Cary Prague

President and CEO

Cary Prague is an internationally best-selling author and lecturer in the database industry. He owns Database Creations, Inc. the world’s largest Microsoft Access add-on company.

Database Creations develops and markets many add-on software products for Microsoft Access including Yes! I Can Run My Business Accounting software, a business sales and accounting program and winner of the 1998 Access Advisor Magazine Readers Choice award for best accounting application, Check Writer financial software, winner of the Microsoft Network award for best Access Application,
the EZ Access line of developer products, the Access Business Forms Library distributed by Microsoft with Access 2.0 upgrades, TabMaster Pro Wizard, User Interface Construction Kit winner of the 1998 and 1996 Access Advisor Readers Choice award, the Calendar Construction Kit, the Picture Builder Add-On Picture Pack, and the Command Bar Image Editor and Image Pack.

Cary also manages a successful consulting company which is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider specializing in Microsoft
Access applications. His local and national clients include many Fortune 500 software companies, manufacturers, defense contractors, and insurance industry companies. His client list includes Microsoft, Borland International, ABB, Smith & Wesson Firearms, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft and other Fortune 500 companies.

Formerly, he has held numerous management positions in corporate information systems, including Director of Managed Care Reporting for MetraHealth, Director of Corporate Finance & Software Productivity at Travelers Insurance where he was
responsible for software support and training for 35,000 end users.

He is one of the best selling authors in the computer database management market having written over thirty five books which have sold over one million copies on software including Microsoft Access, Borland’s dBASE IV, Paradox, R:Base and Framework.

Cary’s books include the Microsoft Access Bible (recently number one on the Ingram Bestselling Database Titles list and in the amazon.com top 100), Access 97 Secrets, dBASE for Windows Handbook, dBASE IV Programming (winner of the Computer Press Association’s Book of the Year award for Best Software Specific Book), and Everyman’s Database Primer Featuring dBASE IV. He recently completed several new Access 2000 books.

Cary is certified in Access as a Microsoft Certified Professional and has passed the MOUS test in Access and Word. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences around the country. He is on the exclusive 18 person Microsoft Access Insider Advisory Board and makes frequent trips to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. He has been voted the best speaker by the attendees of several national conferences. Recently, he was a speaker for Microsoft sponsored conferences in Hawaii, Phoenix, Chicago, Toronto, Palm Springs, Boston and Orlando. He has also spoken at Borland’s Database Conference, Digital Consulting’s Database World, Microsoft’s Developer Days, Computerland’s Technomics Conference, COMDEX, and COMPAQ
Computer’s Innovate. He was a contributing editor to Access Advisor magazine and continues to write for them.

Cary holds a master’s degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A and Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Connecticut. He is also a Certified Data Processor.

Jennifer Reardon

Senior Developer

Jennifer Reardon is an independent consultant with over 15 years of experience in providing custom applications for small businesses. She is the owner of Advanced Software Concepts providing personal computer database management applications to clients in both the public and private sectors. She has worked for Database Creations since 1994.

Jennifer has written several chapters for books on dBase and Microsoft Access, including the Access 2003 Bible, Access 2002 Bible, Access 2000 Bible, Access 97 Bible and Access 97 Secrets published by IDG Books. She was the lead author in the Weekend Crash Course in Access 2003 Programming and Weekend Crash Course in Access 2000 Programming book.

She was the lead programmer of Yes! I Can Run My Business, a full-featured business accounting software package including double-entry general ledger, A/R, A/P, sales orders, invoicing, purchase orders, and inventory management.

She was also a key developer for the User Interface Construction Kit. This product won the Reader’s Choice award for the best user interface tool for Microsoft Access.

Jennifer worked closely with Borland International testing dBase for Windows as she developed the Business Forms Library sold as a premium by Borland and distributed with upgrades.

She is the project manager for some of our most successful efforts including the creation of a spare parts inventory system for Pratt and Whitney aircraft for the F22 Fighter, the Emergency Management System for the State of Connecticut, a Time and Billing system for United Healthcare, a Cash Management system for ProHealth Physicians Group, and many other projects.

Her corporate experience includes six years with The Travelers where she was an Associate Software Engineer serving on numerous mission-critical client/server software development projects using Easel, C, SQL Server, and DB2.

Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts.

Diana Reid

Developer

Diana Reid is a lead developer on the accounting software products developed and sold through Database Creations, Inc. In addition, she provides custom solutions for customers of the company's products, as well as stand-alone solutions for specific business needs.

Ms. Reid also provides training and support for end users and writes the sample files and user guides provided for custom and off-the-shelf software developed by Database Creations.

Prior to joining the company in 1996, Ms. Reid was a senior systems analyst with The Travelers Insurance Company. Her
positions within the company included the implementation and support of company wide e-mail software, e-mail gateways, and networks.

She also was responsible for the development and support of a Lotus Notes application for the insurance fraud division. She wrote training manuals and taught software training classes for Travelers employees.

She is a contributing editor for many books on Microsoft Access, including the best-selling Microsoft Access Bible series authored by Cary Prague and published by Wiley Publishing and the former IDG Books, and co-authored Weekend Crash Course in Access 2000 and Weekend Crash Course in Access 2003 Programming for
Wiley Publishing.

She is the recipient of the Best of Show award for Best Speaker at the DevCon Connections conference in New Orleans in May 2000. This is a Microsoft sponsored developer conference covering Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, SQL Server and web applications. Ms Reid speaks on Microsoft FrontPage, Office web extensions and HTML.

Ms. Reid received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Central Connecticut State University.



Phuc Phan

Developer

Phuc V. Phan provides is an independent consultant with over ten years of experience designing custom applications for small businesses.

Phan's concentration is in developing Access applications and migrating existing Access applications to SQL Server. He also spends a significant amount of time working on contracted projects from such companies as Otis Elevator, Pratt & Whitney, United Healthcare, and Smith & Wesson Corporation as well as many other companies looking for Access customized solutions. On these projects he serves various roles from design and development to testing and evaluation. He has served as a project manager designing, developing, and implementing systems.

Phan regularly attends Microsoft sponsored conferences and seminars to increase his technical knowledge base and stay current with new technology and future software development techniques. He also has taken courses and training sessions in such technology and programs as Microsoft Windows NT, Access, Exchange, and Small Business Server. His various roles in the company requires that he stays on top of many areas of technology that are becoming ever increasingly integrated and complex.

Phan, spent over five years in the Library Systems Department serving as a Systems Specialist. Serving as a member of a small department, which managed over 300 hundred staff members and over 20,000 patrons, which included students and faculty, spread across five campuses. He worked on developing an application to track technical support calls using Access. He was instrumental in restructuring the student assistant training program, which trained student staff members in the ever expanding role, use, and maintenance of computers in the library. Phan also initiated a training program that taught “computerese” to staff members, wherein the goal was to get the user computer literate and introduce cross training of applications and skills. Additional knowledge and experience includes and is not limited to the following: Exchange, SQL, TCP/IP, network topologies and technology, HTML, web administration, BBS implementation, Macintosh OS.

Graduating with a bachelors degree in May of 1995, Phan majored in psychology and biology with a concentration in neuropsychology from University of Connecticut. He is currently taking accounting courses and plans to get a Masters in computer science and then an MBA concentrating on information services.