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Self-employedSoftware Architect
Jan. 2017Cape Town Area, South AfricaVarious projects over the last few years for AgileBridge & Humyn Global. Including an Inventory management System for WeBuyCars, an Eco tax calculator for Greehouse gas emissions taxes in South Africa, a Time and Shift management app for the UK, Middleware for Momentum to interface with on-prem Payroll software and Payroll api's.
SagePrincipal Software Architect
Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2017South AfricaFunctioned as Software Architect, Dev Manager, Solution Designer and Solution Architect for a Global Cloud Payroll project. We spoke to payroll software experts in the Sage group from various western countries and designed and architected a global payroll solution using a component based UI (using React) and a micro-services backend (C#, node.js, .net core, MongoDb, PostgreSql, Kafka).
For strategic reasons this was changed to be a Salesforce based solution integrating with Fairsail HR.
SageSoftware Architect
Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2016Pretoria Area, South AfricaWorked on the Sage Live project, (based in the UK) a Salesforce based accounting solution for mid-sized customers I was primarily focused on investigating options for building payroll/self-service solutions to integrate with the accounting data.
SageSoftware Architect
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2015South AfricaAs Architect, Developer and Dev manager, I was responsible for building Sage's SaaS Online payroll solution, Liquid Payroll (now Sage One), for small businesses. Built initially with C# on .net, with a Silverlight UI and SQL Server backend, later updated to ASP.Net/Html UI with the discontinuation of Silverlight.
I also designed a solution for an internal project for a SaaS Employee Self-Service solution interfacing with multiple source payroll or HR systems.
SageSenior Software Developer
Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2009Johannesburg Area, South AfricaDeveloped and maintained a intranet based Employee Self-Service system in C#, ASP.NET with SQL server db. The software had to interface in real-time with the existing COBOL based payroll backend (VIP Premier Payroll/Sage 300 Payroll).
I built the initial version of this on my own, later in the project I was a dev manager for a small team working on it, I was also heavily involved with the support team that consulted to clients of the software.
Softline PastelSenior Developer
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006Johannesburg Area, South AfricaDevelopment on the then Evolution product line, now Sage 300 ERP. This was a windows based, thick client, 3-tier system written in Delphi with a SQL server database. In addition to my development work I did a lot of DBA-type work maintaining databases, automating db processes doing query analysis and optimisation.
At this time I also started doing a lot of mentoring and training for other developers.
IocoreSoftware Engineer
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2002Johannesburg Area, South AfricaOngoing contract work with Telkom, primarily continuing work on the Electronic Account Delivery System I developed for them previously.
Development work on Case Management software project for the Namibian Ministry of Justice. This was developed in Forte (4GL language) with a SQL server database. I also did training and work in analysis and design with UML in this time.
EDS AFRICA CONSULTINGSoftware Engineer
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 1998Johannesburg Area, South AfricaOngoing development of software for Implats platinum mines in Rustenburg written in Powerbuilder with a Sybase database. I also did a very interesting PoC for automating a migration from Sybase to Oracle in this time.
Telkom SAProgrammer
Jan. 1994 - Dec. 1997Pretoria Area, South AfricaWorked on maintaining and improving Telkom's main billing systems initially. They ran on several ICL mainframes and maintenance and development was in COBOL and SCL.
Subsequently I developed and supported an initial version of web based Electronic Account Delivery Software for corporate clients to manage their accounts. This was written in Delphi with an Interbase database and interfaced to the mainframe based billing system.
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