Jacques De Vos Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

At fitillion.com we build game-changing, technology-enabled gym products for homes and studios. As CTO, I steer our talented technology team.We use technology to help people meet their fitness goals, and provide everything people need from workouts, nutrition and novel goal tracking. The advanced tech in the background removes all the complexity for the user, giving them the benefits of having a personal trainer, without losing convenience and engagement with others.We are building something amazing, and I'm in the process of growing our international team.

Building new software products, and coaching software teams.Main focus is on coaching software engineering teams and businesses on how to excel at building the right stuff, well. This touches on a wide variety of areas like culture, engineering practices, processes, architecture and development skills.Apart from coaching, I also developed mobile, web and IoT applications.Also involved in all the other aspects of building this niche consultancy (from doing finance and sales to brewing the coffee).

Managed development on leading online share trading platform, that enables trading of JSE instruments, as well as our own OTC derivatives.My main responsibilities were providing leadership in processes and engineering practices to the team of more than 20. And make sure we deliver.In my time there, the notable features we delivered:-The first of its kind retail Covered Call options intrument as a trading product. We had to build a proprietry engine for this OTC intrument.-Launced a new platform that allows you to trade securities on all major exhanges from South Africa. This was mainly an integration project.-Re-built the all important equities trading component.-Created a new, simplified client on-boarding process, whilst conforming to the strict financial industry regulations.

Development of a proprietary, multi-faceted call-centre solution, based on Microsoft technologies. Of particular interest was our "all-in" adoption of TDD to improve the quality and speed if delivery.

We created a bespoke framework to enable Vodacom to host and sell software services. This highly complex hosting system involves a host of technologies and integrations.I was responsible for the development and delivery of the e-commerce functionality, and adapted it to a hosting environment. This entailed catering for numerous billing use cases and integration into various other sub-systems.

Standard Bank Core Banking Platform was a redesign of the bank's transactional systems.I joined the Microsoft team through Aricent, as lead front end developer for the Core Banking Platform.My responsibilities were to design the software, collaborate with the UX and analysis's and lead a team of developers in implementing a complex solution.

Client - Project: Nedbank Group Limited ­ Channel Convergence Touch Point Application, Framework refactoringBrief: After the first phase of the Nedbank Channel Convergence program, the touch point required refactoring, upgrading technologies and adding enhancements necessary to add new channels to the systemRole and tasks: · Lead team of 3 UI developers, designing and implementing all framework enhancementsTechnologies C#.NET 2.0, EntLib, ASP.NET, HTML/JavaScript

Client - Project: Nedbank Group Limited ­ USSD (mobile app) client channel for bankingBrief: The USSD channel was added to the banking channel stack, in order to bring mobile banking to low-income customers. This new channel had to integrate with the current business logic.Role and tasks: · Designed and lead development a USSD tier that plugged into the current multi-channel framework and business logic · Lead team of 8 developers · Responsible for requirements elicitation and documentation · Code-completed ahead of schedule and below budgetTechnologies USSD, TCP Sockets, ASP.NET, WS, C#.NET 1.1, EntLib, SQL 2000Reference: Henk Nel ­ Operations Manager, Aricent SA, +27 83 400 6091

Tech lead on Internet Banking applications based on Microsoft Technologies.

Client - Project: Bastion/Nedbank ­ WebBank Internet Banking for African countries ­ Business BankingBrief: WebBank is an adaptation of Nedbank Internet banking for African countries like Namibia, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. Business banking features needed to be added to make it business friendlyRole and tasks: · Lead implementation of new business features including: o Batch payments o Authorisations · Lead team of 3 developersTechnologies COM+, VC++, ASP, XML/XSLT, HTML/JavaScript, SQL 2000Reference: Henk Nel

Project: New­ Internet and Business Internet Banking for Major SA Bank: Nedbank Group LimitedBrief: As a strategic move towards convergence of all banking channels, Nedbank adopted a new SOA architecture with world class security. The Business Internet Banking application was the first channel earmarked for the new Channel Convergence Architecture.Role and tasks: Designed and lead development of security, administration and non-functional features including:o Certificate/token based authenticationo Certificate download and integration with VeriSign OnSiteo Digitally signed, high performance transaction loggingo Administration and security features on the applicationo Role based access controlo Framework changes to integrate securityo Responsible for requirements elicitation and documentationo Lead team of developers: 3 in India, 2 in Cape Town, 3 in JohannesburgTechnologies: VeriSign OnSite, CryptoAPI/CAPICOM, C#.NET 1.1, EntLib, ASP.NET, HTML/JavaScript, COM+, VC++, MSMQ, SQL 2000Reference: Henk Nel

Client - Project: Nedbank Internet Banking and other products supported by Flextronics SABrief: Flextronics SA's, supports some systems of the Nedbank client banking systems. This is an ongoing task of fixing/adding features, deploying releases and all the tasks associated with the maintenance phase.Role and tasks: · Feature developer · Software support · Builds, deployments, version control · QA and testingTechnologies COM+, VC++, ASP, XML/XSLT, HTML/JavaScript, SQL 2000Reference: Henk Nel ­ Operations Manager, Aricent SA, +27 83 400 6091

Diphe, Philosophy

A thorough grounding in the central areas of philosophy

B.Eng (Cum Laude), Computer Engineering

Theoretical and practical aspects of electronics, digital systems, computer systems and control software