My Background

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Visual Foxpro.
• Served as a project mentor and technical lead, and have worked on projects including developing object-oriented business frameworks and COM and Web-based applications using Microsoft development tools.
• Well-versed in object-oriented analysis, development, and Design Patterns.
• Presented sessions on Design Patterns at the last two Microsoft DevCons.
• Published articles on both VFP Development and the application of Design Patterns.
• DevX (Fawcette Publications) VFP Pro (http://www.devx.com) for two years.
• GENSCRNX evangelist - adopted GENSCRNX into my development process and provided support of GENSCRNX on the Compuserve Fox Forums. Created drivers for GENSCRNX:

Expertise

• Visual Foxpro
• OLE Automation of Microsoft Products
• Template Languages
• Codebook framework
• COM Codebook Framework
• INTL Toolkit
• Internationalization of VFP Applications
• WebConnect
• Design Patterns
• SQL Server
• Object Oriented Design and Coding
• Mentoring
• GENSCRNX

Past Projects

• Codebook applications for the healthcare industry
• Participated in original design of COM Codebook.
• Created a template-based, code-generating wizard for creating COM Codebook applications.
• Created a template language and rules engine for generating and delivering HTML email content.
• Automation of Microsoft products: generated medical documents, code documentation.
• Maintained and customized the Codebook framework.
• Internationalization of the Codebook framework
• VFP COM and web-based projects.
• Integrated VFP COM objects and applications with C++ and VB applications.

I have worked for the following companies:

• GoAmerica Communications, Inc. - developed internal systems.
• Flash Creative Management, Inc. - worked for various clients of this premiere VFP/VB/SQL Server consulting company.
• TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance) - developed retirement benefit calculation software.
• Brooks Brothers
• Citibank, N.A.

Interests

• Template Languages - designed a framework called "Templicity" that simplifies the creation of template languages from within VFP. Design Patterns were applied during analysis for this framework. Used Templicity to create template languages that generate code, HTML, XML, and emails.
• OLE Automation - used automation to retrieve and configure SQL Server information using the SQL-DMO automation objects. Used automation to parse and generate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
• Microsoft .NET Technology - presenting seminars on various aspects of .NET: ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and C# in particular. Currently creating a non-profit .NET-based website for management of community theaters as a learning project for myself.

Consulting

• To discuss consulting opportunities, please feel free to contact me at rickhodder@msn.com.