Tracey Nolte:  

Tracey Nolte, a native Texan, born in San Antonio, moved to Houston at age 2. Tracey Nolte resided for over 30 years in the Bayou City. Her father was the biggest influence launching an interest in all things technical. She learned her first computer program on a Commodore 64 at age 11. Her father gave her an Atari gaming console, Commodore 64, a Speak N Spell and a Speak and Math Tutor game. During high school, she worked for Radio Shack selling computers and a new gadget called a "cell phone". During this time, Tracey had several computers and was interested in becoming a neurologist, a biomechanical engineer or a career in nano-technology. After attending a couple colleges in Houston (Rice University included), she traveled abroad to Europe (England, France and Germany) to experience life on a grander scale. The experience gave her a greater sense of adventure and exploration. After returning from abroad, she began a career as an administrator for an attorney, then later worked for engineers at Fugro. This is where she discovered her knack for data organization and her new growing knowledge of Microsoft Access (a NEW database program at the time). At Fugro, an entire floor was dedicated to bound books of all the engineering work they performed since the 1950s. Tracey developed their first virtual library. Taking all recent documents (stored in Word on their network) and created an Access 2.0 database. The database contained a listing of each project with a link to the electronic file located on their network. She created a search feature to locate those electronic files within the database. The database was enhanced many times and...Expand for more