Experience

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  Absa Group

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Lead Product Engineer

    • Jun 2020 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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  Rozitech CC

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Solutions Architect

    • Nov 2018 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

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  ABSA - CIB Digital

  • Century City, Cape Town

  • Senior Software Developer

    • May 2019 - Jun 2020
    • Century City, Cape Town

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  KGA Life

  • South Africa
  • Insurance
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Enterprise Architecture Practice Manager

    • Feb 2018 - Oct 2018

    I was responsible for the creation and maintenance of a unified IT environment across the organization. My primary goal was to align, standardize and reuse existing IT assets, as well as introduce new projects and initiatives in order to align business strategy with capabilities, processes and IT systems, ensuring lean, cost effective and more responsive operations.

  • IT Manager

    • Oct 2016 - Jan 2018

    As IT manager I was tasked with the relocation of KGA head office from Bellville to Stellenbosch. This project not only involved the physical relocation of all personnel and assets between the two sites but also the introduction of a new data centre at the new location in Stellenbosch and a complete upgrade of all communications infrastructure.

  • Software Solutions Architect

    • Jan 2013 - Sep 2016

    I was responsible for the definition of the architecture and technical direction of KGA-Life's direct business development project. This included the maintenance of legacy systems as well as the definition and introduction of a new company-wide Customer and Policy Maintenance system.

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  EPI-USE Advanced Integration Group

  • Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Java Software Engineer

    • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
    • Pretoria Area, South Africa

    We do advanced integration projects to SAP systems, using Java, Hibernate, Spring on a jBoss platform

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  urmobile LLC

  • Software Architect

    • Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

    Development and Implementation of a highly available and scalable Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solution serving a Mobile Content and Application Management solution.

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  Kaizania

  • Technical Advisor

    • Oct 2007 - Jun 2010

    Definition of the architecture and technical direction for both in-house and bespoke software development projects for South African, UK and US based clients. Applications included payment system integrations to many international payment gateways, web based CRM and Communication Platform and various gaming engine and middleware projects.

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  Sui Generis Solutions

  • Software Architect

    • Oct 2001 - Sep 2007

    Definition of Architechture and Technical direction of a web based Call Centre Performance Management System for US based clients.

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  Aspect Software

  • Greater Boston Area, United States

  • Java Software Engineer

    • Jan 2005 - Jun 2007
    • Greater Boston Area, United States

    Contracted out as Java Software Engineer to US based Aspect Software. Development of a Web Service based voice recording archival and retrieval system handling tens of thousands call centre recordings per day.

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  NeuralAct

  • Randburg, South Africa

  • Product Manager

    • Jul 2000 - Sep 2001
    • Randburg, South Africa

    Creation of development requirements based on customer specifications for a call centre management application. Creation of marketing and promotional materials.

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  Spescom DataFusion

  • Centurion South Africa

  • Product Manager

    • Oct 1997 - Jun 2000
    • Centurion South Africa

    I created development requirements based on customer specifications for digital voice recording solutions used in call centres, emergency control rooms etc. I also managed a number of projects rolling out voice recording and call centre systems to high level customers

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  Eskom

  • Kimberley, Bloemfontein South Africa

  • Project Engineer

    • Jan 1988 - Sep 1997
    • Kimberley, Bloemfontein South Africa

    I planned, implemented and managed telecommunications infrastructure projects in the Northern Cape, Free State and North West regions. Projects included broadband radio links, digital telephone exchanges, Supervisory and Control systems and mobile radio networks.