Author

Author of SBS. EBS and Beyond

Larry Heimendinger has been involved in IT for several generations of computing.  His programming career began while he was in high school and attended a summer program in mathematics sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  In college, he worked at the university computing center and in the Physics High Energy Research lab doing programming.  As a junior and senior, he worked full time while attending school as a programming manager and system analyst.

For almost two decades after college, Larry designed and implemented major, enterprise-wide mainframe systems in banking and finance, insurance, public utilities, transportation, wholesale grocery, transportation, warehousing, and many other industries. He also worked at the United Nations Development Programme as the IT manager.

Larry became involved with PC computing almost as soon as it was available.  He wrote PC applications for banking, accounting and manufacturing and was an early network adopter.  He worked closely with Ashton-Tate in the development and use of dBase.  He then was President and COO of Nantucket Corp, creator of Clipper, a dBase compiler and application development system. He authored two books on programming, one using dBase and the other using Clipper.

Larry has been involved in several start-up companies doing work in embedded systems and network appliances, and he was Chairman of a publicly traded manufacturing firm.

He is a strong advocate of small businesses, especially in their need for IT systems and support.

Larry lives in the Seattle area with his wife and children.  His passionate hobbies are cooking and woodworking, and he remains interested in amateur astronomy and physics with increasing interest in neuroscience.