William Dicks Email & Phone Number

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Developing software using for .NET applications on Windows and the web.

Doing C# maintenance and development on various projects.

• My responsibilities are as follows:Design/maintenance of system/modules.• All projects are Webservice related, or making use of webservices. • Development and maintenance of software done in Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008 and 2010(for new projects) using C++. • Currently doing new development on Mac OS X, using Xcode and programming in Objective-C++ and C++.• Our development is in the Digital Rights Management arena in securing software in preventing unauthorized use.

• My responsibilities were as follows:Design of system/modules (mostly with the use of UML).Documentation of the designed system using a modified form of the MIL-STD-498 standards (brought into the company at my suggestion), including the following documents:Operational Concept Description, Interface Design Description, Interface Requirements Specification, Software Design Description, Software Requirements Specification, System/Subsystem Design Description.Development of respective modules.Research on relevant project issues.• All projects were SIM card related. Accessing SIM cards to either retrieve data or write data, including repairing of the SIM card OS by loading OS patches onto the card.• As clients demanded to have certain SIM card applications (cell phone banking, information retrieval, etc) added to their SIM cards, it was my responsibility to design, develop and add these STK (SIM ToolKit) applications to their SIM cards.• All access to SIM cards in projects were done via the PCSC standard.• Development and maintenance of software done in Visual Studio .NET 2003 using C++. New projects will be and are currently developed using C#.Interface with clients (across Africa and Madagascar) on technical issues related to communication between cell phone network and SIM card either by way of email, telephone calls or actual visits to their premises. Troubleshooting to find problems with interface between cards and network.

Worked for IBS (http://www.ibs.com/) at Nationwide Insurance.

Developed data collating software for the South African Post Office.

Developed military information systems.

Developed and maintained international forex software on OS/2 and Unix.

Software development on antivirus and data protection software.

Datametrics, Computer Science

It is a Diploma in DataMetrics. Basically a shortened version of BSc Computer Science.

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