 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
"If a man love the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."-- Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|
|
The following is a partial list of the programs that have been developed by Robert A. Tims. |
Developed a database and interface for the Budget Director of a large Tennessee County Sheriff's Office for administrating budget requests and the approved amounts. The user interface is written in MS Visual Basic 6.0, using SQL and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to interface with an MS Access database file. The program has the ability to administrate the departmental divisions, budget accounts, request justifications, and the approved budget. The interface includes entry, edit, and search capabilities. The reports include listings for the budget requests, the approved budget, the divisions, and the accounts. The budget requests and approved budget reports are capable of several user selected formats that can be for a single division or account, or a range of divisions or accounts that include the appropriate subtotals, and the listings can be sorted by division number or by account number.
Designed and Developed an inventory and purchasing module that is part of a manufacturing system. It has the ability to track inventory movement, including purchasing and costs, en route tracking records, vendor records and quotes, warehouse placement, and factory requisitions. The inventory parts screen includes a hi-res display of the part. The program is currently running on a Windows NT network with thirty-five clients. The database engine is Microsoft's Jet engine, the same that is used in Microsoft Access. The user interface is written in MS Visual Basic 6.0, using SQL to interface with the database object.
This is a Visual Basic 6.0 program that displays hi-res pictures of finished goods along with the data that the sales staff needs to present to customers. The program and the graphic files can be downloaded on a laptop computer for on-site presentations to customers. Sales personnel use the program's capability to create a "slide show" to present products that would interest the customer.
The landfill program is currently used by county landfills in Tennessee and Arkansas. It interfaces with the truck scale, keeping track of all material going in and out of the landfill in its database. It provides state mandated material quantity, financial, and tax reports, as well as interfacing with a bookkeeping system. The program is able to keep track of the transactions, within the scope of the landfill, for three different sets of bookkeeping. Visual Basic for DOS was the programming environment.
This system was developed for a pool chemical company in Ohio. It is used by their dealers for swimming pool chemical recommendations. Besides making recommendations based on pool size, pool material, and a pool water analysis, it maintains a database of the customers with their pool water analysis and purchase histories.
This Visual Basic 5.0 program was developed for a time-share resort in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. It performs reservation functions for both time-share owners and rental guests, billing functions for the yearly maintenance fees as well as the charges occurring during the stay of the guests, and bookkeeping records for each of the time-share owners.
Developed a general ledger program that is intuitive for the user. The program includes payroll and inventory modules, along with the general journal and general ledger.
Have been responsible for interfacing a COBOL database with a Harbinger translator. The programs that pull the data out for translating are written in COBOL. The different EDI documents include ASN, Invoice, and PO documents.
Designed algorithms to calculate heading, distance, and electronic waypoints using a database of airport and navaid coordinates. The program was marketed through the Aircraft Components, Inc. Flyer catalog in both IBM PC and Atari versions. This program received a First Place Atari Star Award in 1984. This was a fun program to write. At the time I was a corporate pilot and a flight instructor and felt the need for a program that would speed up the flight planning progress, as well as provide the ability to plan alternate flight routes while in the air. I had only been programming for a couple of years, which made the programming an interesting challenge and at the same time demanded a trip into the area of spherical mathematics. The program was written to run on the old Atari computers as well as on the PC. In order to use the program in the air, I wrote a version that runs on the HP-41C programmable calculator.
This is a payroll companion program that produces the magnetic media reports required by the IRS and the Social Security Administration was developed. It was designed to interface with a specific bookkeeping system.
This was a database designed to meet the needs of a specific Arkansas county by providing a system to maintain their database of voters and for random jury selection. The State of Arkansas has since taken over this responsibility for all the counties in Arkansas.
This program was not developed by ABS Logic, but we were asked to modify and maintain it. The program was a database used by a specific Arkansas county to keep track of personal property and real estate taxes. One of the functions of the program is to print the tax statements each year.
|
|
|
|