Software Development
Randy Lindsey
Current Focus
Most of my current development work is on web-based systems, which may include internal-use systems. With modern AJAX programming techniques these can become nearly as responsive as workstation-based apps. Languages include PHP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML and XML, running on Apache and Microsoft IIS servers. Databases include MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.
I write custom software using database systems such as Microsoft Access and Visual FoxPro. These are usually highly productive, but limited in scope to running within an organization.
I also write Active Directory automation scripting and reporting to help organizations manage their users and infrastructure.
I use various scripting languages as needed to automate Microsoft Office (VB for Applications), Linux shells (Bash) and Windows (Wscript).
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Some Past Projects
The following are a sampling of the projects which I have designed and implemented, sometimes with a team and sometimes alone. In all of these cases the system successfully met the client’s business requirements.
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Application Software
- Bid management system for book publishing company
- Enhancements and ongoing maintenance for International Triathlon Union website (triathlon.org)
- Highly successful management system for the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region including licensing, vaccinations, lost and found, officer dispatch, call tracking, fund raising
- Home-delivery dairy delivery, billing and production forecasting system (large-scale system, still in use after 10 years)
- Large-scale banking systems including Letter of Credit, Loans, Demand Deposit, General Ledger and other systems
- Construction bidding system
- Mailing list sales system
- Countless accounting and business management software customization projects.
System Software
- Web-driven centralized video transcoding system
- Various website custom shopping carts
- Automated interfaces between disparate call-tracking systems for Digital Equipment Corp
- Early point-to-multipoint data networking system for PDP-11 minicomputers (late 1970’s)
- B-Tree based data management system
- Terminal device driver for Cyber 180 supercomputer
- Serial port driver for commercial Bulletin Board System.
Technical Environments
| Computer System | System Software | Programming Languages |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows | Windows XP, 2003 Server, 2000, NT 4.0, NT 3.5, NT 3.1, ME, 98, 95; IIS; SQL Server 2000, 7.0, 6.5 | Access, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Visual Studio, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript, VBA, SQL |
| Linux | Suse, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, MySQL, Apache | PHP, Perl, Bash, SQL |
| Novell NetWare | NetWare 1.0, 2.0, 2.0a, 3.0, 3.1, 3.12, 4.0, 4.1, 4.11, 5.0, 6.0; Btrieve data manager | FoxPro database manager 1.0, 2.5, 2.6; Basic |
| IBM PC and compatibles (pre-Windows 95) | MS-DOS, CP/M-86, Concurrent DOS, GEM, Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 | Basic, Assembler, Pascal, Modula-2, COBOL, Fortran, dBase II data manager |
| IBM System 360/370 | OS/360, OS/370, MVS, CMS, CICS, JCL, IMS database | Fortran, COBOL, PL/1, BAL (Assembly Language), APL |
| DEC PDP-11 | RSTS, RT-11, RSX-11M | Basic-plus, Fortran |
| DEC Vax | VMS, RDB database | Pascal, Basic-plus, DCL |
| Burroughs Check Sorter | OS | Machine Control Language |
| Honeywell Mainframe | OS | COBOL |
| Burroughs Minicomputer | OS | COBOL |
| Data General Minicomputer | OS | Basic |
| Control Data Corporation | Cyber-180 NOS/VE | Pascal |
| S-100 Microcomputer | CP/M | Basic, Assembler |