Stephen Simon Email & Phone Number

Clearwater, Florida, United States

Update as of October 2023:PDG Consultants, Inc. is still a Microsoft Dynamics Partner (as it has been for 20 years). During the last 3 years, we have switched our focus from Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central. In order to prepare for this change I spent months taking courses in Business Central Financial, Operations, Reporting, and AL Code Development. We also hired a full-time AL Code Developer, with 20 years of NAV/BC development and Functional Consulting experience. From 2020 to 2023 we migrated 5 of our GP clients to Business Central. Two of the jobs (a large real estate company and a large international bookseller) took thousands of hours of development, implementation and user training.Our skills now are focused exclusively in designing and writing custom AL Code extensions for Business Central. We are working with other GP Partners who don't have the NAV/BC knowledge to move their clients' GP systems that are heavily customized over to Business Central.Please check our videos and blogs to view documentation of the recent work we have been doing.https://www.prettydarngood.comExamples of AL Code Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central that we have written:* Lease Management with Recurring Billing* Payables Automation integration with AvidXchange* Check Remittance Reports for BC*Default Vendor Distribution Accounts* Merging Historical Sales from GP with Current Invoices from Business Central* Complex report modifications such as Customer Statements with Line-Item Detail* Advanced Warehousing: Custom Fields, Custom Reports, Custom Business Logic for Sales, Warehouse Transfers, Picks and Put-Aways* Replicating Posted Invoices from the Warehouse Company to the Accounting Company.* Many many custom, scheduled jobs that do warehouse functions like: change variants, record shortages, facilitate cross-docking

Clearwater, Fl

In 2002 I created PDG Consultants, Inc. (formerly PrettyDarnGood Consultants, Inc.), to service small business with Microsoft's Small Business Manager software (SBM). It was easily customized using SQL, Visual Basic, and Continuum API. There were 4 of us: 2 developers, 1 sales manager, and an accountant. Because SBM was priced competitively and because of our SQL skills (MCPs), we gained many clients. By 2008 Microsoft discontinued SBM and we moved our SBM clients to Dynamics GP. We then sold, customized, and supported Dynamics GP. In 2010 we became a Microsoft Silver CRM Partner and used CRM to integrate with GP as well as QAD (ERP software for Mfg.).For integrations: we write our own in Visual Studio; or use Scribe or SmartConnect. With Visual Studio, SQL, and eConnect for GP, we have written extensive customizations for: an electronics distributor, a pallet manufacturer, a large Avaya dealer, a cosmetics distributor, an airport, and a large bookseller.Now we are currently (2018) working with for a, multi-state, client pushing sales orders from an external system to D365 Business Central - using SmartConnect. We are also using SmartConnect to automate the fuel farm on an airport as purchase receipts and sales invoices into GP in a Private Cloud. And again for a passenger ferry line to post ticket sales and freight invoices into GP.Until December 2020 we have been supporting a highly customized GP for a maintenance company with 50+ franchises all across the US.Starting 2021 we joined Velosio as Microsoft Partners; and we switched from GP to Business Central Cloud. We have 2 experienced and skilled NAV/BC developers and are moving our GP clients to Business Central Cloud. The power of Business Central Cloud (formerly Navision) is its ability to be customized with a built-in language (AL). This means customers don't get stuck in 10 years with "bespoke code" and not able to upgrade to the latest version of their ERP. Velosio's motto is "Move to Modern".

Greater New York City Area

CRM Software Project Manager. Managed a large Microsoft CRM, custom, software implementation to automate the sales force of a pharmaceutical company - for its new blood cancer drug.

Value Added Reseller. Have implemented Extender, SmartList Builder, and SmartConnect with multiple GP and D365 clients. Experienced with SmartConnect Cloud and PopDock with a number of current clients.

United States

Custom software development: FoxPro, VB, SQL Server, Web.Wrote custom systems for small business and schools. Our IEP Writer for Special Education was in use by over 300 Special Ed. Case Managers for 14 years. Order entry and purchasing systems in use for a printer for 10 years and still in use for a large importer, after 15 years. These are the companies for which we wrote custom software, in this time period: Edwards Engineering Corp.(NJ),Westchester Lace (NJ), NJ Economic Development Authority (NJ),Long Island Jewish Hospital (NY), Dickard-Widder Industries (NY), Vogel Boot Co.(NY), Integrated Computer Systems (NY), Soho Reprographics (NY), I.P.Enterprises (NJ), Region V Council on Special Ed (NJ), John Leckie Bus Company (NJ),Peggy Carr Glass (NY), Wholesalers World (NJ), Bayer Pharmaceuticals (NJ), Queue Associates (NY)

Managed their Local Area Network and their AS/400 system. Wrote custom software for their records management division and for moving.

Started and ran a popular moving and storage company in the NYC area for 13 years. Sold to Moishe's in 1988.

Ran the Treasury Division of this fast-growing, custom furniture manufacturing company.

Worked for 5 years as Director of Disbursements and other financial positions. Learned a wealth of PRACTICAL information about Finance and Organization, from the works of L.Ron Hubbard,