Freelance journalist and technical writer for Sailing Publications (www.sailing.co.za). I cover sailing events locally and around the world, as well as write technical reviews of new products

GA’s WDI course is a 12 week, 600+ hour full-stack web development boot camp.The boot camp covers a wide range of technologies and frameworks, including:-HTML/CSS-Bootstrap-Javascript-AJAX-SASS-JQuery-Ruby on Rails - PostgreSQL-MongoDB-EmberJSProjects: "Coach"Coach was the final project I built at General Assembly. Again, this was a full-stack, individual project. I chose to build a very simple backend in Ruby on Rails, and focus on a frontend heavy design. The reason for this was I was less comfortable with the EmberJS frontend framework, and wanted to push myself to learn more. -Ruby-Rails-PostreSQL-EmberJS-HTML/CSS/SASS-Javascript-BootstrapRepo link: https://github.com/WilliamCrockett/coach"Crew"Crew was the first full-stack project I attempted. The backend is built using Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL database. The front end is built using HTML 5. It communicates with the backend via authenticated Ajax requests. Technologies used:-Ruby-Rails-PostreSQL-HTML/CSS/SASS-Javascript-Bootstrap-JQuery-Repo link: https://github.com/WilliamCrockett/crew"Group Project" Our third project was to be built as a team of 4. We were assigned the task of building an e-commerce website from scratch. We were required to use Express and Mongo for the backend, while the front end was a custom HTML5 site. We were also required to integrate with the third-party payment service, Stripe, to charge customers making purchases on the site. Technologies used-ExpressJS-NodeJS-MongoDB-Mongoose -HTML/CSS/SASS-Bootstrap-JQueryRepo link: https://github.com/threebirdsandabill/nozama"Game Project"This was the first project I undertook, wherein we built the game 'TicTacToe'. The game engine was designed from scratch, and built to consume a pre-existing API. Technologies used: -Javascript-HTML/CSS/SASS-JQuery-BootstrapRepo link: https://github.com/WilliamCrockett/TicTacToeFind more in my portfolio: https://iamwilliam.co.za

Nous Holdings is a South African company with a global footprint. Nous' head office is in Cape Town, South Africa. International locations include the USA and Australasia. Venn Diagnostics is a subsidiary of Nous Holdings. During my time at Venn, there was a need for a full-time IT manager within Nous. As I already had an extensive knowledge of the intricacies of Nous' subsidiaries, I was promoted from within to head up the IT department. My job description was very broad, and I was known as the guy who could take on any task. Responsibilities ranged from key account management to managing our outsourced software development team. I was also appointed as the Technical Lead on a large Government project, which included bi-weekly meetings with high-ranking government officials.

Venn Diagnostics was founded in 1988. With over 30 years of experience and a country-wide database of erven, tariffs, policies and consumption statistics and state-of-the-art GIS software, Venn is the established market leader in its field and the only company in South Africa who can comprehensively monitor, audit, manage, control and library all municipal bills.A South African born company with a global footprint, Venn Diagnostics is unique in that it monitors all municipal charges in its service offering – assessment rates, valuations, City Improvement District levies, water, electricity, sewerage, refuse and effluent.Venn is a proudly South African company committed to the implementation of effective cost reduction initiatives in partnership with its clients. Venn always acts in an ethical and fair manner through aligning the aims of clients, staff and shareholders so that benefits are shared equitably in support of broad based transformation in South Africa. Venn Diagnostics is a level 4 BBEE contributor.

Started my time at North Sails as a sail-maker. During my time there I took on the project of implementing North Sails Global's new Common Software platform for the Cape Town Loft.