"Robert E. Cooke" <recooke@earthlink.netwrote
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Any suggestion on how to locate someone in Houston,
Texas highly experienced in Microsoft Access
database design?
Start with your local User Group... the Houston Area League of PC Users is a
major one, and, last I heard, had a Access Special Interest Group (SIG).
To find user groups for Microsoft products, use Microsoft's Mindshare User
Group Support pages, specifically the Find User Group link on the upper left
of the page at
http://www.microsoft.com/mindshare or visit the website of
the Association of Personal Computer User Groups at
http://www.apcug.org.
Or, Google on "Microsoft Access" and "Houston" and sort through the links.
Or, contact the Computer Science Department at local colleges and
universities, and chat with the professors/teachers who teach Access
courses. In this area, "community colleges" seem to have more Access
courses than the Universities do.
Or, pick someone in the newsgroup whose Access answers seem rational and
sensible to you, contact them via e-mail, and "work remote" via phone,
e-mail, and/or fax. I have only worked one project _completely_ remote from
start to finish, and it worked out OK, but I was well-acquainted
electronically with the client before we decideed to do the project, and it
was a subcontract to a very capable Access developer -- so we talked the
same technical language and had none of the communication problems that can
occur between techies and non-techie users. I know people who have done lots
of projects that way, with success. I've done [much | most] of the work on
other projects, remotely, with success, but with periodic in-person meetings
with the clients (and think such in-person meetings are useful).
Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
