Eben Roux Email & Phone Number

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I have over 25 years of experience in the professional arena as a developer, consultant, and architect within many industries and have provided strategies and solutions that have contributed to the successful implementation of various systems. I believe firmly in the development of quality software that empowers users to get their job done.My current focus.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Responsibilities include assisting customers with cases on the following services:- Simple Queue Service- Simple Notification Service- Lambda- API Gateway- Pinpoint- Step Functions- Connect ﴾Contact Center﴿- Amazon MQAs a quality champion I vetted correspondences for new hires and I was also involved in interviewing.Reason for leaving: a support-only role.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I started out working in the monitoring team where the main system (Vonnegut) captured trading and clearing layer 2 network traffic and decoded the relevant messages. I built a message-based monitoring system using Shuttle.Esb on RabbitMQ for Vonnegut that had an agent on each relevant server that would send monitoring messages and performance counters to.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I started out contracting through EQ Plus / Atos to Sebata. Contracting directly to Sebata from 1 August 2016.Responsible for development on the billing module for an enterprise management system used by municipalities.Notable achievements:- Implemented a domain model for the billing system and removed countless stored procedures. - Introduced a messaging.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the development of the front‐end framework that interacts with a webMethods back‐end and have also fulfilled the role of team lead and stand‐in scrum master.Notable achievements:Used node.js to host the static ember.js site locally on the user's machine which would automaticall update itself when a new version was release.Introduced.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I was initially hired to assist in the redevelopment of existing PHP systems in C#. However, the business need changed and I ended up working with PHP and MySql.Reason for leaving: Since these technologies are not my focus I decided to seek employment elsewhere.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I was placed at Zurich insurance where I had to maintain an existing document indexing system that I eventually redeveloped.I implemented a messaging system using Shuttle.Esb to replace the document indexing system which ended up providing much better visibility w.r.t. to the document indexing process. The system is also remarkably stable.Reason for.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I started out at an insurance company called Glenrand MIB ﴾now owned by Aon﴿ where I rewrote a premium calculation system by developing a composite UI and I made use of NServiceBus. The new system out-performed the existing system by many orders of magnitude and it went live after only 6 months of development with no more than 3 resources on the project at.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Solution architecture and re‐development of 1Time Airline web application. The existing application was written in Perl with a Sybase database. This had to be re‐developed in C#.Reason for leaving: the environment was not for me.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Maintenance of existing solutions and ad‐hoc additional functionality for First National Bank ﴾Home Loans﴿.Reason for leaving: the environment was not for me.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Re‐write of claims system.The actual development of the system never really got off the ground so I spent quite a bit of time on research and architecture of the proposed re‐write.Reason for leaving: the project never really got going ﴾so mostly boredom﴿.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

During this time I completed my MCSD for VB.NET and created a code generator that I intended to market as a product.I also performed some ad‐hoc contract work.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

After I returned from Saudi Arabia I was contacted by Liberty and asked to contract with them again. This time around I developed various smaller systems including an auto‐update mechanism for a front-end Windows system.Reason for leaving: I needed some time off.

Saudi Arabia

Redeveloped a budgeting system.The existing system was a huge Excel spreadsheet. This spreadsheet was used to perform budgeting and determine royalties. There was a previous attempt to re‐write it in PowerBuilder that took a year and eventually was abandoned. I managed to write a successful system within 4 months. After that I also kicked‐off the writing.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I worked on the quote system and my duties encluded coding, the development of a component‐based application architecture, and mentoring of Liberty staff.Reason for leaving: opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I was initially placed at Liberty Life and then temporarily at Pretoria Portland Cement.The Liberty project requirements were not yet in place when we arrived and the entire project team was asked to be placed elsewhere resulting in me maintaining a reporting system and a chemical analysis simulator for PPC.Reason for leaving: I started directly.

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

I was placed within QDC ﴾QPlan Division﴿ to continue my work on QPlan ﴾maintenance management system﴿. Just before I left I did a short stint at Nedcor / American Express.Reason for leaving: was looking out for something new.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

I was placed at the South African Forestry Company Limited where I maintained an Access 2.0 application along with implementing a MAPI application.Reason for leaving: I was expecting to work on a new project but ended up on maintenance

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

Initially I worked at Glen Agricultural Institute ﴾in Bloemfontein﴿ on a soil preservation system and then moved over to Johannesburg to work on QPlan for QData Consulting.Reason for leaving: could not agree on a rate on contract renewal

Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

This was my first job and did not include software development.I was involved with network installation, sales ﴾software and hardware﴿, and general IT support.Reason for leaving: A software development opportunity came along.

National Diploma: Computer Data Processing, Cobol (Commercial Programming), Information Systems

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