Contributors & Authors

Last updated June 2nd, 1999
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Thomas Althammer [TeamAssist]    This person is a founding member of the Ice Tea Group
Based in Hannover (Germany), Thomas Althammer has specialized in the health sector, especially calculations, billing, and care documentation of senior care centers and nursing homes. He is developing products for medical institutions and health care associations using Centura products. He volunteers as a member of TeamAssist helping developers at CompuServe and the Internet. Contact him at Thomas@iceteagroup.com.

Anil Apte
Anil has been working as a SQLBase/Centura Solution Architect for the past three years. He has substantial experience in all the phases of software development life-cycle. Some of his victims are still being tortured by the bugs which he carelessly scattered 15 years ago. For a German company based in Cologne, he has recently trained and lead a team of SQLWindows, CTD, and SQLBase programmers in Pune, India. This has helped the German company in lowering development costs by 50%. Photography, visiting places, meeting people is what he enjoyes more than computer programming. He can be reached at anilapte@poboxes.com.

Dale M. Arends
Dale is working as a QA Manager at Centura Software Corporation.

Sue Barruw
Sue is a software development manager with Pivotpoint Software. She develops a MRP product called Point.Man for small to mediuam size growing manufacturers. The front end is written in SQLWindows32. She has been using SQLWindows for over 5 years since release 3.x (before classes). Drop her a note at sbarruw@mediaone.net.

Twan van Beers [TeamAssist]
Twan runs the Wellington-based company Hi-Spec Solutions. He has been using the Centura range of products since 1990 and is a TeamAssist member. He is also a certified Centura developer, Certified Novell Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. He can be contacted at twan.van.beers@xtra.co.nz.

Arne Bivrin
Arne is a Senior Consultant with Know IT C/S in Stockholm, Sweden. He's been working with Centura/Gupta tools since 1992. He has been a frequent contributor on Centura's forum on CompuServe and as the author of DBTalk he has been in contact with a lot of developers around the world. Reach him at arne.bivrin@knowit.se.

Frank Böttcher
Frank Böttcher (Frank_Boettcher@compuserve.com) started working as a system engineer and consultant with Centura Products in 1993. In addition to customer information systems and other database solutions, his main interest has been the CDK which he used to build his MINX Class Browser. Since 1998 he has been working as a freelancer.

R. J. David Burke
David is a prolific author and Senior Consulting Engineer with Centura Software Corporation.

Viesturs Ducens
Viesturs is a programmer, 33 years of age, working for A/S DATI, Latvia (one of Baltic states). His eMail address is Viesturs.Ducens@dati.lv.

Jörg Ellinghaus
With ADA Das SystemHaus one of the biggest sytem integrators in Germany, Jörg is working as a Centura developer in some projects. He is 34 years of age and has worked with Centura products since 1995. He has also been using Clipper, CA-Visual Objects, and Visual C++. You can get in touch with him at elli@online-club.de.

Etienne Gauthier
Etienne is a Software Engineer, based in Paris, France. He has been working Centura products, C, C++, the Windows SDK, and Oracle for more than 5 years. In his company, he acts both as a project manager, and an expert with interaction to other projects. He has developed a class library that is used in several projects, and a tool that generates an Oracle databases (stored procedures, grants, constraints, indexes). It is also used at runtime to control data length, data type, null values, etc. You can contact him at egauthier@gfi.fr.

Phillippe Gibone
Philippe is 48 years old and working on micro computers since 1977. As a former mathematician (thesis in mathematical logic) he has now specialized in DB Design, C/C++, and SAL. He enjoys playing Squash, Surrealist painting and literature, The Prisoner (N° 6), and having a little chat with one of his tribe, meaning mankind. His eMail address is Ph.Gibone@wanadoo.fr.

Arto Holopainen
Arto is working as a software analyst at CCC Automation Oy and has been working with Centura products and Oracle databases since the beginning of 1997. Contact him at arto.holopainen@ccc.fi.

