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Credentials
(Click on a Choice from Table
below to View)
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PICK Programmer, Systems
Analyst & Consultant since 1982
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(telecommuting since 1986)
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Great dreams of great
dreamers are never simply achieved; they are always transcended. -- RH
Schuller |
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EDUCATION |
Bachelor of Science
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Dean's List Graduate |
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Nyack College, Nyack, New York |
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Diploma, Computer Programming
for Business |
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Summa cum laude Graduate |
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Arizona Institute of Business & Technology, Phoenix, Arizona |
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EXPERIENCE |
President & CEO
since
03/2003
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MultiValue
Consulting and Technical Support, Inc. |
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www.mvcats.com
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.
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04/1999 to 03/2003
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Vice President,
Research & Development |
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Pick Software Division of Privately held software firm |
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Phoenix, Arizona
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.
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09/1985 to 04/1999 |
Senior Pick Programmer / Systems Analyst
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Pick Software Division of Privately held software firm |
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Phoenix, Arizona
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.
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04/1985 to 09/1985 |
Pick Software Consultant |
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Self-Employed |
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Phoenix, Arizona
Connie's
duties included creation of ARev Software on a Compac PC.
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04/1981 to 04/1985 |
Junior
Pick Programmer |
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Insurance Marketing Services Inc. |
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Phoenix, Arizona 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.
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EXPERTISE |
Comprehensive, Integrated Software for
various PICK™ Systems; |
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Microsoft™
FrontPage, Office
XP: Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook; |
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Client
Software Modules
Developed & Supported via Remote Access: |
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