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Johannesburg, Gp, Za

South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Assume responsibility of Founder | Director | Project Manager | Development. Take lead in all technological operations, strategic planning and business decisions.Responsible for all aspects of launching a social mobile phone application in the US and UK markets. This included but was not limited to the project management, designing the application architecture, core development, setting up of supporting systems, Azure infrastructure setup, deployment, source control, bug tracking, managing app store approvals and reporting. The tech used was Angular and Cordova on the client, SQL server for data storage, Azure app services for hosting, Azure Notification Services for push notifications, Azure queues for deferred processing and ASP.net WebAPI for the backend. The application integrated with Facebook, FourSquare, Google Maps, amongst other things.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Assume responsibility of Founder | Director | Project Manager | Development. Take lead in all technological operations, strategic planning and business decisions.Responsible for all aspects of launching a web based marketing dashboard that aggregated insights in real time from various sources such as LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google Analytics, custom REST API, SQL databases and even FTP sites. The technology used included Entity Framework, ASP.Net, Azure App Services, SQL Server, SignalR, Angular, Google Charts amongst other things.Designed and developed a reporting test system for a client built out of the need to ensure that the data being sent to their clients or provided in reports only show the client the data they should be able to see. The stored procedures providing this data often had many required parameters and it was difficult for testers to cover all possible combinations of these parameters. The automated testing system would look at all the stored procedures in a database, work out the parameters, run various tests covering all combinations of the parameters and compare the output to predefined control data flagging any inconsistencies for review.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Assume responsibility of Founder | Director | Project Manager | Development. Take lead in all technological operations, strategic planning and business decisions.Designed and developed a platform that halved the cost of development my client incurred each time one of their customers requested data extracts from my client’s data warehouse. The API was based on Microsoft WebAPI and allowed developers to provide additional dataset for their customers without the developer having to change code on the server or have knowledge of how the platform worked. This decreased the turnaround time, reduced errors and increased stability of the platform as a wholeResponsible for various projects that involved integrating the enterprise software solution with third party service providers.Designed and developed the public API for Comtrex's Enterprise servers ensuring it was secure, scalable, maintainable and reliable.Project managing, developing and advising on numerous projects implemented by Comtrex.

Horley, Uk

Designed the architecture, assisted in development and led the team that built an award-winning system for a client that imported transactional data from over 1500 restaurants in the UK. The system required a windows service to be installed at the client location that received instructions from a web service, which connected to various local databases executed scripts, and sent the data to a central server for reporting purposes. The windows service installed locally at the clients also accepted other commands allowing various administrative tasks to be performed on the client's server simplifying daily support tasks as it could then be done remotely.Built additional modules for the ETL solution enabling it to import data in real time and larger quantities of data.Collaborated effectively with Comtrex's clients to make data available for their own internal data mining systems.Modified ETL solution by shifting it to Microsoft Azure, increasing scalability and reliability.Optimised the enterprise SQL server databases so that it was maximizing the use of the server hardware

Chiswick, Uk

Redesigned and optimised legacy sales and media ETL system used by over 450 restaurants across the UK.Developed a predictive ordering solution for restaurant managers to determine efficient orders from their various suppliers, optimising stock on hand and reducing wastage.Redesigned the core of the enterprise stock management application following industry standards and optimised its performance. Designed and developed an invoicing web application.Enhanced the enterprise cash up application to use data extracted from various external systems, reducing errors and greatly improving restaurant manager efficiency.

Uk

Core Overview:Co-Founder of an online eBook company based in the UK | Provided a collection of over 20,000 eBooks in various formats from different authors and 200+ newspapers from over 60 countries available on publication date. Key Roles & Accountabilities:Developed various plugins for the Ecommerce system to prevent fraudulent transactions, integrate with third party providers, process online payments, etc.Implemented successful SEO by utilising Google and Bing standard practices. Built various plugins for the eCommerce system to improve SEO, security and usability Designed marketing application used by the marketing team for bulk emails, template management and client tracking.

Crawley, Uk

Core Overview:Designed, developed and implemented a client billing system used in all ASB offices across the UK. It improved the account department's monthly bill production from 500 to over 1600 bills per month using half the staff previously allocated to bill production.Key Roles & Accountabilities:Effectively participated in company's risk management team.Designed and implemented workflows for residential and debt recovery teams.Designed and developed the internal IT support and asset management system. Assisted in the development of the company intranet, providing valuable information to solicitors.Aided in the development of the company extranet, reducing customer queries.

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