Patrick
was instrumental in the design and creation of a budgeting system for Mission
Foods, a $1 billion a year national food company. He wrote numerous
budgeting modules along with supporting stored procedures to create new
application interfaces that dramatically reduced the labor needed to create
yearly budgets. VB.NET, MSSQL 2000, Query Analyzer, Enterprise
Manager, Syncfusion Window Controls
TNT Dry
Cleaning Point of Sale System
Syscom, Arlington, TX
This
project required the creation of a new system with the same functionality of an
existing DOS version. The older version used Clipper for its database
functionality. The new version uses Visual Studio .NET version 2002, MSDE
2000 and SQL. The target platforms are Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Patrick is the sole developer for this commercial application with interfaces
also being written to the cash drawer, thermal heat printers, touch screens and
other peripherals. VB.NET, C#.NET, MSDE 2000, VC++.NET, RS-232
Produce Cost Management
System
National Produce
Systems, Richardson, TX
Involved
the redesign of a Paradox application using Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL
Server. Setup and configured MS SQL
server. Created VB application
using MS ADO to access SQL server. Used
various third party data controls from Sheridan software. VB
6.0, MS SQL 7.0, MS Access, ADO
X-Series Workstation
Control System
BancTec,
Irving, TX
Involved
the development of a software machine control API. Created a real-time TCP/IP communications system between a
Windows 2000 host and PSOS - a real-time OS on the remote system.
Extensively used TCP/IP and C++ to create a layered system allowing for
easy addition of new modules to the system.
A key feature of the system was the creation of a system of network
events that allowed for timely processing of data on the host system.
Created an Active X interface that will become the new interface to all
BancTec reader/sorter systems.
VC++ 6.0, VB 6.0, MFC, ATL, PSOS Realtime OS, Source Safe, TCP/IP
Scanner Control
BancTec,
Irving, TX
Designed
and built a Windows NT service to control a HP scanner.
System was responsible for receiving user input from a Java application
over TCP/IP and scanning documents. Documents
were modified for quality control and checked for control information before
being sent to the Java application over the TCP/IP link.
VC++ 6.0, VB 6.0, MFC, TCP/IP
Reader/Sorter Software
API
BancTec,
Irving, TX
Created
new software API’s on Windows NT/2000 platform for all BancTec reader/sorter
lines. Involved development of ISA
and PCI device drivers, SCSI interfaces and Windows Services.
VC++ 6.0, VB 6.0, Numega SoftIce Windows Driver debugger, Assembly,
Windows SCSI interface
Image
Capture, Storage and Printing Utility
BancTec,
Irving, TX
This
contract involved the creation of a system to control capturing, buffering and
printing of images for BancTec’s 9400/9500 line of document processing
systems. The system interfaces to
the BancTec transport for printer commands.
The control imaging applications runs on an Alacron I860 coprocessor
card. This utility retrieves the document images then stores, formats and
forwards them to a high speed laser printer for output.
VC++ 6.0, VB 6.0, TCP/IP
Page
Launcher
PageMart,
Inc.,
Dallas, TX
This
project was to modify an existing CGI program to receive paging data from a new
customer configured HTML paging form. This new system allowed PageMart
customers to keep a list of frequently paged associates in a directory-like
structure for quick and easy access.
UNIX, CGI toolkit, HTML, Java Script
Microsoft
Exchange / Outlook Paging System
PageMart,
Inc.,
Dallas, TX
Patrick
used Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Visual Basic and Perl to create an
integrated paging system. He used Exchange forms to create a system that
allowed the user to access paging directories and enter paging
information. A Visual Basic server collected user pages using the MAPI
protocol and used a Perl script to transmit pages to the paging site using the
TAP protocol.
VB Script, Perl, MS Exchange, Exchange Forms, MS Access, DAO, TAP, MAPI,
RS-232
Import/Export
Program
Interstate
Batteries of America, Dallas, TX
This
contract involved the coding of a custom Visual Basic import/export routine to
be used by the distributors of ISBA’s batteries. Coding involved a complete utility package as well as the
integration of the routines with the various accounting systems being used.
Extensive use was made of the DacEasy Developer’s Kit and various
compilers to allow this utility to operate according to the client’s
specifications. A configuration
utility was coded to manage directory and internal Microsoft Access tables.
VB 6.0, MS Access, DAO
DacEasy
Accounting Package
Dac
Software, Dallas, TX
This
short-term contract involved attempting to port existing 16 bit Windows
functions to a 32-bit Windows environment through the use of Win32s.
Additional work for this company consisted of writing functions for an
Internet “Rolodex” product. Patrick
was responsible for assisting with the code that would allow a visitor to the
website to download this product, get bookmarks and set bookmarks.
VC++
ViewComm
for Windows
Greenleaf
Software, Inc., Dallas, TX
This
serial data analyzer was designed to run as a native 32 bit, multi-threaded
application under Windows 95 and Windows NT.
ViewComm for Windows (VCW) uses Visual C++ and MFC 4.0 to provide an
industry standard user interface. The
VCW code base consists of approximately 59 classes distributed across 93 source
modules. In addition to Patrick’s
work on the C++ code, he developed a communications VxD tailored for use with
VCW, and a similar Windows NT device driver.
VC++, Numega SoftIce Windows Driver debugger, Assembly, MFC, RS-232
Greenleaf
Comm++
Greenleaf
Software, Inc., Dallas, TX
Comm++
is Greenleaf's second generation communications library, used by RS-232
programmers to perform basic communications tasks, terminal emulation, and
asynchronous file transfers. Like
Database Library, Comm++ needs to work with both 16 and 32 bit versions of
Visual C++. In addition, Comm++ has
to interface to a wide variety of communications APIs, including those for 16
and 32 bit Windows, MS-DOS, and extended MS-DOS.
Greenleaf's support for communications using Visual C++ and 32 bit DOS
Extenders is widely regarded as a key selling point of the Comm++ library.
VC++, Borland C++, All OS's
Greenleaf
Database Library
Greenleaf
Software, Inc., Dallas, TX
Greenleaf
sells a database library that gives C and C++ programmers tools to access data
stored in industry standard formats, such as those used by dBase and FoxPro.
Patrick was Greenleaf's sole developer for Database Library 4.0, which
added a layer of C++ object-oriented extensions to the product.
Database Library offered a unique set of challenges, in that it was one
of Greenleaf's first products to be compatible with both the 16 bit and 32 bit
versions of Visual C++. A major
part of Patrick’s job consisted of creating a codebase that could be used
transparently in both environments. VC++, VC, Borland C++, All
OS's
