Web Apps
When I was 13 a random person on AOL (America Online) used a program to rapidly send me dozens of private messages with content specially designed to freeze my computer and force me to reboot. Wanting to learn how it was possible to perform such a trick got me started in programming, leading me to create dozens of AOL add-on applications soon after using Visual Basic. In a way this was what got me started in my long career designing and building web apps.
In my late 20s I met the owner of Multiple Organics Inc., who gave me the opportunity to create a custom Enterprise Resource Planning application for his multi-million-dollar food-sourcing business. I built a full suite of interoperating tools including needs estimation using standard deviations and safety stock, inventory management with warehouse laser scanning, a customer relationship management system, order entry, pricing, transport tracking, report and document generation, graphing, and accounting. To this day this completely custom application gives Multiple Organics Inc. an enormous competitive edge.
