Computer Programs

Service Manager. This began as a Microsoft Basic program I developed to help run Granville Kirkup Ltd, the camera repairers. When I moved to America and Colorado in 1981, I developed it in UCSD Pascal, for the Denver Software Company, on the Apple III. I also wrote the user manual. (In those days, computer programs came with user manuals!) I still have a couple of these programs in shrink-wrapped boxes.

Able One, Able International. I developed an integrated spreadsheet/word processing program, with Harald Blakeslee, formerly CEO of Denver Software. For a while we worked at the offices of Otrona, a startup computer maker in Boulder Colorado. Written in Microsoft C. We were overtaken by Lotus 1-2-3.

AMS/Realstar, Century 21. I worked with a team in Aurora Colorado to develop a system to run Century 21 real estate offices. The programs were written in UCSD Pascal.

TRIM - The Rental Industry Manager, for First National Computer Corporation, of Dallas. They designed and I implemented this software system to run rent-to-own stores. Written in UCSD Pascal. I worked mostly from home in Colorado, but spent some time in Dallas also.

Docket Calendar/Critical Dates, for CompuLaw Inc. (Catchy name, eh?) This was a calendar program for attorney's offices, written in UCSD Pascal. They designed it and I implemented it. These people tried to sue me because I wouldn't work for them again after I had started Telmar.

Optima, Optima Retail Systems, Laguna Hills. Optima moved me to California, where I joined a team developing a clothing store management system (hardware and software). Written in Microsoft C. For the first time I was a junior member of a big team. Not much to my liking, as I was used to being the boss. I used to sharpen pencils for excitement, and go home for long lunches. But then they switched to dBase III, which was a great computer language to learn. Gary McMullin was one of my bosses. He came to work for me at Telmar a couple of years later.

Topics, Telmar Distributing Company. Topics was written in Clipper (a compiled dBase language) and became the centerpiece of Telmar - it ran our sales offices, warehouse, shipping and billing. The program grew extensively with the company. I found the combination of computer programmer and company president to be very effective.

SectorSoft, (Sector Supply LLC.) This program was designed by Rich, and I took over the software development process in 2009. I am the Senior Programmer Analyst for the company. Like Topics, this is a state-of-the-art program for the telecom supply industry. SectorSoft begins where Topics left off! This is an exciting project, which now occupies most of my time.

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