John Donohue              (Use the Back Button To Return) Database and Spreadsheet Skills

High proficiency in Microsoft FoxPro • Operates both as designer of user-friendly routines as well as executor of ad hoc missions within the data structure. • Design of large scale architecture of an integrated system • Implementation of GUI and wise user interactivity through alerts and validation/permission schemes. • Query and report, both through SQL statements and FoxPro’s powerful structural indexing. • Rushmore savvy. • Highly competent in multi-user, password and data integrity issues. • Familiar with underlying philosophy of Visual FoxPro and its object oriented language, but not facile in development under this facet of Fox. Prefers straight XBase functionallity for projects. • Firm grasp of the Graphical User Interface. I am battle-tested on this front and my design asthetic does not come from "what looks good" but rather from "what works well" for the user. General competence in Microsoft Excel • Transfer of data from database format into spreadsheets and back • Familiar with common functions and formula building • Macro writing • Use of database functions within Excel • Competent at enhancemet of appearance of sheet with reporting in mind, including charts. • Have mounted complex projects with linked sheets and cascading recaclulation, such as full pro forma projections for restaraunt startup and other business plans. Graphic manipulation and website design • Facile in Canvas, a graphics program with Photoshop capabilities. • Skills will transfer almost immediately to Photoshop if required • Hand coding of simple HTML pages as well as tweaking of pages generated by WYSIWYG applications. • Experienced at purchase of hosting services, FTP, .htaccess, Telnet