I have worked with Rob over the past year on the development of two project-specific Access databases to support and augment state public health surveillance activities. These databases have the ability to import multiple file types, to perform backend processing to translate complex data such as electronic laboratory files into easily interpretable results, to apply logic to match files and calculate data points, to capture additionally collected information through user data entry, to export files for follow-up and subsequent analysis, and to create PDF reports with results to share with stakeholders. In addition to creating two excellent databases as originally discussed, he has continued to assist in subsequent modifications as both have gone through multiple stages of pilot testing and use.
He has been wonderful to work with throughout the process, even as the projects have morphed since our original discussions. He is thorough, thoughtful, responsive, and fast! I would highly recommend his skills to anyone looking to develop databases for supplemental data collection, and to take data from less nimble applications and translate it into a format accessible to a less data savvy audience.
At the UCSF School of Medicine, we have engaged Rob Corry on numerous projects since 2008. He's created many MS Access applications to meet specific process/work flow needs. Some of them are mission critical systems that have been in use for years and years.
One hallmark of Rob's work is that he always thinks of things we didn't, so the resulting application is far better and easier to use than we had imagined. He collects requirements skillfully, designs UI forms that are a pleasure to use, meets the stated goals of every project and in fact always exceeds our requirements. We've asked him to do things I had assumed were impossible, and he always comes through. He even accommodated our request to incorporate a technology into an app that was previously unknown to him.
The apps he's created for us typically need to import data from various sources, have intuitive forms to facilitate running the various procedures, the data is managed or processed according to the specifics of the projects, and outputs include updating SQL databases, posting grades in other systems, exporting PDF or excel reports as needed. Sometimes they include an email communication system which our users have been extremely pleased with. Several apps required the import of student preferences and adviser attributes, and pairings must be done using a complex series of rules. Another system applied extremely complicated scheduling rules to generate a year's worth of complex schedules for a batch of students. This project alone has saved the department probably 500 hours per year.
Rob is a pleasure to work with as well. He's friendly, responsible, listens carefully, asks follow-up questions when needed and always delivers on time.
“Rob has been doing work for our company for almost 2 years now. He was crucial in helping us migrate from one Sales and Inventory platform to one that we had more control over. With that said, there were lots of upgrades and some major software fixes that he performed over the past year to make the software more customized to our business as well as compatible with current operating systems. Rob is our go-to guy and I would recommend his software skills and project commitment to anyone.”