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Waterloo, ON, CA

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Mirdrand

Responsible for creation of high-level and low-level design documentation for AWS Cloud solutions as well as K8S Microservice solutionsArchitected and completed development in order to facilitate the migration of several high volume user journeys to leverage CloudFront in order to meet Vodafone performance KPIsDeveloped Terraform Infrastructure as Code to.

Midrand

Drove agile ceremonies and practices for the engineersWas responsible for delivery of projects in alignment with IT and business objectivesResponsible for creation of the high-level and low-level design of Microservices solutionMentored developers, completed code reviewsEnsured the team adopted newly provided platform capabilities and CICD tooling as they.

Sandton City, Johannesburg

Provided technical leadership to the BBD team based at the clientDelivered low-level designs required for feature developmentMigrated SIP (Single Insurance Platform) to JBoss 6 EAPImplemented performance improvements which improved dashboard first load performance by 90% by leveraging async calls to retrieve data and improved address lookup time by 80%.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Migrated ~50 IBM Actuate reports to Jasper ReportingMigrated approximately ~20 WebSphere Portal functional portlets to Oracle WebLogic Portal portletsCreated XHTML Mobile web presentations for consumption by feature phone to deliver the online mobile strategyLead engagement with business stakeholders and UX to redesign the buy-bundles business capability.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Implemented and operated several osCommerce PHP websitesCreated, implemented, and maintained plugins which provided enhancements to the sites functionality (added and integrated credit card payments, implemented basket tracking to encourage abandoned basket owners to place their orders, media and content plugins which provided image carousels and other.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Managed and mentored junior developersPrepared and facilitated Java programming testInterviewed prospective candidates and provided input into hiring decisionsDesigned software components and maintained Java Customs clearing solutionTech stack: Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Firebird DB, Java Applets and Crystal Reporting

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Demoed software to prospective customersInstalled software and provided user training to new customersProvided telephonic and on-site support to customersAttended stakeholder meetings with Customs & Excise to understand new rules and present these to the team in order to make the necessary changes to our application software

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Information/Software Engineering

Certificate Of Competence, Software Technologies And Techniques

Certificate Of Competence, Introduction To Software Engineering

Certificate Of Competence, Software Project Management

Certificate Of Competence, Database Systems

Certificate Of Competence, Software Development Methodologies, Analysis And Design

International Advanced Diploma In Computer Studies, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Comprehensive Programming Diploma, Java Development