About TechMentors

Many professionals want to take full advantage of the power of 21st century computers, but don’t know how. Unfortunately, too often the IT gurus in their organization are too busy to help as they are building servers and websites. They just can’t be bothered with helping lowly users figure out how to fix mail merge errors and complex Excel formulas and macros.

Experience

For over 25 years TechMentors’ founder, Tom Chandler, has taught business professionals the basics and the advanced features of Access, Excel, Word, and other Windows-based office and database products. Often, students approached him after class wondering if he could just come to their office and help them build the solution they need. Aiding them has been the joy of Tom’s career.

Dramatic changes with a little bit of structure and some basic programming

With a little bit of structure and some basic programming businesses can automate and improve their processes, saving them time and money. Unfortunately, the “little bit of structure” is sometimes not intuitive; and the basic programming often has a steep learning curve. Yet, when these things are put in place, dramatic changes occur.

What we do

At TechMentors, we help businesses organize and automate their databases, spreadsheets, and other office applications. We have worked with accountants, lawyers, health care experts, data analysts, and other professionals. Clients include Visa, Hewlett-Package, Seagate, Stanford University, Utah State University, and Bridgerland Technical College.

How we do it

We work with you.  Together we:

  • Analyze your current needs
  • Evaluate your existing processes
  • Discuss possible solutions
  • Develop a plan to achieve those improvements
  • Create the solutions according to the plan
  • Test the solution to make sure it works according to your specifications
  • Provide computer training where needed
  • Enhance and fine tune the solution to meet the needs of your business

Example

We had a prospective client who spent time each month tediously cutting and pasting data from Survey Monkey so it could be in the right format to create Excel charts that were then copied and pasted into a PowerPoint presentation. This process, unfortunately, took them 2 days each month. That was 16 hours of tedious, mindless computer work every month! We sat down together, virtually, and discussed the problem and current processes. We assured them there was a better solution. They sent us copies of their files. After some analysis we proposed creating an Excel macro that would let them click a button that would manipulate the data, create the charts, and pop them into PowerPoint, all within six minutes!