Access Database Consultant Developer Programmer

BUILD
ACCESS
DATABASE

  • WSI Web Strategies
    Subcontract build Access & Web applications to Pack & Ride and Vatex and a Soccer Association. We subcontracted to WSI Web Strategies to help their clients. Both are in Richmond, Virginia
  • Strategic Technology Systems
    Adam Mears, owner of STS contacted me to build an Access database for his client, The Snead Company, a commercial window supplier to the commercial construction industry.

    This Access database is web enabled with a SQL Server back end. Additionally it interacts with Sharepoint, providing light document management services. The Snead Company creates proposals for their clients using this Access database and then tracks the progress of those proposals to winning status (or dead status).

    Strategic Technology Systems is a full service IT company that provides consulting and support to their clients that need hardware, networks, servers, etc. running smoothly for their companies.
  • Epitome Systems
    Network Engineering Firm in Columbia, Maryland.

    They subcontracted us to Fix an Access database for determining hospital emergency room time differentials for their client Bon Secours in Baltimore, MD.

    This Access database was developed to track efficiency of the emergency room operation at Hospitals for Bon Secours. The various stages of a patient's visit are tracked and the minutes recorded for moving through each stage of the emergency room visit.

    This database uses extensive Forms that have built to provide the quickest data entry possible for the user.
  • UpTime Solutions Professional Services Group
    Network Engineering Firm in Richmond, Virginia.

    This is a Quality tracking and improvement Access database for a manufacturing firm: Greystone in Toano, VA (near Westpoint and Williamsburg).

    This application receives multiple excel files throughout the day that are produced from quality control machiney in the plant. The excel files are imported to the Access database automatically.

    The Access database scrolls through the excel files, parsing out the relevant information from the excel file and appends the relevant data points to a table that is then used to run monthly and quarterly quality control reports.

    The data is pertinent to the automobile manufacturing process and determines which production batches should or should not be accepted for Greystones automobile manufacturing clients.

    We built this database through our strategic partner: Uptime Solutions, a premier network integration and engineering firm in Richmond, VA and Tampa, FL.
  • Networking Technologies and Support
    This Access database for a conveyor manufacturing company tracks is a project management database with multiple dates for the completion of manufacturing and engineering tasks with advanced calendaring.
  • Strategic Technology Systems
    An Access database with a SQL Server back end was already in place at CeMark, STS's client. We were asked to migrate the data file to a new version of SQL Server and modify the existing Access database with a bunch of punch list items.
  • ActivSupport
    ActivSupport contacted us to fix various Access, SQL Server, and Sharepoint Databases for their clients in Charlottesville, VA.

    Active Support needed an expert database consulting company to support their clients without having to worry about the end results. Keeping their client happy was most important to ActivSupport. By supplying professional database developers to ActivSupport and their clients, we kept both our partner and their client happy
  • Sycom Technologies
    Subcontract to build Access databases for their clients Fire Life Safety America (Mechanical Engineering), Henrico County public utilities, and Arcet Welding Supply & CO2 distributors in Richmond, VA

    For Fire Life Safety America we modified a SQL Server database and an Access database for tracking sales commissions

    For Henrico County Public Schools, we modified their Access database

    For Arcet (now Arc3) we supported a CO2 distribution database that tracked routes for their people to maintain customer accounts
  • B to B - DuPont
    We were hired by BtoB, a SQL Server development and administration company to help their client: DuPont to provide administration support to their SQL Server Databases

    The Chemical giant, DuPont, has a SQL Server farm that provides databases to the company's offices around the world.

    We provided this service at the DuPont Chemical plant in Richmond, Virginia.

    DuPont is a Fortune 500 Chemical Company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

    From their website: See what makes DuPont one of the most successful science and engineering companies in the world.

    Values: Our core values govern our internal business practices and partnerships, and guide our innovations.

    Leadership: Meet our Chair and CEO, board of directors, corporate executives, and regional and functional leaders.
  • Ensafe
    Subcontracted to build a web application/SQL Server database for their Military client: Camp Peary, Department of Defense, CIA training in Williamsburg, VA. This database tracks the hazardous materials brought onto the military base, the current inventory levels of those hazardous materials, and the disposal of the hazardous materials. The Access database produces the annual reports required by the Environmental Protection Agency including Form R and Tier I and Tier II reports. We were the Microsoft Access Database consultants for this project

PROGRAM
ACCESS
DATABASE

  • Dominion Partners
    Dominion Partners desired an Access Guru to build an access database to manage their investment banking back office operations. They contracted us for this Access Database project.
  • Holiday Signs
    Holiday Signs need an expert Access Database consultant to revise their Customer Relationship Manager application. This is an Access database that provides at-your-fingertip pipeline data to help both the salesmen and sales managers keep track of ongoing sales leads. Metrics come out of this database to help evaluate and improve sales performance.

