Beccy Stones Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Responsibilities• Project Management (including administration)• Facilitation of Joint Application Development workshops• Mentoring and training of junior developers• Scope management• Systems analysis and file design• Business analysis & specifications• Programming (Natural Construct, VB.net, C#.net)• Change management• Co-ordination of User Acceptance Testing

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Grade 10-12 Information Technology teacher, using IEB syllabus

Johannesburg, South Africa

Responsibilities• Project Management (including administration)• Assist with program management for IS development department• Business analysis• Systems analysis• Vendor assessment• Facilitate Joint Application Development workshops• Scope management• Change management • Co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing• Write user training manualsProjects • Project Manager for Scanning Upgrade • Project Manager for VAT percentage change

Johannesburg

• E-Tutor in End-User Computing Theory - 20-200 students per semester, with weekly online tutorials• Prepared draft course work for Discrete Mathematics 1 • Critical Reader of new course material for End-User-Computing Theory

Randburg, South Africa

Responsibilities• Line management: run Information Systems Development department when manager is on leave. Assist with interviews, performance appraisals, mentorship and training of team members. • Project Management (including administration)• Facilitate Joint Application Development workshops• Business analysis• Scope management• Systems and file design• Programming (Natural Construct, VB.net, C#.net)• Change management • Co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing• Write user training manualsProjects • Project Manager for Auto Claims project (1 year) - awarded Champion Award for this project• Project Manager for Buyer Attorney System (6 months)• Project Manager for Salvage Mitigation System (6 months)• Project Leader for Guarantees System (1 year)• Various smaller projectsSupport and Maintenance• Transunion, Experian systems (Natural Construct, Entire-X, Webservice, XML)• DMS and Workflow systems • Electronic statements (.net, Natural Adabas, Filetrans)• Buyer and Accounts systems (Natural Construct/Natural Adabas)• Quality assurance • Standby/callout of batch runs (Natural Adabas, .net on UNIX platform)

• Tutored grade 8 student in Mathematics (October-November 2017)• Prepared pupils for South African Mathematics Foundation Olympiad (grade 8) and Maths Challenge (grades 4,5,6 and 7). Of a class of 10 pupils, aged 6-13, 9 pupils qualified for the 2nd round, 7 writing above their grade level (February-May 2015)• Developed and ran course introducing Set Theory to a class of 5 children aged 5-11 (March 2014)• Taught my 11 year old Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics (Grade 8-9) (November 2013-November 2014)• Taught my 8 year old violin (Suzuki Book 2, ABRSM grade 2) (November 2013-November 2014)

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Projects• Project Leader for rewrite of Experian Interface System – managed all aspects of the project, including communication with external company (Webservice, XML, Natural Construct)• Team Leader of Delivery 2 in project to rewrite Natural Construct system into EGL: managing people, documentation of systems, data extracts (generated Java code, Natural Adabas, SQL)• Electronic statements – automated broker and attorney statements to be sent by email. Included training of operators and support staff, documentation of ISO procedures. (.NET, Natural Construct, Filetrans).Support and maintenance• Systems maintenance on Experian, Transunion, Buyer and Accounts systems (Natural Construct)• Quality assurance

Randburg, South Africa

Systems development • Project Leader for ITC Interface System - retrieving information from external company (Entire-X, Natural Construct)• Design team for new workflow system (Keyflow/Keyfile, Natural Construct)• Accounts System Rewrite project – interfaces to other systems (Natural Adabas)Support and maintenance• Took over support and maintenance of Credit Support Services system after it was written by external company. This included learning the system after minimal handover (Natural Construct)• Policy system – various 1-3 month projects, alone or assisted by junior staff member (Natural Construct)• Maintenance and support of Accounts system (Natural Construct)• KreditInform system (Natural Construct, C)• Flexitime system (Microsoft Access)• Assisted on Business Information, Medium Term insurance and Computerised Declarations systems (Natural Construct)• Quality assurance • Batch run support on VMS platform (Natural Adabas, Natural Construct, DCL)Other projects• Year 2000 project – remediation, and cataloguing of systems (Natural Construct, Natural Adabas, Microsoft Access)• Upgrade to Natural 4.1 – high-pressure project with large volume of changes

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Credit System with 5 million accounts (Natural, COBOL, Natural Construct)• Key member of data conversion team for installation of Vision Plus (COBOL)• Batch run support on MVS platform (Natural Adabas, COBOL, JCL)

London, United Kingdom

• Trained and supervised 20 sales reps in marketing methods• Negotiated and booked locations for promotions

Grahamstown Area, South Africa

• Tutored English I Poetry• 15 students in my tutorial group• Marking of essays for my tutorial group

Med Learning Support, Guidance And Counselling (Dissertation), Education/Teaching Of The Gifted And Talented, 83%

My dissertation was entitled "South African Mathematics Challenge participation: developing problem-solving skills.

New Managers' Development Programme, 80%

Team leader and top student in the course.

Postgraduate Certificate In Education, Senior And Fet, Cum Laude

I received distinctions in all 10 modules for this course. English Teaching Practice, Abbott’s College August – September 2015 • Taught.

Diploma Of Datametrics, Computer Science

Ba (Hons), English Literature

Activities and Societies: Rhodes University Chamber Choir

Bachelor Of Arts, English And Psychology

Activities and Societies: Rhodes University Chamber Choir

Matriculation, English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Latin, Physical Science, History

Activities and Societies: Basketball (1st team)