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Hahndorf, Sa, Au

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Led a team of digital consultants based in South Australia and Victoria, providing mentorship, career guidance and administration. Drafted statements of work, and completed billable project work.

Adelaide, Australia

Executed general practice lead duties (mentoring, work bookings, general administration).Provided technical leadership in the response to a government department tender, which was ultimately won (included multiple technologies: Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, .NET, Angular, Dynamics 365, Kafka, Precisely Spectrum).Provided technical oversight for the upgrade of the Sitecore platform for the local parliament.Analysis, assessment, and choice of a commercial off-the-shelf integration platform for an aged care provider.Full-time onsite development team leadership for the state-wide automobile association digital platform delivery team.

Adelaide, Australia

Providing leadership and consulting in respect of a DevOps initiative scoped to the corporate digital platform delivery team.Providing consulting and software development services in respect of the integration of an off-the-shelf digital portal platform into an existing legacy COBOL-based pension administration system.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Performed research and analysis on legacy line-of-business administration platforms and made corresponding recommendations.Drew up templates and guidelines for new systems deployed within Alexander Forbes; also: participated in the quality assurance process for numerous systems that were deployed.Researched system modernization service providers and selected a partner for assistance in modernizing two in-house systems, the first being a VB6 to C# modernization effort and the second, a COBOL to C# conversion.Identified a consulting partner to introduce modern ideas and methods for effective software delivery (in particular, through applying principles of flow). Participated in the associated hands-on engagement with an existing administration system development team.Provided consulting services to the organization CIO and CTO in respect of, amongst other things, modernization strategies, software development processes and practices as well as DevOps and flow-based value-delivery models.

Sandton

Architected and lead the rewrite of the principal administration system for Investment Solutions, that is: the multi-manager investment administration platform. The original system was written in VB6 with MS SQL Server as the back-end. The re-developed system is .NET based (C#) and employs modern software development idioms including inversion of control, object-relational mapping, unit testing with mocking as well as aspect orientation.Led the development of the first fully-automated build system within the Alexander Forbes group, back-ended by Team Foundation Server.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Co-owner of an IT services company with target market: small-to-medium-sized companies. Responsible for the technical and operational side of the business, including: hands-on administration of Linux-based firewalls, file-servers, email servers and open-source databases, network administration, backup administration, development of company products, general administration and company strategy.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Developed a LAMP-based sales reporting system for a supermarket chain.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Led the electronic communications team within Discovery Health to produce the first bulk emailing system for the company. Collaborated with other systems architects within the Internet services division to implement an automated build system using Ant and StarTeam as the backing VCS.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Investigated, sourced and contributed to the implementation of an e-Procurement product for a large multinational electronics distribution company; this project involved working in the USA. Assisted with solution architectures and implementations of solutions based on the ATG Dynamo Java-based application server for various Dimension Data customers.

Johannesburg

Developed or contributed to the development of various products, including: a secure e-mail proxy application on Windows, a Sendmail and Perl-based EDI system for the pharmaceutical industry and an X509 certificate server on Windows. Researched, documented and presented a course on secure messaging. Fulfilled a pre-sales technical consulting function for projects requiring bespoked software development as well as for the in-house developed encryption and security products sold by IS.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Developed embedded software for the digital I/O component of an aircraft navigation system. This project involved C++, C and assembler software development.

Msc, Electrical Engineering

Postgraduate study: The application of modern software development tools and practices in the simulation of high voltage electromagnetic.

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