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Greg Van Holland is the owner of Central Software Solutions,
Inc. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science
from Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa.
While working for Datametrics System Corporation as a
programmer/analyst, Greg's responsibilities included the
design and development of a commercial software application.
The application was designed to analyze and improve mainframe
performance. He was responsible for developing communications
between the mainframe and a personal computer. Greg was also
responsible for customer service and technical support.
Application development was performed using Microsoft C and
the IBM PC assembly language in a Microsoft Windows
environment.
As a senior software engineer for a major seed company,
Greg was responsible for the design and development of a plant
breeder information system. He was responsible for developing
and implementing solutions to allow the remote breeder sites
to communicate with a centralized database. Application
development was performed using the C language, OS/2, DB/2,
and utilized a graphical user interface similar to Microsoft
Windows.
While working for McGladrey & Pullen as a consultant,
Greg was responsible for meeting with clients to determine
their needs and developing products to meet those needs. Greg
served as the lead designer and developer on a custom software
project for a major testing company using Oracle development
tools on an Oracle database. Greg completed
professional training from Oracle Education in Oracle
Developer/2000. Greg worked on a variety of other projects
that utilized the Visual Basic programming environment.
Greg founded Central Software Solutions in 1996. The
company was founded to serve the agricultural industry with
software products and consulting. The company released PRISM,
Plant Research Information Sharing Manager, in November 1996.
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 Mike Haverdink joined Central Software Solutions, Inc. in 2010.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from
Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, and a Master of Science
degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa.
Mike started his
career at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa, working
primarily on an online system for 401k plan disbursements.
Application development was performed using the Customer
Information Control System (CICS) and COBOL, along with JCL for
offline processing.
During his time as a
student at Iowa State University, Mike worked as a Teaching
Assistant for many graduate and undergraduate courses, including
Introduction to Programming (CS 227), Introduction to Data
Structures (CS 228), Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (CS
311), Specification and Design in Software Engineering (CS 411),
and Formal Methods in Software Engineering (CS 512). After
earning his M.S. degree, Mike also served as an Instructor for
the Introduction to Programming course.
Prior to joining CSSI,
Mike served in a number of software development and leadership
roles at a major seed and biotechnology company. He was
initially responsible for developing software to support a
molecular marker lab. During this time Mike developed databases
and systems to support marker allele visualization and scoring,
laboratory information management systems for project tracking,
and visualization and selection of graphical marker genotypes
for backcrossing projects. He also authored systems for marker
haplotype definition and phenotypic prediction.
As IT Project Lead
for North America Corn Breeding, Mike led the development effort
for several solutions deployed as desktop software, web sites,
Excel macros, and handheld programs used by breeders across all
crops and geographies. These include a population tracking and
selection system, a harvest analysis and line coding program,
genotype display and search tools, and an inbred/variety
attribute and pedigree tracking and visualization system. Mike
and his team developed software products using the Microsoft
.NET Visual Studio environment, programming primarily in C# and
Visual Basic, and designing and implementing databases in
Microsoft Access, Oracle, and SQL Server.
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