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Having relocated from England in 1994, he shares ownership of UltraBac software and is its software architect. From an early age, Paul has been fascinated with computers, writing his first program at the age of 11. By the time he was 17, he had published three books related to programming. This interest led to a career, beginning in the computer entertainment industry, where Paul developed hardware and software to facilitate one of the first computer games that offered speech generation. Moving on to commercial software, Paul found great success in a number of areas -- writing COBOL software for the Wang VS minicomputer and developing software for accounting applications, communications, insurance claim databases, real estate databases, email systems, network management systems, and document management systems. He also wrote firmware for SCSI device control and became very familiar with various assemblers and languages. Paul has been recognized repeatedly by Microsoft and the software development community, as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows NT. This prestigious award honors those professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to enhance the online experience by advancing the technical skills of others through shared knowledge | 