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Development of web-based training packages
in python, PHP, HTML5, Javascript, and MySQL.
Develop and maintain scores of applications. Main application was a home heating and air conditioning sales, installation, and maintenance ERP package in Progress 4GL v. 8, with partial transition to v. 10: SX.enterprise, Trend, and NxTrend. Also interfaces and data conversion, and communication utilities in C, support applications in PHP, and web interfaces in Java and Ajax.
Develop web site, convert files from various formats, design HTML
pages.
Teaching a course on Linux operating system.
Tech support, analysis and design of tech support tools and
procedures. Win 2000 & XP, networking, troubleshooting, dispatch, web page
design, call center & help desk management methods.
Mostly in Progress 4GL, SQL, and other database tools, including some in Mfg/Pro. Use of HTML, Java, python, PHP, and Javascript on numerous websites.
Conversion of a non-Y2K- compliant immunization management system
called Acclaim, written in Progress V7, on a Novell Netware network, to one
written in Visual Basic on MS SQL Server V7, on a MS NT 4.0 network, and using
Java, Python, Linux, Data Junction, Harvard Graphics, and Adobe Acrobat.
Returned for further conversion work using Java, Visual Basic, SQL 7, and a
product called Data Junction.
Examined Y2K compliance efforts of more than 16 firms (who must
remain anonymous), using various platforms and languages, seeking overlooked
problems.
Database engineering. Implemented e-commerce application on IBM
RS/6000 AIX platform using Progress WebSpeed. Upgraded Astea Dispatch-1
application from Progress V7.3 to V8.2. Developed sysadm apps in Python and
Expect. Trained staff.
Converted complete accounting package in COBOL on a DEC VMS host to
a package called FDM4 in Progress V8 on a DEC Alpha Unix host. Data conversion
programming using Progress, DCL, Korn shell, C, and perl. Enhancements to
Progress FDM4 package. System integration and admin of Unix host and PC network
on it. Set up internal Web server.
Tool selection and design for a Web-capable Beta Testing Management
System, using Java on a Novell network and the Novell Web Server. Recommended
Progress® Webspeed product, in beta
at the time.
Did conversion from a loan management package in xBase to a
client-server system named UniFi written in Progress 4GL V7, running on PC clients and a DG/UX host.
Developed quality control sidecar applications in
Progress® V7 to support a JD Edwards
system running on an AS/400 dataserver, with PC Windows clients.
Did study, comparing suitability of
Visual Basic,
Borland Delphi,
Novell Paradox and Appware, Microsoft
Access, Lotus Approach,
Powerbuilder, Visual FoxPro, and other
database development tools for planned client project, demonstrating strengths
and weaknesses of each, used with C++ and various database engines.
Downsizing from an Amdahl
mainframe running Cullinet to a Data General
Unix host with PC clients of a wholesale/retail/manufacturing package to WDS
package written in Progress® V7,
involving data conversion and extensive customization.
Developed inside sales management application in
Progress® V7 and C on
Banyan Vines LAN of MS-Windows client
workstations with Unix server/gateway to Unisys A-series mainframe.
Project leader and main programmer for development of hotel property
management system in Progress® V6 on
486 systems under SCO Unix/386 ODT. Product
acclaimed by industry experts.
Programmer and DBA for Catalyst project, written in
Progress® V6 on Sun Sparc systems
running SunOS 4.1.2 and Solaris, managing ISV sales and product catalog. Coded
data transfers from SunSoft to SMCC versions. Assisted with
QAD MFG/PRO enhancements.
Developed enhancements to Astea Dispatch One field support package,
written in Progress® V6, with
utilities in Korn shell, running on HP 9000.
Solved various problems for large system running application written
in Progress® on a
Banyan Vines Token-Ring LAN, involving
every aspect of the hardware, operating system, language, and application.
Enhanced application for control of manufacture of hard disks,
involving programming in C under PC-DOS, with use of EZ-VU II, and under OS/2
EE 1.1, and in SQL/DS under VM/SP over a Token-Ring gateway to IBM mainframe.
Modified their Resource Tracking System package and modified own
Task Management Package, both written in Progress® 4GL, running under Unix V.3.
Set up an NFS LAN consisting of two Sun 3/80s, an Arix 825, a Sony
NEWS, and a Compaq 386/25, all running Unix V.3, installed and tested their
XDOS product on it, doing binary cross-compilations of several MS-DOS packages
onto the various machines under Unix.
Modified a work-order processing application for the MIS Department using Informix, C, and Unix shell scripts. Solved several systems administration and kernel problems involving system performance, data corruption, version control, security, and backup.