My greatest value to my clients is the work we do together to solve their problems. Sometimes that work leads to tangible information systems - here are a few examples:

Student information system
I designed and implemented a custom integrated database management system for a Massachusetts private school. The multi-user system, written in Visual FoxPro,stores and manages admissions information (including unlimited addresses), student schedules, grades and test scores, professional contacts, and student attendance. Over five hundred different data items are stored in the database. The system is e-mail enabled, so that appropriate users can be notified when certain events, e.g. the acceptance of a new student, occur. A large number of built-in reports provide comprehensive information to the administrative departments, and an integrated report generator allows custom reports to be created by the staff, when needed.

Customized accounting software
A fast-growing Vermont manufacturer required a large number of custom changes to their accounting software. Many of the facilities they required were not available in any standard accounting package. A few examples of the new functionality I implemented include: linking their accounting software to UPS Worldship; adding global customer notes that are time and operator stamped when a new order is entered, providing extensive reporting based on customer territories and ship-to location for national customers with multiple stores.

Video disk controller software
HarperCollins required Macintosh based software to control the display of over 4,500 images and video clips on a video disk used to accompany one of their best-selling Anatomy and Physiology text books. I wrote the controller software. As the videodisk player displays still or video material (some in 3D), the software provides information about what is being seen. The software also provides search capabilities, so that specific items can quickly be found.