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I started using Windows for the 286 platform in 1988. More and more we are moving away from desktop applications but while web-based applications are extremely popular, sometimes a rich Windows application provides the optimal solution. Web-based applications have come a long way, but there are still situations when a Windows application results in the best solution. Windows applications have the unique ability to communicate with every inch of hardware you have and communicate to other hardware on the network.
Massachusetts Customers
Some information I know about Massachusetts is I believe the state was admitted or ratified to the United States around or about 'February 6, 1788'. Massachusetts is located around latitude '42.407211' and longitude of '-71.382439' and has a population of roughly '7,029,917 million'. If I remember correctly the capital is 'Boston' and the largest city is 'Boston'.
My background in Windows Development first started with Visual Basic when I beta tested version 1.0 and have used every version since then. I expanded into C# Winform development when it first came out as well.
Word of Mouth
Take a moment to read related case studies and testimonials below around my experience with Windows Development.
Case Study
First Med EMS Ambulatory services needed a custom document management solution that encompassed scanning in-house ScanTron styled documents via ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) scanners. The goal was to forgo the purchase of expensive ScanTron equipment and recognize scanned OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and OMR (Optical Mark Recognition).
My solution saved First Med EMS over 100,000 the first month work began on the project with a home-grown Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) which automatically scanned both sides of pages through the Automatic Document Feeders. His scanning engine was smart enough to ignore blank pages on the Epson GT-S50 scanners tested. Resulting scans were slammed into a SQL Server Full Text search database and saved as OLE Blob Image format.
Saving images in the database resolved a huge industry problem of file pointers to disk locations which was slower on retrieval difficult when locating files where folders could have 200,000+ images or more making research painfully slow. I utilized Lead Tools Recognition engine to zone out all OCR/OMR areas for extraction of key values into the database with all appropriate key and search values filled in.
"I knew when I interviewed Eddie, he was what the organization needed. His expertise proved me to be right. He was invaluable and created a Scantron replacement system we are very proud of. Eddie also created a drivers manifest with turn-by-turn directions and built a location system for our ambulances."
December, 2013
Chris Martin | USA
CEO
Life Ambulance Services (First Med EMS)
"Eddie, great job on EDMS (Electronic Document Management System), when your back in Wilmington I will treat you to a steak dinner!"
August, 2013
Robb Stone | USA
CTO
Life Ambulance Services (First Med EMS)
Case Study
Market America hired me to manage 6 teams around their eCommerce and distributor portal platform where IBM Universe and ColdFusion developers integrated innovative features to their eCommerce site.
"Eddie Drye is one of the best out of the box thinkers that can deliver what he and his team envisions. He is also the type of person to stay on a project until it is done, no matter how long or how difficult. His drive to solve complex problems and to create new innovative software solutions is unparalleled from any other developer or analyst I have had on my team."
1/12/2009
Chris Diggs | USA
Director of R&D
Market America
"Eddie was the best Project Manager I have ever had in my career. Not only did Eddie always have a high-level grasp of projects, but being very technical, he also had a detailed understanding of projects. Eddie's management and people skills are excellent. He was always liked by all team members and yet was able to get the best work from all involved. Eddie has always been very resourceful, creative, and able to do far more than be a skillful project manager as evidenced by the design and creation of his own successful dot com, Avoli, Inc."
4/16/2012
Jim Goins | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
"Eddie, both from a technical, developmental, project management, personal, personnel, and business process perspective, was an incredible asset to the company. In addition to managing his site. If that isn't pure talent, then I surely don't know what is."
4/25/2013
Joe Washington | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
"I had the opportunity to work peripherally to Eddie and observe the manner in which he ran his development team. He proved to be a skilled project manager and consistently delivered positive results in a challenging environment. I was particularly impressed by the way he advocated for his team."
11/5/2012
Antonio Green | USA
Cold Fusion Developer
Market America
Case Study
Dimon Tobacco required a new system to handle their entire Tobacco Processing activities across their world-wide distribution channels. Dimon hired me specifically to handle all the barcode issues for Tobacco, it's packaging and distribution across the world with the first location being Tanzania.
"It was pleasure to work with Eddie on a Major Business project at Dimon International and other multiple assignments, I was impressed by Eddie's depth of knowledge, high skill set in software development process from conception to delivery. Eddie is a creative person. That's him multi-skilled, forward thinking, insightful and result driven co-worker. As a Project Manager/Barcoding Developer in his other assignments, Eddie applied the most advanced management techniques that helped project team achieve successful results. He has very positive attitude towards work. In depth experience and intelligence makes Eddie view solutions instead of problems."
4/22/2012
Deepak Kulkarni | USA
Project Lead
Diamond Tobacco
Case Study
Novant had a contract leave spur of the moment and needed me to urgently load $77 million in EDI payment files which were behind. I picked up the system, processes and had the data loaded in 1 month.
"Eddie has experience in a variety of industries and environments giving him a unique and valuable perspective. He is extremely easy to communicate with, always asks good questions and seeks to fully understand the situation. Eddie brings a positive "how can I help" attitude to work every day and is a pleasure to work with."
