Experience

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  Upwork

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Freelancer in Edtech

    • May 2021 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Educational VR design and developmentUnity, Oculus Quest 2, Oculus Voice SDKInstructional Design and Development (from about April 2021):instructional design, Moodle, H5P, visual design, assisting with graphic design / Illustrator, assessment designEducational Game and Web App (from end of June 2...

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  Guru.com

  • Freelancer

    • Oct 2022 - Present

    Web simulation with simple web appPhaser, Express, Ubuntu server, AWS, basic UX designEducational web game developer (October 2022)Phaser game engine

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  Wildworld Education

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Founder

    • Apr 2018 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    -- Not yet trading -- Unity, C#, game design, instructional design, UX design, UI design, project management, technical art, digital inking and colouring, AWS (EC2, S3, Polly).

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  Simmlabs

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Programmer

    • Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Working on Unity and the Canvas LMS API, including OAuth, for a VR application. - C#- Git/Github- Oculus Quest- Unity- Virtual Reality- APIs- Canvas LMS API- OAuth

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  Strive Math (YC S21)

  • Content Creator

    • Nov 2021 - Jan 2022

    - Instructional design—maths for middle school kids- Simple 2d game development, using Python, JavaScript, and the P5JS libraryJob currently paused indefinitely.

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  Construct

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Learning Technologist

    • May 2019 - Jul 2021
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    - Canvas LMS, Bridge LMS, OpenEdx LMS, LTI apps- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, LateX (maths markup language)- User-Interface Design, Responsive Design, Accessible Design- Learner Experience Design / Basic Instructional Design- Quality Control- Basic image editing- Wix web development- Data project (MySQ...

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  RojobaCo

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Junior Programmer

    • Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Web App and Website Design (Gimp, Illustrator), Bootstrap, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Handlebars, PHP, C# / ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, PosgreSQL. Very little bit of Lua /Love2d game engine work, with music track creation and pixel art.

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  Buddies English

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Online English teacher

    • Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Teaching English online to 11 year old children.

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  NATURAL HEALTH WAREHOUSE

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Freelance Web Developer

    • Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Freelance work on a WordPress website.- WooCommerce.- Customizing CSS.- Using a bit of HTML on the Home Page.- Organizing taxonomy and filters.- Trying theme customization.- Advising on features and UI.

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  TOSHIBA Cape

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Technician (schools)

    • Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Working on Windows, single networks, some IT security, and printers / scanners / copiers.- Primarily in Section 21 schools.

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  Generation Schools

  • Sunningdale

  • ICT / Computer Science Teacher and Campus Technician

    • Jan 2018 - May 2018
    • Sunningdale

    - teaching Middle School- Microsoft school environment- Innovating with games and apps for educational purposes- also taught ICT and Business Studies

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  INKFISH digital marketing

  • online

  • Web Developer Internship

    • Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
    • online

    - WordPress, User Interface Design, SEO (very basic).

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  Artibeus

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • On Site Campus Technician (school)

    • Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - at Disa Primary School in Hout Bay- Apple and Google environment, Networking, Printers, Hardware, Administration.- ICT Integration - using IT for teaching.- Introduction to Mobile Device Management (iOS).

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  Ignis

  • Cape Town

  • IT Consultant (online ESL)

    • Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
    • Cape Town

    - IT support, consulting- Online English teaching company- WAN networks.http://www.ignis-tech.cn/

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  Learning Lab Apps

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Content Editor (freelance, edtech)

    • Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - User interface design (layout of educational material)- e-learning (Maths, Grade 4 - 8 )- HTML and LaTex (a maths / science markup language)- English and Afrikaans content- gave suggestions on Educational design features- gave suggestions on User Interface Design of app

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  Platinum Solutions

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Software Support Technician (including schools, amongst others)

    • Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Software support and installation- PC, Network and Database technician in retail/ hospitality environment.- Experience working in small networks, Windows environments.- Experience troubleshooting onsite.- Exposure to doing IT work remotely.- Worked on small SQL Server Express databases.- Some e...

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  Learning Lab Apps

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Intern and then Freelancer

    • Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - Converting educational content to HTML friendly format.- Minor front-end programming, layout of maths problems.- Experience working on cloud-based platform.- LaTex maths markup language.

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  MasterGrade IT

  • Cape Town

  • IT Trainer (work / study bursary)

    • Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
    • Cape Town

    - Mostly one-on-one tutoring in a large blended learning environment, with a few classes also- Tutoring general IT- Teaching PC and network technician courses, databases (Microsoft SQL Server specifically)- Teaching MS business intelligence also- Preparing students for international exams- Teachi...

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  Inkfish

  • Kalk Bay, Cape Town

  • Apprentice web developer

    • Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
    • Kalk Bay, Cape Town

    - Wordpress and css, with minimal html

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  Exclusive Books

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Bookseller

    • Jul 2009 - Mar 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    - providing customer service- knowing about many books

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  False Bay College

  • Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town

  • stand-in Animation Lecturer

    • 2010 - 2010
    • Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town

    - teaching a large class (15+) of young adults the basics of 2d animation in a classroom environment,- only for 8 days

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  Mamba Media

  • Colourist

    • 2006 - 2008

    - Coloured comics for one of South Africa's few comics companies- Photoshop- Colouring