Andy Kramek
Tightline Computers, Inc
555 Westminster Circle
Akron, OH 44319
Tightline Computers, Inc
http://www.tightlinecomputers.com
andykr@tightlinecomputers.com
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Andy Kramek is an independent consultant and long-standing FoxPro developer. After many years working in England and Europe Andy moved to Akron, Ohio at the beginning of 2001 where he and his wife, Marcia Akins, are joint owners of Tightline Computers Inc. A company that specializes in the development of customized data-centric software. As well as having been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional every year since 1998 he is also a Microsoft Certified Professional for Visual FoxPro in both Desktop and Distributed applications.
He has spoken at User Groups and Conferences all over the world, recent conferences include Advisor DevCon (2001, 2002), GLGDW (Milwaukee 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), Essential Fox (Kansas City, 2002, 2003, 2004), Southwest Fox (Tempe, 2004), European Devcon (Frankfurt 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), CTTM( Amsterdam, 2000, 2002) and the Praha Devcon (Prague, 2002).
In addition to helping write white papers on Visual FoxPro 7.0 for Microsoft, he has been co-author of the monthly "Kitbox" column in FoxTalk Magazine, since April 1998 partnered, since December 2001 by Marcia Akins, and he has now more than 70 articles in that series to his credit. His book credits include "The Revolutionary Guide to Visual FoxPro OOP", Wrox Press, 1996 and, together with Marcia Akins and Rick Schummer, he co-wrote the very successful "1001 Things You Wanted to Know About VFP", Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2000 (which won the Universal Thread Members Choice Award 2001 for Best VFP Book). The same team re-assembled to write “MegaFox: 1002 Things you Wanted to know about Extending VFP”, Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2002.
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