Senior Dataflex Developer
01/12/1998 - 27/04/2007
Senior DataFlex programmer, customizing and maintaining MortgageFlex, a loan origination system.
This was a massive sytem that had been greatly customized over many years and I added complete 'suites' and new menus in addition to undertaking major modifications.
Heavily involved in the data migration to an Oracle backend implementing the use of third party drivers to allow our .Net
programmers to access the data. This was undertaken in parallel with moving from Unix to Red Hat Linux.
This position, initially a six month contract, lasted over eight years.
Contract Dataflex Programmer
02/02/1998 - 30/11/1998
DataFlex developer customizing and maintaining MortgageFlex, a loan origination system on a Windows/Novell platform.
This contract originally set at six months, was extended on a month to month basis.
Contract Dataflex Programmer
05/06/1996 - 30/01/1998
Dataflex database programmer, maintaining Pension/Savings Plan software system.
Originally a 6 month contract, extended to 18 months, ending upon the Benefits Division being outsourced.
Contract Dataflex Programmer
01/07/1994 - 31/05/1996
Programmer maintaining Six Flags main software system written in Dataflex 2.3b in a Windows environment.
A three month contract extended to sixteen months.
Dataflex Programmer
07/02/1992 - 03/10/1992
Administrated one of Counterpoints main Dataflex database products additionally providing limited supervision of two programmers
and as such had the responsibility to co-ordinate programming schedules and delegate programming tasks accordingly and personally
undertaking considerable programming duties.
Though the newest member of the programming team I was given sole responsibility to develop Dataflex software for on-site installation, which required
writing and rigorously testing data extraction, table resrtucturing and reloading software, which I implemented at each of our five sites.
Dataflex Programmer
04/12/1989 - 01/12/1991
Trainee Dataflex programmer. After six months was promoted to programmer and additional duties included installation of Novell 286 networks.
After a further six months switched to mainframes as an Analyst/Programmer providing IT support for software release acceptance testing
Dataflex Programmer
01/07/1988 - 05/30/1989
Sole Dataflex programmer, maintaining and enhancing Service Centre III, a parts and labour scheduling software system.