Armco Steel / AK Steel
Software Engineer Spring 1999 - Fall 2000 IT Department (VB/ASP Development)

Duties:

• Determining project requirements
• Formulating and presenting potential solutions
• Documenting designs; writing user guides
• Project development:
  • Visual Basic Development, designing GUI interfaces to ODBC databases
  • ASP development, complete with VBScript and ODBC using SQL
  • 4D Development, porting from Mac to PC, maintenance
  • Developing custom installation wizards with WinBatch (WIL)
  • Database design
  • Project testing
  • Progress reporting
• Attending Armco training events

Development Environments:

• Windows NT (Visual Basic 5 & 6; WinBatch; 4D)
• Windows 95  (Visual Basic 5 & 6; WinBatch; 4D)
• VAX/VMS (text based program editors)

Programming Languages:

• Visual Basic
• ASP (VBScript)
• 4th Dimension
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• JavaScript
• Hand-coded HTML
• Pascal

Software Most Often Used:

• Visual Basic, versions 5 & 6
• 4th Dimension 6.5
• FrontPage 98
• WinBatch
• Microsoft PWS for ASP Testing

Projects:

• Raw Materials Inventory:  This was the original project for which I was hired. The Raw Materials program was originally written with 4D version 3 on a Mac, and it used DAL to communicate to a VAX Rdb database.  I was hired to assist an employee with porting the system to a PC using ODBC.  The employee I was supposed to assist was flooded with Y2K work, so I did the project by myself.  I learned the programming environment, and completed the project in fewer man hours than professional 4D consultants had quoted.
• Railyard Inventory Check:  This was another 4D port from Mac to PC.  The most interesting aspect of this project is that it communicated with a handheld Apple Newton computer.  Changes to inventory could be made with the Newton, then the databases were synchronized when the Newton was plugged back into the PC.
• Slab Shipment Scheduler:  This was a Visual Basic application designed to feed data to the inspection and shipping departments.  It communicated with Rdb and Oracle databases.  An interesting feature of the project is that shipment codes were entered with a laser scanner, instead of being manually typed, in order to lessen human error.
• Slab Mapper Inspection System:  This was the Visual Basic application which consumed most of my time at Armco/AK.  It was a quality control system designed to help track defects and coordinate shipments.  The aforementioned scheduler informs the inspection system of what slabs are ready to be inspected, what customer the slabs are going to, and what the customer's inspection requirements are.  While performing a quality inspection, users utilize a handheld computer system and can draw defects onto the diagram of the slabs.  Defects recorded are stored in the quality control systems and are available for customer information systems and intranet reporting.
• ASP Applications:  I developed more than ten ASP applications, most of which were interactive reports with user-defined queries (date range selection, etc).
• WinBatch Applications:  I developed several applications or parts of applications with WinBatch.  Most notable was an installation program for the Raw Materials Inventory program.  It checked a user's Oracle drivers, installed drivers if necessary, made registry changes, set up ODBC DSN's, pulled necessary files across the network, and created desktop and Start Menu icons.

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