The Methodology, Skills and Technologies Used in Avatar

General

• Project management & communication software: MS Project, Project Central, MS Outlook, Visual Source Safe (VSS);
• Office software: Word, Excel, Access, Lotus;
• Mathematical methods: Operations research; Optimization Methods in the Tasks with High Dimensionality; Nets analysis & synthesis, optimization; Theory of control; Numeric methods; Econometrics; Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics; Mathematical Forecasting Methods; Filters; Artificial Intelligence. Mathematical software: Statistics 6.0, MathCad, SPSS, MatLab;
• Humanities: Psychology, Socionics (Personality Identity), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Human Factors.

Programming

• OS: Windows 2000/NT 4.0/95/98/ME, OS/2, Free BSD, Linux;
• Web servers: Microsoft IIS 4.0/5.0, Apache Http Server;
• Web technologies: CGI/Perl/PHP, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSL, ActiveX, HTML, DHTML, SSI, E-commerce, B2B, B2C, CRM elements;
• Software technologies: OLE, DDE, ODBC, Object Oriented Design and Programming (OOP);
• Programming languages: ObjectPascal/Delphi, C++, Basic, VBA (for MS Access, Excel, Word), VB 6.0, Clipper, FoxPro, Dbase;
• Databases: MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000, MS Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, Informix 9.0, InterBase 4.0/5.0, Paradox;
• Development tools: Borland Delphi 2.0-5.0;
• Libraries (API): Win32 API, WinSocks, LWS (Perl);
• Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP, Socks, UUCP, Fido, FTP;
• Reporting: MS Access, Crystal Reports;
• Interface design: Web-based design, Win32 GUI.

WEB software

Other Technologies

• Web technologies: VBScript, ASP, JSP/Servlets, WSDL, ISAPI, WML;
• CASE: UML (Rational Rose, System Architect), Rational Unified Process (RUP), BP-WIN, ER-WIN;
• Programming languages: Java, Prolog, x86 Assembler elements, Lisp, Lotus;
• Development tools: Borland JBuilder;
• Software technologies: Multi-tiered client-server and intranets, distributed computing (COM/DCOM);
• Enterprise programming: EJB, JDBC, MTS.