I worked for Housing and Dining for a brief period last winter. I only worked eight hours a week for a couple months, but it was long enough to get a system in production that had been sitting in a box for months since nobody could figure out how to work it. The first piece of this project was just getting the software they purchased configured so that they could print ID cards. Then it was decided that it would be nice if they could use the data already gathered by payroll to print the ID cards to cut down on manual data entry. By the way, the ID card equipment was in the maintenance shop for some reason that I never really got a good answer to. But anyway, the Identicard software wasn't equiped to directly access the Microsoft SQL database that was the back end for Kronos WorkForce, which payroll used. So I wrote a small application that allowed the receptionist in the maintenance shop to read data from that database and import it into the Access database that Identicard used.

Later I wrote an application that allowed them to print out reports of all the ID cards they had created. This one was a little more fun to write as it allowed me to play with GDI+ which I have been getting in to with other projects like the Lab Usage Reporter . I probably provided a lot more customization than they needed, but I don't think the user interface is overly complicated.