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Hermann Strijewski based in Clearwater, Florida, has been working as a professional software developer for over 25 years.

His “claim to fame” is that he has programmed the fastest financial Intranet data warehouse in North America already in 1998, when most people were just starting out to bring databases to the web. Highly optimized, running from a single-processor Pentium 400 server, this system could pull tens of thousands of records from a database of millions of records, join it with 5 other tables and generate a 700 page report over the web IN LESS THAN 3 SECONDS. This system has saved the Canadian government hundreds of thousands of dollars in internal reporting costs for many years.

Real Estate Property Management software he has written has taken the predecessor to the Ontario Realty Corporation without a glitch through the “year 2000 problem” in managing their huge portfolio of over 2000 real estate leases.

Another accomplishment is that he has programmed an APPLICATION-LEVEL firewall for Internet databases that works with both Apache web servers and with IIS. This firewall automatically encodes and encrypts all database links and hidden variables within a Web database application so that it is protected from hackers trying to reverse-engineer an application by changing the URLs. For example, it is no longer possible to change a database url like …&viewrecordid=1001  to &viewrecordid=1002 etc. etc. because all URLs in the application are encrypted with checksum.

Using Microsoft Visual FoxPRO and Web Connection, Hermann Strijewski has programmed a very flexible Web front-end for the Accruent Real Estate Manager, (formerly Strategen from Westmark Harris) 5 years before such a tool was available from the original software vendor.

Hermann’s software is today in use by thousands of businesses all over North America and Canada.

A young wiz-kid with a natural affinity for computer systems, Hermann was one of the first few owners who had imported a a Commodore PET 2001 into Germany and started programming commercial software at the age of 16 when he single-handedly wrote a Real Estate Property management system that was sold commercially in Germany. A teletype connected to the Commodore PET with a converter-box served as a printer in the early days.

He got introduced by his dad Achim to the first popular relational database management system available for personal computers, dBASE II at a time when the IBM PC had not yet been invented.

Hermann Strijewski has been pushing the envelope of what can be accomplished with xBASE and FOX products ever since he got a hold of it. When Dr. Dave Fulton brought the power of the Fox to xBASE, it was like a god-sent. Hermann Strijewski programmed artificial intelligence software to help some of the richest families in Canada to successfully manage their huge portfolio holdings.