote and maintained parts of the business oriented "fourth generation" language FOCUS. I wrote, extended and maintained:

• FOCUS Graphics, adding support for ASCII serial devices such as the HP7721 plotter, writing a serial line monitor to help set up the EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables, and GDDM Mainframe graphics support.
• FIDEL, the 3270 terminal Form Entry system, which I enhanced as the terminals got more sophisticated.
• FOCEXEC scripting language, to which I added a number of capabilities such as list processing, subroutines, and form interface.
• Window Interface for IBM terminals, allowing products to port from the PC's interactive, ASCII character-oriented I/O to the Mainframe terminal's EBCDIC transaction oriented I/O.
• MODIFY, the database modification language: I added major features such as subroutines, multiple record processing, tighter interfacing with FIDEL.
• HLI (High Level Interface), which is a programming interface for FOCUS databases. I maintained HLI and added the Simultaneous Usage feature, which is a mutex locked client-server technology for interprocess communication, shipping arguments and results back and forth. I used a programmable state table internally and this made it extremely easy to configure .
• MODIFY SU, added the Simultaneous Usage feature to MODIFY, allowing transactions and limited reporting between many FOCUS clients and FOCUS database server.
• Internal re-factoring: For a year, I and another programmer reconfigured and optimized the FOCUS internals so as to be able to fit in a 1 megabyte address space.
• Macintosh port: I worked on porting the original FORTRAN code base to Pascal and later C, adding a graphic user interface to the character oriented FOCUS code, HLI for Macintosh, Hypercard XCMD HLI for Macintosh, and interfacing a third party graphics library to our own graphics. I also became the build administrator and installer coder. This was for Mac OS System 6 and 7.

January 1, 1994 — September 1, 1997 :
I created Internet software for STIM, WFMU, Information Builders, Taejon (Korea) Science Expo, and others. These projects involved interactive VRML modeling, animation, web-enabled Fax processing and distribution, catalog systems and other CGI procssing.

September 1, 1997 — July 1, 1999 :
I designed and wrote an email processing server that was integrated into a Customer Contact system. The email processor has a web interface with a custom server-side template engine. It transcodes incoming messages, and processes it through a rules engine, which can, among other things, fed the message into a group queue for an agent to respond to, automatically respond to the message, assign priorities, escalate priorities, and assign tracking numbers. The same program uses a web interface for acting as the agent's interface, acting as the administration interface, writing and editing the rule set, configuring the users and groups and many, many other things. This system was so interesting it was acquired (along with support staff) by Webline Communications in July of 1999, which in turn was acquired by Cisco Systems in November 1999.
The system, then called "Cisco ICM Enterprise Edition, E-Mail Manager Option," was also internationalized and can process international character sets in the incoming and outgoing messages. The interface is supported in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
The server which I designed, wrote and maintained is a C-based back end that communicates with a suite of Java programs which act as wrappers to the mail server, database servers, and other parts of the total customer support system. All programming was developed in accordance to Cisco's ISO 9001 standards.

July 1, 1999 — November 1, 1999 :
"rserver" became part of the "Webline" product suite.

November 1, 1999 — March 17, 2003 :
"rserver" was further developed into the Cisco E-Mail Manager Option.
This product is no longer being sold by Cisco, but you can read about it here: This PDF of one of the manuals will give you an idea of the scope of this product.

December 1, 2005 — January 4, 2008 :
SendWord Now (http://www.sendwordnow.com) writes and maintains an online application that sends message as quickly and simultaneously as possible to a predetermined contact list via a number of media: voice, email and text messaging. The infrastructure is build on MSSQL, with a large number of Windows services and webservices processing the requests and message I/O.

• I designed and wrote Windows services to process incoming events (specified as XML files) and turn them into messages on phone, email and SMS platforms using SendWordNow's internals. (WeatherBlast)
• I wrote test procedures that simulated the triggering of these events.
• I designed and developed the UI interface that allows all the message transmission history of every message to be traced. (Alert Tracer)
• I designed the web service client that transmits messages via Blackberry PIN.
• I designed and implemented a Windows service which updates batches of contacts via XML files, and the test programs to create various kinds of batches.
• I re-engineered the email subsystem to add mail bounce processing and be able to be run on several servers.
• To test the email system, I wrote a custom SMTP server that can produce SMTP errors and delays on demand, while not actually delivering any messages whatsoever.
This work was done in C#, Java, PHP and Python.

January 4, 2008 — Present :
independent: Web Design, iPhone / iPad apps, PHP frontends, MySQL-SQLite transition

August 24, 2008 — Present :
SrutiBox iPhone App in App Store See more.

November 24, 2008 — Present :
Wind Chimes iPhone App in App Store See more.

January 4, 2008 — Present :
Gameface Design, Blackhammer, eSommelier
Various projects involving web design and maintenance in PHP, Ajax, Drupal, and Python.

April 16, 2009 — Present :
Lake Piano iPhone App in App Store See more.

April 28, 2009 — Present :
Droneo iPhone App in App Store See more.

August 3, 2009 — Present :
WFMU Radio 1.0 app in App Store.

