My first work related program was building a system in Novell Netware Lotus 123 for National Polystyrene Recycling Company, LLC. I was the Quality Control Manager at the time. I was required to provide a wide variety of chemical and physical tests for the recycled content we were making at this company. My job was to report to the scientific departments of our corporate partners (companies like Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobile, DuPont, etc.). So, I built a system that tracked every lot of material from it's source all the way through the recycling process into extruded plastic pellets. Later, as plant supervisor I enhanced the program to track the production rates of every employee working for the company. This was in response to my boss, at the time, refusing to budge for a 25 cent raise for various workers under me -claiming that he did not know their productivity. I raised production of the company 35% in 2 months with this program. I won my workers more money... and then the company was sold so I moved on....