About George Graff Name:  George Graff (see 19 ratings)   in Union Bridge, Maryland United States Seller / Coder Rating:  7.42 (Good) Sign up date:  Oct 1, 2002 1:55:47 PM EDT Last Logged In:  Jul 5, 2003 9:28:50 AM EDT Jobs Started:  21 Jobs Completed:  20 Missed Status Report Warnings Issued:  0 Arbitrations Lost:  5 (out of 11 Arbitrations) What is arbitration?       Post a new project exclusively for George Graff   Invite George Graff to bid on one of my existing projects    Send George Graff a bonus   Add George Graff to my custom list of favorite coders     Areas Of Expertise:  Hardware/Software: Oracle 9, 8i, to include Triggers, PL/SQL Stored Procedures and database design; Seagate Crystal Reports Developer and Professional Versions to Version 9; J2EE, Distributed Applications, Cold Fusion 4.0 and Cold Fusion 4.5, Active Server Pages, PHP, Microsoft Interdev, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0; Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer; Microsoft Certified Visual Basic Developer (Version 4.0 and 5.0); Wang Certified Open Image Developer; Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Active Data Objects and Controls; Active Server Pages; Java; Java Script; Microsoft SQL Server (Version 2000); SAP; Sybase System 10/11; Sun/Solaris; BAAN, DB2, CICS. ANSII and Transact SQL; Stored Procedures; MySQL, Visual Basic for Applications, COM; DCOM; Microsoft Visual C++; Microsoft Visual J++; Eastman Open Image Imaging Software; HP-UX Unix; HTML; Macromedia Flash, Visual Basic Scripting for Internet Applications; COBOL; RPG III; Assembler and FORTRAN; IBM System 36; Novell; Modem Configuration; Basic PC troubleshooting techniques. Certified Crystal Reports Developer. Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word; Microsoft Front Page; Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.11; MS-DOS.   Resume: Master Of Computer Science Degree: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Completed degree requirements in June 1987. Bachelor of Science Degree: Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland. Completed degree requirements in December 1983. Major: Computer Science Bachelor of Arts Degree: Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland. Completed degree Hardware/Software: 9/1997 - Present Senior Software Systems Engineer, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) (Contractor), Arlington, VA. · Designed, developed and implemented a high profile, congressionally mandated personnel reporting system which allowed users to track all personnel actions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the United States and its territories. This was done to assess all material personnel actions to include vacancy announcements, hiring, personnel transfers, evaluations and terminations. This was a N-tier web front-end programmed in basic ASP and HTML with a Oracle 8i, 9 back-end, with stored procedures written in PL/SQL and COM /DCOM objects written in Visual Basic 6.0. Created numerous large and medium sized Crystal Reports (8.0 and 8.5) from the Oracle backend. Used Visual C++ to create complex COM objects and OO client applications. Used SAP tools to integrate this application with the VISION desktop, a state of the art J2EE application that is the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE standard client workstation, therefore giving me significant J2EE development experience. Also developed and maintained a large Visual FoxPro 6.0 database to track project costs. · Designed, developed and implemented a high profile, congressionally mandated national material reporting system which allowed users to track movement of DOD classified cargo in the United States and its territories. This was a N-tier web front-end programmed in basic ASP and HTML with a DB2 back-end, with stored procedures written in COBOL/DB2 and COM /DCOM objects written in Visual Basic 6.0. Created numerous large and medium sized Crystal Reports (8.0 and 8.5) from the DB2 backend. Used Visual C++ to create complex COM objects and OO client applications. Used SAP tools to integrate this application with the VISION desktop, a state of the art J2EE application that is the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE standard client workstation, therefore giving me significant J2EE development experience. Also developed and maintained a large Visual FoxPro 6.0 database to track project costs. Provided programming and analysis support