Synopsis of Experience

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Industries:
  • General Business & Industrial - PocketLog data collector for Palm and PocketPC.  Simplifies data collection for a variety of industries and applications. 
  • Manufacturing - DataGet SPC data collection and gauge interface, for Palm.  Other SPC Data Loggers, Laboratory Information System (LIMS)
  • Insurance Industry - Insurance Rate Calculator for Palm.  Calculates monthly payments, Amount of insurance from desired monthly payment, future value of policy and more.  Uses formulas and lookup tables.
  • Personal/Business - Expense Tracking system, Inventory system, for PC and Palm.
  • Sports - Scoring for football and for Squash - Palm, PocketPC and PC.
  • Small Business/Retail - Invoicing system for Palm Pilot.  Tickler application for Palm Pilot - Appointments, Tasks, Follow-ups, Trip Log.  Document control system (by password), including Setup/installation and PassCode generator. Automated PO generation based on Bill Of Materials.  
  • Transportation - Interface Palm PDA to Traffic Counter (using RS-232).  Setup/configure device and download data files, Data Collection/Acquisition. Also interfaced software/unit to GPS via Serial Port.  Equipment database application using  C++ to connect to MS Access and Goldmine databases, including printed reports.  Radar Speed signs.
  • Forestry - Complete Forest Inventory System (SIS) with Analysis and Forecasting.  Cruising, Log Scaling, Log yard Inventory, Data Collection. Communication to PC using Serial/RS-232. (see BioCruise Data Collector)
  • Warehouse - Handheld computer software for Inventory; Pick, Put-Away, and Cycle Count. Communication to PC using RS-232 and various protocols.
  • Market Research - Focus Group data collection (RF), Real-Time analysis and reporting.  Questionnaires. Graphics display of data.
  • Medical - Software for Office Automation and Billing
  • Large Systems - developed graphical tools for mainframe programmers. Developed Scheduling  (Manpower/Project) Scheduling application. Developed remote print server.
  • Embedded programming - some experience with the MSP430 chip from Texas Instruments.  UART programming.
  • Some experience with Point-Of-Sale (POS).
Platforms &
Technologies:
  • Writing/creating Excel spreadsheets and Access databases programmatically
  • Windows SDK (Win32) - since version 3.0 - extensive use and customization of all User Interface elements.
  • Installer software.  Setup one program or a complete system.
  • ODBC, ATL, DAO, ADO - developed easy-to-use wrapper class for database access using ADO.
  • Palm SDK (Palm OS) - 3.0 and up.  Palm Conduit SDK
  • Some experience with PocketPC and WindowsCE.
  • Programmatic generation of RTF documents, programmatic generation of COBOL source.
  • DOS and DOS-like proprietary systems
  • Created programming frameworks, and database systems
  • Developed Data Migration utilities
  • Connection with external devices, some experience with Real-time and Embedded programming
  • Several brands of Hand-held computers - Data Collectors and Data Loggers
  • TI MSP430 (particularly the MSP430F1121a) - UART
  • Hardware interfacing
Languages:
  • Visual C++/MFC - all versions (including Visual Studio 2003).
  • CodeWarrior for Palm - C/C++
  • IAR for MSP430  (embedded programming)
  • Several other versions of C including MSC 5.1, Quick C, gcc
  • Borland C++ 3.0/OWL
  • MS Access, VBA, SQL
  • Several versions of BASIC, including VBA, HP-BASIC, Scientific BASIC (Matrix Algebra)
  • Some experience with FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG II, BAL
  • Some experience with HTTP, JavaScript
Protocols:
  • XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM and variants using Serial Port (RS232)
  • LU 6.2
  • Some experience with TCP/IP
  • Some experience with RF
Databases:
  • MS Access 2.0/97/2000 
  • dBase, CTree, Paradox, Oracle9i, FileMaker (plug-in)
  • Palm.  Syncing Palm databases with PC databases such as MSAccess. Syncing with Excel spreadsheets
  • Some experience with SQL Server
  • Misc. proprietary. Also, created custom database system for hand-held computers
  • Data Migration/Data Conversion utilities to move data between brands/versions of databases. Table merge, split and complex dependencies.
  • Note - ODBC/ADO gives me access to virtually any brand of database from a C++ program.

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