Kent Thompson Consulting

Software Solutions that Work

Commercial and Custom Software Solutions
We provide complete software solutions to solve your business, graphic, scientific and engineering needs. From Visual Basic Application / MS-Office based (OfficeTeam/VBA) business solutions to engineering systems written entirely in C++ for high performance precision computing, we can provide a solution to help achieve your organizations goals.

Complete Full Software Development Life Cycle Support
Kent Thompson Consulting offers many software services, and in all of them we offer a full spectrum of experience and knowledge to make your software project a success.

Systems Analysis, Planning and Architectural Design
With decades of experience in object-oriented design (OOD) and object-oriented programming (OOP) we can provide a state of the art design and long term extensible architecture to suit any situation. Coupled with extensive experience with large scale Databases, we have a long history of taking customer concepts, needs and ideas and turning them into a "living" system that works 24/7.

Application Creation
New applications designed, written and maintained using principles of Software Engineering.

Application Maintenance
We can maintain existing source code and extend programs written by anyone and maintain them using state of the art principles of Software Engineering.

Application Testing, Documentation and Maintenance
Again, we can and do support the project for its entire product life cycle - or any phase of it.

System / Application Deployment
We can help get the system/application onto the users desktop in many ways, including automating the process so the user need not be involved.

Hire Us On Contract
We are a great work "over-flow" alternative. Hire us instead of hiring a full-time employee to handle those deadlines. Short or long duration contracts can be accommodated. Again, we can, and do support the project for it's entire product life cycle - or any phase of it the client desires.

Extensive Experience with these Languages

ANSI Standard C++	Microsoft C++ (All Versions)
ANSI Standard C	Microsoft Visual Basic
Structered Query Language - SQL	Microsoft C#
ASP.NET - ASP	Perl
Basic Language	Object Pascal
Pascal	Dozens of Scripting, Graphic and Database Languages

Extensive Experience with these Microsoft APIs, Frameworks, Interfaces and Systems

MS Operating Systems - All Versions	MS .NET Architecture and Framework
MS Visual Studio - All Versions	MS Componenet Object Model - (COM)
Microsoft OCX	MS Object Linking and Embedding - (OLE)
Microsoft ActiveX	MS Distributed Componenet Object Model - (DCOM)
Microsoft Win32 API	DLL: Dynamic Link Libraries. Usage and development.

Extensive Experience with these Application Frameworks, Interfaces and Systems

ANSI Standard C++ Library	Unified Modeling Language - (UML) - Certified
Linux Operating Systems and Compilers	Multi-tiered Systems
XML - HTML - DHTML - CSS - SGML	Borland C++ Builder
Novel Netware	Internet Common Gateway Interface - (CGI)
Standard Template Language - (STL)	Internet Protocols - TCP / IP, UDP, streaming etc.
Client / Server Architecture	WAN - LAN - Peer to Peer Network Protocols
VXI, VME, MXI Mainframe Programming	National Instruments-GPIB Addressing, NI-MAX, etc.
Sockets	Lab Windows CVI 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, NI-VISA

Extensive Experience with these Relational Database Systems

Oracle - PL/SQL	InterBase
Watcom	Microsoft SQL-Server
MS Access	Entity Relationship Diagrams - (ERD)

Possible Programming Practices and Methodologies

Note that we will gladly and meticulously follow any and all pre-existing company programming guidelines.

Design Patterns	Unified Modeling Language
Refactoring	Some aspects of eXtreme Programming
Object Oriented Design	Object Oriented Programming
Agile - Iterative - Spiral	CASE - Rapid Application Development
Unit Testing	Acceptance Test Procedures
Creating flat class hierarchies by using composition, aggregation, containment, layering and so on.

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