Rick wrote his first computer program using Fortran in the mid-60's (before most of the young pups in Falafel were born), and has been employed in the field of information technology since 1976. Rick's systems experience ranges from retail accounting and inventory systems to serial communications to manufacturing execution systems in a broad cross-section of companies from Fortune 500 to two-person startups, from medical device manufacturers to motorcycle dealers, and from personnel systems to device interfaces. Rick's experience includes SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase (and Pick!!), and languages from Z80 assembler to C#, and is a Microsoft Certified Professional. In his spare time, Rick is a licensed pyrotechnician |