Jacques Franken Email & Phone Number

Braamfontein

Business Development Manager as a specialist supplier to the water industry. Royce Water Systems a leading one-stop supply source for a wide range of measuring, analysing and controlling instruments as well as thermoplastic valve. Brands include:* S::CAN - submersible UV-Vis spectrometer, Ion selective probes as well as electrochemical and optical probes, provides monitoring for drinking-, environment-, waste-, and industrial water applications.* Georg Fisher - Thermoplastic valves, measure and control instrumentation.* Royce Technologies - Total suspended solids, Dissolved Oxygen , Bed level analysers* Alicat - Mass flow meters, mass flow controllers and pressure controllers. * Platon - Flow, Pressure Level, Temperature sensors and meters

Braamfontein

Business Development Manager for a vast range of specialist instruments and instrumentation, and ultra-high accuracy measuring and calibration equipment.Brands Include:* Cropico - Electrical testing, measurement and calibration instrumentation for workshop, field and laboratory.* DV Power - One of the worlds leading providers of measuring and testing equipment for the power industry, with an aim to provide the world with the most advanced test solutions for transformers, circuit breakers and batteries.* Interface - High performance load cells for reliable force measurements and control applications.* International Sensor Technology - Hazardous Gas detection.* Lambrecht - German engineered meteorological Instruments. The weather specialists since 1859.* Rotronic - Humidity, Temperature, CO2, Differential Pressure, Process Pressure, Flow and Dew-point sensors and transmitters.* MBW Calibration - Chilled mirror dew point measuring systems down to -90 degrees C dew point.* N4L - Precision Power, Frequency Response and Impedance Analysers as well as Selective Level meters and voltage and current amplifiers. A new generation of sophisticated test equipment for the power electronics industry.* Schiltknecht - Swiss precision instruments, vane and thermoelectric anemometers, wind speed and direction instruments, micro water flow meters, micro pressure gauges and special pitot tubes. * Techne - Dry block, constant temperature and refrigerated baths for temperature calibration including portable thermo-regulators.* Zeal - Wet type gas flow meters, digital pressure data logger / indicator and pressure / temperature recorders.

London, United Kingdom

Creating and sending of weekly newsletters and special offers.PPC management of Yahoo/Bing, Facebook and Google PPC accounts, Reporting directly to directors.Drive conversion optimisation campaigns to increase ROIManagement of Social Media campaigns including Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, Google places etc...Procuring and managing of online content creation services for SEO purposesOnsite SEO optimisation to enhance organic rankings and creating keyword focused landing pages.Particularly proud of Double organic growth in 4 years 2 examples: seafarersailing | seafarercruisesMonitoring, report and analyse progress and web activity through Google Analytics, SEO MOZ, Searchmetrics, Adwords, Status Cake, Webmaster tools.Sourcing and coordinating of online flash sales and various other lead generation campaigns.

London, United Kingdom

Answering calls and making reservations using Travelogue and later Travel Studio system.Checking availability direct with supplier, i.e. Yacht Charter Operators & hotels, liaising via email to confirm Sailing, Cruising and Tailor made holidays in Mediterranean, Caribbean, Pacific Islands & Indian Ocean..Confirming flights seats on Galileo and various on-line booking systemsAnswering customer services calls for clients wishing to amend or cancel their reservation and handling customer complaints and grievance

London, United Kingdom

Maintenance, development and updating of companies websites. List of sites can be found at www.thebestoftravel.co.uk/ including www.seafarercruises.com and www.seafarersailing.co.uk.Languages and technologies used include HTML (Including HTML5), CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Wordpress, MySQL, Google docs.Software used includes Adobe Web Premium, Office, Google docs, Adwords Keyword tools.Web 2 Integration of sites with special offer feeds and review feeds appearing on various pages of main sites and posts automatically updating on various social media sites.Administration of 62 web domain names including hosting and email solutions.Created new websites including www.seafarercruises.com and www.seafarerholidays.com.

London, United Kingdom

Maintain our Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers with Symantec Antivirus and Backup software.. Includes our Exchange Server for email, IIS for testing websites and internal websites, Remote Access, and SQL server for our Travel SystemProcurement and upgrade of all IT equipment in the company.Administer, project manage and implementation of Travel Studio, our in-house travel booking system running on SQL database. This includes development of output documentation for customers and suppliers, editing reports.Delegation and loading of in house travel system including: Supplier Contracts, Packaged Holidays, Individual Travel Services and Flights etc.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Applied my skills to maintain and developed an in house electronic & printable catalogue of the manufacturing companies hydraulic seals. Relating car manufacturer make, model & year to corresponding spare parts and serial numbers. Using Access database and Visual Basic I developed this further to a point of sales system, assembly, multiple warehouse stock control and process manufacturing recording system. In short the system monitored every aspect of stock from individual seals to assembly and point of sales. Whilst generating the appropriate documentation for picking lists to invoices.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Analysing and Implementing systems according to the clients infrastructure needs. Ranging from networks to servers and client terminals. (for Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems)Acquiring government contract to maintained and upgrade their computer infrastructure, network and servers.

Information Technology, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

One year IT course covering Web design basics including Office productivity suite beginner to advance, ComptTIA A+ and qualifying.

Ieb Examinations

Activities and Societies: Cricket Captain, Played Rugby, School Chess Champion, Attended Choir. Passed with Matric Exemption.

Education record