Phil Heinrichs, the principal consultant at Brinkhaven Information Services, is offering programming & application development services to enterprises using Speedware software development tools.  He has an in-depth knowledge of Speedware & the HP3000 environment, & has extensive experience in a wide variety of software application areas, such as accounting, order management, manufacturing and inventory control.  He will help you with enhancements, will maintain your legacy Speedware systems, convert systems from MPE to HPUX, or will develop new applications.

Contact Info:

E-mail: pdh@brinkhaven.com
Phone: 740-599-7133
PO Address: 1290 TR-9, Brinkhaven  OH  43006,  US

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Speedware Projects
Professional History
Consulting Rates

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Speedware Projects

Broadcast Tracking System

The client had a custom Speedware V6 system used to track news broadcasts, & lost the services of the system developer.  I took over project maintenance.  The system has been converted to Speedware V7, & has been enhanced in several ways: extensively revised reporting formats, new broadcast costing & billing routines, automated database capacity maintenance using DBGeneral, revised Omnidex retreival capability, etc.

Turner Broadcasting/CNN,  Atlanta GA
1995-2003, part time, telecommuting

Revenue Services System

This project involved a complete re-implementation of a complex billing system for specialized telecommunication services.  The customer was using a custom Speedware V5 system for basic order entry, invoicing, & receivables.  Contract & recurring charge information was kept in a separate semi-manual, spreadsheet based sytem.  The system had grown from a simple invoice printing program, & had been been repeatedly patched & enhanced over time.

The replacement system was implemented in phases.  After determining the target goals for the new system, different segements were implemented over time.  For example, the order entry portion of the system was rewritten to incorporate the recurring charge & contract information.  The invoicing portion of the old system was modified to interface with the new order entry process & related database, & the first phase placed into production use.  A similar procedure was then used for the invoice creation, & then accounts receivable function.  In effect, functions were migrated from one system to the other in related chunks.

This step by step conversion meant that some areas of the system were revised multiple times, & that the database was at times in transition with the same information in more than one location to accommodate two sets of programs.  However, it also meant that there were relatively short times between deliverables, given the scope of the project.  The situation was complicated by two separate corporate mergers over the course of the entire project.  New services were added, old services removed, & reporting & system interfaces had to be modified along the way.

The project was already started, but not very far along, when I was first involved.  My role increased from implementing a sales tax calculation module, to primary designer, to overall responsibity for maintaining the final Speedware V7 system.  A third corporate merger resulted in all of the company's sytems being replaced.

Spacenet, McLean VA
1991-2001, at various times full-time, part time, on site, telecommuting

Speedware Mentor

In this case, the client was converting a major insurance & pension system to Speedware.  There were some programmers who were familiar with the old application, but were new to Speedware.  Other programmers were new to both the company & Speedware.  The project director decided that the people who had started the project & were good Speedware developers should concentrate on developing the system, not on helping less expert programmers.  Although I did some tasks like creating a special security process to allow on the fly user permission changes & revising reports, my principle job was to act as a Speedware expert for the client's programmers.  Whenever anyone had a problem understanding Speedware or how to translate the old system into Speedware screens, I was the designated instructor.

American United Life,  Indianapolis  IN
1996-1997, full-time, on site

Labor Reporting & Job Tracking System

The client was a manufacturing company with an existing system based on older, customized Jobscope software.  The project involved designing & coding a program module that would capture employee hours & record work order progress.

An employee would enter his/her identifier on terminal sessions running in each work area whenever the employee's task changed.  The system acted as a time clock for payroll purposes & included rules for late starts, break & lunch times, schedules shifts, & so on.  Batch reports & batch data transfer files were prepared for tranmittal to an external payroll system.

The job tracking portion of the system used the existing Jobscope database.  Direct, real-time employee data entry replaced paper forms which had been used to key periodic work order updates.  Bar-coded tracking documents & bar-coded employee ID badges meant that usually all an employee had to do was to swipe his/her badge, swipe a work document, & either enter a number for partial completions or accept a suggested number, & swipe the next task from from either another work order or a list of standard activities.

Because activity data was collected as the activities occurred, order status reporting was always up to date.  In the event of erroneous data entry, the first level supervisors could immediately correct work order data by using the existing Jobscope transactions.  Time card data could only be changed by the employee (or an HR timekeeper), & all changes were archived.

Aside from developing the initial specifications, I did the entire project by myself.

Abrasive Tech, Lewis Center OH
1995-1996, full-time, on site

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Professional History

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Consulting Rates

Our rates are quite competetive for on site work, with substantial discounts for telecommuting hours.

Direct expenses (such as specialized software or hardware purchases, travel beyond normal commuting distance, package shipments, etc) will be billed at cost.