Software
Steve Smith - 2005
My first analyst programmer job after I finished University was at this company
Index Computers. Dee Why, Sydney.
I wrote modules for an Insurance Brokers Package.
I then travelled to Los Angeles and worked as a computer programmer starting in 1981. I developed the following software:
Computer Sciences Corporation. El Segundo, Los Angeles.
Worked on the Electronic Mail system for the time sharing network. Entirely wrote the software Form Fill.
Science Dynamics Corporation. Torrance, Los Angeles. This company was sold a number of times.
First to McDonnell Douglas.
Then to Gerber Alley. Atlanta.
Then to McDonnell Douglas, which was bought by Boeing.
I worked on the Physician System Billing Package. In particular I wrote the Report Generator.
C Square International. West Covina, Los Angeles.
I wrote the Rack Marketing System which was sold to client Center Oil in Creve Coure, Illinois.
I wrote the Generic Data Base Interface in the "C" language. This was sold to Chevron, San Francisco. This revolutionized writing database applications, because it replace millions of functions by a single generic interface. The old way of programming was to hard-code the SQL into the database interface functions. The Generic Data Base Inteface instead accepted the SQL statement as a parameter. This SQL statement had placeholders for user input which were also passed in as parameters.
DirecTv. El Segundo, Los Angeles.
Wrote the Subscriber Migration Report in the "C" language. The database was very large, and it was impossible to produce a sophisticed report in SQL, which was not sophisticed enough and very slow. This report used the technique of extracting a large amount of data by simple SQL into a flat files, which could then be processed by a "C" program. The "C" library function "qsort" sorted the flat files which were then processed against each other to show churn or subscriber migration.