Visual Basic Programmer

Visual Basic Client Projects

Infosphere Pty Ltd

March 2001 to April 2008

Job Description:

Microsoft Visual Basic Programmer and Website design.

Company Profile:

Infosphere is a Microsoft Certified Partner, providing custom software development services for Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic and SQL Server Database projects.

Duties:

• Microsoft Visual Basic conversion and programming. Microsoft Access design, programming and maintenance. Setting of Visual Basic programming standards.

Achievements:

• Produced a 30 page manual on SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications Programmer standards.
• Analysed the automatic creation of Acrobat's Portable Document Format (.pdf) files as email attachments.
• Converted a VB3 project to Microsoft Visual Basic 6 for George Patterson Bates. This comprised 65,000 lines of code, and involved the conversion of:
  • Multiple Microsoft Access databases.
  • Third party Controls – Video Elastic (now SizerOne), True Grid (now True DBGrid).
  • 16 bit API Windows System calls – including replacement of those that were obsolete.
  • Crystal Reports, Email and ODBC.
• Converted a VB3 to Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Life Insurance valuation system for Phillips Fox actuaries.
• Rewrote the Infosphere Web site, optimised for Search Engines (including research on Keywords). To see the new Website, click on www.infosphere.com.au.
• Created a VB.Net program to automate the sending of monthly newsletters by Email. Added a routine to check the validity of the Email address, for the correct format, domain and country. Created numerous newsletters in HTML compatible with Microsoft Outlook.