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CareerMachine / RPW Bridge Project 
Area of Technology: Web Based Resume Collection and Search Tool with Time Billing Interface to UNIX Payroll System. 
Company Name: The Personnel Department 
Website URL:  
Overview of Business: The Personnel Department (TPD) is a temporary and permanent staffing organization with offices in North America (Portland, Beaverton, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton), Australia and Great Britain. The head office is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. 
Description of Problem: The company required a web based resume collection and search tool which would provide a time billing interface from a desktop application to a UNIX payroll system. The built application must also provide a file upload interface from a desktop application to the web resume tool. 
GVC Role:  
Project Description: The CareerMachine / RPW Bridge Project provided an OpenStep / web solution to link the diverse TPD corporate systems together. This project included a web resume collection and search tool, a time billing interface from a desktop application to a UNIX payroll system and a file upload interface from a desktop application to the web resume tool. The project utilized a large number of technologies including OpenStep (related to WebObjects), LOF (Legacy Object Framework), Oracle, Java, HTML, and Pro*C. GVC continues to support, maintain and host portions of this project. 
Description of Solution:  
Project Deliverables:
  • project plan
  • documentation of project requirements
  • project design documents
  • developed code
  • installation documentation