This is a warning to all consultants and anyone who has professional contact with Frederick Carter.

I’ve worked with many clients in the BI and BOBJ industry and unfortunately this is the first customer that I have provided services for who ran away without paying. Apparently Frederick needed some work accomplished in a short period of time and I was generous enough to complete a week’s worth of Xcelsius work without even taking a deposit.

Luckily, towards the end of a week’s work, I accidentally heard one of his conversations with his accomplice “Dianne Sawyer” saying that he was going to stiff me and not pay. In addition, he said that “The client he was trying to score the contract with thinks that all the Xcelsius work was done by him, and that he could learn how to be an Xcelsius and Business Objects expert in 1 week”. I called him up on this and he kept making excuses that he was having cash flow problems. He said that he would promise to pay if I would do a few more hours of work for him so that he could score a contract with Fannie Mae. So, out of sympathy I completed a few hours of work for him and after the work was completed, he started ignoring my emails and phone calls regarding payment.

After he found out he got kicked out of the linked in group “Xcelsius Gurus” since he ripped off another Xcelsius Consultant “Kalyan Verma”, he started begging me to get him back into the group and offered to pay off his debt in payments. I was nice enough to agree and he paid an initial payment of $200. However a week later he purposely closed his account on paypal and the $200 payment got reversed.

After that he has ignored all calls and emails.

I hope this posting will expose and help prevent Frederick Carter from ripping off anymore consultants and businesses since we all work hard for our living. For those who are interested, I have all the chat logs and emails sent back and forth between us to prove everything that happened.

Here is a link to his linked-in profile

http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickcarter

His Corporation is Pathway Technologies Inc.
His Accomplice is Dianne Sawyer

Conditional formatting in Excel is a feature that is very commonly used and very useful in displaying how well a set of values in a table are doing. Unfortunately we can not transfer the dynamic nature of conditional formatting from Excel to Xcelsius if we were to just insert the table selector object. Basically if the initial binding color of a cell was “Green”, it would stay green even though it were to change to “Red” when the value changes.

Please view my video on how to simply accomplish this using a grid component in Xcelsius

Please visit my post on “MyXcelsius” for a more advanced example of conditional formatting in Xcelsius involving dynamic sliders and charts.

You can download the source file for the example here