Experienced programmer looking for subcontract work

[Bogdan Zamfir]

I am interested in collaboration in software development.
I have very much experience in off-site development, working over Internet.
I have collaborations with company from U.S. (Seattle, Portland and Dallas),
and Nederland, and I can provide references if necessary.

I have Master Degree in Computer Science - Software Development, and I am 31
years old.

Work experience:
1. Very good experience with MS Access 97/2000/XP, Visual Basic/VBA, Visual
Basic 5.0 / 6.0
2. Very good experience in database programming (FoxBASE+, FoxPro 2.0, 2.6
for DOS/ Win, Visual FoxPro 3.0 - 8.0) Accounting software, Health Care,
Building Restoration / Estimating, etc.
3. Very good experience integrating ActiveX, OCX, COM / DCOM, networking,
and Windows API calls with both VFP and Access / VB environments.
4. Good web development experience - HTML/Forms/VBScript / JavaScript, web
based databases - MySql, Access, Server-Side scripting - PHP, ASP, ASP.NET
5. Experience in Web services development.
6. Experience with Visual Studio.NET - web and windows based applications
7. Strong OOP experience (VFP OOP extensions, PHP, C++, C#, VB.NET,
ObjectPascal)
8. Network / e-mail applications (using Winsock ActiveX/OCX controls,
UNIX/Linux c++ using TCP/IP sockets, DOS/Windows using Ftp Software Packet
Driver, Windows Winsock).

Please contact me at (e-mail address removed)

 

[Duane Hookom]

With all that great experience, I am surprised I haven't seen you post lots
of answers in the Access News Groups. Seems to me that if someone was
looking to hire a contract programmer, they might first consider offering
'paying' work to some of the contract programmers who freely give of their
time and talents.

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Actually, I might add that Bogdan asked a lot of *basic* questions in these
newsgroups a short while ago. He must have acquired a great deal of
experience in using Access in an exceedingly short period of time ...

Perhaps, now he should learn to use other newsgroups to advertise his
talents ...

 

[Pavel Romashkin]

Oh come on guys, its just spam! But I agree, it is not prudent to use a
public advice forum to look for contracts.

Cheers,
Pavel

 

[Duane Hookom]

I personnally know many to the Access (and other MVPs) and know there are
many others (non-MVPs) that donate their time to helping others. I have
never witnessed any of these gracious individuals blatantly advertising in
public news groups. Many of these Access developers are contractors who
depend on new work coming in. Times are tough for even the best
contractor/consultants so it rubs me the wrong way when I see spam like
this.

 

[Bogdan Zamfir]

Hi guys,



Sorry I bothered you soooo much with my post.

I should at least use [OT] or [ADV] in front of the message subject, so you
could filter it out.

On the other hand, flame on ng as at least as bad as advertising, and after
I made the mistake and "polluted" the ng with a single message, there was
five more messages that "polluted" the ng too.



About the fact I didn't answered on newsgroups to help others, I admit I
didn't. Maybe I was busy to "acquired a great deal of experience in using
Access in an exceedingly short period of time".

And if I should do this (helping others), should my message be allowed?



About "lot of *basic* questions", there was some, because this is the
purpose of newsgroups. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the guys who
put me on flame, answering any of them.

I got answers from other persons, which also I noticed was very helpful with
many others asking questions here.



About my skills, "acquired in an exceedingly short period of time", I
include the result from Access2000 test at Brainbench



http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=4579474


Test Results

Module 1: MS Access 2000 Fundamentals
Score: 3.4 (Scale of 1 - 5 where 5.0 = Best)
Higher than 95% of all previous test takers.
Demonstrates a solid understanding of core concepts within this
topic. Appears capable of working on most projects in this area
with moderate assistance. May require some initial assistance
with advanced concepts, however.
Weighted Average Score: 3.4
Total Test Time: 26 minutes, 15 seconds
Avg. time per question: 39 seconds

Best regards

 

[Van T. Dinh]

Bogdan

I don't normally bother replying to ads. However, since I know you have
been using these newsgroups for a while, I am sure you know the etiquette
you should observe but you INTENTIONALLY ignored it and posted whatever you
liked. To me, it is NOT a mistake as you claimed!

