Joel Bierling - Projects
   

Contract

AJV Inc (2007-2009) - Designed and developed website for architectural firm. Written using Javascript, CSS, and HTML.

Lead Pursuit

Falcon 4.0 Allied Force (2004-) - Executive Producer, Lead Developer, co-founder, and part owner of Lead Pursuit. Lead Pursuit has developed the award winning Falcon 4.0 Allied Force based on the legendary Falcon 4.0 F-16 combat flight simulator.
- Managed and provided leadership to a team of 18 developers setting individual goals and priorities. Defined project objectives and schedules.
- Managed an executive team setting strategic direction.
- Developed key aspects of software (Visual Studio and C++) including aviation and avionics systems, artificial intelligence and network and bandwidth management.

Abante Systems

MITracker (2003-) - Designed, developed, and managed Abante’'s development team for MITracker (C#, IIS, SQL). MITracker allows administrators easy access to standardized testing results over the web.
Education YES! (2002-2003) - Web site collecting self-assessments for school systems throughout the State of Michigan. Over 4000 schools used the web site Dec 2002-Feb 2003. Written using C++. Runs on Linux under Apache and FastCGI using a PostgreSQL database.
MEAP Assistant (2001-2002) - Software that reports on student MEAP results. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.
Progression Report Design Assistant (2001-) - Software allows the configuration of Progression reports. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.
Progression Network Assistant (2000-) - Software supports Progression for large user bases. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.

Progression for the Web (2000-) - Curriculum management software. Written using Microsoft Visual C++ and the ISAPI interface under IIS and Apache. Extensive use of Javascript.
Progression for Windows (1998-) - Curriculum management software. Written using Microsoft Visual C++. Took over MEAP Assistant functionality in 2002.
Progression for MacOS (1997-1998) - Curriculum management software. Written using Metrowerks Codewarrior C++.
Progression 1.0 for Windows (1996-1998) - Curriculum management software. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
DevTracker (1998) - Development management software. Helps keep track of development issues. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.

Phoenix Data Systems

PanoReality Explorer (PRE) for the Web (1999) - Explore through the Holy Land with a click of a button. Written using HTML and Javascript with pages generated from Holy Land Builder.
PanoReality Explorer (PRE) for Windows (1995-1997) - Explore through the Holy Land with a click of a button. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
PanoReality Explorer Screen Saver (1997) - A slide show of your favorite pictures from PRE. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
ActiveButton (1998) - An ActiveX control that makes buttons more interesting. This control is used in IDB 2.0 and HLB. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.
Image Database 2.0 (1998-) - A Database that keeps track of my image archive of around 20,000 images and videos. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.

Image Database (1994-1997) - A Database that keeps track of my image archive of around 15,000 images and videos. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
Image Database Online (1997-) - A Database that keeps track of my image archive of around 20,000 images and videos. Search on the web! First written using Active Server Pages, rewritten to use Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP.
PanoReality Builder (PRB) (1997-) - A program that constructs the information that PRE uses to present its information. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
BMPPalette (1996) - A program that manipulated bmp palettes so they look good in PRE with a system using 8 bit color. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.
PanoReality - Designed and developed website for photography spinoff.

Personal

Falcon4 (2000-) Participated as lead coder of the eTeam and F4UT, groups dedicated to improving and extending Falcon4 at the most basic level. Estimated user base 60,000 users.
F4Patch (2000-) Programmed and designed the F4Patch modification system for Falcon4. Estimated user base between 20,000 and 80,000 users. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.
Alarm Clock (1997) - I first wrote this program the night before my dad and I left on our plane from Istanbul back to the US. We had to get up at 3:00 in the morning so I wrote this program to get us up on time. It had a bug due to lax VB type conversions which made it go off an hour before we really had to get up. Ooops! Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.

Fleet Command (1999) Wrote a Microsoft Access database editor to edit the data files of Fleet Command.
Paper Route (1990) - I wrote a computer program for the newspaper route that I held for 6 years. The program kept track of all the record keeping that are associated with a paper route and allowed me to access a customer's records with a touch of a button. Prior to this program I also wrote a program to print bills for my paper route. Written using Quick Basic.
Billing Labels (1988??) - My first "real" program was written on a C-128 and it printed out billing labels for my paper route. Written using Basic.

School

Image Database Java Server (1996) - A predecessor to Image Database Online. Written using Java.
Softball Scheduler (1996) - Exactly what the name implies... it schedules softball games. Written using Microsoft Visual C++.

Greiner

Detail Manager (1995-1996) - A database to keep track of AutoCad details. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic for DOS.
Plot Description Manager (1995-1996) - Allows managers to write descriptions about projects. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic for DOS.

Floating Notes (1995-1996) - A major limitation of Lotus Notes was that it only allowed for one user. This program creates a login for Lotus Notes so multiple people can use the same computer and same installation of Lotus Notes. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic.
(1995-1996) Many programs dealing with the AutoCad plotting system. Written using Microsoft Visual Basic for DOS.



Many, many others...


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