Donald Bales is a Business Analyst and Computer Applications Consultant specializing in the analysis, design, and programming of client- server and web-based distributed applications; internationalization of existing applications; systems integration; and data warehousing. Don has over twenty years experience with Oracle as both a developer and a database administrator, and over ten years experience with Java. He is currently working on the migration of medical and industrial hygiene systems to a web environment for a major Oil company. When he is not developing applications, Donald can often be found working with horses, playing the piano, or playing the bagpipes. Donald has had several careers, and has at various times been a mechanic, a general contractor, Mr. Mom, a developer, a CTO, and currently a consultant. He has a bachelor of science degree in Business from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois. Don currently resides in Downers Grove, Illinois with his wife Diane and his daughter Kristyn.