A brief biography...

After majoring in Math at University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Leland earned a teaching certificate (counts for half a Master's Degree), and then started his programming career at Sears in Chicago. After being immersed in Mainframe assembler language, and then CICS online programming at Trans Union, he joined the software vendor world at Informatics (now part of Sterling Software) as a Technical Support Engineer. These companies provided a thorough background and training in various programming languages and database technology.

The next step in the software vendor world was sales and sales management at several vendors including ViaSoft, Compuware and Open Systems Management (a British software company).

A hobby of programming in C++ lead to several software products including yacht race management, market data analysis and then website development to support the products.

Leland's current focus is websites for small business and non-profit organizations. Leland's diverse programming and technical background, and an artistic flare allow for a wide range of website applications to support any business need.

It takes many tools to build websites today and he keeps up with technology with membership in various computer user groups including Uniforum Chicago. His experience includes CGI programming, Apache webserver, Linux OS, Java, Perl, C++ and more -- however the main focus for web development today is PHP, Javascript, Dreamweaver, CSS, MySQL and Photoshop.