Dan Johansson
Dan has been working since 1995 for ERP system developers IFS Industrial & Financial Systems and is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has worked with UML, Oracle PL/SQL and Centura, being responsible for the framework used for the Windows client applications. He recently became a project manager specializing in more technically advanced projects (tools, methods, frameworks etc.). His degree is in "Computer Science and Software Engineering" from Linköping University, Sweden. For more info about IFS, have a look at www.ifsab.com or send him a message at dajo@gbg.ifsab.se.

Tuncay Karaca
Tuncay is from Turkey and was born in 1974. He graduated in Turkey with a degree in Computer Programming from Bosporus University which in Istanbul. So far, he has worked on educational software packages as well as human resource systems. Next to Centura products, he is using Borland Delphi as well as Oracle. He tries to read the Centura newsgroup daily. Reach him at tkaraca@ibimsa.com.

Riyaz Khan
He is 27 years of age and works with SQLWindows/Centura at Mentors Systems Solutions Private Limited in Bangalore, India. He has been using Centura products for about 2 years. His eMail addresses are riyaz@mentors.soft.net or riyaz_khan@hotmail.com.

Martin Knopp
Martin is an independent software engineer in Austria. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Vienna. He is working with Centura/Gupta products since 1992 (SQLBase) and 1994 (SQLWindows). Most of his Centura work right now is done with SQLWindows/32 for Pict & Byte GmbH., a long term Centura/Gupta partner in Austria. You can reach him at mknopp@EUnet.at.

Mike Koshelev
Mike graduated from chemical dept. of Novosibirsk university at 1985. He was a member of some big chemical information system projects (organic synthesis design, chemicals registry systems etc) in Novosibirsk Scientific Center. Since 1992, he works for HR and accounting projects, using Gupta/Centura products since 1995. Send him an eMail to Mike@alekta.sibtrump.ru.

David A. Lee
As an independant consultant and President of Dal Enterprises Inc., David has been consulting Centura Software Corp. for a long time, especially in the area of Unix porting, performance analysis, and other internal tidbits. Take a look at his web presence (www.calldei.com) or contact him at Dave@calldei.com.

Joachim Meyer [TeamAssist]     This person is a founding member of the Ice Tea Group
Joachim Meyer is 41 years old and one of the owners of BASYS EDV-Syteme, a networking company in Bremen (Germany). He is a Novell, Microsoft, and Compaq systems specialist and signs responsible for software development and controlling. He has programming experience with SQLWindows, CTD, Delphi and C for 8 years. Send him an eMail at Joe@iceteagroup.com.


Andreas Neugebauer
Since SQLWindows 3.1.0, Andreas has used Centura's development tools on various projects. Next to offering training and tuning classes, he works for AZUL Kaffee GmbH & Co.KG and runs his own business. You can reach him at aneugebauer.azul@gmx.de or visit his internet site at www.d-func.com.

Carsten Barner Nielsen [TeamAssist]    This person is a founding member of the Ice Tea Group
Carsten lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he works as an IT-Consultant for ISS Data A/S. Carsten started up with computers and IT in 1976. First 10 years he worked with mainframe systems (Honeywell Bull & IBM). In 1986 Carsten started working extensively in PC-oriented database design and development. He spent a lot of time in Clipper and xBase world back then. Beginning in 1991, he focused on client/server architecture using SQLWindow and later Centura Team Developer for frontend development. If he find a question at the Centura newsgroups that he can answer you can be sure he will be there. Contact: cbn@iceteagroup.com

Johann (Jimmy) Obermayr
Living in Braunau/Inn (Austria), Jimmy is working at Schenck GmbH. He is 30 years old and has been involved in development with Centura products for three years. He is happily using Gianluca's XSal and enjoys programming in C/C++ as well. Drop him a note at Obermayr@sog.schenck.net.

Daniel Pearson
Daniel is a Information Services Manager and has been using SQLWindows/SQLBase since '93. He has worked on an in-house order entry and order processing application.

Oeyvind Paulsrud
Based in Norway, Oeyvind works as an IT consultant at Info Tjenester AS. His eMail address is Oeyvind.Paulsrud@infotjenester.no.

