John Donohue              (Use the Back Button To Return) Work History 1986-1988 Los Angeles Various firms and individuals

In this period I earned my living by consulting and small projects, honing database and spreadsheet skills, as well as general business knowledge.     Worked with two different investors, training on Multiplan and analysis of stocks; aided an entrepreneur in modeling his business plan for renovating two apartment buildings; several restaurant projects, including a menu food cost analysis program I called "menu-blaster"; database program with seating chart function for a small concert promoter; relational database management system for a stained glass factory; a document management system for Groman Mortuary; quality control manual for an aerospace subcontractor; small auxilliary program for a dentist to track his insurance claims outside his clumsy main software; application for a distributor of lighting fixtures to manipulate his catalog, involving a scanner and digitized images.     The most unusual and interesting contract originated at the Getty Trust for Historical Documents (or a name similar, I don't think I have it correct.) I came to the aid of a scholar who was inputting into his Macintosh the transactions of one of the first bookstores ever to exist, in the late 1400s in Florence. He actually had on his desk the five hundred year old sales ledger with each purchase itemized. It was in Latin. This distinguished gentleman from Coventry, England, was in trouble with the database, but firmly in control of the 15th Century. They served tea at 4:00 in that building in Santa Monica. I wish I could have stayed there two years.