Jacobus Du Bruyn Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Stellenbosch

• Design, develop and test C# WinForms desktop and C# back-end applications related to trading solutions for professional stockbrokers, institutions and retail traders aligned with their operational business requirements• Conceive and create comprehensive test plans and oversee their roll-out via management of a team of 2 testers, ensuring plan milestone accomplishment and correct resource allocation throughout• Provide expert direct and telephonic support to support staff and end-users on technical software issues as they arise and recommend allocation of developer resources of new issues logged by support staff• Prepare and produce clear, detailed and user-friendly software release notes to explain changes, deficiencies and defects addressed and inform about installation and deployment• Monitor and maintain the web forum related to the company’s website, ensuring continuous, fault-free operation throughout while also audit updates to software help manuals• Manage 5 developers’ stand-by schedule and various other developer support dutiesKey Accomplishments:• Commended by superiors as the most productive developer on the team, trusted to work independently without the need for work audits based on quality of product delivery• Gained a reputation as a thorough developer with a knack for detecting and resolving bugs and faults; a keen motivation to address and rectify issues that affect end-users and a trusted advisor on coding practices

Langebaan, Western Cape And Egypt

• Seasonal kiteboarding skills instruction to international students; including care and maintenance of equipment

Scottburgh, Kwazulu-Natal

• As temporary stand-in following the death of a family member, responsible for all operational and staff management (16 staff members) activities related to the manufacture and delivery of concrete garden products

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Collaborated with a business specialist towards delivering a Deutsche Leasing with a server-side financial calculator coded in Java (non-visual object) and using goal-seeking methods to produce calculation results• Converted various components including C++ server-side components to server-side components in Java (1-year project); Uniface non-visual objects to server-side components in C++ services (1-year project) and development of Uniface visual objects for financial projects• Gathered software requirements from an in-house client and created software specifications from requirements and detailed the design of components• Maintained the coding standards and procedures document, solved beta-testing problems and allocated testing issues to server- or client-side teams while also maintained code audit templatesKey Accomplishments:• Entrusted as sole developer to develop the complex calculator that included 360 and 365-day-based calculations for monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual lease payments; present and projected values of lease contracts as well as various other financial calculations and amortization schedules

National Diploma In Information Technology, Information Technology

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