Michael Hancock Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Engineering Team lead for all 24.com mobile appskey responsibilities:- Managing developers android/ios/cross platform/qa- Setting code standards and ensuring code quality- Propose and drive technical and architectural decisions to ensure the business reaches its long term goals- Prioritise and manage requirements from stakeholders

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Part of a team designing and implementing large scale machine leaning solutions. My primary focus has been on how to effectively use the cloud (Google) to translate ml ideas into reliable services. I spend a lot of my time developing data processing pipelines in python and java as well as apis and reporting interfaces

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Key responsibilities:Android App DevelopmentCreating/maintaining back-end services for apps.Supervising/guiding team members.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Responsible for developing and maintaining android apps for 24.com

Responsible for developing and maintaining android apps

Cape Town

In a team of 2, we started out by re architecting the 24games site into the ogames (web and mobi), we split the codebase into modular components of which I was mostly responsible for content delivery, device compatibility, performance monitoring, users and authentication. On the front end I built a modular javascript / jquery web framework loosely based on commonjs and driven by data-attributes to wire up the controllers. After the site settled I went on to reporting and performance monitoring, building a php, couchdb, jpolite and google visualisations built a reporting dashboard. currently responsible for building a billing system using mvc3, Ninject and tdd. tech: c#, dependacy injection, ninject, tdd, php, couchdb, wcf, js, jquerymethodology: mixture of scrum / kanban

The Group transfered the division to DSTv Online.same as previous position.

Cape Town

I was hand picked to go with a team of 3 to India for 3 months to learn to develop social games. While there we created a cricket trading game, using as3 and php.In the home stretch the company focus changed, went home and inherited the 24games website. I did general maintenance, added user profiles, achievements and activity streams, facebook widgets. The highlight here was creating a jquery ui based xmpp client.tech: c#, asp.net, js, jquery, xmppmethodology: scrumbut

Cape Town, South Africa

I was part of a team of about 10 thats primary focus was developing and maintaining a high performance cms that powers the 24.com properties. It was my first real introduction to scrum, high performance code, multithreading and 2nd level caching.I was mostly doing maintanace of the etxjs/c# admin interface, but got a chance to build a simple winforms code generator using t4 templates, as well as a threaded memchaced client.ended off building a client facing site to enable users to customize ad templates, using jquery, c# and asp,net dynamic data.tech: c#, asp.net, js, extjs, jquery, memcached, t4 templates, wcfmethodology: scrum (strict)

Cape Town, South Africa

i was part of a small team of developers that supported an ISP, mainly focused on server / service monitoring, website, intranet web application and client portal.initially started out maintaining the web site (asp, asp.net), some monitoring scripts (c#, python). moved on to create a sales rep commission management interface, using c# and extjs, then created a reporting dashboard using c# extjs and google visualizations. Ended off creating a extjs, c# prototype of a rewrite of the intranet web app.tech: c#, tsql, asp, asp.net, js, extjsmethodology: none

I was the only developer / it guy for a very ambitious entrepreneur. i developed systems and did tech support for many businesses. The biggest project was a warehouse / stock management system for a cool drink factory. It was a full house sustem from ingredients to production shecdules, sales, commisions, orders, customers and payments. initially stared out using asp.net but this is were i learnt proper javascript object orientation and moved to extjs.i learnt the value of workflows and modular code. I did a course for skelta bpm.net ( c# workflow solution before wwf ), which i used to build a property purchasing website.ended off with a online booking system (php,mysql, extjs) and a winforms point of sale app that used an xml database.tech: c#, asp.net, js, etxjs, php, mysql, tsql, skelta, bpmmethodology: cowboy

Btech, Information Management

wrote a paper on reporting dashboards titled The value of Dashboards

National Diploma, Information Systems