At Dracoventions, we invent software. Whether we're finding ways to let you search all your FileMaker scripts or automate print jobs, we're always inventing new tools to empower your use of FileMaker.

Since age 8, company founder Chris Dragon spent much of his free time writing software. He started with Apple Basic, then moved on to C, Visual Basic, Java, PHP, and many other languages. Always a pioneer and software inventor, Chris created a web-browser-like terminal program before the web was invented and wrote a web-server scripting language before many people had heard of such a thing.

Over the course of five years as Senior Software Engineer at CollegeClub.com, Chris tied together an ancient database (created for the US Army in 1965) with modern web servers, created web-based e-mail before Hotmail, and wrote a unique application to read that e-mail to college users over the phone. This was all before he returned to U.C. Santa Cruz to complete his B.S. in Computer Science with the hope of getting a job at an environmental organization.

Chris joined a nature-education non-profit called The Children's Nature Institute in 2004. In in early 2006, he began i-house development on what would become the 2empowerFM Family of FileMaker plug-ins. In January 2008, Chris founded Dracoventions to bring the power of his FileMaker plug-ins to the public as a part-time project. In April 2009, Dracoventions became a full-time business and a member of the FileMaker Business Alliance.

Chris currently lives with his wife, Murrah, in the mountains of Crestline, California.