Mission: "The Fraser North Farmers Market Society encourages a healthy community by providing the public with direct access to food producers. The Market serves to stimulate and support the local economy, to provide opportunities to inform and entertain and to support and strongly encourage environmental sustainability"Duties and responsibilities: team management, strategic planning and direction, vendor strategy and management, development strategy, and financial management.

Programmer/Analyst/Consultant with over 30 years of experience designing, developing and supporting a variety of software applications with a focus on supporting effective business processes

• Contracted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC for maintenance and improvement of several existing integrated systems using Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access client applications.• Wrote APIs using .NET webservices to make the data available to the website in a secure way.• Developed and maintained software to exchange College data with a variety of government agencies. Data formats included CSV, XML, and HL7.• Assisted significantly with major upgrade from… Show more • Contracted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC for maintenance and improvement of several existing integrated systems using Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access client applications.• Wrote APIs using .NET webservices to make the data available to the website in a secure way.• Developed and maintained software to exchange College data with a variety of government agencies. Data formats included CSV, XML, and HL7.• Assisted significantly with major upgrade from existing systems to iMIS Membership System including the full data conversion and adapting previous applications to access the new MS SQL database to maintain functionality that out-of-the box iMIS did not provide.• Created add-ons and extensions to iMIS using VB.NET and C#, MS SQL triggers and stored procedures, and configuration within the iMIS CMS. Show less

• Supervised up to 10 employees and managed administrative side of business.• Support and improve on billing and management software for Benefits by Design including converting system from Advanced Revelation to use a Microsoft SQL Server Back End and Microsoft Access as a client. • Created customized inventory, invoicing, A/R, A/P, system for Marine products wholesaler. • Developed contact management and investment tracking system for an individual insurance/investment agent. •… Show more • Supervised up to 10 employees and managed administrative side of business.• Support and improve on billing and management software for Benefits by Design including converting system from Advanced Revelation to use a Microsoft SQL Server Back End and Microsoft Access as a client. • Created customized inventory, invoicing, A/R, A/P, system for Marine products wholesaler. • Developed contact management and investment tracking system for an individual insurance/investment agent. • Upgraded time/billing/receivables system for a CGA firm to an expanded practice management system using Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access. • Assisted on design and implementation of a Group Insurance third party administration application for WestPro Benefit Systems using php and C in a Unix environment. Show less