Manages the Enterprise and Web applications for Knox County. Advises stakeholders on strategic direction of their IT software solutions within given budgetary and compliance constraints. Guides a team of software developers, project managers, and applications administrators as they provide software development and support to County departments. Has a strong focus on improving efficiencies and productivity for the benefit of the County.

Leads a team of developers who perform application software research, development, maintenance, and support for Knox County IT.

Serving the employees of Knox County with the best possible software for them to do their jobs more efficiently!

Various projects worked on during freelance period include:* Loyalty rewards program for MTN/MMI Ayo mobile software (via IMGN Consulting)* Funeral Quotes web application for Metropolitan (via Polymorph)* Insurance Quotes web application for Metropolitan (via Yersen Solutions)* Hello Doctor mobile application (via IMGN Consulting)* JSE investment software (via Fortrys)* Life insurance and family funeral products (via Red Panda Software)

I fulfilled the role of both Scrum Master and Java Team Lead for a small team which was focused on bespoke, web solutions for retail clients.We were doing some wizardry with GWT, PostgreSQL, Spring, Hibernate, Gradle and dropping this Java solution into Tomcat servers running on Linux!

Worked with some fun, zany people where I created a high-throughput application server which could handle thousands of transactions per second!After putting this bad boy through its paces and generating crazy revenue for the company we rolled the prototype out and based all future development on this platform.Wrote the transaction gobbling applications using only Java supported by a MySQL database where all the IO and transaction management was custom written!

I was entrusted with my first team leading gig after I repeatedly got involved in sorting out team crises using my own initiative.I was part of a distributed team where we worked with Momentum developers in Pretoria on a single code-base and had to make sure that our objectives and development was always aligned.Led my team through multiple projects where I was heavily involved in getting my hands dirty and coding on platforms based on Java and integrating with Tibco Staffware, CORBA, Vignette Document Management and other bespoke systems developed by our client (Momentum).

I cut my teeth on COBOL like systems dealing with the fallout of the Y2K bug.After two years I had outgrown the COBOL environment so my awesome boss chucked me into the deep end where I joined a Java team and had to learn the language on the job.For three years I developed multiple systems for various clients using Java and J2EE technologies where I was part of a distributed team who worked in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg.I was also able given the opportunity where I trained internal staff in HTML, JavaScript and object orientated programming in addition to my programming job.