Become a MultiValue developer. In 52 weeks you'll learn to build and modernize the enterprise systems behind distribution, healthcare, retail, and government — on UniVerse, UniData, and Uniface — and ACE Tech Resources will work to place you with the companies that run them. No prior programming required.
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Thousands of businesses run their daily operations — orders, inventory, patient records, payroll — on MultiValue systems that were built decades ago and have been extended ever since. They work. They are not being replaced. But the developers who understand them are retiring faster than new ones are being trained.
The result is a market where companies pay well above the going rate for people who can maintain, extend, and modernize these systems — and still struggle to find them. That is the gap this Academy trains you to fill.
Roy Contreras, president of ACE Tech Resources, has spent 35 years placing MultiValue developers with companies across North America. He built this program because he watched the same conversation repeat: a company that cannot function without its system, and no one left who knows how it works.
Each credential is a professional certification earned by presenting a milestone project to a panel that includes an employer partner. You leave each level able to do something a company will pay for.
How businesses run on software. Your first Pick BASIC programs. The MultiValue data model, dictionaries, queries, and reporting.
Professional-grade business logic: subroutines, string and dynamic-array mastery, record locking, transactions, error handling, and application architecture.
Modern user interfaces with Uniface over live U2 data, plus the advanced data work — indexes, batch processing, transactions — that senior developers own.
REST APIs with Rocket MVIS, Git, agile practice, and modernization strategy — then four weeks inside a real employer's system, and a capstone presented at Demo Day.
The program is delivered online through the ACE Tech learning platform, with live sessions, a cohort community, and an assigned industry mentor. You'll need about [N] hours a week.
The week opens with a real workplace situation — the problem a developer on the job would actually be handed.
Your instructor builds the week's skill live on a real UniVerse account, narrating what each part means to the business.
You do it yourself, on the Wychbooks Bookstore — a realistic wholesale distribution database with customers, titles, orders, and suppliers.
Independent work that produces evidence, and a short competency check against the week's objectives.
A practicing MultiValue developer meets with your cohort every week. You'll bring them a question straight from the chapter.
Every week adds one piece to your professional portfolio — 52 pieces by graduation, the thing employers actually open.
ACE Tech Resources is a specialist recruiting firm — this is what we do. From the day you earn your Foundations credential, you're in our candidate pool with a portfolio and a milestone score attached. Our employer partners host apprentices, sit on the milestone panels, and hire graduates.
"It is not raw intelligence or prior programming experience. It is understanding the business context, respecting the architecture that has kept these systems running for decades, and having the professional discipline to change things carefully."
Roy Contreras, President, ACE Tech Resources — on what separates developers who thrive in MultiValue from those who don'tTuition is $4,000 per credential level. Thanks to a scholarship donor committed to rebuilding the MultiValue workforce, accepted learners in this cohort receive a full-tuition scholarship. You pay a $54 technology fee at the start of each credential level — $216 for the whole program.
Four credential levels, billed per level.
| Technology Foundations · Weeks 1–13 | $4,000 |
| Pick BASIC Programming · Weeks 14–26 | $4,000 |
| MultiValue Development · Weeks 27–39 | $4,000 |
| Modernization, Apprenticeship & Capstone · Weeks 40–52 | $4,000 |
Includes the learning platform, training environment, the 52-chapter workbook, weekly mentor coaching, milestone assessments, and placement support.
$16,000 tuition covered in full for accepted learners.
Good standing means keeping pace with your cohort and completing each milestone. Full terms are in the enrollment agreement.
Yes. The program assumes no programming experience. Weeks 1–3 are about how businesses run on software; you write your first program in Week 5 after a week on thinking like a programmer with no syntax at all. Roy's experience placing developers for 35 years is that prior coding is not what predicts success — business sense and careful habits are.
MultiValue (also called Pick) is a family of database and application platforms — UniVerse, UniData, D3 — that stores business data in a way that fits how businesses actually work. It has run mission-critical systems for over 40 years and is actively developed by Rocket Software. The shortage isn't of systems; it's of developers who know them.
Online, through the ACE Tech learning platform: weekly lessons, recorded and live demonstrations, labs on a live UniVerse training environment, a cohort community, and a weekly mentor session with a practicing MultiValue developer. The apprenticeship in Weeks 46–49 is with an employer partner and may be remote or on site depending on the host.
The scholarship covers the full $16,000 tuition for all four credential levels. You pay a $54 technology fee at the start of each credential level — $216 over the program — and the fee is non-refundable. To keep the scholarship, you stay in good standing — keeping pace with your cohort and completing each milestone assessment. Learners who need to pause can re-enter with a later cohort.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. What we do is put you in a specialist recruiter's candidate pool from Week 13 with a portfolio attached, connect you to employer partners who host apprentices and hire graduates, and work your search the way we work every ACE Tech candidate's. The market is on your side: these roles are hard to fill.
Each ACE Tech credential is earned by presenting a milestone project to a panel that includes an employer partner — not by finishing the reading. They're professional certifications backed by a recruiting firm that has placed MultiValue developers for 35 years, and each one maps to work a company will pay for.
Part-time, about [N] hours a week for 52 weeks, with a fixed weekly rhythm: live session, lab, assignment, mentor session, assessment. The apprenticeship weeks are heavier — you're working inside a real company.
Applications take about ten minutes. Everyone who applies is invited to a 20-minute admissions call — that's where we decide together whether this is the right program for you, and where scholarship seats are confirmed.
Not ready to apply? Start Chapter 1 free. You'll get the first three chapters, a login to the live UniVerse training system, and the MultiValue Career Guide.
Start Chapter 1 freeTell us about your background, how you like to learn, and your work authorization. Everyone who applies is invited to a 20-minute admissions call with Bill Ellis, Program Coordinator.
Start the application Start Chapter 1 free insteadBy applying you agree to receive emails and texts from ACE Tech Resources about the Academy. Reply STOP to opt out of texts at any time.