Senior Software Developer and .net Architect

TurfSport's wagering solution is the most extensively used horse racing and sports betting software in South Africa.

• Design and implementation of project PaymentServices™, a standalone web-based solution for credit card payments and electronic funds transfer. A dozen Payment Gateways (MyGate, SID, iVeri, VCSPay, …) have been integrated into a single interface.
• Design and implementation of a service layer for PaymentServices (solution architecture).
• Prepping the PaymentServices service layer for the Amazon cloud.
• In a follow-up project the PaymentServices were ported to pure .net core and hosted in AWS.
• Implementation of a data-archiver-engine that involved stopping and starting of SQL Server and creating and copying of SQL databases.
• Race data aggregator, a web application that aggregates and displays horse racing and betting data from different bookmakers in near real time. The data is fed via Microsoft Message Queuing.
• Backend software and services supporting TurfSport's online betting platform.
• Mentoring and training permanent staff.

Jam Warehouse is a software engineering and consulting company with offices in Cape Town and London. They are a Microsoft Gold Partner and a recognized leader in South Africa in .net based solutions.

• BrandDirector™ is a secure web portal that manages business processes, activities and communications around marketing operations and “new product” development. This software package is a recognized global Best Practice for marketing process automation and has been implemented by global companies like SAB South African Breweries, Woolworths, Pick n Pay, Tesco (UK) and other large companies.
• Sanlam's SanQuote is an application that automates and supports the insurance broker / client interaction process to deliver quotations and insurance applications. It interfaces with multiple in-house systems and 3rd party components. Lead Systems Analyst with the responsibility to design and maintain the domain-model (Domain Driven Design methodology).
• Tesco's Technical Library is an automatically synchronized database. The data source is a collection of WebServices; the sync mechanism is heavily dependent on multithreading and .net Remoting.
• Project Rascal is a Silverlight 4 application integrated and hosted in SharePoint 2010, it convinces with rich UI, modular design and the use of latest technology like Microsoft PRISM and RIA Services.
• Jawitz Properties's web portal is a Sitefinity-based CMS which is automatically synchronized with the company's in-house property management system.
• Evolution™ is the CMS for an iPhone application sponsored by the Natural History Museum in London.
• BrandDirector™ in the Cloud, pioneering BrandDirector's transition into the Amazon cloud on a brand new stack (Win Server 2008 R2 Core with PowerShell and SQL Server 2012).
• iPhone application development. Leading role to develop and up-skill staff, and thus to enable the company to position itself as a cutting-edge iPhone application development company in South Africa for the global market.
• Continuous integration and testing environment, building and administration of the VM based integration and testing environment (25+ VMs).
• Automated Quality Assurance, introducing TestComplete 7 as an automated testing tool to Jam Warehouses QA team.

Geospatial Solutions Division

The company provides enterprise infrastructure software solutions to support the management of geographic data, with its strategic partner ESRI, the world's leading GIS solution provider. Tadpole delivers software solutions deployed by government, municipalities, utilities and mapping agencies, e.g. Ordnance Survey.

• Server-side development for a major long-term project between the customer Ordnance Survey and Tadpole. Its main purpose is the ongoing development, upgrading and maintenance of the mapping system for the UK.
• Development of an Installer (InstallShield) for the server components.
• Overseeing Release Management of the server-side components.
• Testing (unit testing and system-wide end-to-end testing).

Aker Kværner ASA is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions for major industries like Oil & Gas, Refining & Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Mining & Metals, and more.

• Building up a knowledge database in Sharepoint Portal Server.
• Software Design & Implementation of Web Parts and Web Services.

FREQUENTIS develops Communication and Information Systems for safety-critical areas including voice communication for air traffic control, systems for rescue and police.

• Software design and implementation for the TETRA protocol for digital mobile radio-communication applied in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens (C# and .net).
• Training permanent staff in database design and SQL.
• Research and development.
• Supervising various international projects.

PPP develops specialized Windows applications and implements network and Active Directory infrastructures.

• IT training for external companies
• Customer liaison, project management
• Software design and development, database design, networking, presentation
• Consulting and developing concepts for software-engineers