My powerful focus combined with skills in many programming languages, allows me to create innovative solutions. For example, I needed to modernize an alarm phone call-out system, based on real time water conditions, running on a DEC/Alpha, written in FORTRAN and connected DECtalk speech synthesizer. I created a Linux appliance that replaced both the FORTRAN code and speech synthesizer hardware using open source software. The appliance connects to the corporate Vo/IP system to make alert phone calls. The solution uses a combination of C#, CentOS, Asterisk, dialplan script, and PostgreSQL. The only drawback of this solution is I miss Stephen Hawking’s voice that came with the original DECtalk device.