September 30, 2009 — Present :
Jewish Music (JM in the AM) Radio 1.0 app in App Store.

November 30, 2009 — Present :
Andymatic Zingatron Andy Breckman talking app in App Store.

August 1, 2009 — Present :
Custom iPhone and iPad apps for Brand Expression as sales outreach for Netezza.

December 19, 2010 — Present :
Tondo: radial sonic spectrogram loop painting program for iPhone in the App StoreSee more.

March 2, 2011 — Present :
Minute: speech stretcher/shinker for iPhone in the App Store See more.

April 20, 2011 — Present :
Banshee: audio text messenger for iPhone in the App Store See more.

April 27, 2011 — Present :
synthicity itself: polyphonic multitouch instrument for iPhone/iPad in the App Store See more.

September 4, 1969 — May 9, 1970 :
First Programming (Basic) via Dartmouth Timesharing System at Alfred Plant Jr. High School.

September 1, 1970 — May 1, 1974 :
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor CT.
Wrote Disassembler for PDP/8e, Graphics programs, Synthesis language "MUCAL"

September 1, 1974 — May 1, 1976 :
Trinity College, Hartford CT (Freshman/Sophomore)

June 1, 1976 — July 31, 1977 :

• Oslo, Norway: Wrote the language "MOTHBOL", Universitet i Oslo
• Paris, France
• Vienna Austria (Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst)

January 1, 1978 — May 12, 1980 :
Trinity College, Hartford CT (Junior/Senior)

• Finished college, B.A in Computer Science coordinated with English.
• Among the first students to use word processing for schoolwork. I had to adapt the word processor code to handle free verse.
• 3D programs with output on Diablo printers
• vector graphics programming on Intel 8008 homebrew computer

April 15, 1980 — December 29, 1993 :
Information Builders is one of the oldest privately held business oriented software companies. Its products run on a large number of platforms and operating systems. I worked primarily on the IBM Mainframe version, in CMS and MVS, and on the Macintosh of that time.
I wrote and maintained parts of the business oriented "fourth generation" language FOCUS. I wrote, extended and maintained:

• FOCUS Graphics, adding support for ASCII serial devices such as the HP7721 plotter, writing a serial line monitor to help set up the EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables, and GDDM Mainframe graphics support.
• FIDEL, the 3270 terminal Form Entry system, which I enhanced as the terminals got more sophisticated.
• FOCEXEC scripting language, to which I added a number of capabilities such as list processing, subroutines, and form interface.
• Window Interface for IBM terminals, allowing products to port from the PC's interactive, ASCII character-oriented I/O to the Mainframe terminal's EBCDIC transaction oriented I/O.
• MODIFY, the database modification language: I added major features such as subroutines, multiple record processing, tighter interfacing with FIDEL.
• HLI (High Level Interface), which is a programming interface for FOCUS databases. I maintained HLI and added the Simultaneous Usage feature, which is a mutex locked client-server technology for interprocess communication, shipping arguments and results back and forth. I used a programmable state table internally and this made it extremely easy to configure .
• MODIFY SU, added the Simultaneous Usage feature to MODIFY, allowing transactions and limited reporting between many FOCUS clients and FOCUS database server.
• Internal re-factoring: For a year, I and another programmer reconfigured and optimized the FOCUS internals so as to be able to fit in a 1 megabyte address space.
• Macintosh port: I worked on porting the original FORTRAN code base to Pascal and later C, adding a graphic user interface to the character oriented FOCUS code, HLI for Macintosh, Hypercard XCMD HLI for Macintosh, and interfacing a third party graphics library to our own graphics. I also became the build administrator and installer coder. This was for Mac OS System 6 and 7.

January 1, 1994 — September 1, 1997 :
I created Internet software for STIM, WFMU, Information Builders, Taejon (Korea) Science Expo, and others. These projects involved interactive VRML modeling, animation, web-enabled Fax processing and distribution, catalog systems and other CGI procssing.

January 1, 1994 — Present :
WFMU-FM is a world famous freeform not-for-profit radio station based in Jersey City, New Jersey. I had been putting up WFMU information (schedules, events, other information) on the gopher of echonyc.com before there was a World Wide Web to speak of. Later, I was one of the original team to put WFMU on the web, and still help build features and clear up problems with the website. WFMU.org 1995-present Webmaster, www.WFMU.org I wrote many of the cgi-bin routines, including the original WFMU Catalog maintenance software, and I maintained about a dozen of the playlists before they were finally automated.

May 1, 1997 — Present :
Designer/maintainer of The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Disks. [http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/].

September 1, 1997 — July 1, 1999 :
I designed and wrote an email processing server that was integrated into a Customer Contact system. The email processor has a web interface with a custom server-side template engine. It transcodes incoming messages, and processes it through a rules engine, which can, among other things, fed the message into a group queue for an agent to respond to, automatically respond to the message, assign priorities, escalate priorities, and assign tracking numbers. The same program uses a web interface for acting as the agent's interface, acting as the administration interface, writing and editing the rule set, configuring the users and groups and many, many other things. This system was so interesting it was acquired (along with support staff) by Webline Communications in July of 1999, which in turn was acquired by Cisco Systems in November 1999.
The system, then called "Cisco ICM Enterprise Edition, E-Mail Manager Option," was also internationalized and can process international character sets in the incoming and outgoing messages. The interface is supported in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
The server which I designed, wrote and maintained is a C-based back end that communicates with a suite of Java programs which act as wrappers to the mail server, database servers, and other parts of the total customer support system. All programming was developed in accordance to Cisco's ISO 9001 standards.

