About Me:

Graduate of Saint Louis Community College Forest Park with Associate of Applied Science in Electronic Engineering.
I have completed about 116 credit hours including other areas of study such as automotive technology, computer aided drafting.
My first experience with programming was on, as I remember, an Atari game system with a floppy drive, a keyboard, &  ROM basic module built-in. I couldn't play Pacman very well, so I started typing in code from a book about electronic circuit analysis. There was only enough memory to load sections of code at a time. I had to figure out how to create a simple menu that would run modules of code, & then do a call back to the menu. Ironically I wouldn't do application development for at least another 15? years.

I Currently have the following list of skills:

• 15+ years experience with AutoCad's AutoLisp compilable programming language.
• 5+ years developing MS Access 200-2003 applications what I consider big, small & in between.
  • Tables, queries, forms, reports.
  • Form module VBA functions & subs.
  • Global module VBA functions & subs.
• 4+ years supporting my MS Access front-ends with MySQL 4.X - 5.1 development.
  • There are things I have learned about SQL DB administration, I don't consider myself a DBA.
  • MDL & DDL statements.
  • Using MySQL GUI development tools to create modify, maintain, or run MySQL:
    
    • Tables
    • Views (queries)
      • Basic SQL statements
      • More complex stored procedure based SQL statements.
      • Comparative Join statements.
    • Relational integrity between tables.
      • Unique indexes; simple & compound.
      • Foreign keys on both simple & compound indexes.
      • Cascade Inserts, Updates, Deletes.
    • Triggers.
    • Stored procedures.
    • Backups & restores.
    • Recovered crashed DB installations.
    • Migrating data a/o structures from one location to another.
• 4+ years developing & maintaining AutoCAD 2002+.
  • VBA forms., modules, functions & subs.
  • Also supported by MySQL Data storage / sharing.
  • Sometimes in collaberating with MS Access applications / tools.
• I try to leave MS Excel programming to others, but to no avail.
  • When I have used it, it has been sparingly and usually stand-alone, or for printing out.
• I have picked up some other things lately:
  • Linux OS experience using Ubuntu 7.04-8.04.
  • HTML / PHP. Definitely still learning but can:
    • Login to a MySQL database and Select, Insert, Update, & delete records.
    • Sample of HTML/PHP/MySQL code.