My role

During my previous role in technical sales, I realized the importance that good sales tools have in helping to secure opportunities in a competitive marketplace. Thus, upon leaving that role, I have conceptualized and am working to create a novel sales tool to bring to market in the industry that will overhaul the ability of potential stakeholders to sell and distribute their products.

Project Difficulties

The major difficulties encountered so far consist of proper management of duties- as I have recruited two friends to help with the project, and timeline and goalsetting- as we all have different priorities and things going on in our lives.

My Solution

The solution is under-wraps until we have capitalized on available market share.

My role

I was given functional requirements for the project and had to plan, design, and build the entire solution.

Project Difficulties

Given there was no mock-up/wireframe or entity relationship diagram the hardest part of the project was just getting started. Additionally, the project was meant to be built within a VM environment, but I decided to develop it locally, which meant installing MySQL server and setting up the database manually, then altering the JDBC drive to work with the VM database. Time zone conversion and handling was also not the easiest thing to accomplish.

My Solution

I started by building the views/screens then worked on building the functionality from there. I adhered to MVC architecture for the project. The Local Time Zone was set by the system time, and appointments were restricted to the offset to eastern time, all being converted to UTC upon querying or inserting into the database. Two other screens were made to implement additional requirements. The whole project was approached with the idea that validation of user input would be controlled by not allowing incorrect entry in the first place.