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  Hugh D. Winters

(408) 667-2392 Cell
(408) 512-1131 Skype

Education
Kent State University - Kent, Ohio

Experience

Aug 02 to present
Stanford Medical School Blood Center
Refurbished and existing FoxPro DOS application to perform under newer version of Microsoft operating systems. 

Jan 01 to Dec 02
Santa Clara Bar Association
Built an HTML based judge survey taking application used to rate more than 100 judges in the Santa Clara county by the more than 4,000 attorney members.

Jan 01
Santa Clara Bar Association
Created a custom COM object as an interface to their client's existing in-house Bar Association software to their new HTML based website. 

Feb 00 to Jan 01
Coalesce, Inc. (Independent consultant)
Created a data driven website to convert their existing in-house FoxPro application to an HTML based system. AFP (Active FoxPro Pages) was employed to capitalize on existing knowledge and data structures. 

Dec 99 to Feb 00
Celestica (Contract Employee)
Performed a data integrity audit exposing faults in existing base class libraries and recommended design and methodology changes.

May 99 to Aug 99
Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers (Contract Employee)
Revamped existing Legal Case Tracking application. Cleaned up and converted existing data. Redesigned existing table structures and database schema for application re-write. Analyzed existing application for opportunities to make user interface improvements.

Nov 98 to Feb 99
Science Application International Corporation (Contract Employee)
Created new interfaces for numerous reports. Redesigned existing table structures and database schema for application re-write. Analyzed existing application for opportunities to make user interface improvements.

Aug 97 to Jun 98
Westinghouse Security Electronics (Contract Employee)
Managed 50 table Access Database including Query creation. Converted Access Database to VFP5.0 database. Managed a 50 table VFP database using the xCase data modeling tool. Created various utilities and conversion program for a shipping product. Converted numerous Crystal reports from Access data to new VFP data. 

Apr 97 to Aug 97
Sierra Business Systems (Independent Consultant)
Client & vendor tracking for national telecom equipment reseller written in VFP5.0 Created a Web site design including multiple pages & CGI forms using FrontPage97.

Jul 96 to Apr 97
Snell MicroConsulting (Independent Consultant)
Converted FP2.6/WIN application to VFP3.0/Win. Created various new forms and tools for a medical report writer application.

Apr 96 to Jul 96
BHP Minerals (Independent Consultant)
Converted FP2.6/WIN application deployed globally across a WAN to VFP3.0/WIN for migration to Oracle backend.

Feb 95 to Apr 96
Technology Resource Assistance Center (Lead Programmer)
Converted FP2.6 DOS application to WIN3.1 including Y2K compliance. Handled all aspects of readying a program for 'Shrink Wrap' sale. Designed a custom application framework in VFP3.0/WIN for a new product.

Dec 87 to Feb. 95
WorldPrint (Lead Programmer)
Manager of Programming & Database Administration Designed and coded computerized printing specifications system. Computerized all facets of buying and project management procedures for the printing brokerage business. 

Proficient in FoxPro2.X/DOS/WIN/MAC, Visual FoxPro3.0b/WIN, Visual FoxPro3.0/MAC, Visual FoxPro5.0/6.0/7.0/8.0, xCase for FoxPro, Active FoxPro Pages, Crystal Report Writer 

Also knowledgeable in Visual Basic 6.0, Access Database Development, Office97 (usage and programming), Borland Delphi, HTML Design, Perl5, Java, MS FrontPage, Active Server Pages (ASP), Fax & Communications Software, Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, MS Publisher98, Visual Studio97, Visual Basic for Applications, etc.

Professional
Member Bay Area Association of Data-based Developers
Presenter South Bay Visual FoxPro Special Interest Group
Initiated the 10 year anniversary celebration for the Microsoft purchase of Fox 
Software. http://www.universalthread.com/VisualFoxPro/Anniversary.asp

Personal
Founding Member - Board of Directors of RotaCare (free medical clinic)
Private pilot - Single Engine Land 
Participant in VFP3.0/MAC beta, VFP5.0/WIN beta programs.

II have been x-based programming since 1982 (dBase II / CPM), since 1990 I have
concentrated mostly on FoxPro. I am especially strong in GUI interface design
VFP6.0, VFP7.0 and VFP8.0 form designer and various extension libraries. OOP, COM, DCOM & ActiveX are my primary methodologies.

References (Available upon request)