    We are also the PHP Developer and MySQL Consultant for Holiday signs. You may find more information about these services here: Data Bolt provides PHP and MySQL consulting
  • Maisonettes Apartments
    Maisonnettes Apartments runs an apartment complex and a trailer park. We upgraded their previous DOS based monthly rent collection application into an Access Database. Now all functionality of tracking tenants monthly rent is handled in Access. This database also provide the lease agreements and tracks historical tenants (tenants that have previously lived at the property)
  • WestRock
    Build Access database for Fortune 500 paper and packaging company. Database manages 1 Billion of Inventory
  • Harris, Williams & Co.
    Harris, Williams & Co contacted us to build a portfolio management database. They wanted expert Access Consultants to work for them. We built a professional Access Database application that match their clients' desired needs to their portfolio of companies for sale.
  • PepsiCo Worldwide Flavours
    Built Access Database for Concentrate portion of Bottling Business. This Access database is used for tracking productivity of resources within the manufacturing / bottling facility. We modified a previous Access database built for the Pepsi Pennsylvania plant and imported raw data from Excel.
  • Maxient LLC
    We worked with Maxient to develop processes within their Access database to extract relevant data for their clients.

    Maxient is the software of choice for managing behavior records at colleges and universities across North America. Our centralized reporting and recordkeeping helps institutions connect the dots and prevent students from falling through the cracks
  • Glave Firm, The
    A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ARCHITECTURE, interior design, and planning firm, Glavé & Holmes Architecture was founded in 1965 in Richmond, Virginia. The firm of 60 architects, interior designers, historic preservationists, and supporting staff, maintains a diverse and integrated portfolio demonstrating expertise in numerous market areas, including Higher Education, Cultural, Civic, Hospitality, and Residential. Clients are provided with comprehensive services whether projects involve new buildings, additions to buildings, renovations, or adaptive reuse.
  • Boone Homes, Inc.
    Build access database for residential home builder: Warranty Management
  • Capital One - Poseidon's Chariot, CapEx
    Build Access database for Fortune 500 credit card company.

UPGRADE
ACCESS
DATABASE

  • Greystone
    Manufacturing Firm in Toano, Virginia.

    We built a Quality tracking database that imports 1000s text files output from manufacturing machinery.

    This microsoft access database reports defects during the manufacturing process for this automotive parts manufacturer

    From Greystone website: Greystone is a global leader in the production of high volume precision machined and plated components for the automotive, aerospace, defense and industrial markets. Specializing in safety critical machining, hard chrome plating, and anodizing, we take pride in developing innovative engineering solutions to difficult problems.
  • Routt County Alcohol Council
    The Council contacted us to upgrade their Access 97 database to the current version of Access. We have to first move the database into Access 2003, and then into Access 2019 (365). The was further complicated due to a workgroup information file protecting the Access 97 database and then advanced vba code that needed modification.

    We are frustrated that Microsoft does not provide a transparent upgrade path from Access 97 directly to Access 365 (or whatever current version of Access is out today). We are further frustrated that Access discontinues support of features such as workgroup information files, pivot tables/report, Access Data Projects. So clients are forced to contact consultants like Data Control. We realize the importance of your database and the dilemma you are in. So we try to fairly price the upgrade to the new version of Access hoping that we can get future development work from you.

    To get around the Workgroup Information File issue (the client had no documentation of this which is understandable considering the database is 20 years old and the original developer long gone), we opened a new Access 2003 database and imported all of the objects. This then allowed us to open the Access 2003 database in Access 2007 and perform the final upgrade steps.

    This particular database uses advanced VBA code and expected the data file to be in a particular position on the server. If the data file wasn't there, the reports didn't work. So we searched through the code removing this requirement. We also had to modify a few of the libraries

    Routt County Alcohol Board is a non-profit serving the city of Steam Boat in Colorado. Their database is a case management and reporting vehicle for their operations.
  • Selma's Cookies
    This Access Database application also integrates with a barcode scanner and the FedEx software for creating shipping labels.

    Selma Cookies is an Orlando Cookie Manufacturing whose largest client is Disney Corporation.

    Selma found us on the internet about 10 years ago. We've been modifying and supporting her Access database since then.

    This is a customer order management database that helps Selma keep track and fulfill Yahoo orders.

    This database imports from Excel derived spreadsheets that are produced by Yahoo and stages these orders to fulfillment and shipping.

    From Selma's website:In 1990, Selma Sayin began as a passionate baker whose secret recipes warmed the hearts and satisfied the sweet tooth of friends, clients and family.
  • Masonomics
    Microsoft Access Database for a commercial mason that sends text messages, connects to SQL Server web database for mobile web pages, and retrieves Timberline project information for project resource scheduling. This is one of the most complex Access Databases we've built considering the number of integrations with other systems.
  • Bravo Wine Imports
    Bravo Wines is an importer from Harrisonburg, Virginia. They asked us to modify their Access database which integrates with Quickbooks

    Bravo Imports Wine mostly from Italy and sells, through agents, to restaurants and markets including Kroger. This database application provides both a web page for entering orders as well as Quickbooks integration for creating invoices from those orders and updating current inventory and product lists. This is accomplished through an ODBC connection directly to Quickbooks.

