Pat Dooley - Professional Profile

I have been a software developer since 1969. I started writing Fortran programs for an IBM 1620 computer. That was followed by a few years writing commercial software for IBM 360/370 computers using PL/1. In 1979, my firm bought an Hewlett=Packard 3000 minicomputer. I developed a 4GL for this computer to make it easier to support pension fund applications.

In the 1990s, I moved to the US and worked as a consultant developing commercial applications using Visual Basic and various databases. I was the architect and lead developer for BETS, a VB6/Oracle application that administered healthcare benefits for Kaiser Permanente in Ohio. I later joined Kaiser Permanente and continued working on BETS.

When Microsoft stopped supporting VB6, the decision was made to convert BETS to a web based platform. Once again, I was the architect and lead developer, although we were fortunate to have a great web developer on the team. We converted 1.5 million lines of VB6 code to C# and javaScript. That project was very successful and Kaiser implemented BETS in four other regions. That was my last project before retiring.

I write games and personal applications for fun. Redback is the first project I've shared on Code Project. I have a checkers program written in C# and a web-based word program written in javaScript and jQuery in the works plus a couple of little image utilities that support my photography hobby.