Current Clients

The Country Store is a family owned business in Geneva, Illinois specializing in Country lighting and country decor. Over the past decade, we have worked with The Country Store of Geneva to develop a desktop application and a e-commerse web application. Most recently, the e-commerse site was completely redesigned and refactored. Technologies used include: C#, ASPDOTNetStorefront, ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL Server 2005
http://www.CountryStoreOfGeneva.com

Designed, built and maintain a community website for fine artists in Whittier, California. The site is built on a modified version of ASPDotNetStorefront and features artwork by a number of local artists. Technologies used include: ASPDOTNetStorefront, ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL Server 2005
http://www.WhittierArtists.com

Designed and built an informational website for Dennis McGonagle, a landscape painter and artist in Southern California. Technologies included: PHP, MySQL, Java Script, SSI, and HTML.
http://www.McGonagleStudio.com

Former Clients

Contracted to develop a data-aggregating Internet tool to retrieve and book “Web fares”. This Win Forms tool adds value to AMEX’s travel services while significantly reducing average handle time (AHT). This award-winning tool was deployed to about 8,000 travel counselors. Response times were dramatically reduced as was cost per call while service level actually improved. Technologies used included asynchronous SOAP, C#, XML / XSL, Regular expressions, DevPartner Studio and an emphasis on polymorphism. Supported platforms include Win98 and XP.

Contracted to assist in the conversion of an enterprise-wide legacy VB6, ASP, and JavaScript post-sales support application to VB.NET, ASP.NET. Gathered requirements, wrote business requirements documents, wrote technical design specifications, and presented designs to world-wide stakeholder representatives. Single-handedly redesigned and coded the application’s security model, cycle count functionality and assisted with other functional areas of the application. Spearheaded the adoption of business objects and mentored team members on use cases, OO, and multi-tier development. Used SQL Server DTS to pull system-of-record data from a SAP-originated, TeraData, data warehouse.

Contracted to develop an automated account reconciliation system. This application processes large volumes of transactions daily and is regularly accessed by more than one hundred users. The amount of manual effort previously required has been dramatically reduced by over 60%, translating into very significant cost savings. Data originates from a combination of Oracle and mainframe data feeds.
Also worked to migrate a legacy VB / ASP intranet portal to .NET as well as developing new functionality required by an acquired group. Technologies used include C#, ASP.NET, and JavaScript. Application Center 2000 is used for load-balancing and a SAN-based SQL Server 2000 cluster increases reliability.

Worked with a team that fluctuated in size between five and twenty-three people to develop “Allstate eProject.” eProject is a high-security, n-tier, enterprise-class, project management and workflow intranet application. Allstate achieves enormous productivity savings through automation of what had been a manual process for initiating, planning, funding, tracking, and closing about 2,000 projects per year. Technologies included Oracle, VB 6.0, COM / DCOM, MTS, FileNET, XML, and TOAD.