    Agents and Items are managed through the Access database which communicates with the Website via MySQL connection (attached tables in the Access database). When Agents place orders, those order are viewed in the Access database, massaged and approved. Again through the use of attached MySQL tables.

    We provided the Microsoft Access help for this project

    From their website: "Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing." Ernest Hemingway
  • Blue Ridge Operations
    Blue Ridge Products, an internet storeplace to purchase products, hired us to perform FTP integration with Access 2013. Blue Ridge creates orders and FTPs those orders to various warehouses including Amazon's warehouses to further process those orders.

    Blue Ridge is an import company in Richmond, Virginia that creates their own products, has them produced in China, imports those products to the United States and sells (mostly) through Amazon.

    This Access database is the central backbone for the company. It details all of the products, sales of those products, forecasts of the product sales, tracks current inventor levels etc.

    In addition to integrating with FTP software, this database has complex integration with Excel, both importing/massaging excel files as well as producing Excel files for both the company's internal personnel as well as the various warehouses used by the company.

    We provided the Microsoft Access training and documentation
  • Hospital Hospitality House
    Developed Access database for charity hotel organization. This hotel management application interacts with both a Topaz Signature pad for capturing hotel guest signatures as well as Adobe Acrobat and for producing .pdf files.
  • B to B - DuPont
    We were hired by BtoB, a SQL Server development and administration company to help their client: DuPont to provide administration support to their SQL Server Databases

    The Chemical giant, DuPont, has a SQL Server farm that provides databases to the company's offices around the world.

    We provided this service at the DuPont Chemical plant in Richmond, Virginia.

    DuPont is a Fortune 500 Chemical Company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

    From their website: See what makes DuPont one of the most successful science and engineering companies in the world.

    Values: Our core values govern our internal business practices and partnerships, and guide our innovations.

    Leadership: Meet our Chair and CEO, board of directors, corporate executives, and regional and functional leaders.
  • Nufarm Americas Inc.
    NuFarm is a pesticide chemical manufacturer based in Australia. They're office in Raleigh North Carolina initially engaged us to build an Access Database to track Environmentl Protection Agency (EPA) forms. They have over 2,000 EPA forms on file with the US Government.

    Upon further conversation and discovering the intent of this chemical/pesticide client, we decided that an Access Database WAS NOT the proper solution.

    They desired people AROUND THE WORLD to enter and query their application. So we built this database using PHP web pages and a SQL Server data file. You may find more information about this application at www.data-blade.com

    From their website: We know that growing is about more than just crops and cultivation. It's about sunshine and rain, early mornings and hard work. It can be frustratingly unpredictable, but also wonderfully uplifting. More than anything, it's about people. Nufarm is the dependable partner behind thousands of agricultural success stories. Every day, growers around the world turn to our products and our people to help with the challenges of fighting disease, weeds and pests, and to increase crop yields.
  • Roofing Consulting Services
    Commercial Roof Consulting Firm. The Company sends crews across the country to photograph and notate deficiencies in commercial roofs. That data is centrally collected, entered into the Access Database we support, and generates complex, 70 page .pdf file reports. The database gives the user the options to manipulate the sections of the reports prior to creating the .pdfs. We use VBA code to automate the .pdf file creation process.

Our Clients Include:

  • The Army, Defense Supply Center, Chesterfield (Richmond) Virginia - Warehouse Inventory Application subcontracted through Goodwill Industries as a prime vendor
    The Army, Defense Supply Center, Chesterfield (Richmond) Virginia - Warehouse Inventory Application subcontracted through Goodwill Industries as a prime vendor
  • The Navy, Naval Research Laboratory in Waldorf, Maryland - Inventory, Purchase Orders, Service Life Tracking Microsoft Access database subcontracted through ACSG as the prime vendor
    The Navy, Naval Research Laboratory in Waldorf, Maryland - Inventory, Purchase Orders, Service Life Tracking Microsoft Access database subcontracted through ACSG as the prime vendor
  • Pepsi Bottling Group in Somers (New York) New York - Overall Equipment Effectiveness Microsoft Access database that tracks SKU production and downtime categories to improve LEAN efficiency
    Pepsi Bottling Group in Somers (New York) New York - Overall Equipment Effectiveness Microsoft Access database that tracks SKU production and downtime categories to improve LEAN efficiency
  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond Virginia - Mortality Statistic tracking for the hospital using an Access database
    Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond Virginia - Mortality Statistic tracking for the hospital using an Access database