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Mar. 2025
DVTSenior Programmer
Jun. 2021 - Mar. 2025Gauteng, South AfricaOracle SQL and PL/SQL programmer at DVT, doing back-end PL/SQL programming for Utilita in the UK. Implemented UTPLSQL Unit Testing framework for them, and work with Atlassian products in a Scrum-based environment.
Studied Databricks Data Engineering, and establish in-house CoE. Part of a Databricks migration project at client.
Leveraged Python/Pyspark and Databricks SQL in coding
Radixtrie (Pty) LtdOracle Technical Consultant
Aug. 2019 - Apr. 2021Gauteng, South AfricaMigration of Weblogic, Oracle Access Manager (on Microsoft ActiveDirectory), APEX and OBIEE to latest versions on Microsoft Windows.
General Support, mentoring and documentation
Discovery LimitedSystems Analyst
Jan. 2018 - Jun. 2019SandtonSQL and PL/SQL programming, performance tuning, security and related work on Oracle 12c
IndependentOracle Specialist
Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2017CenturionOn contract to Oracle Consulting at the National Lotteries Commission in Hatfield, Pretoria.
BI Publisher 11, SQL & PL/SQL design and development on Fusion Applications 9.2 on premise and RDBMS 11
Legacy system maintenance on Oracle Forms 10.1.2 with WebUtil, Oracle Reports, SQL, PL/SQL, RDBMS. Maintenance work includes Forms, Reports and RDBMS package modification and data fixes on the back end database underlying tables.
on sabbaticalOracle Specialist
Oct. 2014 - Mar. 2015Centurion, GautengTaking a sabbatical and catching up on technology and life.
Passed OCP RDBMS 12c upgrade exam.
OraclePrincipal Support engineer
Jun. 1993 - Oct. 2014o Principal Support Engineer, supporting customers on SQL, PL/SQL, Forms, SQL*Plus and Apex. Previously also supported RDBMS, Reports, Discoverer, Precompilers.
o Advanced Resolution Engineer, assisting/coaching other engineers on technical problems, doing proactive and reactive Service Request reviews, taking over and managing many escalations.
o Member of Global Technical Lead 3 person global team for Forms Support
o Instrumentation Lead globally for Forms, handling instrumentation topics such as Remote Diagnostic Assistance (RDA) and HealthChecks, and driving adoption internally.
o Knowledge Management Lead for Forms globally, driving quality of engineer-created technical notes that are made visible to customers.
o Good working relationship with Forms Product Management
o Developed part of WebUtil for Forms, and received an Oracle Innovation Award with the other 2 team members.
o Rotated into the Forms Sustaining Engineering team to assist with resolving product defects in the source code..
o Presented twice at SA Oracle User Group and once at the European Oracle User Group
o Presented some Forms “Tech Talk” sessions over the internet to customers.
Paradigm Systems TechnologyProgrammer
Mar. 1987 - May. 1993o Worked on Mainpack, a Maintenance management system written specifically for the Air Force
o Wrote system components in C, e.g. a Resource Balancing Module for the Project Management component, a Network graphical representation of tasks, etc.
o Helped implement standard C coding practices and a code review and testing methodology.
o Coded in Pascal, and ported code to Pascal on other operating systems.
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