Arno Cloete Email & Phone Number

Pretoria, Gp, Za

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

The Principal Engineer is a key technologist in the Software Engineering capability, helping to drive software engineering strategies, standards and guidelines at enterprise level. Engineering business critical technology solutions through the application of software programming, quality management, data engineering, and big data analysis as well as ensuring robust engineering practices for solution planning, technology development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operation of technology solution. The Principal Engineer leverages their expert skills in technology stacks to enable the business to solve complex analytical problems in areas like planning, commerce, customer experience and operations.Key responsibilities:Drive proof-of-concepts and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.Lead technical design and build for complex solutions across teams. Technical stewardship of a subset of technology area. Champion automation and lean software development, test driven development and timely root cause analysis. Lead discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design, partnering with cross-functional teams. Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions. Mentor and coach developers on writing clean code and debug complex cases.Develop accelerator framework and practices to improve quality of technology solutions and productivity of developers. Measure and monitor engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.Responsible for technical debt remediation strategy and execution with support from environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security.Measure and monitor engineering metrics that enable agility, scalability, data quality and reliability of technology solutions across the enterprise.Responsible for infrastructure management and cyber security.

Centurion

Zetra Technologies applying technical software development skills and expertise to build solutions for clients.Now MD of Zetra Technologies that support and develop self help lines of MTN (IVR). This includes programming, design, working on Dialogic platform, monitoring and support Dashboards. Big data and routing. This includes maintaining relationship with client. We've expanded our business to Enterprise Software such as booking systems, account management and client management.Arno is a results-oriented Managing Director providing excellent service to clients while managing a team to be effective and productive. He is driven to establish strategic mutually beneficial partnerships and relationships with users vendors and service providers. Excel at building and retaining high performance teams by hiring developing and motivating skilled professionals.A self-motivated and resourceful managing director with a strong technical side and a software developer. Skill set as a Managing Director include:Visionary leadershipAbility to motivate a workforceEffective management and delegationCommunication and negotiationIn depth knowledge of computer systems, IT solutions and programmingComplex problem solvingEffective decision making

South Africa

We started in 2016 to develop a system that facilitates the administration of Jumpseats for Pilots and Airline Crew. This is currently been used by airline crew from SAA, Mango, Airlink and SAX. This expanded to a full system where Airline Crew can now get their own updated flight schedules and information on their jumpseats in their Google Calendars. I sold my shares and retired as director in Feb 2018.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Responsible for the successful creation and delivery of the company's products and services by managing technical risks and opportunities. Responsibilities include:• Meeting with clients and establish function requirements specifications and outcomes and complete the full cycle until delivery. • Making key software design and implementation decisions with the development teams, scheduling of tasks including tracking dependencies, managing change requests, and guaranteeing quality of deliveries. • Refactored our internal code to use best practices and object orientated programming fundamentals. Includes educating the team on technical best practices. • Create and design my own custom solutions for clients that keep up with the newest technologies and latest trends in the IT environment.One of my recent projects is a web based solution in the cloud with a MYSQL back-end to serve as a public service for clients. I am still programming in C++, C, C#, Python, Cake PHP, Javascript, Java and Asterisk.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Includes all responsibilities below as Technical Team Leader. Addition to this:Companywide manager and full responsibility for our products and services.This includes, meeting with clients and responsible for the full life cycle until sign off. Technical team management and work schedules.Quality control on all code and quality management on our products and services.Managing our help desk and support.Create and design bespoke software solutions for clients.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Since 1st of May 2013 I was assigned as Technical Team Leader:Assigned as Technical team leader for all our MTN projects.Technical Team leader of 7 team members.Duties & Responsibilities as Technical Team leader:Receive all work and projects from clients and delegate responsibilities to team members.Designing and implement an internal flow for delivering projects.Coordinating of 2 or more team members working together on one project simultaneously.Technical team members time allocation.Subversion and code control between team members. Branching and merging of code branches.Document control for projects and internal processes. Ensure projects get delivered efficiently and on time. Coordinated task assignment to Ensure Team members are not overloaded or underusedTeam members reported back to the technical team leader.Organizing and hosting regular team meetings and technical meetingsSetting up and documenting internal coding standards and coding principles.Training Junior Team members to empower them to accomplish their daily tasks.Training Team members to use object orientated programming and use the internal coding standards and principles.Other new Duties & Responsibilities:Optimizing existing code to be more robust, more maintainable and more re-usable.Re-engineering existing code by using Object Orientated and reducing the amount of code.Coding of C++ and Python programs that generate C++ code to reduce repetitive tasksPython programming to search through log files.Bash programming to establish health of servers.Building Microsoft Visio stencils and coding of Macros and importing data from databases.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Working as a Software Engineer. Responsibilities includes:C/C++ programming.Design, write, implement and support Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Applications in C++.Interpreting client’s Functional Requirement Specification documents and quotes and estimate timelines for projects.Programming of Monitor Applications in PHP to monitor network and IVR traffic.IVR Setup and Maintenance Training for MTN.Automated scripts and rules interacting with Excel sheets and Microsoft SQL databases.Basic Visual Basic Scripts.Basic Asterisk setup and changes.Windows and Linux Dialogic Installations and basic SS7 setup and routing.Record and Investigate DTMF signals.Client-Server Applications for IVR API and Monitoring.Writing of Master Technical Architecture and User Guides.Experience in curl, soap, xml and http web services.Meeting with clients to establish and discuss Functional Requirement Specifications for projects.Experience in other programming languages:• Android SDK programming• PhoneGAP programming• Python programming• Windows services• Bash in Linux• PHP• MySQL and Microsoft SQL• Google Desktop.

Centurion

Worked as a Junior Programmer. Gained experience in .Net and C# and basic knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint. I was also responsible for fixing PCs, the company's internal network, network printer installations and Microsoft Windows Operating System trouble shooting.

Programme In It Project Management, Project Management, Short Course

Beng, Computer Engineering, Degree

Computer engineering is a combination of electronics, computer systems (hardware and software) and communication systems. A computer.

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