Cary Prague

President and CEO

Cary Prague is an internationally best-selling author and lecturer in the database industry. He owns Database Creations Consulting, LLC.

Database Creations Consulting specializes in developing applications using Microsoft
Access and SQL. 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 owner of Database Creations LLC, 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

Senior Developer

Diana Reid is the lead developer on the accounting software products developed and sold through Database Creations LLC. 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.