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Development Tools

• Visual Studio Development Environment

• Visual Studio Online/Azure Platform

• C# (.Net Development)

• Windows Forms, Web Development (ASP/ASP.NET), Silverlight

• Visual Studio Team System Foundation Server

• FoxPro

• Expression Studio

Server Products

• SQL Server

Operating Systems

• Windows Server

• Hyper-V

• Windows Desktop

Applications

• Microsoft Office

Development Tools

• Delphi
   

Development Tools

• Dreamweaver

• Flex

• Flash

Design Tools

• Photoshop

• Acrobat

• InDesign

• Illustrator

• Premier

Development Tools

• XCode

• OSX Development

• iOS Development (iPhone)

Development Tools

• Mono (.NET Framework)

• MonoDevelop (IDE)

Operating Systems

• Slackware

• Debian

• Ubuntu

• Redhat/Fedora

• Accounting ERP Package
   

Saves thousands of dollars per year by removing additional T1 phone lines.  

Increased unit communication and removed single point of failure increasing productivity and reporting.

Older programmers relied heavily on legacy FoxPro code and coding techniques - there was no desire to move forward to emerging technologies.  

Standardized on emerging Microsoft .NET technolgies over Delphi, Java and Visual Basic.  Chose C# as development language for system portability to possible Linux/Unix migrations.

Streamlined reporting and enhanced company intranet by rolling up POS data from Access snapshots to SQL Server Data Warehouse.

Simplifies reporting and data searches across multiple units.  Saves thousands of dollars per year by reducing reporting and having field supervision obtain their own reports.

Company operations updated over 100 units manually by keying parts, pricing, labor operations, etc into the POS system.  

Saved thousands of man hours by automating and simplifying the update process.

Several custom systems were created to monitor POS processes and make sure field procedures were being followed.  Checks and Balances for data integrity, permissions, etc in place.

Custom installation procedures for POS upgrades also in place.  Ability to have skeleton IT staff to maintain and operate departmental functions and upgrades.

Automated ACH/ECH bank sweep to take disparate banking funds from units and sweep accounts to upstream bank.  

This allowed us access to capital and funds quicker than having to deal with each banking unit separately.

Several programs were created to increase profitability in each of the units.  Ability to forecast customer needs and made that data available to unit managers.  

This allowed them to be more proactive in scheduling and procuring customers.  Tens of Thousands of dollars per year in revenue generated as a result.

Custom in-house software developed to enable marketing department to "handle their own affairs".  Making custom coupon distribution system so operations department didn't have to be involved.

Saved hundreds of man hours per year in the operations department and also increased field exposure and profitability.

Several custom systems to monitor nationwide warranty reimbursement program.

>$1,000,000 over the lifetime of this program in successful reimbursements to our company by maintaining and automating the checking and reporting process.

Payroll checks now sent to each unit automaticaly after direct deposits are generated.  No longer mailing check stubs, or generating paper payroll checks.

Saved thousands of dollars per year in printing, paper and mailing costs.

Worked closely with each department and company controller and other senior management to produce time-saving and profit saving controls.  Included custom reports, software, etc.

With the decentralization of automotive suppliers, we needed a way to track and verify that the field staff was recouping warranty expenditures.  

This system over a 2 year process (and counting) has recouped over $500,000 in warranty reimbursements from our suppliers.  This directly affected our bottom line.

Field supervision lost company supplied checkbook.  "Positive Pay" was instituted and our banking institutions were directed to pay ONLY based on electronic fields we supplied on a daily basis.

Potential savings of tens of thousands of dollars.  Software written and tested in matter of days.

Unit staff are responsible for cash/check deposits and several deposits were late or missing.  This system obtains bank, credit card settlement process, and Point of Sale information.

>$10,000 per year saved by preventing theft, and deposit misuse.  Software even stood up to court hearing in money theft by employee.

Software that lefts the VP of Operations control costs by studying and noticing trends in hot-shot supplier optained parts.  If up-trending parts acquisition, VP can bulk order parts for cost savings.

>$500,000/year

Working closely with the Bank Reconciliation System, this system automates a large portion of the end of month bank, cash, and assets reconciliation process.  Human oversite still prevails, but large portions of this are automated.

Digital upstream process greatly simplified.

Field Supervision electronically submit credit card statements to website where they are reconciled by the accounting department in an automated fasion.  Built on Silverlight technology.

Accounting staff time savings >50 hours per month.

Several Online and Social Marketing systems finally getting in place.  Experimenting with smart-phone revolution (iPhone/Android/Windows Phone) development.

Senior Management still unwilling to "buy-in" to spending development time here.  Performing tasks on my own after hours.  Potential revenue and profit in this area.