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Operations Manager

Officer Company City/State Country
Thomas O'Hare VFUG Orlando, Florida United States
Thomas O'Hare in Salzburg, Austria -- November 23, 2006
Thomas O'Hare in Salzburg, Austria, November 23, 2006

Thomas has over 25 years of experience in the computing world with over 20 years experience with FoxPro and Visual FoxPro. He works mainly with Servers, Networks, Un/Wired Devices, Internet, Network Protocols and related technologies. His primary focus is as a Systems Developer/Administrator designing and programming for Un/Wired Networks, Application and Database software. Thomas has designed and built Enterprise wide solutions encompassing servers, client PCs and handheld devices. He is one of those persons who does not believe in technology limits. He believes in bidirectional communication with any device. In his spare time, Thomas explores Europe.

Newsletter Editor

Officer Company City/State Country
Barbara Paltiel
MS VFP MVP
Paltiel Inc. Burlingame, California United States
Barbara Paltiel Barbara Paltiel has worked with xBase for 15+ years and with FoxPro since 1993. Her consulting company, Paltiel Inc. develops both desktop and Internet applications in a variety of industrial and government areas, but she'd really rather talk about her rose garden and the nearly 200 foster kids she's had. Barbara has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998. Barbara also publishes the well respected VFUG monthly newsletter.

Technical Manager

Officer Company City Country
Arnon Gal-Oz Microsoft, Israel Haifa Israel
Arnon Gal-Oz Arnon Gal-Oz,  Microsoft MVP since 1997 - Technical Manager of the Virtual FoxPro User Group. Arnon is into advanced systems used around the world in many diverse industries. Arnon currently holds a Senior position with Microsoft, Israel.

Marketing Manager (including Vendor Issues, Banner Ads)

Officer Company City/State Country
Carl Warner
MS MVP, VFP
Independent Birmingham, AL United States
Really Not Me At All BS, MBA; Specialized database programming and development work mostly in the supply chain management area in the engineering/procurement/construction industry out of home office to support the timely delivery of project materials for site construction.  Focused mainly in project piping quantification, developed a company-wide database of project piping materials with strict adherence to industry-wide specifications, but also developed other applications in the company engineering, procurement, and construction groups.  Most projects worked on were pulp and paper mill projects, but also worked on many other projects from refuse-to-energy plants to a nuclear plant. Applied Fox technology in writing apps for multiple disciplines and departments in the engineering business as well as apps in many other unrelated businesses. Microsoft MVP, Visual FoxPro (2001-2007).

Public Relations Manager

Officer Company City/State Country
John P. Chambers Discovery Center, Inc. & Solutions Group Houston, Texas United States
John P. Chambers Please Note: John passed away on Dec. 9, 2008. We miss him greatly.

John is primarily a psychotherapist and Marriage and Family Counselor. However, he has been using computers since the late 1970s, doing some C programming, IDOL, and UNIX work for his office. Started using FoxPro in 1993 and is part of Solutions Group, a Microsoft Solution Provider. John is a past president of Hounix, the Houston Area UNIX Users Group, active in the HAL-PC FoxPro Group, and the PR worker for VFUG.

Web Manager

Officer Company City/State Country
Colin Keeler South Dakota State Government Pierre, South Dakota United States
Colin Visiting the FoxPro Gods Colin Keeler is infamous for his long-running Colin's FoxPro Page which was a leader in presenting FoxPro events to the FoxPro world before it was cool to do so. It's rumored that Colin spends too much time skiing, hiking and mountain biking in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where coincidentally there is a carving to the Gods of FoxPro indexing entitled "Rushmore".

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