Five Fingers Computer Services is me, Helen R. Martin. Under this name I offer several kinds of computer services.
I have twenty-five years of experience with computers, starting with mainframes, and then specialising in desktop PCs. I have learned much of what I know on the job and also taken courses to upgrade specific skills. I did a six month course on PC hardware some years ago and although much has changed since then, I have remained relatively up to date, and do all my own repairs and upgrades. The breadth of experience I have has given me an intuitive understanding of computers, which gives me pretty good troubleshooting skills.
I also learn application software very quickly because of the many programs I have used over the years. With some common programs like Word, or Excel I have worked with as many as four or five versions. Sometimes I have thought the new versions were improvements, sometimes I have not.
I have developed a specialty in Spreadsheets and Databases. Both these are systems of organising data which appeal to my attention to detail and sense of order. Both of them allow you to extract information from large amounts of detailed data.
I like to work with Excel and Access. I have used Access to develop custom contact databases for a number of non-profit groups. I have also used Access to develop a custom database which produces invoices for the bidders at the end of Charity Auctions, thus simplifying the payment part of the evening considerably.
Using Excel I have helped several businesses get a handle on the daily numbers involved in their operation. In one case, a franchise had daily forms to fill out which required a number of tedious additions across rows and down columns using a calculator. Using a spreadsheet we automated the whole process and accomplished the monthly reporting requirements in a couple of days rather than more than a week.
Like wise in the management office of a local mall we created a set of spreadsheets which replaced report forms which had formerly been taking the managers assistant more than a week to fill out every month. She was able to fill out these new forms in a couple of days, because the spreadsheets automatically did all the calculations, saving nearly a week of her time every month.