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Software Specialist

 

Very experienced systems, framework and application software specialist. PC, embedded and financial systems. Excellent communication and inter-personal skills. Team player.

Married, 2 teenage children. Good health.

Based in:

United Kingdom

Work experience

23 years in employment in full time jobs

Previous jobs

1999 -    Tresor Data Ltd, UK
Head hunted from SA. Relocated family. Developed Smart/Internet telphone for European market (hardware & software). Company acquired by Korean mobile phone manufacturing company. Small dynamic team in South London. Instrumental in design and development of secure GSM mobile phone - RSA/MD5/IDEA/SHA-1 etc. Project co-ordinator and European liason for several GSM/GPRS mobile phone developments. Much travel to Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, Denmark, Korean, China, Singapore, Greece, Italy etc. Firefighting and problem/risk management.
1996 - 1999   Ice Technologies, RSA
Senior Partner in small IT Consultancy company offering to IT services to financial sectors in RSA. Lead team responsible for developed and maintenance of almost entire front-office and back-office banking systems for Nedcor's 5 banks, including roll-out of 2 new banking brands. Development of Secure Remote Payment system using state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques. Y2K compliance of dozens of systems. Implementation of TCP/IP and Remote Electronic Banking system on an embedded smart telephone. Head hunted by German 'smart telephone' company. Relocated family to UK.
1991 - 1996   Softnet, RSA
Formed small dynamic software company with 2 partners offering electronic banking systems and Rapid Application Development tools to financial sectors and government departments. 20 employees. Lotus Partner. Specialist skills C, C++, Pascal, Windows, Unix, Linux, OS/2, Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, Cabling, Small Business Management and Administration. Personally responsible for massive Pascal->C/C++ conversion project and development of security layer for new Treasury System.
1989 - 1991   Nedcor Bank, RSA
Head hunted to develop their first Commercial Electronic Banking platform (C Programming Language). Extremely successful. Instrumental in putting Nedcor at the leading edge of Electronic Banking in RSA. Developed & implemented first ever smart-card cashless pilot project.
1984 - 1989   Barclays Bank, RSA
Moved from Cobol Trainee to Pascal/C Analyst Programmer in 3 years. Founder of PC team and author of first Corporate Electronic Banking System in RSA. Head hunted to competitive bank.

Education

   Diploma, Computer Programming (Van Zyl & Pritchard, SA, 1984)

Certifications / Courses

(length: 4 years) non-graduate due to family/financial difficulties. ()
Project Planning ()
Team Leadership ()
Various corporate courses. ()
Unix ()
BSc Electrical Engineering ()

Skills

Skill Experience Arrow down Level Last used
Software Management  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
GSM  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Financial systems  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Embedded software  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
C++  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
C / ANSI C  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

Language Skills

Language Oral Written
English  5 of 5 5 of 5
French  2 of 5 2 of 5

Job Type wishes

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Checkmark Full time
Checkmark Contract/Project/Freelance

Job Category wishes

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  • checked Implementation/Consultant
    • checked BizTalk
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked CMS Systems
    • checked CRM Systems
    • checked EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
    • checked ERP In General
    • checked ESDH
    • checked GIS
    • checked IT audits
    • checked IT Strategy
    • checked ITIL / Service Management
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)
    • checked Network (LAN / WAN)
    • checked Oracle Forms, Oracle PL, Oracle Developer, etc.
    • checked SAP
    • checked SharePoint
    • checked Telephony / Voice Over IP
  • checked Project Management
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked ERP in General
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Other Project Management Positions
    • checked SAP
    • checked Software- & Web development
    • checked Test / QA
  • checked Software & Web Development
    • checked .Net / ASP.Net (C#, VB, J#, ADO, VS)
    • checked AS/400
    • checked ASP (vbscript, jscript)
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked C / C++
    • checked Delphi
    • checked EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
    • checked Embedded Software
    • checked ESDH
    • checked Flash / Actionscript
    • checked Frontend (CSS, HTML, XHTML, Javascript)
    • checked GIS
    • checked GUI / Interface Design
    • checked Java (J2EE, J2SE, JEE5, etc.)
    • checked Lotus Domino / Lotus Notes
    • checked Mainframe Development (CICS, Cobol, COOL, PL/1, Etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Office (Infopath / VB / VBA / VBA.NET)
    • checked Oracle Forms, Oracle PL, Oracle Developer, etc.
    • checked Perl
    • checked PHP
    • checked SAP
    • checked SharePoint
    • checked Software Architecture

Job Location wishes

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  • Europe
    • United Kingdom
      • South East
        • checked Kent
        • checked East Sussex
        • checked Hampshire & Isle of Wight
        • checked West Sussex
        • checked Surrey
      • checked Greater London
      • Home Counties
        • checked Bedfordshire
        • checked Berkshire
        • checked Buckinghamshire
        • checked Essex
        • checked Hertfordshire
        • checked Oxfordshire
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