Tempest Towers is a small web design and consultant firm. As a small firm, jobs are taken on a case by case basis depending on current demands. There is currently one employee of Tempest Towers who handles all of the website design and consulting services but work is sub-contracted out as needed.
Laurie Harris obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University – College of Engineering) majoring in Communications and Electronics. As a Certified Internet Webmaster Associate (CIWA) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) he has over a decade of experience with a number of internet-related technologies.
OPERATING SYSTEM Experience – UNIX (Sun Certified Network Adminstrator) / Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Certified Professional) / Linux / MacOS X
WEBTOOLS – Microsoft Frontpage / Adobe DreamWeaver / WordPress
MULTIMEDIA – Flash, Swish, Swift3D, Abobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Premiere
WEBSERVER Experience – Apache / Microsoft IIS / Oracle iPlanet Web Server
MAILSERVER Experience – Icewarp Messaging Server / Microsoft Exchange Server / Sun Messaging Server
E-COMMERCE Experience – OpenMarket Transact 4 E-Commerce platform certified / Completed CIW E-Commerce Course (CIWP certification pending)
SCRIPTING Experience – Java, Perl, PHP
DATABASE Experience – Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL
NETWORK & SECURITY Experience – Cisco routers / Nokia firewalls / Resilience firewalls / Checkpoint
