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John, of PC Professionals, grew up in Scottsdale, AZ. and worked as a mechanic/welder/construction worker until the late 70's. He's been programming since the the early 80's. He started on Apple IIe/Atari 6502 assembly and basic, then moved onto the Osborne/Kaypro and CPM/MPM OS. He worked at Digital Concepts in Scottsdale/Tempe, AZ. as a salesman/programmer. He moved to the Hartford, CT. area in 1983, attended Manchester Community College for Systems Design & Analysis, Cobol plus Accounting I - II classes. While attending school and working as a Service Advisor/Mechanic at Manchester Honda wrote a service scheduling program (in dBase III, Clipper and C) which in turn got him a position with Digital Dimensions Computer Consulting. After a couple of years of consulting he went out on his own to create PC Professionals. His clients ranged from the Automotice & Motorcycle Services to Legal and Medical offices. His main area of expertise became transportation, working as a consultant for ADVO Inc. and TransAdvo Inc. for a period of 12 years. In this time he, along with his employees became proficient at developing real time dispatching systems written primarily in Clipper with C calls to the Novell OS for semaphore record/file locking, print services, etc. ADVO Inc. hired PC Professionals in 1990 to develop the transportation system needed for its 20 mail distribution warehouses countrywide. The systems, 'Transport' and 'Drop Ship' were needed in order to take advantage of the USPS's dropship system just implemeted. In 1991 the USPS started a program for mass mailers to obtain postage breaks based upon the location mail entered the postal system. 'The PC Professionals Transport' system took care of the dispatching functions and connectivity to their AS400 systems. The 'PC Professionals Drop Ship' system maximized the savings offered by the USPS dropship program. 'PC Professionals Drop Ship' analyzed the postal costs vs. transportation costs and using a 3rd party software program also showed ADVO how to load and route their trucks to maximize transportation costs. John also designed and implemented an online mail tracking program for TransAdvo long before UPS or FedEx had theirs. In the mid 1990's John also help write systems for Sony of America and ABB Combustion Engineering, Nuclear Spare Parts Division. In 2003 John designed a quote/receive/ship/bar code/po system for Unas Grinding Corp. of E. Hartford, CT. written in .NET Basic and SQL 2000 with a number of components to FAA specs.

• Service Dispatching System for Manchester Honda, Manchester, CT.
  
  PC Professionals were responsible for the design, installation, and training of the original service dispatching system written in dBase III for the motorcycle division in 1983. This system was a Novell LAN.
  

• Dispatching Systems for ADVO Inc., the largest direct mailer & USPS customer in the country.
  
  PC Professionals was responsible for the software design, installation, training, and on going maintenance of the 'Transport' and 'Drop Ship' systems from 1990 until 2001.
  These systems are small Novell LANs, running 'PC Professionals Transport', connected to an IBM 3090 via AS4OOs' for access to the production data needed. 
  

• Inventory System for ABB Combustion Engineering, Nuclear Spare Parts Division.
  
  John worked for Classic Systems Design to help develop a Nuclear Spare Parts Inventory system written in Magic in 1995.

• Interface to the Stillstore System for the broadcasting division of Sony.
  
  John worked with Tom Hannum Consulting Services to design 'The Stillstore Database System. The Sony StillStore is a piece of Sony hardware that captures and stores still (picture) information to be later used by production houses, news broadcasting. etc. Our software downloads these stills and catalogs them to a database on an OS/2 workstation or a Netware LAN for access by production house personnel. Sony of America has chosen to market our software instead of the Japanese version of the Stillstore software because of its flexibility. Sony of Canada and Sony of Europe have recently expressed interest in doing the same.

• Ship/Receive System for Unas Grinding of E. Hartford.

In 2003 designed a ship/receive system for Unas Grinding Corp. of E. Hartford, CT. written in .NET Basic and SQL 2000 with a number of components to FAA specs. This system takes care of job quoting, receipt of serialized aircraft parts, job description, job ticket creation, scheduling, bar code labeling, and shipping. It tracks employee time and grinding wheel wear and all quote/job associated reporting. A PO module is also implemented.

Programming Languages:

dBase/Clipper/C
Microsoft .NET/SQL 2000
Dreamweaver UltraDev MX/Fireworks MX
Liquid Edition for Video/DVD production

 

Operating Systems:

NetWare 86 to 5.1
Microsoft Windows 3.X to Windows XP/Windows Server 2003
AS400

 

Software design and Video production for the web or desktop.