Experience

BBD

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• BBD Cape Town Branch Manager

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  What a pleasure it is to manage such an awesome group of like-minded, enthusiastic, fun-loving and of course, highly intelligent technologists! We build the best software because we have the best people with the best attitudes! What a pleasure it is to manage such an awesome group of like-minded, enthusiastic, fun-loving and of course, highly intelligent technologists! We build the best software because we have the best people with the best attitudes!



Sanlam Investments

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Scrum Master | Technical Delivery Lead

  • Apr 2015 - 2017

  Introducing Agile development practices to a waterfall development culture. Supporting the Product Owner and Delivery Team in completing the Sprint goals by working to remove impediments and promoting Scrum principles. Help facilitate the Scrum Ceremonies, Product backlog grooming. Motivating and guiding the Scrum team to achieve self-organization with emphasis on continuous improvement, problem solving and self-discipline. Identify and define code branching strategies to optimize productivity and agility. Facilitate the introduction of continuous integration. Improving transparency and communication. Ensure all appropriate approvals, project governance communications are in place. Adhering to change management policies, logging requests and managing all releases from attending CAB to trouble shooting production deployments. Defining and adhering to the communication strategy for our project. Facilitating testing, regression testing, high availability testing. Facilitating commissioning of servers - Dev, Test, PPE & Prod. Keeping velocity & burn down metrics. Facilitate and encourage professional conflict resolution. Having the pleasure of working with a fantastic team which clearly displays vibrant camaraderie. Show less



BBD

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Java Developer & Tech Lead

  • Mar 2013 - Aug 2015



FXCM

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Business Analyst

  • Mar 2011 - Nov 2012

  Responsibilities at FXCM include; stakeholder communication, conducting JAD sessions, analysis of business requirements, user requirements specifications, functional specification, interface design, business process mapping, use case modelling, process flow diagrams, database design & development (oracle), software development, project management & tracking of small projects. One core project involved working closely with compliance to complete the analysis, design and project management of our client on boarding and customer identification project, which is responsible for ensuring that our client data is correctly captured, validated and managed as per FSA regulatory standards. I have been involved in numerous financial reporting projects, including; collecting requirements, development (PLSQL) & testing. Extensive data analysis and reporting across all database entities. Show less



Morningstar

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Applications Developer, Java & C#

  • Sep 2007 - Apr 2011

  Responsibilities at Morningtar included a variety of development. Key projects included a data extract system I developed which extracts pricing and company fundamental data from an Oracle DB, manipulates the data in order to convert it into XML based on a provided XML schema. This data is then zipped onto an FTP site for the client to retrieve. I then developed a number of data extracts for The Times newspaper which include trade prices such as open, high, low, close, net change prices etc. I gained excellent PL SQL & Oracle DB skills during this project, due to a number of constraints. Another project to note is a multi-threaded system I wrote which is responsible for storing various market’s close price data from very large text files, into our Oracle DB. Besides the projects mentioned, I was also responsible for maintaining the Java based websites, as well as maintenance and new development on C# .Net financial licensed tools. Show less



Integra, London , United Kingdom

• London, United Kingdom

• Technical Consultant

  • Apr 2007 - Sep 2007

  My role at Integra involved 80% programming and 20% consultancy with clients in the investment banking sector. I developed solutions for a distributed real-time FX trading system. The system, written in Java J2ee, integrates with various external systems and databases, and relies heavily on threading, transaction management, JMS and XML. Data persistence is facilitated though hibernate integrating with an Oracle database on a Linux machine. I am extremely flexible, and was often moved temporarily onto different client projects where I gained a variety of programming skills and good client facing experience. Show less



BBD

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Developer

  • 2005 - 2007

  Responsibilities included system design and java development, training all new staff in Websphere and portal development as well as on going maintenance of Vodacom’s Customer Service system. The team and I worked closely with an international IBM team flown in from Australia to design this complex and very business critical system. Vodacom is the second biggest brand in South Africa after Coca Cola, and hence the environment was extremely fast paced and deadline driven where late hours and overtime were common. The system had to be very scalable, reliable, secure and have a good performance. After 10 months I was made technical team leader and guided 5 colleagues, 3 seniors and 2 juniors through a great project, and successful release. Show less



Sourcing - The Monitoring Company

• South Africa
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Dec 2004 - May 2005

  Primary responsibility involved ongoing maintenance and development work on an in-house asset tracking, device monitoring and service desk solution. The system was written in ASP with a MySQL database that handled thousands of updates every second so as to generate thorough reports on asset reliability. I developed from backend to front end & often developed object libraries in VB. Technologies used: VB, ASP, Javacript, MySQL, Source Safe. Primary responsibility involved ongoing maintenance and development work on an in-house asset tracking, device monitoring and service desk solution. The system was written in ASP with a MySQL database that handled thousands of updates every second so as to generate thorough reports on asset reliability. I developed from backend to front end & often developed object libraries in VB. Technologies used: VB, ASP, Javacript, MySQL, Source Safe.