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Brett Ward Limited has carried out the following
projects for clients:
- e-Learning System.
Maintenance of a tool in a e-Learning system publication chain. Java, XMLBeans,
XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ext-JS, Linux.
- GSM Base Station Tools.
Design, build, test and maintain a variety of tools to install, configure, test,
monitor and control GSM base stations. Java, C++ (MSVC and gcc), Windows, Linux,
database (ADO, ODBC, Access, MySQL), XML, various GSM protocol suites.
- CORBA migration.
Evaluation OmniORB as a replacement for VisiBroker. Convert a system consisting of
about a dozen server, client and combined applications to OmniORB.
- Web browser / mobile phone integration.
Integrating various versions of Microsoft Mobile Explorer onto various mobile phones,
a total of five porting jobs. Brett Ward Limited was a Microsoft
Mobile Explorer System Integrator.
Embedded C, TCP/IP, GSM.
- Web site debugging.
The client's web site had stopped working following some changes and half the
transactions were not being recorded in the database; his usual technical
resource was not available. The problem was diagnosed
and a workaround implemented within a few hours. Technologies involved:
IIS, ASP, HTML, VBScript, Access 2000.
- Database restructuring.
Convert a database from DBF files to Access. Restructure and optimise performance,
and add new features.
Before: one particular operation took seven days to run. After: two minutes.
Access 97, VB.
- Image processing.
Machine vision system for setup of a machine tool. Before: minimum setup time
20 minutes for a skilled operator. After: typical setup time two minutes for
an unskilled operator.
Visual C++, MFC, VB. Image processing system: WiT.
- Image processing.
Development of machine vision QA system.
Visual C++, MFC, VB. Image processing system: WiT.
- Video processing.
Bug fixing and enhancement of a video processing and image processing application.
Visual C++, MFC. Image processing system: HIL/HAIL.
- DVB - Digital TV - Turbo Internet - e-commerce.
System design, supplier and product evaluation, recruitment etc, to support the development of
a large e-commerce system to be delivered by satellite, combined with a digital TV
channel and a Turbo Internet service.
Technologies used include DVB, MPEG-2, SQL Server, Visual C++, TCP/IP.
- Visual C++ - Windows NT - SDH communications.
Maintenance and continued development of Node Managers
using CMISE protocols to manage SDH node equipment.
- Sybase / Windows client-server development.
Maintenance of parts of a large three-level
client-server commercial Sybase application, including
production of a new
data feed subsystem. Technologies used include
Transact-SQL, db-Library, and Unix C programming on Sun hardware,
and Windows C programming
and Visual Basic at the front end.
- Microsoft Access Performance Optimisation. Work done
to improve
the performance of a batch function in an Access database system.
A particular
operation which started off taking around thirty hours ended up
taking less
than half an hour.
- Financial Modelling System. Maintenance of a
financial modelling
system written in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel,
including development
of a subsystem to transfer data between the two applications.
- Multimedia CD-ROM Beta Testing. Beta testing of
a multimedia
CD-ROM title for an academic publisher.
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