I have been in the custom software design business since 1990. I have designed software solutions for a variety of businesses, many of them small and medium size manufacturing firms in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio USA.

Please visit my software developer website based in Cleveland, Ohio USA for more information about my services . Also, please see my email and phone contact page today to talk to me about any software design ideas you have.

Cheers.....Doug

Hello there! Here I will present an overview of my developer experience and skills so you may gain some insight as to how my customized business application solutions help companies become more efficient in their day to day operations. For more detailed information about the software solutions I have for dealing with work place difficulties, please visit my software developer website based in Cleveland, Ohio USA.

Good business people obviously run their companies well and programming applications from qualified developers will help them do it even better! But even the best owners and managers will face a variety of problems. Here are some of the challenges that can make even great business people throw up their hands in frustration:

• Confusion from a poorly planned appointment schedule.
• Inaccurate job costing reports from false or skewed labor hours and purchase order database records.
• Incomplete and/or unbalanced accounts receivable and accounts payable as well as chart of accounts.
• Lost invoices that were unknowingly aged for prolonged periods.
• Strategic business decisions based on false or skewed sales reporting information.
• Unable to locate needed records in a data table.
• Website pages that load too slowly or with errors creating a bad first impression with potential customers.

If you are running a general office type business, then Intuit Quickbooks or Microsoft Office will probably be appropriate for your purposes. I am usually brought on board to create very specific developer solutions that probably can't be resolved with "off-the-shelf" programs. I can design these applications for most any industry, but I have traditionally performed this work for manufacturing companies. This is because they are typically using very specific processes that demand tailor made developer programmed applications. There are also many industrial firms of various size right here in my local area that help to generate demand for it.

Now consider some scenarios that would create serious problems without well designed, developer created programming solutions:

You have your own small manufacturing company and you just signed a new contract to supply product to a new customer who is going to give you an enormous amount of business this year! The UPS guy will be at your plant in 45 minutes to pick up the initial shipment you promised them. You can't find the price sheets that cross reference prices to quantities purchased. The order won't go out on time and you are about to make a lousy first impression with a blue chip customer you absolutely can't afford to lose! (No problem with a developer made industrial order entry system....I've made a few!).

You own a tool and die shop that has a real problem. Your CAD/CAM personnel have to spend hours eliminating concentric arcs and circles from two dimensional side views of metal parts that need to be drilled to specification. The concentric arcs and circles were created by the CAD/CAM program they are required to use. Time is being wasted and employee productivity is suffering from the needless extra work that has to be done. (This was an actual custom application developer project I took care of years ago.  I designed a program that scanned through a text file that contained the specifications for circles and arcs, some concentric and some not for a two dimensional view of a metal part used in a tool and die shop. It quickly eliminated the concentric arcs and circles and reconstructed the text file so it was ready for the next phase of production. It saved time, labor and most of all grief!).

You are the point person in an industrial pattern shop. Shop orders have to be job costed out around the clock so management will know where they stand with regard to labor, materials and money made or lost on each and every shop order. Labor hours, purchase orders and special materials have to be run through an internal company job costing formula. This in turn must be interfaced to an employee benefit & profit sharing scheme, which is also proprietary. You are wasting enormous amounts of time hunting for documentation and file folders around the office and plant that are needed to make the complex calculations for management. Productivity is non-existent, and the only way out of this logistical nightmare is a developer created job costing application with an employee profit sharing module. (I created an application like this many years ago for a long time customer. The time and labor savings are unbelievable!).

Although your company's sales are growing, you are totally in the dark with regard to how sales of your various product lines trend over time and through your sales people. You very much need this information so you can make intelligent plans for the future of your company. Trying to do all this by hand would be absolutely prohibitive for any business! Not so with a customized sales reporting application. (I made an array of customized sales reports for a long time customer that provides deep, insightful trends as to how their various product lines sell over time. They also reveal sales productivity among  their customer service representatives.).

I have made application development software for accounts receivable, accounts payable, chart of accounts, check writing, database applications, estimating, exporting data, importing data, invoicing, job costing, order entry, quoting, sales reporting, scheduling and more. I have also created websites and made existing website alterations to customer specifications.

My skill set includes: Borland C, Borland C++, Corel Paradox, css, IBM Lotus Approach, html, Javascript, Microsoft Access, Microsoft CSharp.NET, Microsoft Visual Foxpro, osCmax, osCommerce, php with MySQL, and WordPress.

Please use my email and phone contact page today to talk to me about any software design ideas you have.

Thanks for your interest,