Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Industrial & manufacturing

ACD LLC

An in-house pump and turboexpander sizing program turned into a customer-facing service, designed so neither the calculation code nor the customer list ever left the company's own servers.

Years
2013–2023
Sector
Cryogenic pumps and turboexpanders
Role
Lead developer
Outcome
Delivered

The problem the business had

Every sizing request from a customer went through the company's own engineers, because the sizing program was an internal desktop tool and its calculation code was the company's crown jewels.

What was done

A web front end for customers that hands each request to a pool of machines running the existing sizing program behind the scenes, with a watchdog keeping them healthy. Customer logins are generic, and the link from login to company exists only inside the internal system, so neither the calculation code nor the customer list is ever exposed to the outside.

What it returned

Customers size their own machines. Deployed 2014 and in use for the decade after.

Stack

Silverlight WCF C# .NET WPF IIS SQL Server ClickOnce TFS
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