D & N Associates, Ltd.

D & N Associates, Ltd. is a privately owned company incorporated in Virginia in September 2001 by Dan and Noelle Ferry.  D & N is a high-tech firm providing system engineering expertise to the Federal Government. D & N has played a major role in the modernization efforts of the Internal Revenue Service.

topToolsOnline.com

topToolsOnline.com is the brainchild of me, Dan Ferry, V.P. of D & N Associates, Ltd. (I'm the "D" in D & N).  Noelle and I own a horse farm in Northern Virginia, and since there is no one else to do it, I get to do all the building, fixing, and maintenance of the farm buildings and equipment (Noelle cuts all the grass using our two Kubota tractors and two garden tractors).  I've purchased a lot of tools — some worthwhile, some not —  to perform the endless farm work. My goal is always to minimize the time I spend fixing, building, and maintaining and maximize the time to ride my horse or do other fun stuff, like putting together web sites. It occurred to me that other people have the same problems finding the right tools, especially those who are new to living in the country, so why not put together a web site to help them? topToolsOnline.com is just starting out, but in the future I'll offer comparison shopping for tools, search capability (as soon as I get all the data into a MySQL database), and a bulletin board.