Whether you are willing to help others in these newsgroups is NOT important.
The important thing is these newsgroups are for technical questions and
answers, NOT for ads or job postings. There are other avenues set up for
ads and job postings. If you had bothered to read the netiquette for these
newsgroups http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm (considering that you
have used these newsgroups at least since April 2001), you would have found
these avenues.

On whether any of these respondents answered your questions or not, I am
sure someone who has that much experience in computer (as you claimed) won't
have any problem finding this out using Google Search! I don't claim to be
that experienced or smart but I managed to know details I posted in this
thread. Try finding you posts in April 2001 and April 2002 and see who
responded.

I wouldn't say 3.4 our of 5 is something to boost about. In fact, if it
were one of the MCSE or MCSD tests, you would have FAILED since the pass
mark is at least 80%, IIRC. The fact it is higher than 95% of the previous
takers simply meant that most takers were students learning Access, since
commercial database programmers don't bother with these tests.

My final remark: Please follow the rules.

--
HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)

Hi guys,



Sorry I bothered you soooo much with my post.

I should at least use [OT] or [ADV] in front of the message subject, so you
could filter it out.

On the other hand, flame on ng as at least as bad as advertising, and after
I made the mistake and "polluted" the ng with a single message, there was
five more messages that "polluted" the ng too.



About the fact I didn't answered on newsgroups to help others, I admit I
didn't. Maybe I was busy to "acquired a great deal of experience in using
Access in an exceedingly short period of time".

And if I should do this (helping others), should my message be allowed?



About "lot of *basic* questions", there was some, because this is the
purpose of newsgroups. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the guys who
put me on flame, answering any of them.

I got answers from other persons, which also I noticed was very helpful with
many others asking questions here.



About my skills, "acquired in an exceedingly short period of time", I
include the result from Access2000 test at Brainbench



http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=4579474


Test Results

Module 1: MS Access 2000 Fundamentals
Score: 3.4 (Scale of 1 - 5 where 5.0 = Best)
Higher than 95% of all previous test takers.
Demonstrates a solid understanding of core concepts within this
topic. Appears capable of working on most projects in this area
with moderate assistance. May require some initial assistance
with advanced concepts, however.
Weighted Average Score: 3.4
Total Test Time: 26 minutes, 15 seconds
Avg. time per question: 39 seconds

Best regards

 

[Bogdan Zamfir]

I don't normally bother replying to ads. However, since I know you have

been using these newsgroups for a while, I am sure you know the etiquette
you should observe but you INTENTIONALLY ignored it and posted whatever you
liked. To me, it is NOT a mistake as you claimed!

I didn't claimed I posted the message by mistake, but I said I admit it was
a mistake to post that ad.

Whether you are willing to help others in these newsgroups is NOT important.
The important thing is these newsgroups are for technical questions and
answers, NOT for ads or job postings. There are other avenues set up for
ads and job postings. If you had bothered to read the netiquette for these
newsgroups http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm (considering that you
have used these newsgroups at least since April 2001), you would have found
these avenues.

I agree with you on that, and again, I take my blame.

On whether any of these respondents answered your questions or not, I am
sure someone who has that much experience in computer (as you claimed) won't
have any problem finding this out using Google Search! I don't claim to be
that experienced or smart but I managed to know details I posted in this
thread. Try finding you posts in April 2001 and April 2002 and see who
responded.

My fault again. Indeed, you answered me at few questions than, and I thanked
to you for. Actually, questions from 2001 and 2002 wasn't such *very basic*
questions as you said, and for some of them there was finally found an
acceptable solution (as for the question with progress bar during long SQL
queries). Some other was related to things possibe in other languages I have
experience too, but not possible in Access using the same approach.

I wouldn't say 3.4 our of 5 is something to boost about. In fact, if it
were one of the MCSE or MCSD tests, you would have FAILED since the pass
mark is at least 80%, IIRC. The fact it is higher than 95% of the previous
takers simply meant that most takers were students learning Access, since
commercial database programmers don't bother with these tests.

I didn't bother with this either to much. However I found it and tried as a
quick test, not to proove something, and as you saw there I spent no more
than 39 sec per question. I suppose for a MCSD or MCSE the time allowed
isn't so short, and I should have no reason to stay as short on a question.

Regards,
Bogdan

 

[Tony Toews]

Actually, I might add that Bogdan asked a lot of *basic* questions in these
newsgroups a short while ago. He must have acquired a great deal of
experience in using Access in an exceedingly short period of time ...

<chuckle>

Tony
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