Are you a Dana Cartwright? If so, I'd like to include you on this page. You can reach me by email.

Who am I? Well, I'm one particular Dana Cartwright, from Syracuse, New York, USA, who maintains this page.

I'm actually the third Dana in a sequence of four: my grandfather and father were named Dana Cartwright, as is my son.

Professional Skills/Experience

My work centers around software (weavemaker.com), with occasional forays into hardware design (dobbytron.com). I also have a deep love of tools for wood and metal working. When I am relaxing, I like to race vehicles that have four wheels (currently karts, see nykarting.com or pakarting.com) and compose and perform music. I am fascinated by any type of machine, be it a clock, player piano, gasoline engine, or textile loom, with my favorites being steam engines and pipe organs.

I am passionate about the English language, and have no small skill in its use.

I develop software applications for the Macintosh, Windows, and Linux, and create websites and databases, using C, C++, Java, PHP, mySQL, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Linux, Apache, cPanel, and assembler. I have extensive experience in eCommerce and PCI compliance. Yes, I know regular expressions, mod_rewrite voodoo, and Google Maps. I have strong SEO skills. Overall, I have several decades of experience, both in private industry and in higher education (from 1983 to 1992 I was Director of Academic Computing Services at Syracuse University).

I am the President of Designer Software LLC and Dobbytron Inc.

Some websites my companies have built, and maintain:

I am based in Syracuse, New York.

Racing in the rain in a 1968 Saab 96 V4 October 23, 1983, at Cherry Valley Motorsports Park, near Lafayette, New York. Note the course worker's umbrella.

Music

Music is a personal matter, and like anyone else, I have my personal tastes. I prefer melody, rather than percussion, as the basis of music, for example. Here are some of my compositions.

Falling Thunder is an experiment in mixing real-world sounds (most noteably thunder and water splashing) into music. This has ample amounts of quite low frequencies, and is best listened to with good quality earphones.

Beat 1 was written as a soundtrack for a very short video. The videographer wanted to re-create a sound of "electronic music" from the 1970's.

2000-4 was written for my son and wife to perform, he on the violin, she on the piano, when he was a violin student. My goal was to keep the violin part fairly simple, but interesting, with a bit of a challenge thrown in towards the end. I've recast it here for flute and piano.

BWV543 is a tribute to the Great Man himself, my arrangement of the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, for bells, sax, and piano.