PICK Programmer, Systems Analyst & Consultant since 1982

Since 1982, Connie has supported clients with Pick programming, database consultation, analysis, and technical writing on various Hardware, including Adds, AT286 through AT586, Fujitsu, GA, IBM, Prime, Microdata (McDonnell-Douglas) Reality & Sequel, Honeywell Ultimate; Operating Systems such as Advanced Pick & Revelation, R83, R91, jBase, Raining Data D3, IBM's U2 (UniData, UniVerse); and Environments such as Aix, Informix, Linux, Unix, MS Windows.

Since 1982, Connie has authored and/or supported Pick Software Modules such as those listed below under EXPERTISE.

Since 1997, Connie has been involved with upgrading Character Based Pick software to interact with Graphical User Interface applications such as wIntegrate, Visual Basic, and AccuTerm.

Since 2003, Connie has also worked in Web Site Development using MS FrontPage and HTML.  Connie is also skilled in the use of MS Office XP products such as Word, Excel, and Publisher.

Since 1986, when Connie began telecommuting, she has worked via 100% remote access.  Here are a few of the corporations whose software Connie has helped to develop:  Cambria Community Services, Concord Servicing Corp., Elizabeth Arden Salons, El Pollo Asado Restaurants, Excel Ice Cream Co., Greyhound Financial Corp., MD Pharmacy, Terri's Consign & Design Furnishings, US Naval Academy, Wilson Electric.

In addition to supporting clients running Pick software, Connie's duties included creation of a full-feature search engine to correctly handle sub-values; a full-feature Point-Of-Sale retail software package; a full-feature Menu Generator; a full-feature Report Generator; a full-feature Calendar/Scheduler; a Pick Programmer's Tool Box containing hundreds of callable or clonable routines, subroutines, validators, and user-defined searches; search-and-replace, data conversion, and data encryption utilities.

Beginning in 1997, Connie was also responsible for upgrading both in-house and vertical market software to interact with Graphical User Interface applications by adding flag-driven Pick code.  If the calling application was wIntegrate or Visual Basic, hooks were added to bypass screen display, data masking, prompting and error messaging.  Data would be retrieved, validated and updated, then prepared as packets and written to Unix/Linux files for return to the calling application.

In addition to supporting clients who were using the software modules listed under EXPERTISE below, Connie's duties included creation of a full-feature Word Processor; Ticker Taping, Word Processing, a Pop-Up Calculator, and String of Values entry/validation at any Pick prompt; a full-feature Screen Generator with In-Screen or Bottom-Screen prompting, Point-and-Click, and Pop-Up, printable Help for any prompt or X function as well as the screen itself.  Connie also trained other Pick Programmers.

Connie's duties included creation of ARev Software on a Compac PC.

Connie's duties included creation and maintenance of Pick software on an ADDS Mentor 4000; computer operations and nightly backups; maintenance of Life Insurance rates for numerous companies; generation of Life Insurance proposals via Apple MacIntosh and DecWriter.