Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is an important standard that was created by the Health Level Seven International, which is a health-care standards organization. It describes data formats and elements and an application programming interface for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). Earlier this year, Oracle’s Cloud Venture team had the opportunity to partner with James […]
Migrating Hosting Business from Legacy Servers to Cloud
In 2010, after running Pebblehaven’s legacy hosting offering for a decade, Dan conceptualized and lead execution for the migration of hundreds of sites and email accounts running on dedicated servers to pioneering cloud environments that operated with server clusters. This migration yielded a substantial number of benefits, including: Reduction in single points of failure. No […]
Finding & Closing A Backdoor for Global Retailer & Hospital
Dan discovered that code for the public facing web sites of a global retailer and hospital, among others, were able to be viewed and modified due to a vulnerability in server software from Microsoft. After initial skepticism of an open attack vector, Dan demonstrated ability to change files without any credentials and subsequently instructed their […]
Discovering Bug With Major CDN Causing Delistings from Google
Dan discovered an issue with the technology of major web infrastructure and website security company, causing some sites using their service to be delisted from Google. After delayed responses from their traditional support channel indicated the issue was not on their end, with help of a different Pebblehaven partner Dan was able to connect with […]
Bringing FileMaker to the Cloud
Before FileMaker offered its own cloud hosting solution, Dan lead a project to research, evaluate and engage an optimal FileMaker hosting specialist partner. Dan lead the shift of multiple locally hosted databases to the cloud, which involved many moving parts including syncing of data and reconfiguring client connections. In doing so, upgraded the connections to […]
Golf Portal – Started in High School, Sold in College
Early on in High School, between school and sports, Dan started trying to sell golf balls that he would go find in the woods of a local course and custom golf ball display cases that he made in his basement. There were multiple challenges aside from the operation being bootstrapped, including this was before Dan […]
Implementing Site Analytics before Google Analytics
Many years ago, before Google Analytics was available, Dan recognized the value that more robust site visitor data could provide to businesses. Ancient hit counters were misleading and easy manipulated. He found a company called Urchin, made the decision for Pebblehaven to acquire licensing for their software and subsequently integrated it for hosting clients. Thankfully, […]
Going from Office to Remote… in 2014
Years prior to COVID, Dan lead the planning and execution of Pebblehaven ending its over decade long renting of office space to become an entirely remote operation. Phone calls were shifted to a virtual PBX system that rang mobile phones, emailed voicemails, among other configurations that were years ahead of more widespread adoption. Workstation security […]
Automating Mission Critical Workload For Distributor
Two employees of a wholesaler/distributor in NYC spent almost all of their day each Friday producing inventory updates. It was a critical task, which needed to get done regardless of whether the team was shorthanded due to vacation or an unexpected availability issue. Dan raised the idea for and subsequently lead the automation of 95% […]
Incident Response Before Modern Apps
When first setting up monitoring services in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, it was not as easy as setting up an account with Pingdom (started in 2005) or UptimeRobot (started in 2010). Further, there were not quality and widespread apps like PagerDuty and OpsGenie to handle what happens after an issue is detected. While […]
Custom Built CRM to Cloud in 2010
While in college, Dan built a custom CRM for Pebblehaven using Microsoft Access and setup the application to run over a local network. However, years later in 2010 Dan decided to replace this tool with a web based solution. Dan researched existing solutions and instead of going the custom route again, decided to acquire licensing […]
Marketing for 2,000+ Real Estate Properties
Dan created, developed, oversaw operations for a media service business that provided digital photography, floor plans, virtual tours, 3D experiences and other marketing services for over 2000 residential and commercial real estate properties. Clients included leading real estate brokers, top producing agents, REITs and multiple major hotel brands.