4/16/2012
Tom Mentz | USA
Director of Finance
Novant
Case Study
Let's talk drug manufacturing for a minute and Banner Pharmacaps. Banner hired me to govern all Visual Studio .Net development for migrations from VB.Net to C# as well as all new windows and web development. Banner had me write a capsule seam check application to communicate to a $70,000 OGP microscope to monitor gel cap seams to help eliminate production issues for leakers etc.
Eddie worked with the Banner Validation department to ensure all CGMPs / GxP / GAP Analysis, reporting, GAMP5 and GMP FDA understanding and compliance was met. He even implemented Banners first SDLC document system to assist in proper documentation.
"Eddie was a pleasure to work with. He is very knowledgeable and a very patient professional."
4/16/2012
Darlene Bryant | USA
SAP Systems Analyst III
Patheon (Formerly Banner Pharmacaps)
"Eddie, great work on the Capsule Seam Check application. Let's hope they use it."
1/12/2012
Gary Brown | USA
IT Supervisor
Patheon (Formerly Banner Pharmacaps)
Case Study
When Syngenta needed software for their crop protection division, they looked to me to deliver a system that updated sales territories on a data warehousing system built by Robin Hooker. I delivered a Visual Basic 6.0 framework to ensure all sales territories mapped back to correct postal zip codes and across custom geographic coverages.
"Eddie is great at writing processes that are reusable. He was always looking for ways to improve processes."
4/3/2001
Steve Allen | USA
Oracle Developer
Syngenta
Case Study
I have assisted such banking giants as Wells Fargo (Wachovia) and Bank of America in highly visible projects up to an 11 billion dollar Asset Management Package where I was assigned to the project where he led as the Lead Developer Architect, Project Manager and Business Analyst. After throwing me to the wolves in banking and the success we had other banking clients such as Bank of America jumped at the opportunity to have us assist them.
"You are a great asset to the team Wachovia and I am glad I had the pleasure of working with you. If I had my own company, I would love to have you as my IT director. (Note: I created RECMTMS for Jimmy which managed $11 billion in bank assets)"
1/11/2006
Jimmy Gray | USA
Director of Finance
Wachovia Securities
"Jimmy's users are pleased with the RECMTMS application and reports. Excellent news as always."
12/1/2004
Lori Spencer | USA
Corporate Investment Banking Technology
Wachovia Securities
"The website is fantastic. Thank you very much for the hard work you have put into it."
8/27/2003
Debra S. Brown | USA
Accounting
Triad Guaranty
Case Study
When Triad Guaranty needed a Risk Based reporting system, I assisted by writing a solution in Perl/CGI under Apache running on Linux. The resulting system made the newspapers as the first PMI (Primary Mortgage Company) to allow their loan partners to view Risk Based information.
I also wrote an Oracle Blob based Document Management System for Triad Guaranty for pickup and storage of their EDI Fannie and Freddie files saving Triad over $50,000 from the canned software solutions they were reviewing.
Here's where the REAL INGENUITY came in. -> I wrote the Oracle database blobs in a way that even Oracle forms and Oracle Reports couldn't extract the blob files and they work outside the Visual Basic software that I created to access them. Puzzling every Oracle developer who attempted to test reading their first blob. How did I do it? I removed the EOF terminators prior to saving to the blob and simply put the EOF terminators back when my software extracted them to disk.
"We received a message this morning that the Appworx_prod oracle production box was low on disk space. Eddie's program EZ-mon has turned out to be very helpful."
12/12/2002
Kenny McMellon | USA
Accounting
Triad Guaranty
Case Study
When New Step Software needed an innovative solution for audit technology they purchased a copy of my Alter Ego software which was the first automatic network based software, client controlled and audit tracking software in existence.
"We would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for a job well done. Your efforts have been a very positive influence on our relationship with New Step Software. Working with you has been a pleasure."
5/2/2001
Jason B. White | USA
CPC Director
Data Masters
Case Study
When the Parks and Recreation of the City of Greensboro needed a work order system, they came to me to develop it. Once that system was developed, they came to me for a survey system for the city buses, then Housing Community and Development utilized his expertise to spec out a new system for them. Whether city or federal government we can help.
"Thanks for all the good work! The ESRI mapping component is working great!"
7/15/1998
Jane Nickels | USA
IT
City of Greensboro
Case Study
The Housing and Community Development of City of Greensboro came to me for a survey system for the city buses.
"You and Mark have shown that hiring outside consultants is definitely the way to go."
7/10/1998
Mitchell Johnson | USA
MIS Director
City of Greensboro
Case Study
USAir needed to ensure Y2K was not impacting their Dividend Miles program. I reviewed Visual Basic code for any Y2K issues as well as ensured communications to the PBX system still would work after Y2k.
"Great work on the PBX Rexx system. Sorry the system, Is so convoluted. You have made the best of it."
