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Overview
Canegrowers is an industry body which represents the Australian sugar cane industry. Paul worked there as a Senior Analyst / Programmer and helped them transition from COBOL to client server.
Business Environment
Collection and analysis of sugar industry statistics.
Membership management.
Bulk mailing.Production of magnetically encoded membership cards.
Responsibilities and Achievements
Worked with users to define their business requirements and produced
technical specifications based on those requirements.
Prepared a 5 year plan for systems development at Canegrowers. This called
for a number of independent applications all accessing a central data
repository.
Documented application development standards for PowerBuilder, Visual
Basic and COBOL.
Evaluated client server development tools such as Visual Basic, SQL Windows
and PowerBuilder.
Designed and implemented a PowerBuilder object framework.
Developed and maintained a range of applications using PowerBuilder,
Visual Basic and COBOL.
Designed and administered databases and data warehouses.
Participated in beta testing of new releases of HP ALLBASE/SQL and its
ODBC driver.
Founding member of the Queensland PowerBuilder Users Group. Addressed
the group on the subject of “PowerBuilder Resources On The Internet”.
Member of the California based Hewlett Packard Client Server Users Group.
Addressed the group on the subject of “PowerBuilder and ALLBASE/SQL”.
Qualified as a Certified PowerBuilder Developer (version 4).
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Period
May 1993 - May 1996.