Business applications ranging
from minimal to highly complex.
Extensive effective original R&D.
Reliable, cost effective solutions.
April 2009 - Current
MacroDM Calgary, Alberta
May 2008 - Mar 2009
MacroDM Developer / Student Calgary, Alberta
1999 - May 2008
MacroDM (dba), Developer / Consultant Gibsons, BC
1992 - 2009
Mdv Wood, Michael Vaughan, Small Business Consultant
2005
Membership Maintenance Application, Developer
2002 - 2004
MacroDm Web and Document Standards.
Web sites for Axion, Mdv Wood and MacroDM.
Site Templates & Javascript
2002
Outlook Replication Classes, Developer
Combining Projects for Efficiency.
PC Document Management.
Industry Research.
Resume Writing.
Work Search.
Upon arriving in Calgary in '08 I had fallen behind and needed to not only do a great deal of IT indusrty research. I also wanted to become more active on the web.
I also had a need for some filler/student work while upgrading so I decided (in my typical fashion,) to be effecient by achieving more than one goal within a single project. That is, to combine using the research on the current IT industry with desktop system / document management practices I had been using for IT technical and web clients. Clearly a sensible additional goal would be to obtain some basic work to live and study.
If you have arrived here to see my resume it can be found in the menus to the left. The other materail on this page is first intended to provide guidance to novices wanting to use their home systems for work search or internet research in general. The second purpose is to provide some guidance on useful techniques and potential pitfalls involved in reformatting documents between various word processing and web formats.
Becoming a renaissance man.
From IT to log homes...
Accounting to sales and marketing
Grean foresty to the arts...
Landscape, Renovation and electrical...
During the mid ninties I decided reduce my IT practive to a part time effort and take the time to pursue other more rounded interests. My favourite area was without a doubt specialized light landscaping. Renovations and electrical were also both challenging, interesting and varied work. Skills development and variety were only one part of it though.
Ten years of small town life was wonderful and the work allowed me to make some great bonds with people like Mark, Damir, and Nick to mention a few. I also have a great debt of gratitude to Michael Vaughan for the chance to act as his business consultant but even more so for the wonderful work in specialty woods, artistic wood products and beautifully unique timber-frame homes.
Career management and search
is a great area to combinge
writing skills and desktop
document management.
A varied career helps by
creating an ocean of details
to emphasise, relegate or omit.
In '08 I found myself in the uncomfortable position that my entire portfolio very much consisted of other compainies' proprietary software. Good bragging rights but not something you can actually show anyone... In addition, the prototypes and incomplete study projects I did have available were not up to standards in my own view. I decided that the main goals of my upgrading for C# and web enabling applications would have to include some significant work that I could distribute however I chose.
As I add content to this site I will be including much of the work in the form of a portfolio. During this site construction phase please feel free to contact me if your needs are specialized enough to require one of the utilities that appear here. None are open source or in the form of downloadable installs at this time so just send me an email with any questions you might have.
The recent C# framework has been an enjoyable and productive effort.
As part of the development process many different features and patterns
within .Net have gotten some attention. Though not the fast way to complete
the project, it met all it's goals and was a great ride!
It has moved forward but the original aim was research into conversion
of multivalued applications to the .Net platform along with
language virtualization and extension.