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With over 20 years of experience in software architect & development, business process reengineering, web technologies, databases, and project management, we can provide a broad range of technical and business skills to help our clients. 
We work well with people to understand their needs and requirements, provide technical options/insight, and develop
beneficial solutions to their problems. This is demonstrated by the many long-term relationships and repeat business from
the clients whose projects we have worked on. Clients include:
Below is a sampling of our custom web based applications, software programs, and projects, followed by more information on our technical skills:
Committee Document Review System (CDRS) - National Heart Lung & Blood Institute
The Committee Document Review System (CDRS) is a web based application designed to assist committees and expert panel members and
other groups in the preparation of large medical documents requiring collaboration among the members.
The system is web-based and allows people from different locations to work together on large complex documents. It provides the tools and functionality to: 
Each committee or expert panel will have a customized web interface. The web page will include the name of the group, the
document, and the individual chapters or sections.
Next to each chapter or section are "Upload" and "Download" buttons. Committee members simply go to the web page and select the "Download" button for the section they want to review. When they complete their review, they simply return to the web page and click the "Upload" to return the file with their review comments. Committee staff merges the comments and work with the committee or section chair to accept, reject, or defer the changes. Covered Bridge Software was the architect and developer on this Collaborative Authoring, Document Management system for the National Institutes of Health, Heart Lung and Blood Institute. This project utilizes a SQL Server database, Active Server Pages, Java Applets, JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and customized/tailored version of MS Word.
Mainframe-to-Web Application - University of Maryland, Service Center 
I was the Team Leader in the development of a Legacy-to-Web application involving "screen scraping" data from the Legacy
(mainframe) system (interactive COBOL in a DEC VMS environment), manipulating and combining data, and loading it into a
relational database.
We then used various web technologies to pull this data from the database and provide an easy to use "front end" web application viewable from an internet browser. This allowed Frostburg State University and several other University of Maryland institutions to offer online student registration over the Web, leveraging the significant investment of their existing legacy applications. Intranet Web-based HR Timesheet Application - University of Maryland, Service Center 
This was a project to develop a web-based employee timesheet application. Using username and password login, and encrypting all data send
back and forth from the server, an employee could access this application from anywhere to update their timesheet.
The benefits of this application were: automation of a paper-based process into an electronic process, easy of use, field checking and validation, required fields checking, automatic calculation of total and leave fields, pick-lists with appropriate items (for example all the different types of leave codes), a central location where information was stored, and administrative access and management. Correspondence Tracking System - Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) 
Developed a PC based computerized tracking system in dBase III+, allowing Food and Drug Administration technicians to log &
help keep track of mail correspondence from the public to the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research department.
This database driven system replaced their existing manual paper-based method and was in production use for more than six years. This system included reporting functions, administrative and maintenance functions, and search capability. Consultant / PC Software Specialist - Micro Computer Business Solutions, Inc.
This CPA firm specialized in electronic accounting solutions and frequently dealt with clients with emergency or
problem-solving issues.
For example a client had an electronic accounting system made by manufacture X, and manufacture X is not in business any more and there is a problem with the software. Or a client needs to get their data from an old proprietary accounting system into a newer "standards based" system, and there is no easy way to extract the old data and get it into the new system. Or a company is bought out by another company and they are trying to get in-compatible computer systems to talk to one another. I was the software/programmer specialist brought in to handle these types of difficult problems. Some of the projects I worked on include: 
Technical Skills Software:
Type of Projects:
Frequently we work with the client's exiting computer programs and data infrastructure, and build on it using new technology and methods (data mining, screen scraping, scanned documents, importing and exporting of data, data manipulation, etc) to provide new ways of using and presenting their data. The data delivery is frequently integrating with standard web technologies to provide a familiar web browser interface to view the information; both for internal (secure & private) purposes, and for outside (public) viewing. Clients have expressed appreciation at our ability to develop innovative solutions for their problems.
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Prior to starting Covered Bridge Software LLC, the founder's previous experience included many diverse software development projects including:
This system was developed to provide up-to-date information and centrally monitor and
administer hospital bed utilization and statistics in hospitals across the country. It allowed technicians from the
various hospitals in the United States to call in over the phones and update a central database.
