User:Barnegat

Since the age of 8 years old, when work on the interstate highway system began, Barnegat has been fascinated by road maps and highway construction. As a teenager, his interest in efficient travel methods continued, and he considered a Civil Engineering career. However, while attending engineering school, he "got the computer bug" and developed an interest in Computer programming.

Barnegat graduated from Newark College of Engineering (now called NJIT) in 1970, with a bachelor of science degree in Engineering Science. He majored in Computer Science, learned FORTRAN programming on an IBM 1620 computer, and worked for two summers at the IBM Datacenter in Newark, New Jersey, learning IBM 360 Basic assembly language and PL/I.

Upon graduation, Barnegat worked for Exxon Corporation, developing a Program Management System named PROMS, which enabled FORTRAN and PL/I programs to dynamically access each other and share input and output files. While at Exxon, Barnegat also developed a Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) program and monitored the burgeoning microcomputer and personal computer markets.

Barnegat's work at Exxon was interrupted by a period of service in the U.S. Army. While stationed at Letterman Army Hospital Institute of Research, he worked as a computer programmer and attended a graduate level Marketing course at San Francisco's Golden Gate University (then called Golden Gate College).

After leaving Exxon in 1983, Barnegat founded Zeducorp to pursue his interests in designing and developing systems software and database applications for personal computers.

Around the year 2000, Barnegat began developing database applications for the internet and also realized that the target audience concepts and target marketing principles learned 30 years earlier at Golden Gate College were ideally suited to the internet.

In 2004, Barnegat moved to Barnegat Township, New Jersey to concentrate on developing web-based applications, information resource websites, and map websites for the internet.