Dean Maier Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

As the lead for the Synthesis solution architecture capability, the role is to establish, maintain and improve the collective architecture capability which provides expert guidance in supporting teams to design, build and implement scalable, efficient and cost-effective technology solutions that align with clients and their business objectives.The role includes:- Providing technical leadership and guidance for technology solutions- Understand requirements and identify opportunities for technology solutions- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the company's technology landscape- Lead the design and development of technical solutions- Define and maintain architecture standards and guidelines- Provide guidance and mentoring to other architects, developers, and engineers- Ensure solutions are secure, compliant, and resilient- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends- Collaborate with other business units and functions within the company- Develop and maintain relationships with external technology vendors, consultants, and industry partners

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Cloud computing is a digital-era fundamental. It is critical to business agility, helping organisations respond with speed to disruption, bring innovation to market fast and scale rapidly. Synthesis is a leader in cloud.The cloud project practice lead is responsible for defining and executing on the strategic vision of the Synthesis cloud division, specifically focusing on cloud projects and ensuring that initiatives contribute to the broader goals of the organization.

Sandton, Johannesburg

Frontend and backend development within the integration services team who specialize in delivering products that are highly customizable and enable integration between different areas in the financial sector which include the stock market, banks, government institutions and so forth.The majority of integration software products are build on the Java platform with frontend's utilizing Java and HTML5 using the latest SPA (single page application) frameworks and methodologies. Utilizing Java enables applications to be deployed and operated on all major platforms and still maintain high performance and scalability.Responsibilities of the role include software design and development, functional and technical requirements analysis, quality assurance from both development and user acceptance aspects as well as personal time management and a keen drive to gain expert technical wisdom.

Bedforview, Johannesburg

Frontend and backend software development on new real-time stock trading systems as well as maintenance of existing market surveillance tools and reports.This role required me to gain deep insight into highly scalable, high performance and high availability architectures, working with multiple communication layers, multiple data providers and multiple application frameworks in order to provide a server - client system fulfilling the various intricacies involved in such a project.The stock trading systems provide a real-time stock trading platform for derivatives and equities markets both locally and internationally with a key focus on providing real-time pre and post trade risk validation and monitoring for clearing members and a fast, efficient and easily accessible platform for clients to trade across the web or with an optimized desktop application.Surveillance tools are utilized by stock exchanges to monitor real-time trading activity and allows exchange users to view customizable market related incidents which assist in enforcing regulations and monitor and be alerted to irregular trade activity. Market activity can be viewed on real-time charts per security in order to keep track of market movements and incidents as they occur or extracted via a reporting platform for a consolidated view.

Centurion, South Africa

I started out as a desktop support engineer, supporting users and fulfilling requests from an IT administrator. Upon completion of my SQL development & management course I inherited a role of SQL report writer. After later serving in a business intelligence and IT administration role I completed my C# development course and joined the software development team.My role as a junior software developer soon grew into an intermediate developer role being assigned new development tasks on new and existing projects and maintenance for my own projects, serving as a mentor for junior developers and also being a point of contact for clients for support and requirements analysis.Projects Types:Fleet, stock and asset managementVehicle and asset tracking systemsVehicle tracking integration systemsBusiness intelligenceRoles:Software development Research and development (R&D) Implementation of new technologies Testing and last-line software support IT administration IT support Quality control assurance Report writing

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Supervising, planning, procurement and budgeting for an electrical contractor company. Alongside administrative functions I would be involved in physical installations of distribution boards, overhead cable trays and wiring. On-site functions would include measuring and inspections of layouts of materials pre and post installation.Types of buildings:Hospitals, apartment blocks, private homes

Diploma In Comprehensive Programming, Computer Programming

Courses ranged from advanced computer usage and fundamentals to C# application development. The subjects covering application development.

Matric

Maths HG, English HG, Afrikaans HG, Accounting HG, Business Economics HG, Economics HG