DPEX, Inc., California. Development of Two Minute Nutrition Manager, a program to enable people to track and plan their nutritional intake, in C.
Dimare, California. Development of a front-end in C to their XDB database, for tracking movement of fruit through their plant.
Litton, California. Development of Precision Maintenance Equipment Management software, in PROTOS and Cobol. Development of software to keep duplicate databases in multiple air force bases synchronized so that data was still available in the event of one or more bases being destroyed.
DPEX Inc., California. Porting an HP terminal emulator from the Macintosh to the IBM PC, using the C language.
Fujitsu, California. Porting a terminal emulator to work on their non-industry-standard personal computer, using the C language.
Northern Telecom, RTP North Carolina. Porting a terminal emulator to run on their DV/1 UNIX minicomputer.
Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Nevada, porting a Casino reporting system from BASIC to Paradox.
SASI, California. Developing a Maintenance Tracking System in C and Informix SQL.
MiniSoft, Washington. Ongoing development of the MiniSoft 92 terminal emulator (actually owned by us but exclusively marketed by MiniSoft). This work included keeping the emulator competitive over the years such as by porting to successive versions of Windows, and reverse-engineering Hewlett Packard’s proprietary networking protocol so as to enable personal computers to connect to HP minicomputers over a network. This involved writing DOS device drivers in assembler, and developing TCP/IP protocols. Development of a Java thin-client version of the terminal emulator, together with a version that supports encryption, using technology licensed from Phaos, Inc.
Great Finds, Blacksburg. Development of a database-driven web site www.greatfinds.com, using Filemaker Pro and Lasso, together with the screens necessary to maintain the database such as by adding stock items, customers and orders.
MiniSoft 92, one of the two leading HP terminal emulators, exclusively marketed by MiniSoft, Inc.
Javelin, a Java thin-client version of MiniSoft 92, also marketed by MiniSoft
IX/92, a UNIX version of MiniSoft 92 running on Solaris, HP/UX and SCO UNIX, sold directly by SLC. Customers include Boeing, General Tire, and American Power Conversion.
Offices in the Corporate Research Center of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Windows 2000 local area network
Sun Workstation
HP9000 UNIX minicomputer
HP3000 MPE minicomputer
Development systems for C and Java under Windows and UNIX.
Web server with Filemaker Pro and Lasso
C Language (17 years)
Java Language (4 years)
Network communications
Terminal Emulation
Software engineering in C and Assembler with emphasis on performance