A summary of my computer background:

     My first computer job was working for a Century 21 office in Big Bear. They hired me to make them a DBaseII back-end to work with their MLS system. My next computer job was for a YMCA camp's summer school program. There I was teaching typing and BASIC computer programming on Apple IIe systems while assisting the school teacher with the exchange students from Japan and Taiwan. Through the friendships I made with the realtors from my previous work, I was able to secure a job with a Global Van Lines franchise to move their DBaseII back-end to a Filemaker database. This is when I received my true baptism into the Macintosh world. Here I made them an automated lead generation system using Filemaker, Applescript and Quickkeys. Once a day the sales manager would walk up to his Mac to hit one key and watch his new leads being parsed from a scripted BBS text capture. The leads would then be run through a reverse lookup database to eventually land in a lead management database. Basically, I turned a full time data entry position into a forty five minute wait for them. After my new love for the Mac OS was born, I went to work for a phonebook in Fallbrook to move them from an old McMax DBaseII database to a new Filemaker based system. Here I honed my Macintosh skills and learn about print technologies, user support, Apple servers and the Adobe graphics suite. This is also when I started learning a new object oriented version of the BASIC programming language called RealBasic, then CrossBasic. While I was at the directory, I helped partner a consulting company called Open Source Business Solutions. We were taking people that thought they were stuck on Windows and moving them to less costly systems. After some time with the directory, I went to work for a resort company to write them a database but instead they hired me to manage their data entry departments. Everyone was on Windows 2000 there so I learned all about the Office suite for Windows which included learning another version of BASIC, Visual Basic for applications. Later I spent some time working at the North County Times' ISP department doing support for their user base. Then in 2004 I returned to the Fallbrook Directory to help move them from Pagemaker to InDesign. With the transition completed by the team, I return again for the 2005 season to help them move to full color and then helped them prepare for a new database rewrite in 2006. Currently I have just finished helping the Palm Springs Follies update their servers and prepare for a move to LDAP. I am also in the beta stage of a complete rewrite for a program called Stress Away. I've been porting an old Pascal Window's version their program to a new code base to work with both Mac OS X and Windows.