About Us
Colin and Lisa are enterprise data integration professionals. We collectively have over
30 years experience working and consulting to customers
requiring application development and data integration expertise, using Visual
FoxPro, .NET, Java, and XML/XSLT.
We both work for
EC|Wise,
a technology company with deep strengths in business analytics and the many related,
data-relevant, areas that interest us most.
Previously, we consulted as Spacefold, providing services as an
independent company based in the Las Vegas area.
Technologies:
- SQL Server 2005
- SQL Server Reporting Services
- XML and XSLT
- Data schema design and business analysis
- Technical documentation authoring
- Web application development (intranet and extranet, JSP
or ASP.NET)
- .NET smart client development
- Visual FoxPro application development
Details for each of us:

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Lisa Nicholls
Lisa Slater Nicholls is a Microsoft Team Project Manager at
EC|Wise,
based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She
has been developing and communicating innovative solutions for
data storage, collection, reporting, and analysis for over
fifteen years. With seven years’ experience developing with
on-line technologies, she enjoys absorbing and connecting
diverse technical environments and requirements.
Before beginning
work at
EC|Wise,
she and Colin Nicholls formed Spacefold, as an independent software
company in Las Vegas, Nevada. Previously, she served as an
integration engineer for Acxiom Corporation for four years,
designing integration solutions for Oracle, Siebel, IBM, and
other Alliance partners.
She has served in project management, design, and Xbase
development roles for Visual FoxPro 9.0's Report System
features. She has designed java-based and .NET-based intranet
and internet sites as Business Intelligence solutions, for
business-centered results. She has a special passion for
XML/XSLT-based data integration and reporting.
Lisa has taught numerous RAD seminars and has been a featured
speaker at major FoxPro and database conferences throughout the
world. She was lead writer for the bestselling
Using FoxPro
2.x volumes (Que) and
FoxPro MAChete
(Hayden), the author of the "Report Writer" volume of
Pros Talk Fox
Series One, and Series Editor for
Pros Talk Fox
Series Two (Pinnacle). Her most recent book is
Flying Fox:
Applying Visual FoxPro Reporting to Any Data, in Any Environment.
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Colin Nicholls
Colin Nicholls is an Oracle Developer and Business Analyst at EC|Wise
in San Rafael, California.
Before joining EC|Wise,
he and his partner Lisa formed Spacefold, based in Nevada, where he consulted as
an independent software analyst/programmer. He previously worked
for Acxiom Corporation for four years as an Integration Engineer
in the Strategic Alliance Partners division, where Acxiom
technology had to be integrated into almost every type of
application architecture that existed.
He has contracted for the Microsoft Visual
FoxPro team reporting features, written technical
articles for a number of international FoxPro journals,
and has been a speaker at many FoxPro developer
conferences.
Prior to moving to the U.S. in 1999, Colin was
development manager at Cornerstone Software in New
Zealand for three years, but started database
programming with FoxBASE+ in 1988.
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