• Starting up Haefele Software in Australia.• Coordinating marketing efforts with the marketing team.• Preparing proposals for prospective clients.• Compiling and negotiating contracts between Haefele Software, clients and suppliers.• Maintain previous duties as Principal Practice Lead.

• Promotion and mentoring of practice leads.• Architecture reviews with practice leads.• Technical Pre Sales• Internal technical training• Consulting with teams to streamline their workflow• Strategic planning and evaluating technology

• Co-own product backlog with the client’s representative. • Owned delivery, quality, availability and security of systems.• Career growth mentoring with team members.• Owned team performance and team KPIs.• Manage budgets and scope of projects.• Promotion recommendations for the management team

Responsibilities include:• Technical direction of the project• Architectural design and documentation• Implementing and ensuring the SDLC life cycle is followed• Assisting with the Career development of team membersThe software that we have in production is for selling short-term insurance over USSD in Africa. Flexible workflows, guaranteed message delivery, the ability to absorb load, and interact with a wide variety of web protocols describe what we do at a very high level.We achieve this with a range of tools; the most important of these technologies are:• Azure Cloud Services• Azure Sql Server• Azure Service Bus• .Net Web.Api• .Net MVC• Knockout• Visual Studio Team Services

• MyVirginActive Member Self Service • MyVirginActive Online bookings• Sevice Bus• Online Shop• Credit Card Payments (3d Secure)• Web Based Point of sale system• Pin Entry Device integration

• Kendo UI Mobile (HTML 5 + Javascript)• PDF Template Generation• SQL Server Data Tools• WCF• WCF Ria Services• GIT• Elastic Search

Working on Framework one's core products • Azure (1.7 SDK) - Access Control System (Facebook, Google login for Azure) • ASP.NET MVC (3, 4) • Jquery • Linq to SQL • SqlMetal • T4 Templates • Cruise Control • Automating Azure deployments (Powershell)

Part of the core development team that has the following responsibilities:• Content management front end• Content management back end o 1 Master Microsoft SQL server o 4 Slave Microsoft SQL Server o 4 Memcached Servers• Content Delivery Network• Comment Service• Stats logging o MongoDB o Microsoft SQL server (optimized for high volume)• Feeds – Incoming o Example like AP, Reuters etc.• Outgoing feeds o To organizations (example what is used on DSTV) o Public• Mxit o Feed applications o MXit application (A quiz type game you can play against friends)• SOLR o Backend searching o Searching for front end sites• Authentication for external users o Commenting o Expert users (the Q&A sections on the site)• Authentication for internal users (using Active Directory)• API's that all of the front end sites for media 24 use to connect to the back end CMS o News24 (http://news24.com) o Nuus24 (http://afrikaans.news24.com/) o Parent (http://www.parent24.com/) o Rapport (http://www.rapport.co.za/) o Sake24 (http://www.sake24.com/) o Sport (http://www.sport24.co.za/) o Wheels (http://www.wheels24.co.za/) o Women24 (http://www.women24.com/)Achievements: • Reduced the load time of the Administration tool from 2 minutes to less than 10 seconds (12 times faster) • Introduced build scripts for building of software, changing version number and changes to configuration files between environments. • Introduced cruise control, and having all our core products built and deployed automatically when we change code

Responsibilities:• Customer relations• Documentation• Development • Assisting senior members of the team with quotes and estimates• DeployingAchievements: • Part of the development team that installed MS CRM software for Korbitech call centre (approx 50 agents) and integrated it with their PABX management software

Achievements• Deployed CRM for KPMG, and extensive development to expose CRM data to all 2500 users through a web portal• Several large and complex integrations (Celestis, KPMG, Sanlam, Metropolitan)• Development to streamline Kalahari.net call centre to make it quick and easy for staff to resolve queries and automating some of the more time consuming activities• Provided training for Microsoft in Kenya Responsibilities • Architecture• Development• Consulting• Customisation• Deployment• Data Migration• Integrations• Support• Pre-sales presentations• Technical analysis • Documentation• Infrastructure Setup• Research

Achievements:• Implemented CRM 1.0 internally for 25 users, in 2 locations• Part of the team, that wrote a internal Time Keeping application for Software Futures• Several successful smaller ASP.NET applicationsResponsibilities:• Developer resources that was used by several departments• Pre Sales presentations on Microsoft CRM• Development and consultation for Great Plains Customers• T-SQL development for Great Plains

Achievements:• Part of the team that developed a BI solutions using Office Web Components to display Pivot tables and graphs• Large-scale network automation• Automated all of the install programs via Active directory• Configured the infrastructure to be very flexible for the team of developers, often at customer's premises.• Being included as a junior developer in several development projects as the result of learning .net as a newly launched development platform Responsibilities:• Deployment of custom applications on the client’s site• Administration of network, production servers, development servers and Developer’s workstations• Support for customers • Several commercial websites running in a co-located hosted environment

Achievements:• Was the preferred technician to deal with any top 100 clients (Top management of Sanlam)• Team leader of a group of 4 technicians Responsibilities:• Last contact person for the resolution of problems. • Having to interface and interact with any other technical team that might be needed to resolve the problem.

Achievements:• Tremendous exposure to a huge range of technologies• Automation of several lengthy install proceduresResponsibilities:• Support on all hardware which included several mainframe terminals. • Initiative and resolving issues without escalating them to the senior network engineer were highly valued. • Exposure to all aspects of an infrastructure WAN, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, mainframes• Managing user expectations.