After selling his web development company, dcddesigns, in 2005 Dave began working for an exclusive clientele via his personal development site, davidcdalton.com. While limiting his clients to an exclusive list he also set out to create new applications that fit the needs he saw in most small to mid-sized businesses. In May of 2006 Dave created version 1.0 of Article Site Manager™ and began marketing it across the developer forums. About this same time Dave created eProofSheet along with several other photo based applications. After seeing the response Dave approached Rick Morris and Bill Harding to join the team, creating Xeoware.
Dave actually got involved with computers in 1987 as a CAD draftsman but in 1991 he walked away from them to start one of several businesses, only to return to the computer and the internet in 1999. Dave is a former instructor at the Chubb Institute of Parsippany NJ and is a Sun certified Java Programmer with over 8 years of application and database development experience. Dave's motto is "don't ever say it can't be done!" The best motivation anyone could every give Dave is to tell him he can't do something. He also refuses to allow shortcuts or "bubble gummed" code into any of his projects. Plain and simple if it's not 100% right it is 100% wrong.
Probably Dave's best asset is his ability to look at the problems of a "brick and mortar" business and come up with a software solution. Dave has owned his own businesses since 1990 and knows the challenges and problems small to mid-range businesses face and he realizes these businesses are not rolling in money. His original idea for Article Site Manager™ was to allow anyone, no matter how little internet experience they may have, to be able to own, update and operate their own web site, throwing out all the "rules" of web sites once and for all.
Rick Morris began developing web sites in 1995, when the average business owner's response to "do you have a web site" ranged from "What??", to "No spider webs in here... we keep our office clean!"
It was only a hunch, but he was sure that before the year was out, "web site" would become a household word, and he was proven right. Also, Rick had a hunch that programming for the web would become one of the busiest areas of computer development. So, even though the late 90s made 'web designer' a glamorous profession, he decided to abandon that and study all aspects of programming for the web. He became proficient at working with Linux and Unix servers, databases, networking, and various programming languages.
Beginning with simple e-commerce applications, he then went on to develop a wide variety of web-based systems, for large and small businesses, all the while seeking to find better ways of approaching the problems of the web. Early on, he developed a passion for enabling the user/owner to control not only the web site's content, but even the website's design and style. In 2000, working for one company, he developed a completely web-based web design studio, with e-commerce and mail integration.
Since then, Rick has made it a practice to tackle the hard problems first, working solo or managing small teams, volunteering for projects that sometimes took him into unexpected areas, such as touch-screen kiosks for document management, network appliances, business integration, and high-performance image processing. With each step in his career, he continued to learn and apply the most uncompromising principles of software design, always willing to do the extra research needed to find a solution. With his no-turning-back, take-no-prisoners commitment to projects, he brings a wealth of experience and vision to Xeoware.
William Harding - "Bill" got his start first in 1988 working on the popular computers at the time. Apple IIE, IBM 286, TRS 80. His first bits of code were written in Basic and had to be re-entered every time the computer was rebooted.
Bill started his own company in 1990 as a small business support venture. Most of his clientele consisted of the mom and pop shops that need hardware and software support. Getting these businesses up and working on their computers meant the difference between keeping the business running or having them get left behind.
During one of his project he was introduced to a corporate client in New York that dealt in high end jewelry. His first product there dealt with a massive return to inventory / melt of millions of dollars of jewelry. His focus was to build a streamlined application that would allow the employees to scan in and categorize the jewelry being returned. Again, this project meant do or die for the company.
In 1999 Bill began as a night time instructor teaching both hardware and software programming classes. These included, Linux / Cisco / Java / ASP / Basic programming fundamentals as well as many other courses dealing with desktop hardware, server hardware and networking hardware.
Bill's motto is "Just get it done". His attitude is to make sure the client gets exactly what they are looking for while explaining the pros and cons of the client's decision. No step is overlooked and communicated to the client.
Bill has extensive experience in Network Management, hardware configuration as well as overall business support.
And finally, Bill has extensive experience in a wide range of environments ranging from small mom and pop stores to enterprise level applications / hardware / network design.
The client always happy with the final outcome and understands why the decisions were made. Together he is committed to each and every customer that Xeoware takes on.
