Résumé - Barbara Peisch

Articles published in January 2006 issue of FoxTalk magazine and February 2006 issue of Advisor Guide to Visual FoxPro
Speaker at the Southwest Fox conference, 2004, 2005, 2008 Information about the conference: http://www.swfox.net
Speaker at Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, 2002, 2003, 2006 http://www.hentzenwerke.com
Technical Editor for “WebRAD: Building Database Websites with Visual FoxPro and Web Connection” ISBN 1-930939-07-7 available from http://www.hentzenwerke.com
Microsoft MVP 1997, 2000 – 2005, 2006 – 2009 (See mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/overview for info on the MVP program)
Monthly column in CoDe magazine – Spring 2000 to Nov/Dec 2001
Judge in 1998 and 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards
Monthly tips column in FoxTalk magazine – July 1996 – May 1998
Articles published in December, 1995 and January, 1996 issues of FoxTalk magazine
Gave feedback to Whil Hentzen on his manuscripts for his books on FoxPro and Software Development
Coordinator, Treasurer, and founding member of the FoxPro Developers Network of San Diego – 1993 – 2007
Speaker at California Computer Expo from 1994 – 1996

Independent Software Developer, December 2018 – Present
Consulting programmer, developing custom business applications in Visual FoxPro. Design, support, and maintenance of many smaller custom applications. Revision, support and maintenance of larger applications
TRI-AD Actuaries, May 2016 – November 2018
Sr. Programmer – Develop and maintain app administering benefits for payroll. Collaborate with VFP developers to design, develop, and implement the app.
- Key achievements:
  - Spearheaded upgrade to newer programming language version.
  - Created tool for QA department to save and restore data sets for repeated testing.
Peisch Custom Software, Jan. 1997 – 2017
Owner – Consulting programmer, developing custom business applications in Visual FoxPro. Design, support, and maintenance of many smaller custom applications. Revision, support and maintenance of larger applications
Gersztyn, Peisch & Associates, Inc. Jan. 1995 – Dec. 1996
Partner – Consulting programmer
Covill, Gersztyn, Lotherington & Parker, Inc., May 1988 – Dec. 1994
Partner 4/93 – 12/94
Associate 5/88 – 3/93
Consulting programmer
WESTEC Services, Inc., Jan. 1986 – May 1988
Computer Programmer and Computer Operator – Responsible for maintenance of financial software and determining computer needs of users within the company. Computers: DEC VAX 11/780 and VAX 11/750 with VMS operating systems.

Professional Certificate in Information Systems Development from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Extension
UCSD – B.A. in Music
A little independent study of Java, jQuery and Python
Misc. classes in C and Pascal