He has been involved in data modeling and building databases for many years. His research interests have centered on developing extensions or alternatives to the Entity-Relationship Model. As a consultant he has built several databases from scratch and has written a concurrent, iterative connection-oriented server that has been handling large volumes of bursty light-transaction (2 data packets) traffic for two years and has not crashed once.
His teaching areas of interest are databases and networks.
Phone: (845)-257-3556
E-mail: pletch@mcs.newpaltz.edu