Image of: squash runners with baby squash - early July 2008. Photographer: John Burns, site owner.

Contracted or employed...

  • Kalamazoo RESA - Web Programmer Analyst. Member of a team providing software to school systems in Kalamazoo County and other counties around the State of Michigan.
  • Starr Commonwealth - System Analyst. Intranet development, programming, and support for 3rd party applications.
  • St Hubert Church - completed June 2005 - Project Manager/Developer. Full site revamp. Database design and all functional code. All site design based on church's own theme & materials. Creation of new tools, specifically e-mailing from website without junk mail prone Mailto links, multiple e-mail addresses for staff, and full admin pages for data - including news, photo/images, and calendar with reoccurring events & holiday listings.
  • Plante & Moran - various...
    • Public website - primary web server administrator & developer/programmer for Career, News, and home page functionality; including data design/flow and administration pages. Functionality used for more than 3 years.
    • KnowledgeSHARE - responsible for initial suggestion that got this project "underway". Internal application covering staff directory, calendar with reservations & reports, documents, etc. Primary developer/programmer, project leader, data analysis, database administration (Access & SQL). Note: this changed the way business was done - moved from paper to electronic processes, savings & productivity increases have been incalculable.
    • TaxNotebook - external MD5 encrypted web application to enable client (>14,000) access to 3rd party tax program.
    • Leadership Forum - internal application to enable staff to register for a training event. Application included easy "click to pick" seminar selector that blocked registration for duplicate "tracks". The application also included storage of information like hotel & meal requirements and admin pages & reports for the staff running the event. Note: many accolades were received, specifically noting how easy it was to register.

Just because...

  • My Family Online
    Launched 2003

    Private site for extended family members. Seeking genealogy information for the listed family surnames.

  • Numeric String cleaner function
    April 16, 2005 - published on this site; however, first used in Turbo Pascal form in early 1990's

    Doesn't it drive you nuts when common data like a phone or social security number is set up to use 3 fields?

    Even worse, you find you tabbed to the next field and your entry is now all messed up because the developer put in code that jumps to the next field for you - but you were not watching...

    Directed to developers...

    • To encourage you to stop using separated number fields on data entry forms.
    • This code is simple to use AND you don't have to use multiple fields to capture the data - one field is it! Easy for the person entering the data AND you get the value you need - no sweat!
  • Avengers Forever
    Completed April 2005.

    As part of a complete site redesign, we worked very closely with the website owner to define and implement the database design, data access on display pages, and functional aspects of administration pages. Additionally, sparked by some "what if" discussions, we created several tools, including daily poll, "radio call-in like" contest page, and more...

  • Eric Meyer's Freezer Case
    September 22, 2004

    Eric ran into an issue on his website, which resulted in Internet Explorer locking up (hence Freezer Case). Eric noted, over several days his trials & tribulations and then he asked for help from his readers. Using his sample files, I set to work to uncover the issue - within 2 hours I found the code that needed to be corrected and e-mailed that info to Eric. I gave a quick summary to his readers in the last 2 responses, to this subject, on his blog (#21 & 22).

  • FHSFalconAlumni.us
    Launched March 2004.

    A website for alumni of Farmington High School, Farmington, Michigan, that includes: forum, chat, classmate listings, and more. Initial idea to alumni access - in 3 months.

  • aUJSproduction.com
    Launched September 11, 2001.

    Primarily a brochure/portfolio website for employment purposes.

  • GroupWise Shared Folders - CoolSolutions
    February 21, 2001

    As a member of Plante & Moran's Technology Team working on implementation of Shared Folders (part of GroupWise), we wanted to define which information columns showed up in the dialog. GroupWise did not have a method to do this, within the program, so I reviewed the Windows Registry and determined what keys were specific to Shared Folders and how we could manipulate them to do what we needed. After implementation, I wrote this tip to Novell's CoolSolutions online magazine, so that others could learn from our experience, and also as a suggestion for Novell to enable this ability directly in GroupWise.

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