Christo Du Preez
JEE & Mobile Application Developer at go!App
51 years old
George Area South Africa
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
My objective is to apply all the valuable skills I have to offer to help ensure the growth and sustainability of my clients products.
Analyst Programmer
Higgs International Publishing Logistics (Pty) Limited
November 1998
to January 2003
- Co-designed ROLAP (multidimensional data models) and developed OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) Cubes used by publishers as a business performance management service provided by Higgs via Citrix.
- Technology — MS Analysis Services, OLAP
- Technology — Delphi, MS SQL Server, Progress
- OLAP Reporting
- Originally when I started at Higgs the aim was for me to maintain and enhance their existing applications. These applications at the time was very unstable. Within a very short period I managed to get these systems stable and also improved the overall performance, enabling Higgs to catch up to a huge backlog threatening there core business. I continued with maintenance during the phase out period of these systems.
- While the newspaper ordering system was rewritten by a 3rd party I was given the task to design and develop their Magazine Processing System. I completed the task in a very short time, delivering a very stable and user friendly application.
- Technology — Delphi, MS SQL Server
- Ordering & Administration Systems
- Maintained and enhanced a data loader interface used for importing DHL airway bills. Designed and developed a Customs Interface, enabling Higgs to tap directly into UK Customs. This provided the ability to upload airway bill information onto GeMS used for tracking cargo and getting the necessary customs clearance.
- 3rd Party Interfaces
- Technology — Delphi, MS SQL Server
- Designed and developed a barcode labelling application for use in warehouse environment. Consisting of detailed flight information for custom clearance purposes. The aim here was to produce labels fast enough hence a very small time frame the night operations staff has between receiving cargo packing it an sending it off to different airports. This was achieved by writing an interface that communicated natively with high speed industrial label printers to reduce unnecessary overheads.
- Barcode Labelling
