Albert Short Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Sandton, South Africa

I currently work on a policy management system that is written in Universe Basic. It is a legacy, character based system that has been in production for more than 20 years. I do both support and new developments on the system.During this period I also worked on reports for the Human Resources department, retirement planning software, and a time-sheet tracking system.

Bryanston, South Africa

Development and support on a web based insurance policy management system. I had direct contact and meetings with the clients and was involved in the talks and definitions about their system requirements.

Sandton, South Africa

Functionality I worked on insurance related software. I did reporting modules, supported a policy management system, helped with requirement gathering and development of a quote rating engine, and computerized various tools and calculators that were previously done manually within the business.

Sandton, South Africa

I worked as a Microsoft developer, using various technologies, such as C#.Net, Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft SQL Server, and Visual Basic 6 on a variety of project types, such as Windows applications, web based applications and console processes.During this time I started to gain experience in the field of insurance.

Centurion In South Africa, Melbourne In Australia And Harare In Zimbabwe

During this time I was involved in the development of a web based object management system with built-in workflow processes. I lived in Melbourne, Australia for 6 weeks, and in Harare, Zimbabwe, for 2 months during this employment.During this time I moved from Uniface 4GL development to the Microsoft .Net techologies, specifically C# and Visual Basic. Also started to use Microsoft SQL Server frequently at this stage of my career.

Germiston, South Africa And Also Port Louis In Mauritius

During this period I worked on a banking system for SEAB (South East Asian Bank) in Mauritius. I was mostly based in Germiston, South Africa, but spent 2 months working in Mauritius.

Centurion, South Africa As Well As Stevenage In The Uk.

Worked as a junior programmer using Uniface 4GL with an Oracle database. During this period I spent 15 months working in Stevenage in the UK on a project that was executed in conjunction with IBM.

Bedfordview, Johannesburg, South Africa

During the final year of my studies at the Tshwane University of Technology, I started to work part-time for Impala Platinum in order to obtain practical working experience.

Universe Basic Fundamentals, Universe Basic Programming And Universe Basic Extensions, Universe Basic

Ba: Health Sciences And Social Services, Psychology And Criminology

This degree was done part-time out of personal interest.

National Diploma: Information Technology, Systems Design And Computer Programming.

Activities and Societies: Technicon Pretoria Marathon Club. Member of the year 1992. Three-year, full-time qualification on all aspects.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Athletics, rugby, cross country running, choir, school theater, prefect and was awarded senior boy trophy in 1991.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Athletics, rugby, choir, theater.