to a variety of Office of the Secretary of Defense client projects and end users. Software products revolved around the development of database-driven web applications and client server applications utilizing Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Data Access Projects, Seagate Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Designed, developed and tested a high speed N-Tier database project to connect to Office of the Secretary of Defense &'s offices in Germany and Korea, with MS SQL Server 2000 as the data repository, and a MS Access/VB front end as the client application, with Crystal Reports 8.0 as the reporting tool. Used stored procedures, triggers and other scaling tools in order to provide maximum performance. Designed and developed the SQL Server database. Was also the database administrator? Used PHP and MYSQL to create a company intranet to allow users to search for online documents. Used Visual C++ to create complex COM objects and OO client applications. Used SAP tools to integrate this application with a standard CRM desktop. Also developed an application that kept track of employee's time and created the management reports that were derived from this tool. The Time tracking tool was a N-Tier application with COM/ DCOM objects developed in Visual Basic 6.0, with a SQL Server 2000 back-end, and used Active Data Objects 2.6 to allow the GUI to interact with the database. Provided programming and analysis support to a variety of OSD client projects. Main areas of support revolved around the development of database-driven web applications. Procured, designed and developed the U.S. Army&'s Breast Cancer Research (CDRMP) proposal submission website, to allow paperless submission of research proposals and the evaluation of these proposals by peer review. Created a CRM desktop on the web to provide maximum flexibility. Supported a project with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for which the OSD provided development support for the National Institutes of Health Web site. Programmed a subsection that allows users to search a database of clinical trials. Also wrote a data-import routine to load the data into a relational database from an ASCII-based file provided to UIS on a periodic basis. This was a N-Tier application using COM/DCOM objects written in Visual Basic 6.0. Used a variety of tools for development tasks including Active Server Pages, Visual Interdev, Java and Java Server Pages, C, MS Access, HTML, Cold Fusion, and other web applications tools. Used PERL to parse large text files to place them on a website. Developed enterprise level Crystal Reports applications for management reporting (Ver. 8.0) Also developed an application that kept track of employee's time and projects of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and created the management reports that were derived from this tool. Tool was developed in Visual FoxPro 6.0, with a SQL Server 2000 back-end, and use Active Data Objects 2.6 and Active X controls for the GUI to interact with the database. Used Visual C++ to create complex COM objects and OO client applications. · Was responsible for the entire Office of the Secretary of Defense&'s efforts related to a smooth transition to the Year 2000 as development lead for Project End Game, a Congressionally mandated reporting system that monitored all Office of the Secretary of Defense facilities to ensure that any problems developed at the century change would be reported. Was the technical lead for this effort and had to manage a team to develop complex applications under non-slip time restraints. Functioned as lead programmer/analyst for a team of eight developers. Designed, developed and implemented a series of distributed applications in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 that allowed that information to be gathered for the century date change, to include a Web-based front end, for both analysts manning a century date change control center and senior executives of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Created ORACLE/SQL Server communication tool in C++. Crystal reports 8.0 was the reporting tool for management reports. Prototyped this application in Visual Fox Pro 6.0. Moved it to a more robust client-server application. 