Apr 1994 – Apr 1996
On CONTRACT to Argos Plc (Milton Keynes, UK)

Snr. Analyst/Programmer involved directly in Development, Programming, Installation and Training.

ARGOS required a knowledgeable and proficient Snr. FoxPro Analyst/Programmer to design, write, implement, train and support a series of small/medium data management programs. These systems are part of Argos Premier Incentives, the Incentive and promotion division of Argos. I wrote the original software in FoxPro for DOS in a stand alone environment and then a few months later I converted them to FoxPro for WINDOWS and Network operation. The work was to be for 2 week, but has been extended piece meal month by month to become 2 years.

The main products of Argos Premier Incentives include Premier Points [Points collecting cards in association with companies like Mobil Oil/BP & Somerfield], Argos Vouchers and Premier Award Banks [Incentive Points collecting scheme for employees & customers of Client companies].

The small and medium schemes (up to 1000 members) are written in FoxPro for the PC, whereas the larger systems are written by the in-house team for the AS/400. As FoxPro is not a company standard the Award Banks are slowly being converted to AS/400 operation. To this end I am now handing over the expertise to the in-house PC systems person as the systems have only a couple of months before they are absorbed into the AS/400 environment.

Recent work has included small and medium schemes run under MS Access 2.0 and MS Visual BASIC 3 whilst waiting for the new AS/400 system to come fully on-line. Also a larger database summary system written in FoxPro for DOS which takes 500Mb of information from the AS/400 billing system and analyses it. Producing weekly reports. Plus graphs in Excel.

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