Hello,

My name is John P. McCarron. I have a family with wife, kids, dogs and a white picket fence.  I love technical things like computers and software development is one of my passions.  Another passion is model railroading and both require me to be a technician and an artist.

I have developed in Clarion since the early 1990’s and love it because it is so easy to provide useful applications for DOS, Windows and now the web.  Using Clarion helps me focus on the user interface and not get hung up on the technical portion that can lengthen or endanger a project’s completion.  I have years of experience in business applications from accounting basics to custom programs for a specific business.  I have found very few problems in business that cannot be solved by a Clarion software application, which will develop more quickly and run more quickly.  This tool is a consultant’s dream.  I can create a simple desktop program to a multi-tiered application with great complexity.  But Clarion is not the only development I have done, my many years of experience include development on mainframes to PC’s, flat files to multi-terabyte data warehouses using Cobol, assembler, C, MS-Access, Business Objects, accessing data stored in text files, TPS files or managed by SQL data base management systems (DBMS) such as Oracle, IBM’s DB2, MS SQL Server and MySQL.

With model railroading I joined a club to learn from my peers, likewise, another developer and I formed a Clarion development user group to learn from others and help each other out on various projects.  No one can know it all.

While some programmers need this development for their primary source of income, I have another revenue stream from my varied technical skills and will only charge a modest $25 an hour for my Clarion development that I can do from my home office.  I can promise that I will get the project done if I say so.  I can work anywhere from 10, 20, 30 hours or more a week on your project, evenings and weekends, whatever it takes to get it done.  I will not charge for the time it takes me to learn a new technology, if needed on a project, or if I have a problem understanding the source code I need to modify.  I will quote a number of hours for each project with a cap and will not exceed this maximum unless you and I agree.

While I have other clients and a new business I’m starting for my wife, I will stand by my proposed schedule.  If I cannot do the project in the time you need, then I will tell you when I can do it or refer you to another group member.

To get started, I can sign a non-disclosure if you wish before seeing any documentation or source you may send to me.  We can start with a small project so I can show how I can deliver what I say.  I will provide a time sheet if you want and an invoice at the end of the project.  You can pay me by check or PayPal.  You do not owe me unless I delivered an executable program that meets your requirements.

More reference details available on request.

Reference #1

Jerry said “You bet!  I had no problem with your work.  Good stuff.  Let know what you need and I’ll get it to whom ever you want.”

Reference #2

Scott says “Sure, be happy to.  I would speak highly of your work.”

email for more inormation or a quote: john@mccarron.com

Thanks,

John P. McCarron