Brown and Root Vickers

Apr 1990 - Jan 1993

Senior Analyst Programmer / Team Leader developing Corporate Engineering Design Management System. This was a family of interacting applications to aid engineers in their design work. Pro*C was used to produce a number of user-configurable reports. Produced a family of engineering calculation procedures to assist engineers in selecting the correct specification equipment for gas compression on North Sea platforms.

Development and support of ENDOS II, the main corporate Engineering Document Control System. This development included extensive reporting facilities and complex forms to allow the users to track documents through their life cycle

Oct 1989 - Apr 1990

Trainee programmer using DataEase on networked PCs to develop and maintain early versions of a corporate Document Control System.

Apr 1989 - Oct 1989

Operation of a cluster of nine Digital VAX machines plus an IBM System 36. Dealt with user problems, retrieval of information from archive tapes, daily, weekly and monthly back-ups, printing files to a high speed laser printer, monitoring job queues and batch reports, etc. and nightly backups on an Artemis system.

Hardware Used

  • Various NOVEL Servers
  • SUN Spark Stations
  • Dumb terminals
  • IBM Compatible PCs
  • Artemis machines
  • Digital VAX cluster
  • IBM System 36

Software Used

Version

VAX VMS
MS DOS 3, 4
MS Windows 3.1
UNIX, XENIX
Oracle RDBMS 6
Oracle Forms 2.3
PL*SQL
Pro*C
SQL*Plus
SQL*ReportWriter 1, 2
Saphire DataEase 2, 3
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