Patrick M. Mills (based in Virginia, USA) has wide-ranging skills and experience in computer programming, systems/network architecture design and its development, management, and control.
Mr. Mills founded NeverLand Software, Inc., a Computer Industry Services Company. Since 1994, NeverLand Software & Systems has provided Information Technology services to industry, including: custom programming, web development, database design and integration, network aware software, managed networks, and other computer related services.
While with NeverLand Software, Mr. Mills has worked with a wide variety of clients including: The St. Joe Company, the National Society for Healthcare Food Service Management, TheNetOffice.com, The International Telework Association, Powell Tate, Shandwick Public Affairs, Brodeur Porter Novelli, the country of Taiwan, the Electronic Industries Association of Japan, Online Media Services, Bethesda Softworks, CBS, MCI, the AEGIS Industrial Alliance, Food Lion, Charter Communications, Dyad Pharmaceuticals, Fortis, GoodWorks International / Nike, Hudson Foods, Bork & Associates, Honda, Clydes, Babyguard, Talegis, and Trilight Pictures.
Mr. Mills, as a graduate, worked with the Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (U. of SC), Bethesda Softworks, and Telework Analytics International, Inc.
While a college undergraduate, he held various positions which involved developing, upgrading, implementing and maintaining systems and their associated on and off-line help manuals and administration scripts. His projects ranged from Neural Network models to Cognitive Psychology modeling, Image Processing, and hardware control systems. He was employed by the Apollo Computer, Perception and Graphics Laboratories (Swarthmore College), Battelle (Richland, WA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and was a University of Illinois Supercomputer Grantee.
Mr. Mills wrote LaserUser for Windows™. He co-authored "Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates." Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, (Margherita, Italy, 1995), "Fuzzy Logic Enhanced Symmetric Dynamic Programming for Speech Recognition." Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. (New Orleans, LA. September 1996), and "A Fuzzy Logic Positioning System for an Articulated Robot Arm." Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. (New Orleans, LA. September 1996). "Fuzzy Speech Recognition", Thesis, University of South Carolina, 1996.
Mr. Mills has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional. He has US Security clearance.