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Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Responsible for requirements analysis, planning, system design and implementation by coding and integrating with third party services.• Met with clients to gather requirements and assess project scopes. Broke these down and estimated work and time required. Managed tickets on DevOps and JIRA.• Communicating project feedback to clients via emails and daily standups. Also ran project demos and team retros.• Managing tasks and stories for projects to make sure work was prioritized and approached in an efficient manner. Helped to make sure everyone knew what needed to be done.• Looked after team health and organised training, goal setting, social events, onboarding, and personal growth of the team members.• Researched and evaluated technical solutions to business problems.Projects:Coronation – Data Disruption

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Projects:Coronation – Data DisruptionCoronation – Financial Intelligence CentreCoronation – Vermillion Reporting Tax CertificatesThinkTime

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Formerly Information Logistics.Working with customers to find and build what they actually need using a variety of platforms. Responsible for requirements analysis, planning, system design and implementation and integrating with third party services.Products that were developed:KujaKujaKuja Kuja is a system to improve customer satisfaction amongst refugees around the world. With Kuja Kuja data, community teams can make informed decisions more quickly. Issues and ideas are collected, discussed, and addressed.SwiftCSVSwitCSV is a product to automatically convert emailed PDFs of bank statements into a more useful CSV or XLSX format that can be used for reconciliations and imported into bookkeeping software.Thundafund - Crowdfunding PlatformThundafund is South Africa’s leading online Crowdfunding Café and marketplace for creatives and innovators. It enables entrepreneurs to raise capital and build a supportive crowd of backers for their projects & ideas.DroneCloudsDroneClouds helps farmers increase yield by giving them to-the-point, actionable crop insights using drones, satellites, experts, the cloud & mobileBuy Safe Sell Safeb3s helps you buy or sell a car safely on Gumtree, guarantee a willing buyer within 7 days & secure a payout with Deloitte. To help them do that, we built a platform that enables car sellers to register & pay, and a client dashboard for the b3s team to update the seller on each step of the car selling process.CatmaCATMA (Computer Assisted Textual Markup and Analysis) is a practical and intuitive tool for text researchers. In CATMA users can combine the hermeneutic, ‘undogmatic’ and the digital, taxonomy based approach to text and corpora—as a single researcher, or in real-time collaboration with other team members.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Worked with several startups needing custom development in an agile manner to bring their ideas to market. Responsible for communicating with the clients, product design and development, front and backend implementations and testing.Products that were developed:MimiboardMimiboard is a virtual pinboard for Africa. Board owners can create boards that bring together the best social content and allow user interaction.The MassiveAn online web application connecting the different levels of property management and maintenance. We helped build the MVP and worked together with 88mph to accelerate the startup. The team has now pivoted to create QuicklySign.comYuppieCashYuppieCash is a payday loans service. We built the Google appengine app for the back-office that receives application data from WordPress and assists in decision making and tracking the loan life cycle. We later took over the front end too and redeveloped it for Google App Engine.GivaGIVA is the only digital platform that enables true one-to-one giving. It connects those who love to give, directly with individuals in need at accredited non-profit organisations vetted by Community Chest.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Worked on all levels of the business software, from core architecture, to database design, to business analysis and implementation. Created automated processes for overnight regression testing. Maintained system infrastructure and made sure that we were kept current with advancing technology. Responsible for task estimation. Coordinated weekly feedback sessions with the development team.Products that were developed:Fundamental Portfolio ManagerAn end-to-end Investment Management solution that supports the Front, Middle and Back Office requirements of several major investment companies.

Msc, Electrical Engineering

Thesis titled: Distortion Correction in LODOX StatScan X-Ray Images. Created a method of using multiple x-ray scans taken using the LODOX.

Bsc(Elec Eng), Electrical Engineering

Graduated with First Class Honours