Michael Condon

ProFast Computing

Owner and Principal Consultant

Senior Software and Database Expert

Michael has over 27 years experience working as a programmer and consultant. He has worked on banking, insurance, manufacturing,  educational and financial systems during this time. From 1978 to 1993, he was a systems consultant and programmer for the Bank of Boston where he architected and developed systems and applications for the Credit, Purchasing, Corporate Tax and Finance Division business units.  Beginning in 1987 and continuing through early 1993, Michael built the technical architecture for the first client/server systems to be installed at the Bank. Michael architected, programmed and implemented a 400-workstation, 20 server  LAN based system that integrated Microsoft Windows, Excel, Word, Visual Basic, SQL Server  and LAN Manager. For the first time, the Bank was able to fully automate its Federal and State Tax returns and its monthly General Ledger closings. Michael researched and implemented extensive interfaces via  3Com’s Maxess SNA gateway and DEC Pathworks to retrieve legacy data from IBM and DEC mainframes. He also configured interoperability solutions that allowed the Finance and Tax systems to obtain critical financial data from other departments that used Novell Netware and IBM LAN Server networks. While at the Bank, he also helped define corporate network and database standards through extensive participation in a year-long corporate architecture project.

 From 1993 to 1995, Michael worked as a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. He helped define and prototype several tools to enable the centralized support of corporate database standards and strategy at a very large insurance company. He also helped the company’s claims area develop a technical architecture using the Microsoft Solutions Framework. At a second large insurance company, he helped define and implement a client server architecture that used Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server on NT, Microsoft SNA Server and Rumba Tools for APPC. He helped a large educational institution define and implement a large data warehouse on Microsoft SQL Server for NT and Banyan Vines that used data offloaded daily from a legacy VAX system over an FDDI link. Another data warehouse project which Michael was able to help architect and implement was for a large governmental institution where approximately 20 gigabytes of legacy General Ledger data was downloaded from an IBM mainframe to a SQL Server running on NT with clients connecting from Banyan Vines, Microsoft TCP-IP and Novell IPX/SPX.

 Since February 1995, Michael has operated solely as owner and principal consultant of ProFast Computing and has helped clients solve a wide range of SQL Server and Windows programming requirements. He helped a large medical equipment company implement a data warehouse on SQL Server for NT and designed and implemented several VB/Access/SQL Server applications that enable sophisticated retrieval and analysis of database data. He designed and implemented a multi-location label printing application for the large medical equipment company that successfully integrated SQL Server 2000, database replication, file replication and custom .NET programming over a world-wide company WAN. He also designed and helped implement a Visual Basic front-end for a software company’s financial product running on Sybase SQL Server for UNIX.

Michael developed the ADO based DbShow database query and report writer application currently sold by ProFast Computing. He has also developed several database and programming utilities for distribution by ProFast Computing as shareware or freeware.

 Michael’s programming expertise includes VB.NET, C#, VB 6, VBA, Transact SQL, Access Basic and C/C++. His database background includes Microsoft SQL Server on OS2, NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Sybase SQL Server on NT, UNIX and Novell, Watcom SQL on Windows and NT and the Microsoft Access Jet database engine. He is an expert in programming, administering, tuning and optimizing Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access. He has in-depth experience writing applications to the ADO.NET, ADO, OLEDB, ODBC, and DBLIB database APIs. He has extensive programming experience and emphasizes the use of object oriented coding techniques. He has written several .NET applications, including a tool to monitor servers over the network and another tool to validate application installations by examining file and registry values obtained via the .NET framework. He has written numerous VB and VBA applications that enable Windows applications to work together via ActiveX components and servers. Michael strongly believes in the use of reusable components and is familiar with a wide range of component products. Michael has extensive experience and expertise in the use of the ComponentOne suite of .NET and ActiveX components.  He is trained and certified in the use of Microsoft .NET tools for building Windows Forms, Windows Components,  ASP.NET applications, XML Web Services, Windows Services and Server Components. 

 Michael is fully versed in the latest Microsoft enterprise development technologies and architectures and works with developers and clients to build systems using a n-tiered approach in which applications are separated into user services, business services and data services layers. His training and experience insure that solutions are on time, within budget, maintainable, scaleable and easily enhanced.

Michael uses his extensive experience with all layers of today's distributed computing architecture to insure that complex multi-tier architectures are correctly designed, developed and implemented. He has successfully provided design, building and troubleshooting services for each of the following components of today's complex computing environment: applications, databases, client systems, server platforms and networking.

 Michael has achieved the following Microsoft certifications:

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