12/1983 - 9/1997 Senior Software Engineer, First Data Corporation,     Rent A Coder Work History All ratings and comments are the opinion of the poster and do not reflect the official view of Rent A Coder. Rated For Rated By Rating Bid Amount Rated On   Bonus for George Graff on 5/17/2003 8:44:07 PM nnn456 None Given $25.00 May 18, 2003 12:56:50 PM EDT       Project Management nnn456 9 (Superb) $50.00 May 14, 2003 8:38:53 PM EDT   He's a nice guy:)     PDF.OCX password control Oxford Cryptosystems 10 (Excellent) $10.00 May 13, 2003 12:27:50 PM EDT       Pop Up Killer Ian Ippolito (RAC) None Given $10.00 April 23, 2003 4:56:26 PM EDT   Canceled by mutual agreement.     CCTV monitoring type application Ian Ippolito (RAC) 3 (Poor) $100.00 March 29, 2003 5:02:56 PM EDT   The project was not completed.     Email gateway for POP3 accounts Hallå None Given $30.00 March 8, 2003 3:42:46 AM EDT       Autodialer abujordan None Given $25.00 February 13, 2003 1:48:28 PM EDT       VBA Optimize Access Application Ian Ippolito (RAC) 1 (Horrible) $8.00 February 11, 2003 7:12:09 PM EDT   Coder failed to complete the project by the deadline.     Call Waiting Detection program while online Ian Ippolito (RAC) 4 (Below Average) $100.00 February 6, 2003 4:29:29 PM EDT   Did not deliver working installation package as explicitly requested by buyer. As a result, the program would not run in arbitration due to a missing .dll.     Contact Management System with microsoft Acess Database Ian Ippolito (RAC) None Given $25.00 January 28, 2003 4:10:33 PM EDT   There was a disagreement about the completetion of the project.     Private auction for TheComputerCowboy1 on 10/6/2002 1:16:13 AM Ian Ippolito (RAC) None Given $50.00 January 13, 2003 10:22:30 PM EDT   The coder did not complete the project by the deadline.     Basic Company Contacts Database bulldog500 10 (Excellent) $20.00 December 30, 2002 11:43:37 AM EDT   George, Thank you for some Good code It Was very helpfull. The changes you made got it off in the right direction.     Crystal Reports VB.NET jconaty 8 (Very Good) $100.00 December 30, 2002 8:46:55 AM EDT       Fedex/RPS Tracking # Checksum Shane Krueger 8 (Very Good) $15.00 December 27, 2002 9:02:30 PM EDT   A++ for effort!     FAX MODULE 2 JCDENTON 10 (Excellent) $120.00 December 10, 2002 2:59:13 PM EDT   Super, thanks for the well done job.     Printing a form poetry-contest 10 (Excellent) $50.00 December 4, 2002 12:54:19 PM EDT   George went way over and above what I asked for.     Video Modem Chat and PC remote JCDENTON 10 (Excellent) $250.00 November 22, 2002 12:16:28 PM EDT   Superb job, Thanks     file handling library in vb makkena 4 (Below Average) $25.00 November 22, 2002 12:21:51 AM EDT   havent met the specification asked to do.     Simple debug for pdf.ocx Oxford Cryptosystems 10 (Excellent) $5.00 November 21, 2002 5:19:10 PM EDT   George has done excellent work and come up with an answer to this cryptic problem despite very, very, sparse documentation available. Thanks!     EMAIL, FTP,MODEM JCDENTON 10 (Excellent) $100.00 November 15, 2002 9:19:38 AM EDT   Excellent communicator, high technical skills and very willing to adapt to changes requested.He delivered more than expected. Highly recommended.     Crystal Reports 8.5 - Server Side Reporting Jupiter ICT 4 (Below Average) $25.00 November 14, 2002 4:20:31 PM EDT   My project specification was not met. I made more than 4/5 attempts to explain the specification to the coder without any progress being made. The coder did send me a piece of code for sql server management and for this reason only did I set the project as completed and release the $25.00.     Translation to German Ian Ippolito (RAC) 3 (Poor) $100.00 November 11, 2002 11:05:53 AM EDT   Coder did not deliver what the buyer had asked for.     Translation to German bluegrass None Given $100.00 November 6, 2002 7:15:10 PM EDT   Pending arbitration.     Bonus for George Graff on 10/28/2002 3:37:58 PM JCDENTON None Given $30.00 October 28, 2002 3:38:45 PM EDT       Email Form and MsWord Copy(for TheComputerCowboy1) TCEC 7 (Good) $30.00 October 23, 2002 10:04:13 PM EDT   Given the time constraints the job was done well for the cost allowed     Private auction for TheComputerCowboy1 on 10/10/2002 9:26:14 AM johnowl None Given $30.00 October 21, 2002 11:19:01 AM EDT       ASP Book Store Project paulcharris 10 (Excellent) $10.00 October 18, 2002 10:02:19 AM EDT   Thank's George for a job well done.     Printing invoices from MS Access Subform johnowl 10 (Excellent) $30.00 October 9, 2002 11:57:58 AM EDT   Very fast and responsive and did an excellent job.     ------ Average:   7.42