Thanks for the plug.

>As an aside, Greg is being modest.
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>I was his manager at Microsoft for about a year and he has a fine analytical mind. He can do far more than garden variety VFP and is highly adaptable to just about any situation. Given hiring authority I would hire him in a heartbeat for any situation. Anyone reading this who has open positions would do well to contact Greg.
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>>I wholeheartedly agree. However, if all you know is VFP, they are one of the few large VFP shops remaining in the Los Angeles area. They might be the only one left for all I know. I used to work with a group that was very in touch with the VFP market in LA, and when we lost our jobs when the last company went bankrupt, I didn't hear of any of those who wanted to stay with VFP having much success finding other work.
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>>Also, one of the main reasons for BofA buying Countrywide is to get access to their systems. The loan origination system, which is the one written in VFP, is one of their main, if not their main system. When I was there 5 yrs ago, they were talking about doing some conversion work to C#. But my friend whose there now says that BofA told them to stop trying to convert because they were wasting a lot of money trying to do so.
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>>Bottomline is that I think the VFP group will be okay. And the group that worked on loan processing, which the last I heard was in VB6, but also trying to convert to dotnet, are probably safe. Those are probably 2 of the primary reasons BofA is buying Countrywide.
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>>>I'd look carefully at Countrywide with the recent downturn in the real estate market, Countrywide has had recent layoffs.
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>>>>Don't know what happened with Barry. He resigned from the Fox user group maybe 7 yrs ago. And that was the last I heard anything about him. Not sure bout Dan either. I haven't been to any Fox meeting in maybe 3 yrs. Although at one point at my last gig I worked on a fairly large Fox dev team and more in touch with what was going on in the VFP world.
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>>>>I had an interview at Countrywide maybe 5 yrs ago. I can't remember the manager I interviewed with, but he was unquestionably the biggest ahole I've ever met in an interview. I met someone who worked in that division in a dotnet class and she said how everyone who worked there hated the guy, but upper management liked him.
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>>>>I have a buddy who's there now on contract who likes it. Says the guy I didn't like was actually booted upstairs and is a VP now. And the devs are happy about that. So it sounds like a much better place to work then when I interviewed there.
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>>>>Greg - Sorry, I didn't think about it until now. But if you forward your resume to me, I can send it to my friend who's at Countrywide now. Maybe that'll help rather then going thru a recruiter.
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>>>>Perryf_00@yahoo.com
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