"I'm
pleased to announce that we launched the third version of our offline event management
tool...The Active Event Manager is designed to meet the needs of State Games directors,
and there are 15 states that will be
using the system this winter...Congratulations and thanks go to Alison A*, the PDev
Manager on the
project, and Dave Bowers, an outside consultant who did the development work. The
product was launched on time and has exceeded expectations!"
- Amy Slothower,
Product Director,
Active.com, Westminster, CO
(November, 2000)
"I had the
opportunity to work with Dave Bowers over several years.
We met at the start of a new multi-million dollar Air Force B-52 project
working for McDonnell Douglas in Bellevue, Nebraska in 1988. Beginning with over 80 people at the start, Dave
was one of the few remaining workers by the time the system was successfully delivered
over two years later. His portions of the
mission planning system were critical to its correct functioning, that being the
verification of the mission route and the storage of the flight variables into the IDMS
relational database. Though Dave had not been
specifically trained in this complex database, he quickly understood its workings and
successfully wrote the portion that would be used for loading the mission onto the plane
itself. Later, when our company was taken
over by First National Bank of Omaha after the canceling of the Air Force project, Dave
was one of the first to become a consultant in their Merchant division in downtown Omaha. He learned the business of the Credit Card
processing industry to support their various needs.
He became one of the main Windows developers for the Merchant Division,
servicing their many internal clients. He
quickly became proficient in Microsoft Access, C++, Visual Basic, and their specific
Oracle tables. I also acted as his supervisor
for a short time and call Dave a long-time friend. I
can say that he is enjoyable to work with and gets along very well with his fellow workers
while at the same time he always gets the job done. Any
company considering using his services could feel very confident that he would be a great
asset to their software development.
-
James Tosoni, Team Leader (retired), First Technology
Solutions, Omaha, NE
"Mr. Bowers
has provided many services for the South Dakota Department of Agriculture as a programmer
and consultant for Bpro Inc. Specifically, I
have worked with him in regard to our Mediation and Counseling database that helps us
mediate issues between Farmers/Ranchers and financial institutions. The program initially required upgrading from an
earlier version of Microsoft Access and later needed additional modifications and new
reports. I can honestly say that David
provided exceptional service with patience and professionalism. He responded to our needs in each case and
installed the software onto our NT network for 3 users including setting up security. On a personal note, I had a chance to be a teacher
of David’s when he was in the
4th grade. It was a great encouragement to run into him again
after all these years and see how he has pursued a successful career as a software
developer! I have great confidence in his
abilities to solve various software problems and highly recommend the use of his services.
-
Linda
Hodgin,
Director of Mediation
& Ag Counseling, South Dakota Dept. of Agriculture
"Dave and I
were first brought together on several projects at First National Bank of Omaha in 1997. My job as an Oracle DBA was to often support the
Merchant Division Oracle related applications with capacity planning, tuning, and routine
maintenance on relational database objects. On
one project, Dave wrote a complex set of code that interfaced with Oracle Composer
client/server developed modules. Dave’s
code was responsible for receiving large chunks of relational data to be passed in as a
flat-file, analyzing the records for errors, and writing a log of the results using C++. On another project, we worked together on some
Unix batch scripts which make calls to an Oracle database and use SQL Loader to insert
data into pre-existing tables, that are used to this day.
Dave was responsible for the front-end programming of the process; this process
also made calls to Oracle via SQL*Net. Since inception, these systems have
never failed and continue to be used on a regular basis within the bank. Dave was great to work with and he really knew his
stuff. I am sure that he will continue to do
a wonderful job in the technology field."
-
Arvind
Thapar, DBMS Team Leader First National Bank of Omaha
"Several
years ago, David and I worked as developers for a small defense contracting company
[Integrated Planning Systems]. With outstanding thoroughness, David discovered a memory
leak on the system when running our several-year-old application. Since we were
developing in FORTRAN, no one had ever bothered to check for memory leaks before. (All
memory allocation in FORTRAN is static, there is no chance for a leak.) However, the third
party software was leaking memory. David tracked the problem down to the database software
we were using. It was not a significant leak to us, because we weren't using the database
that extensively. David notified the rest of the developers [of the vendor patch] and
moved on to another task. I was then sent to help a major defense contractor who was
falling behind on their release date. When I arrived, they told me they were losing a
million dollars a day. Their development staff, over 30, was working in three shifts,
twenty-four hours a day. Morale of the developers on this project was dropping every
day. The reason why, they said, was they had a memory leak that they could not find. They
had stopped all further progression until they found the source of the leak. I asked
them if they were using the same database we were, since they were integrating with our
software. When they responded that they were, and I informed them the database software
was most likely the source of the leak, they were astonished. They spent another week
verifying the database was indeed the culprit. Not only was David thorough enough to spot
the leak, scientific enough to announce the results, but he found the problem faster than
the large company was able to even verify it."
-
David
Moore, former Programmer Analyst with Integrated Planning Systems (current programmer with
GE B2B development in Nashville, TN)