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Senior UX Designer
FROM, The Digital Transformation AgencySenior UX Designer
Jun. 2022
Senior UX Designer
IIIMPACT, Inc.Senior UX Designer
Dec. 2020Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Remote UX specialist | co-founder
SwiftVeeRemote UX specialist | co-founder
Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2021Cape Town Area, South AfricaResponsible for building a leading online livestock auction platform. Real-time online bidding and live streaming platform.Remote Team Management. Wireframes and prototypes. UX research. Lean UX adoption. Figma, Sketch App, Invision, StoriesOnBoard, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro
Remote UX specialist | CTO
PrivySealRemote UX specialist | CTO
Jun. 2018 - Jan. 2019Cape Town Area, South AfricaApp: Platform to Verifying Credentials in Real-Time. PrivySeal online service/software links with trusted and accredited bodies to provide secure real-time certificates and seals that are automatically issued, updated, revoked or re-issued, proving authenticity of an individual, an entity, data and documents - in an instant. Remote Team Management. Lean UX Training. Help develop the existing team to begin adopting LEAN UX Design. Help develop solution for A/B testing features and products. Build user journey maps. Helped with the technology compliance. Sketch App, Invision, StoriesOnBoard, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Flinto, ZenHub.
Senior UX Consultant
StraTech • Strategic Technology SolutionsSenior UX Consultant
Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2017StellenboschResponsible for the Design Thinking department and oversight of the UI/UX of client projects. Sketch App, Invision, StoriesOnBoard, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Flinto, Zenhub
Founder
Just BeingFounder
Apr. 2016 - Apr. 2022Cape Town Area, South AfricaThe skills to work with our minds, our emotions, and other people are essential but rarely developed. At Just Being we focus on developing your emotional intelligence with mindfulness meditation practices.
CTO
JUMO.WORLDCTO
Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2016Cape Town Area, South AfricaResponsible for building the JUMO money market platform which integrates with MNO’s and financial service providers, bringing financial services to MNO customers. Jumo is a mobile money marketplace for African people, small businesses and mobile network operators. For our partners, we drive growth through data analytics and product solutions. For the countries in which we operate, we are empowering consumers and supporting entrepreneurs. Jumo is powering Africa’s future, today. Key Performance Areas: * AWS * Azure * Scalability * Big Data * Micro Services * RESTful API’s * ISO27001 Certification * Large WAN, MPLS and VPNs for MNO integrations * USSD integrations * Mobile App * UI/UX of product * MNO Payment and Mobile Wallet Integrations * BI in the cloud * Office 365 * Active Directory Integration with Macs * System Redundancy * Team scaling, hiring and mentoring * Remote Team Management Technologies: Python, Django, Ruby, Rails, Javascript, AWS, AZURE, Big Data, Spark, Hadoop, Redis, Heroku, RabbitMQ, USSD, MS SQL, MYSQL
Head of Engineering
Let's Sell LobsterHead of Engineering
Jul. 2014 - Sep. 2014Cape Town Area, South AfricaBuilding an education system to scale. Moving a monolithic application into a micro service architecture. Key Performance Areas: * Micro Services * PAAS * AWS * Google Cloud * Scalability * CDN's * Video Streaming * Responsive Design * Big Data * Responsible for UI/UX of the product Technologies users: NodeJS, Golang, MongoDB, AngularJS, Docker, Javascript
Senior UI/UX Engineer
Let's Sell LobsterSenior UI/UX Engineer
Dec. 2013 - Jun. 2014
CTO (co-founder)
IMBOCTO (co-founder)
Jul. 2011 - Oct. 2013Cape TownOur goal was to build a mobile wallet and in doing that we ended up building a banking system. Key Performance Areas: * Ruby on Rails * System Architecture * System Design * Agile Development * Finacial Systems * Payment Gateways * Card Transaction switching * Mobile UI Design * Finacial compliancy * Finacial Audits * System Failover and Monitoring Systems * System Redundancy * Scalability * AWS * Cloud Computing * Responsive Design Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, REST, Javascript, Jquery, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Git, GoLang
Co-Founder
Mady By Them (Pty) LtdCo-Founder
Jan. 2010Cape Town Area, South AfricaWe like to make the complex easy to use. We can help you innovate through knowledge of advanced technologies & human-centered design. Remote Team Management. Helping customers make their complex products and services easy to use. Technology: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, AWS, Sketch App, Invision, StoriesOnBoard, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Flinto, Figma

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