Designing, planning and communicating various data integrations & architectures. Providing essential technical decision support to teams building and deploying critical business decision support systems and regulated market data integrations across the globe.Doing data platform and technology evaluations to assess the pros and cons of adopting various data technology into the organization.Communicating technical solutions and strategy at all levels, to executive, technical and… Show more Designing, planning and communicating various data integrations & architectures. Providing essential technical decision support to teams building and deploying critical business decision support systems and regulated market data integrations across the globe.Doing data platform and technology evaluations to assess the pros and cons of adopting various data technology into the organization.Communicating technical solutions and strategy at all levels, to executive, technical and non-technical stakeholders.Derivco employs the Objectives and key results (OKR) goal-setting framework.Some significant evaluations and architectures I got to work with were MS Power BI & Fabric, MS Synapse, Azure Databricks Show less

Create and manage an end-to-end BI platform which provides secure, reliable and accessible, scheduled and ad-hoc BI reports to all parties having vested interest. BI reporting and specialised data analysis to produce metrics that measure all new changes as well as the current live system features. Provide essential product insight enabling the Product Owner and Business Analysts to make critical business decisions. Provide the product customers with clear but detailed, reliable and accurate… Show more Create and manage an end-to-end BI platform which provides secure, reliable and accessible, scheduled and ad-hoc BI reports to all parties having vested interest. BI reporting and specialised data analysis to produce metrics that measure all new changes as well as the current live system features. Provide essential product insight enabling the Product Owner and Business Analysts to make critical business decisions. Provide the product customers with clear but detailed, reliable and accurate insight into their day to day business operations and financials.Provide efficient reporting for customers and staff and maintain an effective reporting environment that facilitates getting answers to • Financial questions• User Behaviour questions• Operational System questions Show less

Technical Lead Developer on a team of > 65 people, I have seen the team grow from a handful of developers and testers under the mentorship of the Architecture team to becoming self-sufficient and larger to becoming a 7-team-software department.Our team's software in use on a global scale. The system is large, ,distributed and flexible.A largely database driven system, as a multi-participant game, all broadcasts need to be orchestrated from a central, transactional, point – the… Show more Technical Lead Developer on a team of > 65 people, I have seen the team grow from a handful of developers and testers under the mentorship of the Architecture team to becoming self-sufficient and larger to becoming a 7-team-software department.Our team's software in use on a global scale. The system is large, ,distributed and flexible.A largely database driven system, as a multi-participant game, all broadcasts need to be orchestrated from a central, transactional, point – the database. I oversee and review all database changes and design decisions, additionally playing a pivotal and essential role in resolving any emergency situations that occur on our live systems. Show less

Senior Developer for software which I am proud to say is all in use on a global scale. The system is large, flexible and, not unduly, complex. I oversee and review all system changes and design decisions. I play a pivotal role in resolving many emergency situations that occur on our live systems which facilitates the prevention and quick recovery of adhoc system failures.

I worked on the Professional Services Team for a large ITC company which served business solutions throughout Africa in various industry sectors. My team’s focus was designing, implementing and supporting a mission critical Business Intelligence system for one of the largest Retailers in Africa. This system, in essence, helped the client integrate their disparate and rather antiquated operational systems, bringing their business data into a consolidated Dimensional Data Warehouse, allowing… Show more I worked on the Professional Services Team for a large ITC company which served business solutions throughout Africa in various industry sectors. My team’s focus was designing, implementing and supporting a mission critical Business Intelligence system for one of the largest Retailers in Africa. This system, in essence, helped the client integrate their disparate and rather antiquated operational systems, bringing their business data into a consolidated Dimensional Data Warehouse, allowing for high performance end-to-end business analysis. Their Data Warehouse was designed using strict Ralph Kimball dimensional design principles and is presented and analysed with the MicroStrategy BI Platform.This system has become vital to our client’s day-to-day productivity and therefore needs to be supported 24/7 against a strict SLA.My immediate team was rather small, consisting of about 10 people, in terms of immediate authority I answered to two other Principal Developers on our team. Show less

Amlin is an internationally respected leader within the Insurance market. They rely very heavily on the timeous delivery of their mission critical business data. Their primary data source for this data is a Data Warehouse developed internally from top to bottom, based on Ralph Kimball’s Warehousing methods, using technologies such as DTS & SSIS, ActiveX, SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Micro Strategy 8, Sybase ASE 15 and a few others.

NST is a Software Development House, writing bespoke applications to customer needs. NST has successfully implemented custom applications across several industries including Finance, Marketing and Manufacturing. They also sell an “off-the-shelf” CRM/Helpdesk application. I Joined NST as a junior programmer and was promoted to Senior Developer & Team Leader in July 2003. Worked as a Team Lead/Database Developer on a number of projects.