My DataEase Credentials
Partner, Team Ffenics/Database Software Ltd: Together with founder Pete Tabord, running the company behind Ffenics. Focused on support, marketing, consulting and evangelising about Ffenics.
Over 25 Yrs Consultancy Experience: DataEase DOS, DataEase for Windows and Ffenics solutions for manufacturing, banking, charity, publishing, local government and
small business sectors
Editor, Dialogue, The Magazine For DataEase Users (published by UK-based DataEase User Group), 1993-2001: Edited 50+ issues, writing exensively on all key DataEase products.
Chief DataEase for Windows Architect for New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner: Built systems to support agency's response to World Trade Center attacks. Later, re-wrote Case Management System for their daily case load.
.NET Developer: Recently added .NET skills: ASP.NET; C#; SQL Server. Created data-driven websites
DataEase for Windows 6.x Template Applications 2001: Conceived, specified, built, documented and tested six demonstration
applications in six weeks. See template directory of your copy of DataEase for Windows right now for samples
of my work!
Conference Presenter: Regularly presented papers at conferences of
International DataEase User Alliance in Deleware, USA, and DataEase User Group in the UK.
Training Workshops: Co-Organiser and presenter of two-day event with Richard
Laidler, Cambridge, Jan 2001. Host Fforward With Ffenics workshops in Bristol and elsewhere since 2009.
NetPlus Scalescript Manual Re-write: Three-month intense project to test and re-write
documentation of some forty classes.
DataEase DOS User since 1986: Used DataEase as central tool in publishing business, from cashflow
and distribution to magazine production.
Inventor of Many DataEase For Windows Concepts: See sidebar for ideas I have invented or to which I have made a
significant contribution.
Top Three DataEase Forum Contributor: Also a regular READER of the forum. I’m a DataEase sponge,
soaking up all that DataEase and Ffenics goodness!