Energyshop projects

Tom Kitta was involved in active project development for Energyshop and he continues to provide support to applications proprietary to the company. Energyshop is a subsidiary of M3&W, a Canadian company based in Toronto, Ontario. The company's main business deals with accurate and impartial comparisons between major energy provider in both United States and Canada. For more information about the company, please visit their web site. On this page you will find a short summary of the major applications written for Energyshop web property. There were many more projects that I have done for this web property, however, including the small projects will just take up space and overshadow the important work. Most large projects involved back-end programming and thus are not accessible to outside users without proper supervision.

Small picture of Contract Management System customer's display page

The contract management system is the largest project I been involved thus far. The project lasted about 6 months and its goal was a creation of a system that would manage gas contracts between utilities, suppliers and energyshop. The major components that make up the system are:

Energyshop-customer, utility-energyshop and supplier-energyshop contract tracking
Gas customer tracking that includes bill tracking, gas usage and predicted gas usage
Employee salary tracking based on sales and ranking on the sales team commission tree
Tracking of energyshop obligations to suppliers and utilities

Small picture of Sales Management System, main page

I did not program the sales management system from grounds up, but I was involved in many modifications of the existing system. Thanks to the SMS the sales people can keep a record of their dealings with a customer that is stored in a central location and can be viewed by senior staff of energyshop. There are some commercial implementations of a similar system, however, this on is custom made for energy trading.

Small picture of Web Enrollment Managment System, main page

I did not originally program the web enrollment management system, but I was the person who re-written the whole system almost from scratch. The re-programmed system had new, more advanced security futures than the old system. The interface of WEMS is used for management of hundreds of prices for dozens of different suppliers that are shown on the energyshop.com web site.

Small picture of energyshop.com Flash based quote wizard, step 1

This wizard has two different user interfaces, one is HTML based, and the other is Flash based. It proves that I know a thing or two about flash programming. The wizard was designed and programmed entirely by me in 2003. It uses Flash 6. Customers that use the Quote Wizard are able to get a quick quote from the system based mostly on their address. The wizard is also very user friendly and makes the rather complex process of looking for the right energy provider a pleasant user experience.

Small picture of energyshop.com home page

The main signup for Energyshop offers was designed itself in and around January 2000. Since then the form has undergone many programming changes with which I was involved most of the time. In the future the form will be replaced by more advanced form based on separation of presentation, content and business logic (the current form due to its original design time is written according to the rules of ColdFusion 4 and 5 design, which didn't do a good job of layer separation. The luck of separation between business logic and page layout leads to complex pages full of spaghetti style code.). Tom plans to be an active member of the programming team when the form gets re-done. For now and the nearest future the form stays as it is, it does a good job of signing up customers for different offers from many different gas and electricity providers. You can view the form by trying to signup with one of the companies energyshop.com is a broker for on energyshop.com