Operational Database For Maintenance / Daily Reporting

Our business is a civil services business. We provide equipment, plant and personnel to complete work/provide services for the following: - build roads & carparks - work to build schools, industrial buildings - equipment & personnel hire - truck hire for sand and gravel transport - waste disposal During the daily activities of our business, we are required to perform a daily check of the equipment in the morning by the equipment operator. This is normally a manual process by the operator, recorded in a paper file if at all recorded. We are required to record maintenance daily as mandated by clients and legal requirements. I want to develop a database that is portable in the field and downloadable back at the office. My vision was an iPad deployed Filemaker/Bento solution that is uploaded back in the office. There may be several iPads operating in the field at any one time, which is backloaded in the office on to a desktop and backed up. I also want to incorporate in the database - client contact details from our accounting/sales quoting & estimating software (download as a excel and repopulate into fielmaker??) - subcontractor contact details - employee contact details - record daily maintenance check - record maintenance performed on the equipment - maintenance & equipment history for each piece of equipment - restrictions on which data is available to certain employees i.e. all employees can input maintenance and daily checks , but only super users can delete events I have attached a file with possible data record fields required for the data base - I need a person who is a Filemaker Pro expert - Able to program and present the data set I require in a user friendly/user encouraging environment - Able to produce simplified data entry screen on the iPad for technicians with little portable electronic device experience - Willing to commit to the future support of the development of the data base Job Description: Your responsibilities: - Review business requirements working with other team members - Perform a technical analysis of requirements - Produce a solid, detailed technical design - Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision - Work with the QA and Customer Support teams to triage and fix bugs with rapid turnaround - Contribute ideas for making the application better and easier to use Your qualifications: - Programming language(s): Filemaker Pro , open to other portable solutions - A work style that is extremely detail oriented - Strong communication skills - A complete Elance profile - References or an established reputation on Elance preferred