RipeVine, Inc. is a corporation founded by e-Commerce gurus. Our development team consists of IBM e-Commerce Certified developers who work in high-transaction volume and enterprise level architectures. Our team has deployed high-availability sites and has custom configured systems to exceed in excess of 400 transactions per minute. RipeVine, Inc. prides itself in its expertise and ability to provide a complete solution from graphics and user interfaces to the complete back end e-Commerce framework. RipeVine, Inc. is truly a one-stop-shop turn key solution for Enterprise e-Commerce Deployment.

Erich Buerger is the President of RipeVine, Inc. He has held several key positions in several e-Commerce engangements. Mr. Buerger was the Chief Developer at Garg Data International. Specifically, he was one of the project managers and lead developers of E-Commerce Solutions. His expertise includes e-commerce development, relational database design as well as programming in C++, JAVA, EJB, JSP, JDBC, Net.Data, JavaScript and SQL. Mr. Buerger is a Certified Solutions Expert in IBM's Net.Commerce/Websphere Commerce Suite. He is also experienced in all aspects of development including full cycle development; systems and applications design, project management, analysis, coding, testing, implementation and documentation

• He has developed more than ten e-Commerce Web Sites using IBM's Net.Commerce/Websphere Commerce Suite including:
   » Ritz Camera www.ritzcamera.com
   » Orange County Math www.ocmath.com
   » Boatersworld www.boatersworld.com
   » E-Puck www.epuck.com
   » Science and Technology Books www.scitechbooks.com
   » Spare tank www.sparetank.com
   » Fannie May Candies www.fanniemaycandies.com
   » Kozmo www.kozmo.com
   » Outerbanks Outfitters www.outerbanksoutfitters.com
   » NetAid Organization www.netaid.org
   » Real Finance Advice www.realfinanceadvice.com
   » Online Ticket Reservations www.paciolan.com
  
• Certified Solutions Expert in IBM's Net.Commerce/Websphere Commerce Suite.
• Has performed several types of database architecture development utilizing DB2, Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Was the team lead on the development of an Integrated real-time credit-card authorization systems using CyberCash and Cybersource to process orders and perform money capture by the merchant.
• Developed the integration to provide real-time electronic check transactions.
• Developed the SQL Server database architecture for the United States Navy to allow reserve officers to apply for billets on-line. This project was developed using ASPs.
• Trained in IBM's Websphere Application Server.
• Has architected fully integrated systems with clustered databases, and load balancers, along with multiple webserver and e-commerce engine frontends.
• Has a good understading of security as it pertains to the internet as well as secure data transmission. He has worked with SSL, paired encryption keys and understands the concepts behind this technology and how to use it.
• Is experienced with web servers namely Apache, IBM's Lotus Domino Go, IBM's HTTP Server, Micorsoft's Internet Information Server, Netscape and the Websphere Application Server.

Mr. Buerger was the Chief Developer and Solution Architect at Capita Technologies a general management consulting company located in Newport Beach, CA. Prior to that he was a software developer at Canon Information Systems, the research and development center of Canon, Inc. Specifically, he developed software which manages printers and other devices on a network under various network protocols. He also managed and developed graphics software development done in the Ukraine remotely from California.

Mr. Buerger has experience in C/C++, JAVA, Pascal, Lisp, Net.Data, JavaScript, SQL, and Active Server Pages.

He is experienced on multiple platforms including UNIX, Windows NT, and AIX.

Mr. Buerger was an e-Commerce Instructor at California State University, Fullerton and holds a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.