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Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Is leading a data product team in ways of working and improved continuous delivery by implementing Kanban and liaising with other teams on cross cutting initiatives to implement machine learning and reporting services. Engaging with stakeholders and third-party partners and tracking risks and dependencies.Has also lead a design team to rebrand a client's online shopping portal and orchestrated over 25 product team dependencies for simultaneous release of the rebrand. Then created data analytics of component and version usage to assist teams upgrading; and migrated the team from milestone delivery to continuous improvement.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa

Is a mentor and operations manager for an internship programme at Microsoft. This includes: campaigning; recruitment, on-boarding & exiting; skills development planning; software architecture; client engagement & mentoring. Also coaches startups and clients on software ownership and effective DevOps.

Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa

Joined as a contractor developing and extending existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 plugins in .NET 4.5 and designing, developing and deploying solutions between development and production environments. Added logging functionality to CRM Plugins using NLog and wrote a Microsoft Excel AddIn integrated with CRM to improve users’ data capture speed. Trained varying IT competent users in CRM via week-long workshops and wrote their user manual.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa

Is the lead developer implementing, upgrading, extending and maintaining Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, 2011 and 2013 for customers. Creates custom CRM Workflow activities using Visual Studio 2013 and integrates Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Is the lead developer using Visual Studio 2013 to develop an enterprise application for the agricultural industry using C# .NET 4.5 and SQL Server 2012. The client front-end uses Windows Forms and ClickOnce to deploy to clients and communicated with WCF web services. The web portal is a ASP.NET MVC 5 website for reporting and data mining. The enterprise application is written to support new government mandates governing agriculture.

Houghton

Was part of a small product team (about 10 people) upgrading a large government financial desktop product written in C# .NET 3.5 with a SQL 2008 database and C++ and Python backend. I was the developer responsible for the customer information module, adding new functionality while it was critical that existing functionality was not compromised.

Researching emerging technologies and best practices and training the internal staff on them (e.g. Developing Windows Applications Using .NET 4.0). Training included providing slide presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, practical workshops and sitting with specific product teams to answer questions related to their project

Acted in a manager role responsible for coordinating a team of software developers and a team of artists. Created and maintained project schedules and milestones for multiple simultaneous projects to manage the expectations of the stakeholders and commitment of the teams; using Microsoft Project. Negotiated with stakeholders on deliverables and sourcing contractors for bespoke work and managing their billable hours. Wrote functional and technical specifications for stakeholders and/or developers including diagrams created with Microsoft Visio.

Worked with various sized teams (2 to 40 people) in the course of many projects to developed multi-platform, multi-language software for the banking and telecoms industries. Front-ends and middle-tiers were typically developed using C# and data layers varying between MS SQL, Oracle on Windows platforms and DB2 on Unix. Was part of the team which created proprietary workflow engine with C# and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) front-end, C++ backend and Python middle-tier. Researched and advised company during Windows Workflow Foundation Community Tech Preview (CTP) and initial launch.

Johannesburg

Maintained a customer base that was using a 3rd-party accounting package and developed custom modules in Visual Basic .NET and C# with COM interface to suit their needs. Installed, configured and customized company’s Microsoft CRM 1.2 system.

Provided shared hosting solutions and web portal development to customers using proprietary solution developed in Visual Basic 6. Migrated company products and trained developers in, then, new .NET technologies, Visual Basic .NET and C#. Created custom helpdesk and ticket tracking solutions for internal and public-facing products using Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET.

Maintained a workshop and stockroom for building and upgrading PCs and PABX installations.

Provided tracking and telemetry for satellite passes used for image gathering and shuttle/satellite launches. Wrote replacement software for aging telemetry systems (Y2K compliancy) and translation data between incompatible systems in Visual Basic 6.

Master'S Degree, Engineering

National Diploma, Light Industrial Electronics

Standard 8, Mechanical Engineering