EXPERIENCE IN PICTURE FRAMING

Ronny ter Beek owns his own Picture Framing business in South Melbourne which he started in 1980 at the age of 19. He has worked long and hard to make it the success it is today. In 2001 Ronny promoted Jeff, a full-time employee, to be the manager for the framing gallery, so he could set up Framesmart Pty Ltd and run the business as its own entity. Ronny's success with Framesmart has seen his software sold in countries all over the world, with over 1000 users, and with the F L O Launch in July 2005, and the Visualise launch in March 2006, Australia will be the first country in the world to have such an advanced LIVE ordering, searching, and visualisation system. Ronny is not only a picture framer he is also a genius when it comes to programming. He started writing picture framing software in the early 80's way before anyone could even contemplate computers & framing in the same sentence! Below is a brief history of his experience with software and his successful inventions. This is why no one can come close to building excellent systems designed for framers, because no other programmer also has experience in picture framing.

RONNY'S EXPERIENCE IN PROGRAMING:

2006 – Visualise Visualise it. New Visualisation Software takes a giant leap forward and becomes ideal for framers looking for ways to improve their businesses. This new Australian made visualisation software can give you that extra customer service advantage you may be looking for. With features never previously seen in any other software of its kind, you can really WOW your customers, whilst enjoying and working with this new addition to your custom framing business. The software will let you email, print or save photo realistic custom framing visualisations for those special corporate jobs you may be quoting on? Your customers can email an image to you, that after opening in the visualisation software , you can email back to how it will look like fully framed , and so real, they may think you actually framed it already. Take full control of your digital camera, be it mounted to the ceiling, or just hand held in which case the aspect ratio and angle correction is done in the software. This feature lets you take your existing or new digital camera away for personal or other use without the need to tie it up permanently, mounted to your shop ceiling. When a photo is taken of your counter with the customers artwork layed out along with selected moulding and mat sample, the software will then show the artwork framed on your computer screen in high resolution with extra photo real effects such as lighting, atmosphere, reflection, shadows, specularity, detailed textures, cubic mapping and more. It can even show how a piece will look framed with non reflective or plain glass, even with no glass ! All done interactively in real time whilst working with your own moulding and mat samples placed around your customers artwork or also interact in realtime whilst browsing through the 16,000 plus mouldings and mats in your FLO software, that most framers in australia should have on their computers by now. All high resolution screens, multiple monitors, laptops, and plazma screens are all automatically supported by the software, and to top it off, the new visualisation program can even save the framed image into your picture framing software to print on your worksheets.

2005 – F L O Released nationaly in July, linking picture framers to suppliers through one desktop program, that allows Framers to see every product from every supplier all in one place on their own computer. Also has instant ordering built in with order tracking, stock details. This system is not email, website or e-commerce! F L O is patent pending as a world first invention.

2004 – Invents Framesmart Factory Server System, the first successful, fully integrated system linking standalone picture framing shops to order from a centralised framing factory.

2004 – Develops a complete, integrated help system in the FrameSmart software to enable us to directly edit, repair, or set up options for our software users. This bypasses and supercedes the need to use email, telephone, Windows Remote Assistance, PC Anywhere, VNC, or any other help system, when we help our software users to configure, setup or repair problems that they may have.

2002 – FrameSmart Picture Framing software is officially launched to the industry worldwide, with the largest success of any software released to date. It becomes:
The No. 1 software package in Australia.
The No. 1 software package in New Zealand.
The No. ? software package in the USA, Just behind the big three, but ahead of the 19 other products in its first year.

2002 – Invents automatic (involving no necessary human interaction with a computer) picture framing visualization software with intelligent real time image and framer process recognition, true 3D real time lighting, reflection, and atmosphere processing. This software give any framer the ability to do real time virtual 3D picture framing visualizations as a low cost stand alone application that interacts in real time at the framer's shop-front counter. This is designed to run on console devices like Playstation, PS2. This project has been shelved until higher resolution imaging devices become more cheaply available to the general marketplace.

2000-01 – Invents real-time true 3D automatic visualization software. The National Gallery of Australia uses this software now.

1999-00 – Began using specialised coding software that creates itself. Only a few programmers worldwide understand this code programming language. Henceforth, most self-written software is written with this programming language, as it enables speeds tenfold and above that of any other programming language available.

1997-98 – Creates software and a process to design and create 3D plans for building houses. This software is used for self-designed 3 storey house. This is also the first time any building companies or councils had seen software like this. This house won a national design award the following year.

1996-98 – Creates new point of sale software for PC platform.

1996 – Invents the use of Tactile Transducers for home cinema for non-aural, low frequency enhancement. This triggered the world release of the first commercial product of its type two years later.

1995 – Uses the hi-end Millennium DTS decoder to work with hi-end home cinema equipment. After notifying the company that this could be done, which they had not been aware of, they produced a home version with the information given.

1990-92 – Invents the first intelligent pricing system with automatic data generation and integration.

1988 – Uses a self-written method of intercepting VHF radio wave transmitions to transfer and decode data to the computer screen.

1986-88 – Creates a DOS based framing and point of sale program. Although simple, it manages to be the best of its kind available anywhere at the time.

1980-84 – Invents an online role playing game (RPG) this is an adventure game that creates itself as as the user plays it. (this has only become available through other companies in the last 5 years).