July 1, 1999 — November 1, 1999 :
"rserver" became part of the "Webline" product suite.

November 1, 1999 — March 17, 2003 :
"rserver" was further developed into the Cisco E-Mail Manager Option.
This product is no longer being sold by Cisco, but you can read about it here: This PDF of one of the manuals will give you an idea of the scope of this product.

December 1, 2005 — January 4, 2008 :
SendWord Now (http://www.sendwordnow.com) writes and maintains an online application that sends message as quickly and simultaneously as possible to a predetermined contact list via a number of media: voice, email and text messaging. The infrastructure is build on MSSQL, with a large number of Windows services and webservices processing the requests and message I/O.

• I designed and wrote Windows services to process incoming events (specified as XML files) and turn them into messages on phone, email and SMS platforms using SendWordNow's internals. (WeatherBlast)
• I wrote test procedures that simulated the triggering of these events.
• I designed and developed the UI interface that allows all the message transmission history of every message to be traced. (Alert Tracer)
• I designed the web service client that transmits messages via Blackberry PIN.
• I designed and implemented a Windows service which updates batches of contacts via XML files, and the test programs to create various kinds of batches.
• I re-engineered the email subsystem to add mail bounce processing and be able to be run on several servers.
• To test the email system, I wrote a custom SMTP server that can produce SMTP errors and delays on demand, while not actually delivering any messages whatsoever.
This work was done in C#, Java, PHP and Python.

September 1, 2006 — Present :
Sustainable Hudson Valley coordinates municipalities and communities in the Mid Hudson valley toward a more sustainable future. I converted the original SHV site from Dreamweaver to Drupal. See more.

January 1, 1978 — May 12, 1980 :
Trinity College, Hartford CT (Junior/Senior)

• Finished college, B.A in Computer Science coordinated with English.
• Among the first students to use word processing for schoolwork. I had to adapt the word processor code to handle free verse.
• 3D programs with output on Diablo printers
• vector graphics programming on Intel 8008 homebrew computer

September 1, 1988 — Present :
Amiga: Real-time Graphical Synthesis spectrogram painter

September 1, 1988 — Present :
Amiga: Audio Travesty Generator

September 1, 1989 — Present :
Amiga + Unix: Vapor Paint vector based animation system

January 1, 1994 — September 1, 1997 :
Computer Art shows in Bremen and Korea

September 1, 1995 — Present :
I wrote the first web-enabled Internet Music Synthesis program, "sinth", the Internet Synthesizer. It's still running here [wfmu.org]

May 1, 1997 — Present :
Designer/maintainer of The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Disks. [http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/].

August 24, 2008 — Present :
SrutiBox iPhone App in App Store See more.

November 24, 2008 — Present :
Wind Chimes iPhone App in App Store See more.

April 16, 2009 — Present :
Lake Piano iPhone App in App Store See more.

April 28, 2009 — Present :
Droneo iPhone App in App Store See more.

August 3, 2009 — Present :
WFMU Radio 1.0 app in App Store.

September 30, 2009 — Present :
Jewish Music (JM in the AM) Radio 1.0 app in App Store.

November 30, 2009 — Present :
Andymatic Zingatron Andy Breckman talking app in App Store.

December 19, 2010 — Present :
Tondo: radial sonic spectrogram loop painting program for iPhone in the App StoreSee more.

December 22, 2010 — Present :
Powers Of One video, a response to "Powers of Ten" for Core77.com.

March 2, 2011 — Present :
Minute: speech stretcher/shinker for iPhone in the App Store See more.

April 20, 2011 — Present :
Banshee: audio text messenger for iPhone in the App Store See more.

April 27, 2011 — Present :
synthicity itself: polyphonic multitouch instrument for iPhone/iPad in the App Store See more.

September 4, 1969 — May 9, 1970 :
First Programming (Basic) via Dartmouth Timesharing System at Alfred Plant Jr. High School.

September 1, 1970 — May 1, 1974 :
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor CT.
Wrote Disassembler for PDP/8e, Graphics programs, Synthesis language "MUCAL"

September 1, 1974 — May 1, 1976 :
Trinity College, Hartford CT (Freshman/Sophomore)

June 1, 1976 — July 31, 1977 :

• Oslo, Norway: Wrote the language "MOTHBOL", Universitet i Oslo
• Paris, France
• Vienna Austria (Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst)

January 1, 1978 — May 12, 1980 :
Trinity College, Hartford CT (Junior/Senior)

• Finished college, B.A in Computer Science coordinated with English.
• Among the first students to use word processing for schoolwork. I had to adapt the word processor code to handle free verse.
• 3D programs with output on Diablo printers
• vector graphics programming on Intel 8008 homebrew computer