Jesse Feiler has been designing databases and user-oriented solutions for two decades. He is the author of a number of books on FileMaker, AppleScript, the Web, Macintosh operating systems, and a variety of other technologies. He has authored tutorials for VTC on Mac OS X, AppleScript Studio, and FileMaker. His most recent book is FileMaker @ Work for Sams Publishing. A member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance, he is also a developer of solutions for small business, non-profit organizations (particularly those in the arts fields), publishing, and production companies. Since the release of FileMaker 7, he has done a number of FileMaker rehabs of older systems. He recently began integrating FileMaker databases on Mac OS X with the new Automator technology and is busily moving data to and from InDesign and other publishing software for a variety of clients. He has worked as a developer and manager for companies such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (monetary policy and bank supervision), Prodigy (early Web browser), Apple (information systems), New York State Department of Health (rabies and lead poisoning), The Johnson Company (office management), and Young & Rubicam (media planning and new product development). Active in the community, he has served on a variety of non-profit boards including those of HB Studio and Mid-Hudson Library System, as well as zoning and planning boards. Drawing in part on this experience, he is developer of MinutesMachine, the FileMaker-based tool for meeting agendas and minutes. Living in Plattsburgh, New York, Feiler’s Web sites are www.northcountryconsulting.com and www.philmontmill.com. He can be contacted through either one.