ScrumMaster at Multichoice
Randburg, Gauteng 2194
South Africa

February 2011-Present

Working with a team of embedded software engineers, testers and business analysts developing the next generation user interface for the companies set top decoder device. My role as a ScrumMaster was to bring about improvements in the overall development process and to facilitate the successful completion of the project by assisting the team in removing obstacles and identifying ways to improve. I acted as coach and mentor to various teams in bringing agile methodologies to a traditional waterfall based business and am now at a point where I can confidently say there has been marked and measurable improvement in not only what is being delivered but also the visibility of what is being developed.

Show Details

Senior Java Developer at Discovery
Sandton, Gauteng 2194
South Africa

June 2010-January 2011

Worked on the development of in house commission payment and intermediary management system using Java/J2EE technologies. The system formed part of a core suite of products used by Discovery to manage payment of commissions and linked in to various other company systems to achieve this. I was personally involved in crafting a system to call various SOAP based web services to facilitate printing of various artefacts (mostly letters to customers)

Show Details

ScrumMaster at MIH Swat (DStv Online)
Randburg, Gauteng 2194
South Africa

October 2009-May 2010

Led a R&D team of 4 senior software developers as a agile project facilitator following the Scrum methodology. As a team we were responsible for development of ground breaking technologies for use within the DStv Online space.

Show Details

Technical Quality Assurance Manager at The Mobile Services Company
Randburg, Click to Select 2196
South Africa

March 2009-December 2009

Tasked to bring about quality improvements in the technical areas of The Mobile Services Company. This involved end to end testing of released mobile applications, review of code being released, setting up of standards and procedures for development and management of a small team of testers. Also involved in development of J2ME solutions applications for client mostly in the social networking area.

Show Details

ScrumMaster at Kaizania
Randburg, Gauteng 2196
South Africa

January 2009-February 2009

Consulted to Standard Bank as a ScrumMaster working with 3 teams implementing Scrum in their International Banking division. Contract was canceled and worked remaining time at Kaizania’s offices as a ScrumMaster on smaller projects.

Show Details

Team Lead / ScrumMaster at PruProtect
Sandton, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

April 2007-December 2008

Systems Analyst/Team Lead/ScrumMaster leading a small team of Java/J2EE Developers creating/maintaining web based applications for UK based PruProtect life insurer. Responsible for technical specification, solution design, solution development and mentoring of team doing both new applications and enhancements to existing applications. Coaching and teaching Scrum techniques to the team (both business and technical) in an effort to get the team running smoothly with the Scrum methodology.

Show Details

Senior Developer at Diners Club
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

May 2006-March 2007

Development of enhancements to “existing” J2EE application (WebSphere as the application server). Application was a Diners Club account management application and included extensive M.I.S. reporting and some content management. The solution was designed using JSP/HTML for the front end, Struts and Struts Tiles for the interface to the business layer and DAO with Delegates to handle the data access.

Show Details

Team Lead / Senior Developer at Osiris Trading
Sandton, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

July 2001-April 2006

Started work at Osiris Trading as a Visual Basic developer working on several in house applications aimed at Marketing and mass mailing. Was also involved in database query driven reporting side. The company then moved to Java (a decision I spearheaded with a colleague) and we became a full J2EE development shop with me acting as mentor and lead to other developers. I took on several roles which included full end to end development of products (requirements gathering, development and deployment) and we created/converted several of the companies applications (CRM, Fraud Detection / Prevention), to a J2EE application stack. My career then changed and I was put into a leadership role running a development team of up to 8 people continuing development but focusing more on day to day team leadership responsibilities like performance measurement, code reviews, ensuring compliance to both standards and development methodology, extensive mentoring of junior developers, development of some core functionality, establishment of a continuous build environment and quality assurance of released builds.

Show Details

Application Developer at Paracon SA
Randburg, Gauteng 2196
South Africa

August 1999-June 2001

Played central role in development of Recruitment Management System (HRSuccess). System was developed in house from scratch for clients of Paracon (including PAG, Renwick International). Included all aspects of managing a recruitment house (finance, timesheet processing, reporting etc). System was a 2-tier application developed using Visual Basic, running on an MSSQL database. Crystal Reports was used for reporting purposes. Was also involved in deployment and maintenance of system on site at clients.

Show Details

Analyst Programmer at South African Reserve Bank
Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa

January 1999-July 1999

Development and maintenance of in-house programs used by International Banking Division. Largest project involved development of a financial application to manage the loans under control of the Public Investments Commission (PIC). The system ran across a Novell network on NT workstations using Sybase Systems 11 for data storage and Crystal Reports for reporting.

Show Details

Analyst Programmer at Hollandia Reinsurance
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

June 1998-December 1998

Formed part of a team that developed a Workflow application, for Hollandia Reinsurance Group, for documentation processing. This front-end application interfaced with the existing background WANG Open/Workflow package which, in turn, used a SQL database to facilitate and track the transport of electronic documents (text, images, faxes, word documents etc.) throughout the company, and to its various branches. In addition, interfaces were created to Lotus Notes and RightFax. All reporting was done using Crystal Reports and the product was fully Y2K compliant.

Show Details

Application Developer at Automobile Association of South Africa
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

November 1996-May 1998

Developing solutions to companies IT needs. Worked on project involving conversion of AA Membership System from Mainframe to PC using VB 4.0, SQL 6.5 and Crystal Reports running on a TCP/IP network under Windows 95. Installation and maintenance of new membership system. Generating of management reports using Crystal 5.0. Ensuring Year 2000 Compliance.

Show Details

Application Developer at Armscor
Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa

May 1996-November 1996

Development of distributed reporting application for collating / printing / delivery of sensitive reports to a centralized location. Application was developed using Visual Basic 3.0 and MS Word integrating the two through OLE automation and word basic running on a Novell network on Windows 3.1 platforms using MAPI for mail notification facility.

Show Details

Junior Programmer at Denel Informatics
Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa

January 1994-April 1996

Working on SAP-R/2 system maintaining existing ABAP/4 programs. Application development in Windows environment using Visual Basic 3 and MS Access. Support for Microsoft products, installing and upgrading existing hardware/software. After hours support for applications and nightly production runs.

Show Details

Computer Mainframe Operator at Infoplan
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2000
South Africa

April 1991-December 1993

Worked on MVS operating system monitoring mainframe applications including TSO, Roscoe, IMS, CA7. Submitted and monitored scheduled production runs and backups on both tape and cassette media. Developed RPF (Roscoe Programming Language) programs to aid in daily duties

Show Details