Benoit Mercier

IGM is an IT consulting company that develops several projects, in-house or fixed-price, on various technologies, including Windev. The company has about 200 employees and several dozen clients.

I worked with their client Bovis as part of their relationship with the Air France group for engine transport. The goal of my mission was to develop the REST API from Windev with a MySQL database.

My tasks:

- Development with Windev of the REST API for all endpoints (Get, Post, Patch, and Delete) related to the creation of transport missions and associated data.

- Manage the MySQL database architecture: analysis + server-side stored procedures

- Perform tests of the requests via a POSTMAN profile

Technical context:

- Windev 28

- MySQL

- Postman

La Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers (MNH), founded in 1960, specializes in mutual insurance and provident schemes for hospital and healthcare personnel. It covers over a million people and handles more than €600 million in mutual contributions annually. Its turnover exceeds €1 billion, and it employs nearly 700 people.

The development department consists of about ten people, including a back-office Java/Spring manager (database: PostgreSQL) and React web developers. Health records are entered on a web portal, but there is a desktop version called Itismart that must work offline, intended for sales representatives. I acted as a Windev expert to perform maintenance and add new product evolutions, particularly following legal reforms on funeral products.

My tasks:

- Took over Itismart to update the software regarding web service evolutions.

- Integrated Itismart with the latest version of Docapost electronic signature.

- Created a new version of Itismart following this upgrade.

- Integrated the new version of the capital-death product, based on the specifications of the web version.

- Integrated the new version of the funeral product, based on the specifications of the web version.

- Merged the old "Accident+" and "Renfort Accident" products into a single one named "Accidents de la Vie" (Life Accidents).

- Maintenance and monitoring of the existing system.

- Evolution of the SOAP web service developed under Windev to manage the overlay of the Java web service.

- Maintenance of external DLLs created in C# for managing external functionalities in Itismart.

- Trained my successor on Windev and Itismart.

Technical context:

- Windev 24

- SQLite

- PostgreSQL

- Git

- SOAP API

- REST API

- C#

- Innosetup (for executable generation)

The Primever / Satar group is a company specializing in the transport and logistics of fruits and vegetables under controlled or ambient temperature. It has over 2600 employees and a turnover exceeding €400 million.

The Windev development team consists of about ten people. I joined this team to provide support on the development of certain modules of their internal ERP. Work was organized using the Agile methodology, with sprints of approximately 3 weeks. A presentation of the work was scheduled monthly with the AMOA (Application Management and User Support) and trainers. The database was managed using SQL Server, with all queries executed server-side.

My main tasks:

- Development of a module to calculate arrival times from a distance matrix. This module had to take into account a number of criteria, such as whether or not there was a break in load during transport.

- Evolution of the internal EDI to meet specific needs or to handle missing data.

- Development of a module to plan turnkey transport missions, with various degrees of billing to consider (by department, by city, by sector, etc.).

- Development of V2 of the internally developed software for project management by project managers: SQL query history, versioning management, tracking absences, server errors, etc.

Technical context:

- Windev 25

- Microsoft SQL Server

- Jira