I started my programming career in 1979 for a healthcare company in Silicon valley, using Basic+ on a PDP 1170.  A year later I took a position with a stock transfer management company, programming in Model204 on IBM 360’s.  I progressed through the ranks and eventually ended up as the VP of Technology for this $30M company.  Around that time the PC revolution was in full bloom, so I began learning dBase and Clarion.

In the 80’s, I co-founded a mainframe software consulting company and travelled quite a lot between Silicon Valley, the Presidio and Los Angeles.  We had a good run, but I really wanted to focus on PC development, so I moved on to create a health care insurance/billing company and system in Clarion.  After six months, we sold the company.

Figuring out what I wanted to do next was pretty easy, I focused on consulting in the health care arena, and landed a contract with Kaiser Permanente.  I built a neonatal womb-to-tomb tracking system in PowerBuilder.

During the 90’s I spoke at Clarion conferences and consulted with various companies in the Clarion universe.  This was the spark that motivated me to co-author Developing Clarion for Windows Applications.

In 1995, I was contacted by a legal case management system startup company in IL.  After consulting for a period of time, I joined the company as a co-founder and we developed the then and now leading enterprise legal case management system.  In 2003, I decided I needed another challenge, so I took a position with Window Book, inc. where I am VP of Technology today.

Technologies we use today include:C#, MVC, Java (and all the other J stuff), Xamarin, Telerik App Builder, AWS and Azure.

In the last year we developed our SaaS offering PostalWeb which hosts data from our desktop solutions and data from the USPS PostalOne! service.