Bob Pickford
Bob is 48 years old and the Technical Team Leader with TiWessex Software (UK) Ltd, based at Poole, Dorset in the UK. Bob has worked with Centura CTD, SQLWindows and SQLBase for nearly eight years and is currently developing an application for the construction industry (estimating, cost planning, accounts etc). Bob uses both the Windows SDK and Centura CDK extensively and also has been know to resort to C/C++ in extremis. Flag him at BobPickford@tiwessex.co.uk.

Gianluca Pivato   This person is a founding member of the Ice Tea Group
Gianluca Pivato designs LANs, WANs, databases, software, and anything that interacts with the system. He graduated in Italy with a degree in digital electronics, and he’s been in the computer business since 1982. Currently, he’s working on a project for an Italian patent and trademark firm. His company is Pivato Consulting, inc. and he can be reached at Gianluca@iceteagroup.com.

Armin Pokorny
Working for Professional Software for Windows, Armin develops class libraries and standard software packages for larger projects. He has been working with SQLWindows since version 2.x connecting to SQLBase, Oracle, and Informix. He is 24 years old and lives in Austria. He can be contacted at AP_PSFW@hotmail.com.

Neil Rashbrook
Neil is a software engineer at Parkway Computer Consultants LTD. Drop him a note at Neil@parkwaycc.co.uk

Crew Reynolds
Crew Reynolds started working with SQLWindows back in 1989 while at JCPenney Corporate based in Dallas, TX. Windows was still v2.x then and man was it ugly! That experience lead him into a career of client/server development both within JCPenney and later as an independant consultant. He is currently with Daydots International in Ft. Worth writing custom OE, AR, manufacturing, and purchasing systems. Reach him at crewr@daydots.com

Colin Richardson
Colin is a Centura Consultant currently working in Sydney, Australia. He has been using SQLWindows/Centura for 6 years and is experienced using the full Centura product suite. Colin is particularly interested in class library design, Windows 95 standards and interface design.

Dominik Stadler
Originating from Upper-Austria, today Dominik lives and works near Munich/Germany. He is working with Gupta/Centura products since 1995 and today supports the development of the APERTUM-Business Software-Line. You can reach him at Dominik.Stadler@apertum.de.

Julian Summers
Julian is a Senior Consultant with the Consulting Division of AlphaWest Pty Ltd, located in Perth, Western Australia. He can be contacted at julian.summers@alphawest.com.au.


Mike Vandine [TeamAssist]
Mike has been working with Centura products for about 7 years, with major emphasis on SQLBase. He works as a private consultant for Centura Software, and is based in sunny Perth, Western Australia. With major expertise in backup and recovery of databases, using SQLWindows with the SQL/API to perform various DBA maintenance processes, and setting up configurations and usage of an NT network, Mike can answer most of these type of questions with little effort (or just a bit of looking up). Mike has made many contributions to the Compuserve SQLBase library including a backup/recovery TeamTip, a database process abort routine and an .ini file update program to simplify updates on a TCP/IP network. All contributions using SQLWindows include the source code and documentation, so feel free to snaffle them. If you don't have access to Compuserve, feel free to contact him directly by e-mail at survival@wantree.com.au for a copy. Mike typically visits the Centura Forum and the Centura newsgroups at least once a day, including weekends. His advice for forum and newsgroup users: Don't just lurk, get involved!

Christoph Vollmer
Christoph is a software engineer in Bremen. He has been using Centura products since 1996. Send an eMail to Christoph_Vollmer@gmx.net.

Patricia Warwick
As a Senior Consultant in Centura Professional Services, Patricia has specialed, for over 4 years, in client/mainframe connectivity (i.e. SQLHost), and to a lesser extent in SQLBase. In her spare time she does courseware development. She has had over 30 years in the the computer industry, working on most major platforms.

Alec Waters
Alec is 23 years of age. After gaining his honours degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University, he went to work for Dataline Software in the UK (www.dataline.co.uk), being now based in Swansea, Wales, using telecommuting. As the author of the Centura net.db Designer, he tries to read the newsgroup daily - offering help on any aspect of the product. He can be reached at alec.waters@dataline.co.uk.