Independent contract development
Maximize the Microsoft Access databases that quietly run your business.
Fifteen-plus years of professional .NET and Access engineering. When a critical Access database is fragile, undocumented, or held together by someone who left years ago, I stabilize it, extend it, and keep it doing its job well.
The situation
The database became infrastructure when no one was looking.
It started as a convenient Access file. Now it writes your checks, tracks your properties, or runs your month-end reporting, and it has grown fragile: slow, undocumented, and understood by no one still at the company. The person who built it is gone, and the macros they left behind are a mystery.
That is the work: making fragile, business-critical Office systems dependable again, and getting more out of the ones you already run.
The work
Get the most from the Access systems you already run.
Make it dependable
Stabilize the existing database, repair the broken VBA, harden the fragile spots, and document how it actually works, so you are not one person away from disaster.
Make it do more
Add the features, reports, and automation the system has been missing, and clean up the parts that have become hard to maintain, so it keeps pace with the business.
Why this is different
An engineer, not a form wizard.
Most Access contractors maintain forms and macros. I build real software, and bring professional engineering standards to every project.
- Fifteen-plus years of professional C# and .NET development, alongside deep Microsoft Access and VBA experience.
- Clean Architecture and disciplined data-access design, the same standards I bring to enterprise .NET work.
- Microsoft Access, Excel VBA, and Office automation, built to hold up under real business use.
- Author of ModernMediator, an open-source .NET library published on NuGet.
Current workAlso building at the frontier: an AI platform for interpreting industrial P&ID engineering drawings, plus active work in modern .NET, machine learning, and distributed systems.
Domain experience
I learn the domain, then model it.
Every system here meant understanding a business and encoding its real rules, not just building forms over tables. A partial list of the domains:
- Oil and Gas Commissioning
- Petrochemical Manufacturing
- P&ID Analysis
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Accounting and Financial Reporting
- Payroll and Check Writing
- Automotive Parts Distribution
- Jewelry Manufacturing and Distribution
- Gated-Community Real Estate Sales
- Homeowners Association (HOA) Management
Get in touch
Let's talk about your database.
Send a short description of the tool and what you are trying to do. A real assessment means looking at the database itself, and we can arrange that from there.
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rob.evans@evanscoapps.com