6/15/1999
Mark Burmaster | USA
Lead Developer
Sabre (Intellimark)
"Thank you so much Eddie for the Visual Basic library you donated to the Y2K migration project for USAir. You are a great resource for us and are glad to have you on the team."
5/10/1998
Connie Wallier | USA
Manager
Sabre (Intellimark)
Case Study
Gilbarco needed a way to interface IBM Mainframe database information and pre-build green screens to a Windows layout. I screen scraped every mainframe screen utilizing a HLLAPI and Visual Basic 5.0 which dynamically created desktop Windows screens. Therefore, one mainframe codebase with a new Windows front end.
"Just wanted you to know that EC Tools you wrote was a BIG help in completing a recent PCR request. It is an excellent tool. It saved time and effort in completing my task."
10/20/1997
Mike Ardisson | USA
Sales
Gilbarco
Case Study
My start in the food industry started when we wrote software for Nabisco to manage from a marketing perspective how they stacked up to the competition. Critical to this was the ability to monitor competition. I was given the daunting task of writing a system to monitor at the product and geographical level what competitors were doing with existing product and new product.
I delivered CATS (Competitive Activity Tracking System) which allowed Nabisco and Planters & Life Savers divisions to keep abreast of competitor changes in the market place. This competitive advantage was unheard of in the industry. I cannot disclose how competitive information is gathered in the field but the final system, included actual pre-release product images from actual competitor bagged product, competitor price sheets and more.
I also assisted in implementation of IRI Customer Sales syndicated data for in-house processing (savings in excess of $2 million) which the company was utilizing for competitor information as well by loading the IRI data for easy distribution to the entire organization. This data combined with CATS made for a competitive arsenal still unmatched since 1991.
"Great work Eddie! Clearly the whole company is benefiting from your VB expertise and your continuous sharing of routines you have developed through Townhall."
3/24/1995
Dave Pettigrew | USA
Sales & Marketing
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"Thank you for all the functions and subs that you put into the libraries. I've only used a handful so far, but they have saved me a lot of time. They are all easy to use and understand"
3/23/1995
Jonathan Shema | USA
Developer
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"The implementation of the IRI Consumer Sales databases on the MVS machine in Wilkes Barre was a success! All systems GO! Thanks to a tremendous show of effort from our Information Processing Services group, IRI and our dedicated Marketing Systems Team the project has been completed on-time and without any loss of service to users as full access has been maintained through the project. Project savings in excess of $2 million."
7/14/1994
Joe Farrelly | USA
Sr. VP & CIO
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"I think Eddie has done a good job on reviewing the present market for this type of software; I wish more developers would put this level of effort into it. Eddie's assertion, confirmed by Ahmed, that native DB-LIB is the fastest access path to SQL Server is absolutely correct."
4/25/1994
Greg DiGiovanni | USA
Development Manager
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"Bruce: My main man (Eddie Drye) has been a great help to me down here.... He has some things published in Townhall y'all might be interested in. Yesterday we the entire process up as a PIF and this is the result. I'm putting this one to bed."
9/22/1994
Larry Leonard | USA
AS/400 Senior Developer
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"Thank you for your hard work and cooperation on our first validation process. I really appreciate your attitude and initiative in following up through the various stages of this process. I am looking forward to many successful validations to come!"
6/15/1994
Robert Bowden | USA
Sales
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
"Just wanted to add my appreciation concerning the fine work Eddie and Dave did for the first Account Review database update. As you know, support of the Account Review system, Is a top priority of the LifeSavers management team. Your group has done an excellent job assuming these key responsibilities. Thank you!"
6/15/1994
Earl Godwin | USA
Sales
Nabisco / Planters & Life Savers
If at any point you decide to reach to me just know the area codes I am familiar with for Massachusetts are '339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978'. For Windows Development assistance you will find my rates very reasonable for Massachusetts. Now just keep in mind my time zone is 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' and I know the time zones in Massachusetts are 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' in case you wish to call me. Anyway let me continue.
Mature Windows Development Tools
I utilize Windows Development tools to build robust, feature rich custom applications. Web development tools in general are still evolving, and many still have a long way to go to catch up to their desktop counterparts. Of course, technologies such as AJAX and Flash have helped narrow that gap, but a sizable gap still remains. That's not to say that the same (or similar) functionality cannot be accomplished using web technologies - of course it can. It just takes longer, and costs more.
My goal is to find out early if a Windows application makes sense. If it does, I have the capability to create some pretty cool programs. If you need web, I can build some cool web applications too. It's all up to you.
You know, I don't make it out to Massachusetts much but I would like to see the 'Chickadee' state bird. I am a little familiar with the Massachusetts 'Mayflower' state flower as well. However, I do not know much about Massachusetts's state tree the 'American Elm'. Fishing is fun to me perhaps I would like reeling in the Massachusetts 'Cod' state fish. Anyway, sorry I went off topic. Let me continue.
My Windows Development Skills
I use a small list of Windows Development tools that are geared towards database development. Specifically, I use the following Windows development and database tools:
- Visual Studio
- Microsoft Access
- Visual FoxPro
- SQL Server
- C#
- Visual Basic
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