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J. David Mason, M.Eng

“Chris is able to provide unique IT solutions, efficiently, and with reasonable fees. He is knowledgeable on many subjects and a delight to work with. I also find him to be unique in marketing.”

J. David Mason, M.Eng. Resource Finance Consultant. October 3, 2011

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Good Value.

Danny Stone – Entrepreneur UK

Hi Chris, Hope all is well.

Thanks for the description.

I was trying to think of a long-winded response that would fit with your detailed analysis.

However on second thoughts I just came up with...

• Perfect!

Thanks again for your commitment to the project.

Kind regards, Danny Stone

Diane Blackburn - Conference & Event Planner

There is always a lingering doubt upon signing up for a “software training” course. The field is so vast that one can never be assured of learning what one believes they most need to know. Yet so many of the daily tasks performed at the keyboard are functions of efficiency that never come to light in most training sessions.

Chris Greaves has definitely found the solution to those missing efficiencies with current course offering, “Essentials of Microsoft Excel and Word Automation Skills.

Half an hour into the session, and a quarter of the way through a coffee, I had a “eureka” moment – followed immediately by the realization that I had wasted months of my life (perhaps years!), performing simple functions in an inefficient way – the result, no doubt, of:

1) Being self taught in a trial and error, last minute rush sort fashion

2) Coming to the PC world as a mature adult, and

3) Learning from helpful others who were also poorly trained and mostly mouse-centric

Now that I have had my world view of keyboarding turned around, I am diligently trying to implement the new behaviors for my long term benefit – no easy task when your formation was not keyboard oriented.

I enjoyed the training so much that I would look forward to a refresher or whatever next skill level is in Chris’s master plan to make us all more efficient in our use of computer software.

Diane Blackburn

Gracie & Associates (Conference & Event Planning)

647-345-6675, Diane@GracieAssociates.CA

Promod Sharma - Marketing Actuary

Chris has connections, experience and personality. We met in 2009 and he's helped in various ways. Even though I'm considered an expert in Windows and Microsoft Office, I took one of his seminars. I'm glad. He showed me time-saving shortcuts I now use daily. Chris has a rare approach that makes learning enjoyable. Ideas stick. His handouts are comprehensive references. Chris also knows Excel extremely well (even those dreaded macros). If Chris can't help you, he probably knows --- or will find --- someone who can. Taxevity – Risk Manager to the Wealthy

Customer Management Experience

"If you have any kind of computer need, issue or problem, I would encourage you to talk with Chris first. It’s definitely worth the phone call for information you can trust." Michelle Romanica; Principal, Customer Management Experience

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Law Society of Upper Canada

We had a Word automation problem that required a knowledgeable expert to solve in a very short period of time, with absolutely no margin of error.

Chris Greaves of Front Runner not only solved this problem, but enhanced the efficiency of the system and dramatically reduced the complexity of the code.

The original, less expensive, programmer we had used took weeks to create the system, but hadn’t implemented all the logic or features. Chris fixed it up in three days.

• There’s no substitute for 35 years of programming experience

Neman Syed

IS Training Specialist

The Law Society of Upper Canada

416-947-3300 x 2095

nsyed@lsuc.on.ca

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Dear Chris,

I would like to thank you for the work you did for me last week.

As you know, I make my living creating websites. I am a one-man-shop and constantly feel like I am stretched to the limit. Consequently, I view any purchase that can make my job more efficient, and save me time, as money well spent.

Often, when it comes to buying new software, my purchasing decision is made solely on the amount of time that can be saved, on current and future projects.

Because my time is so valuable to me, I am constantly searching for more efficient methods to create websites. This usually means modifying text documents, spreadsheets or databases. A phrase that I find myself repeating over and over is “There must be a better way to do this”. That’s when I know it’s time to contact Chris Greaves.

Seriously, you should make your own personal tag line “Yes, there is a better way”.

You have an uncanny ability to look at a computer problem or challenge, see the big picture and mentally sort through the “what ifs” and “if this – then that”. I imagine this type of work requires immense patience, and you seem to have that in spades. When we were trying to solve a piece of the equation last week, I found my patience wearing thin while yours did not. And it was my project!

I’m sure there are many programmers with your computing skills. However, those skills are essentially useless to me, if they are not in the hands of someone who can look at my problems and apply them to “the big picture”.

I’m not always sure how to define your work, but in short, you solve computer related problems. I don’t believe I’ve ever come to you with a challenge and heard you say “no, this can’t be done”. Rather, you go into hibernation mode, and return with a solution. And you persist until you’ve got it right. If anyone dreams in code – it’s you.

• I can’t thank you enough for this wonderful time-saving tool you created

Best Regards,

Fred Lepper

Webmaster

193 Tansley Road

Thornhill Ontario

Canada L4J 2Y8

Front Runner Training

Chris Greaves has provided training and services for our organization’s clients for a number of years. Knowing Chris’ wealth of knowledge of Microsoft Office and Visual Basic Application programming, whenever a client requires a custom, advanced level Microsoft Excel or Word course we call on Chris. He brings over 30 years of training, programming to the classroom to wow the class with tips and tricks that make everyone in the class more productive when they get back to their jobs.

Veronica Kütt

President

Front Runner Training,

a Div. of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc.

416-515-0155

Tlingit & Haida Technology Industries

I’ve got a word document that I need to be able to score values from short yes/no or 0/1 fields. Unfortunately I need it by tomorrow morning- any way you’d be willing to help and how much?

Can you rename the macro to Calculate form or something like that? Thank you again for taking care of this so quickly. Also, any instructions you could write out or enlightenment for me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

One other thing, although eligibility is determined by a value of 1 or higher, I need the actual score to be displayed. Thanks

(later)

• Thank you again very much, you saved me on this one

You should have seen the kludge of a file I was putting together with Excel forms! I just need to get the updated form by 9:00 a.m. Alaska time (1:00 p.m. Eastern time) if at all possible. Thanks again!

Eric Rowcroft

IT Manager

Tlingit & Haida Technology Industries

907-463-8484

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