Programming

I am a "people-person" that just happens to be a very good software developer. What that means is that I know how to develop software for real, everyday people...not just for other developers. I am very good at putting myself in the place of the end-user and developing the software solution that makes his or her job as easy as possible. I have been developing with Foxpro (VFP) for the last 11 years and have worked in every version from 9.0 back to.well Foxbase (yikes). My most recent development work was on an ERP project for a California horticultural company. Using a Visual Foxpro fat-client, Web Connect servers and SQL Server database, I designed and developed end to end solutions to operate production from Guatemala over dial-up IP to the servers in California. Despite the poor phone-line quality in Guatemala and occasional time-intensive processes at the servers in California, I was able to insure virtually uninterrupted workflow for the user by creating and implem