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Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Solutions Architecture consultant (as a cross-functional SME) to the software development and IT/Ops teams within the FirstRand Group to enable the successful adoption, development, and correct implementation of industry-leading Linux-based Open Source Software and solutions with a strong focus on containerization and SRE.- Architecture/engineering of a custom Zero Trust Enterprise Linux software development workstation for the FirstRand Group of banks that is extremely secure (hardened)… Show more - Solutions Architecture consultant (as a cross-functional SME) to the software development and IT/Ops teams within the FirstRand Group to enable the successful adoption, development, and correct implementation of industry-leading Linux-based Open Source Software and solutions with a strong focus on containerization and SRE.- Architecture/engineering of a custom Zero Trust Enterprise Linux software development workstation for the FirstRand Group of banks that is extremely secure (hardened) and compliant to all Group standards.- Architecture/engineering of a fully-integrated enterprise endpoint management, security and auditing solution that is very similar to Google's internal BeyondCorp solution. Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Architecture/engineering of the FirstRand Group's Application Containerization Architecture and Standards, and Reference Implementation.- Architecture/engineering to containerize all of the Forex systems and to implement 'state of the art' DevOps, DevSecOps, etc. (SRE) practices and solutions.- Chair of the Forex IT Architecture Board.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Technical leadership in EA, Solutions Architecture, and SDLC activities,• Founding member of the AfroCentric Health Enterprise Architecture Forum,• Founding member of the MedScheme Enterprise Architecture Forum,• Establishment of the Enterprise Architecture Function:- EA Standards, Reference and Solution Architectures,- Modeling of the EA Reference Architectures into a Framework,- Research and development of industry-leading technical solutions, including Domain-driven… Show more • Technical leadership in EA, Solutions Architecture, and SDLC activities,• Founding member of the AfroCentric Health Enterprise Architecture Forum,• Founding member of the MedScheme Enterprise Architecture Forum,• Establishment of the Enterprise Architecture Function:- EA Standards, Reference and Solution Architectures,- Modeling of the EA Reference Architectures into a Framework,- Research and development of industry-leading technical solutions, including Domain-driven Design (DDD), Event-driven Architectures (EDA), SOA, Workflow, Business Rules, Microservices (Hexagonal architecture, Ports and Adaptors, Life Preserver, etc.), Agile methodologies, TDD, BDD, and Cloud computing technologies and architectures (XaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS). Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Technical leadership in Architecture and SDLC activities:- Authentication and Authorization systems, Electronic Document Acquisition systems, Enterprise Job Scheduling systems, Queuing/Messaging systems, Loan Quotation systems, Telephony (Presence) integration systems, Application performance monitoring & management systems, and E-learning systems.

London, United Kingdom

- Implementation of ToysRUs.co.uk with a primary focus on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering).

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Projects in South Africa:-The African Bank loan quotation, receipting and client services systems.-The People's Bank Payroll Collections systems.-The South African Mortgage Lending Companies mortgage finance system.-The Glasstone SMS platform and gateway.--The Bayport Financial Services loan quotation, debt collection, payroll deduction, loan receipting & electronic document scanning and indexing systems.-The B2B integration system between the South African Post Office… Show more Projects in South Africa:-The African Bank loan quotation, receipting and client services systems.-The People's Bank Payroll Collections systems.-The South African Mortgage Lending Companies mortgage finance system.-The Glasstone SMS platform and gateway.--The Bayport Financial Services loan quotation, debt collection, payroll deduction, loan receipting & electronic document scanning and indexing systems.-The B2B integration system between the South African Post Office and Bayport.-The Mazwe Financial Services loan quotation, debt collection, payroll deductions & loan receipting systems.Projects in Switzerland:-The Schiller electro cardiogram (ECG) online-monitoring and diagnostic system.Projects in the United States:-The ECG systems used by CompuMed & the US Government. Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Implementation of the "Maximus" loan quotation front-end system.- Integration with mainframe back end systems.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Development and administration of the Bid or Buy online auction system.- https://www.bidorbuy.co.za

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

- Development the CCH JSE-integration system.

Master Of Science (M.Sc), Computer Science: Software Engineering, Graduated With Distinction

- Dissertation: Advanced research into load balancing, load balancing algorithms, performance engineering, application performance.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Ongoing - Research proposal(s)