About Us

Blacks Design, Inc. is a web design and software development firm based in San Diego, California, with customers located throughout the United States and Canada. President/Owner Vivian Black is an experienced web designer and software project manager; she also has a strong technical background, having worked for years as a UNIX system administrator, network administrator and Internet security consultant. She is also an enthusiastic silversmith who really enjoys the art of design, whether she's working online or in a studio.

Co-owner Randall Black is a highly experienced product inventor and systems/software developer, both in the high-tech world of physics instrumentation and in the Internet applications arena. He has created numerous web-based, database-driven applications, both large-scale and small.

Blacks Design, Inc. was founded in February of 2002.

Qualifications

Vivian Black

• Worked 13 years in software / Internet security:
• Gathering and analyzing customer requirements
• Software project management
• Internet security consulting
• Network administration
• UNIX system administration


• 3 years (cumulative) teaching corporate and university-level courses on computer programming, system administration, networking and Internet security issues – taught both technical and non-technical audiences.
  
  
• Development experience includes PHP, Flash, Javascript, Java, C++, C, Perl, sed/awk, UNIX shell programming, plus many other languages.
  
  
• Education:
  • M.B.A., San Diego State University Executive MBA Program, San Diego, California
  • B.S. Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

 

Randall Black, Ph.D.

• 20+ years in high-technology:
  • Inventor and new product designer for both academic and commercial scientific organizations
  • Scientific analysis for physics, electrical engineering and software development projects
  • Gathering and analyzing customer requirements
  • Hardware design, circuit design, firmware design
  • Software project management for both scientific and commercial applications
  • Database development for commercial applications
    
    
• Development experience includes PHP, MySQL, Delphi, Visual Basic, C, FORTRAN, plus many other languages.
  
  
• Education:
  • Ph.D. Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
  • M.S. Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  • B.S. Mathematics, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia
  • B.S. Computer Information Systems, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia