Press Release (and Happy Announcement) :-)

On May 15,  Keena Tomko, a Lakewood-based Filemaker Pro business consultant, won the 2015 DevCon scholarship to attend the Filemaker Pro industry conference in Las Vegas.

The scholarship, sponsored by Filemaker Pro consulting companies Thorsen Consulting and iSolutions, was developed to bring new people into the Filemaker Pro community.   Keena Tomko and co-winner Jesse Wakley were chosen from a very competitive pool of applicants.

Tomko wrote in her application essay that after finding herself widowed and in debt, she discovered Filemaker Pro and studied on lunch hours and evenings until she was ready to launch her database consulting business in 2014.  She currently provides services to several Cleveland and Akron manufacturers, and has formed a group to find and coach potential new developers.

“There are many other people who are in similar situations,” she wrote in her essay.  “Bright and willing to work but with no clear path before them. . . the DevCon scholarship will also benefit the careers of other potential developers who will get every drop of knowledge I can absorb while I’m there.”

“I still have a lot to learn,” she says.  “There’s a lot to Filemaker.  But everything I learn, I pass on to the group.  Right now we’re having a Filemaker trivia contest — the one with the most points wins a $25 gift card.   My eventual goal is to hire good people, or even them get them trained so other companies hire them.  It’s a great career.”