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Gorham Software Services, Inc. primary business is to provide contract programming and software consulting services to our customers.

The company's focus is on companies that are developing software for soft and hard real-time systems.

Its principal, Kent Gorham, has over 20 years of experience in all areas of the software development process:

Design, development and deployment of hard and soft real-time software applications.
Migration of software systems between operating systems and/or development systems.
Analysis and re-design of existing software systems to increase performance and/or reliability.
Implementation of automated build processes, testing and version control systems.

Porting of soft real-time application from Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET C++ 7.0.
Porting language tutoring application from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET.
Conceptualized, designed and implemented scalable multi-processor RIP front end software for print systems. This product enabled the acquisition of $30+ million print systems order.
Simplified end user installations by developing and implementing HTML-based installations. Migrated installation programs from InstallShield to Windows Installer.
Designed and developed Windows NT printer device drivers for high-speed print engine.
Participated in research for new product line by designing and prototyping software for programmable drug delivery system using the Motorola 68HC11 processor.
Ported a C++ RIP to Java for a card issuance system. This project improved the client's product reliability and performance. The technologies used include Java, JNI, RMI, Java2D and JAI.
Worked with client and an international vendor to successfully integrate production systems. The project included the use of Java, JNI and RMI and the use of RS-232 serial and Ethernet hardware interfaces.
Redesigned and implemented an automated mail-merge system for a forms processing module. Technologies used include C++, Java, OLE, Jacob and MS Word 2003 automation.
Implemented machine vision software systems responsible for product quality assurance using Cognex VisionPro®, Cognex CVL® and custom image analysis algorithms.