Hermann Strijewski - Database Software Developer

Hermann Strijewski has been working as a professional software developer for 30 years, and is currently based in Clearwater, FL.

His “claim to fame” is that he has programmed the fastest financial Intranet data warehouse in North America already in 1998, when the Internet consisted mostly of static web sites and web databases were the next new thing. 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. Because of the extreme performance of the software programming, thousands of government employees could run their financial reports, all at the same time for month end,  getting up-to-date information. This was all running from a single Pentium 400 Server. Keep in mind, this was already in 1998.

Hermann has created a Real Estate Property Management for the largest real estate owner in Canada, which is now called  Ontario Realty Corporation. Hermann’s software has taken this organization  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, and the encryption keys are constantly changing.

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, Accruent. This software is used by the largest Equipment Sales and Rental company in North America to manage thousands of projects in hundreds of locations.

Hermann’s business software systems are today in use by thousands of business organizations all over North America and Canada.

Currently he is programming a comprehensive modern set of effective management technologies into an easy-to-use web-based software platform. This will boost the team performance in  organizations of all sizes and streamline workflows into the direction of business expansion. The system facilitates a rich flow of process oriented workflow communication without depending on a flood of emails.

How Hermann started into software - the early days

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 to database programming by his dad Achim, and he started with dBASE II at a time when the IBM PC had not even been invented yet.

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.