Our staff members are people who would have been exploring technological developments on their own, and they are encouraged, as part of their job functions, to pursue knowledge and expertise in areas specific to their interests and experiences. They are knowledgeable to a degree that happens only when one cares about the work one does.

The customers, ultimately, reap the benefits of this working environment. When a new concept or a product hits the mainstream, chances are good that we have experience with it. Often, by the time clients start looking for ways to utilize that new potential, we are entrenched in the details of the trend and are ready with answers and advice.

Gene W. Homicki - President
Gene has over 13 years of experience in networking, computer mediated communication, software development, web site development and network security. He has been working on real-time, Internet-based, communication projects since 1991 and was one of the first people outside of CERN to work with the World Wide Web at McGill University in 1992. (Contact Gene)

Nancy Deschenes - Project Guru
Nancy has over 9 years of experience as an Internet software developer. She led the development of one of the first personalized news services on the web for London's Economist Group in early 1995, as well as for the first web-based instant messaging system for SegaSoft's HEAT.net in 1996. She has developed tools for database management, site enhancements, inter-user communication and social applications, and "edutainment" games.

Nancy also has experience working on large-scale database applications, administering UNIX servers, and integrating legacy system with the World Wide Web, and writing computer mediated communication tools. Nancy has a degree in Computer Science from McGill University. (Contact Nancy)

Allen S. Firstenberg - Project Guru
Allen brings over fifteen years of programming and networking experience to OCI in a variety of fields including computer mediated communication systems and collaboration, facility and computer security, time series databases, and online syndication and data collection. Allen graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has worked for the United States Air Force. (Contact Allen)

Miranda Jones - Project Guru
Miranda is a recent computer science graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where her main interests included software design and computer networking. She also has several years of experience with computer mediated communication systems and as an administrator of a real time online multiplayer gaming platform. She has worked for Cabletron Systems and Nortel Networks. (Contact Miranda)