SWCS About Us

Steve Williamson
Unit 2, 4 Tryon Street
Upper Mount Gravatt Brisbane Queensland Australia 4122

E-mail steve@swcs.com.au
Web Page www.swcs.com.au
Personal www.myspace.com/steve_williamson_au
Close business ties past 22 years with Datacare Pty Ltd
World view: 6,026 years ☺ Recorded history: Free Will & Hidden design

Steve's Business Background
Eric, father, was salesman, systems analyst, employer & educator at NCR 1956-1981.
1968: Grade 12 at Brisbane State High. Studied languages and economics.
1969: Clerk / Trainee accountant at Wallace Bishop Jewellers.
1970: Clerk / Trainee accountant at Pioneer Sugar Mills Ltd.

1971-
1975 Mainframes & Mini-computers: Working at Pioneer Sugar's Brisbane office and under tutelage from Arthur Andersen & Co, wrote a Financial Modelling application in Cobol. At Pioneer Sugar's North Qld offices, supervised Payroll and Canepay systems written by local software contractors in Basic Plus.
1980-
1982 Working on NCR mini-computers and writing in Cobol, adapted Property Rates, Cash Receipting and Debtors applications to meet Local Government needs. Trained council staff throughout Qld & NSW.
1985-
1986 In 1985 upgraded Qld State Govt Cobol applications & trained staff on the ICL mainframe at Main Roads. In April 1986, wrote a General Ledger and Debtors program for PCs in DBase II.

1986-
today PCs: Data Analysis & Database Management in the universal DBase III plus database language, compiling each package of scripts into an executable using Wordtech's royalty-free, multi-user release of Quicksilver. Working with Datacare who supported the installations, Steve wrote feature-rich, integrated applications for hundreds of sites, involving thousands of employees.
Full office systems were thus installed at: Qld Theatre Company, then Northern Securities, followed by Anglican, AOG, Baptist, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran and Uniting Church Aged Care Homes, Bible Colleges, the BlueCare Centres throughout Queensland, and Christian products wholesalers throughout Australasia - see below.
In 2001, web enabled Jack Bradford's Brisbane Junior Theatre, then in 2008 Starlight Theatre Co-op.

2000-
today Microsoft SQL Server: Web-based Database Management in Active Server Pages scripts, combining server-side commands in SQL and VBScript with client-side commands in HTML and JavaScript to provide search pages for retail staff. Wholesalers upload their in-house database tables daily for retailer enquiry purposes and download orders subsequently placed. In 2005, Care and Share Products invested in a mobile platform for their sales team with Dexterra, which synchronized data on their Pocket PC's daily via GPRS over the web, enabling them to transmit orders from almost anywhere in Australia. This implementation completed Steve's decentralized distribution database package: Dedication II DAD

Christian Products Retail Background
1977-1978 Inspired by their Bookshop in Brisbane, became Townsville secretary for the Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship Int'l and opened the Bookshop in the main street of Townsville. Ran gospel promotions & concerts with Larry Norman, Jamie Owens, Barry McGuire, Honeytree, Chuck Girard, Randy Stonehill and - later in 1984 - Phil Keaggy while promoting Australian artists.

Christian Products Wholesale Backgound

1979. Warehouse manager for Rhema Records and Keystone Magazine. Travelled twice to U.S.A.
1982-1986 Business manager in Australia for David Smallbone Promotions Pennant Hills Sydney.
1987-1996 Royalty Systems / Stock & Debtors software at Alpha & Omega Records - Keith & Joyce Bray.
1990-today Stock & Debtors and Payroll software at Harvest Christian Products & until 2002 GPH in New Zealand.
1991-2001 Stock & Debtors software at Lighthouse Christian Distributors.
1993-today Stock & Debtors software at W A Buchanan & Co.
2003-today Stock & Debtors, Payroll, General Ledger & Creditors software at Care and Share Products.
2007. May 4th. Appointed Wholesale Database manager for Christian Bookselling Assn Australia.

1971- 1975	Mainframes & Mini-computers: Working at Pioneer Sugar's Brisbane office and under tutelage from Arthur Andersen & Co, wrote a Financial Modelling application in Cobol. At Pioneer Sugar's North Qld offices, supervised Payroll and Canepay systems written by local software contractors in Basic Plus.
1980- 1982	Working on NCR mini-computers and writing in Cobol, adapted Property Rates, Cash Receipting and Debtors applications to meet Local Government needs. Trained council staff throughout Qld & NSW.
1985- 1986	In 1985 upgraded Qld State Govt Cobol applications & trained staff on the ICL mainframe at Main Roads. In April 1986, wrote a General Ledger and Debtors program for PCs in DBase II.