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Johannesburg, Gp, Za

Johannesburg, South Africa

★ Liberty Short-Term Insurance (Jul 2017 to Sep 2019) ★ • Project Summary: Development of a digital chatbot to streamline short term insurance sales and servicing processes, exposed via native mobile applications (iOS and Android), a new Website, and Facebook Messenger. • Duties on Project: - Promoting and supporting Scrum - Empowering the Scrum teams to deliver higher business value sooner using Scrum theory, practices and values. - Promoting and supporting the use of elements of other Agile frameworks and Methodologies (Kanban, Lean) to help improve delivery. - Coaching Business and Project Management Office (PMO) to embody Agile values and principles to more effectively work with the Scrum teams to deliver the high value Product they needed when they needed it. • Technologies: - Visual Studio Team Services - Excel★ Liberty dHub (Apr 2017 - Jun 2017) ★ • Project Summary: Development of a new online web application to help financial advisers signup life-insurance clients in a significantly reduced amount of time. • Duties on Project: - Teaching and Coaching the Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers and other members of Scrum teams, to ultimately help them deliver better quality and higher value software. - Utilizing knowledge and previous experiences to improve the teams’ Scrum effectiveness and help progress the organization’s Scrum Maturity. - Collaborating with the other Liberty dHub Scrum Masters and Coaches to help progress Liberty’s Scrum Maturity. • Technologies: - JIRA - Confluence - Excel

Johannesburg, South Africa

★ Silica (Jan 2015 - Mar 2017)★ • Project Summary: Providing management, analysis and development services to a company servicing numerous investment companies. • Duties on Project: - Status reporting to senior management - Resource planning - Commercials oversight - Agile Project / Delivery management - Quality governance - Team management - Individual performance management - Career guidance and mentorship - Establishing teams and defining roles • Technologies used: - JIRA - Excel

Johannesburg, South Africa

★ Silica (May 2014 - Dec 2014) ★ • Project Summary: Development and Maintenance of a web platform providing online investment services. • Duties on Project: - Lead and managed a team of developers and analysts - Applied Agile Project Management (using JIRA) - .NET front-end development (.Net MVC) - C# web service back-end development - SQL database development • Technologies: - C# - .NET - T-SQL - SVN - GIT - Visual Studio - JIRA★ Real People (Sep 2013 - Apr 2014) ★ • Project Summary: Development of a new Customer Management System. • Duties on Project: - Lead and managed a team of developers - Applied Agile Project Management (using Assembla) - JavaScript front-end development (AngularJS) - C# web service back-end development (WebAPI) • Technologies: - AngularJS - JavaScript - JQuery - WebAPI - Git - Assembla - Visual Studio - IntelliJ★ Liberty Financial Solutions / Standard Bank (Jan 2012 -Aug 2013) ★ • Project Summary: Enhancement and Maintenance of an instance of a Trading and Risk Management system. • Duties on Project: - Lead and managed a team of developers - Applied Agile Project Management (using JIRA) - Custom Java front-end development (Eclipse plugin) - Java back-end development - Custom report development (Jasper Reports) - Database development (Hibernate with T-SQL) • Technologies: - Java - JUnit - T-SQL - Jasper Reports - Eclipse - SVN - Eclipse - JIRA

Joahnnesburg, South Africa

★ Liberty Financial Solutions / Standard Bank (Aug 2010 - Dec 2011) ★ • Project Summary: Enhancement and Maintenance of an instance of a Trading and Risk Management system. • Duties on Project: - Custom Java front-end development (Eclipse plugin) - Java back-end development - Custom report development (Jasper Reports) - Database development (Hibernate with T-SQL) • Technologies: - Java - JUnit - T-SQL - Jasper Reports - Eclipse - SVN - Eclipse - JIRA

Joahnnesburg, South Africa

★ Liberty Financial Solutions / Standard Bank (Jan 2010 - Jul 2010) ★ • Project Summary: Enhancement and Maintenance of an instance of a Trading and Risk Management system. • Duties on Project: - Custom Java front-end development (Eclipse plugin) - Java back-end development - Custom report development (Jasper Reports) - Database development (Hibernate with T-SQL) • Technologies: - Java - JUnit - T-SQL - Jasper Reports - Eclipse - SVN - Eclipse - JIRA★ ABSA Wealth (Oct 2009 - Dec 2009) ★ • Project Summary: Enhancements to a SharePoint based Document Management System. • Duties on Project: - Custom SharePoint Development • Technologies: - C# - .NET - Sharepoint - SVN - Visual Studio★ Entelect (Aug 2009 -Sep 2009) ★ • Project Summary: Development of a dynamic reporting system for a web based survey system. • Duties on Project: - Database development - Web development of system user interfaces - Reporting and graphing components displaying statistical analyses of survey results • Technologies: - T-SQL - C# - .NET - SVN - Visual Studio

Worked on various components of the .NET Compact Framework for a Symbian OS product offering.Duties: - Database development (T-SQL) - Requirements engineering - Networking layers via HTTP and Socket for the .NET for Symbian Platform - E-Commerce integration for company website - Creation of N-Unit testing infrastructure - System documentationTechnologies: - C# - .NET - Sharepoint - SVN - Visual Studio

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Honours, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics And Computer Science