
IS Consultant
Cape Town Area, South Africa

IS Consultant
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Detail orientated and quality conscious, trained software developer specializing in IS consulting and system integration services.
Systems integration, system problem analysis and remediation
(Gambling & Casinos industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Casino Management software development using Microsoft ® C#, Microsoft ® ADO.NET & .NET 3.5.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)
Primary duties
- Development and maintenance on a custom, externally developed CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system.
- Perform operational programming for systems used at the company using Microsoft ® C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET.
- Development of applications that support current business processes.
Secondary duties
- Analyse business processes and workflow.
- Investigate new technologies that would streamline business processes and workflow.
- Technical support to support staff.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRXL; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2002 — May 2007 (4 years 10 months)
Primary duties
- Resolve complex technical problems as part of second level technical support.
- Analyse non-standard problems and develop technical solutions to meet each problem.
- Provide support to hardware, software or application deployment efforts.
- Work with IS Helpdesk to analyse and develop solutions to ongoing problems.
- Develop documentation for user community and other IS departments.
- Work with IS project teams to develop solutions to strategic initiatives.
- Creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for use in the IS department.
- Updating and implementing the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for the company.
- Updating and maintaining the company Systems Operation Manuals (SOM) for the IS department.
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Designed database for the SEBO department of the Technikon Free State. Database front-end had to be created in Microsoft Access 2000. The database server (backend) of the system is Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
B.Tech, Information Technology, 2002 — 2004
Year Subject
2003 Project Management IV (PR41AB)
2003 Operating Systems IV (BSL42AB)
2002 Functional Management (FKB11AB)
2002 Development Programming IV (OPG42AB)
2002 User Interface Design (USR42AB)
2002 Research Methodologies (NMT11AB)
2002 Expert Systems IV (EKS42AB)
2002 Database Systems IV (DBS42AB)
2002 Computer Security IV (CSY41AB)
2002 Applied Technologies I (APP41AB)
N.Dip, Information Technology, 1999 — 2002
Year Subject
2001 Information Systems III (INL30EB)
2001 Development Programming III (OPG30BB)
2001 Software Systems II (SPG20CB)
2001 Applied Programming I (TGP10AB)
2001 New Technologies I (NTC10AB)
2000 Technical Programming I (TPG10AB)
2000 Software Systems I (SPG10AB)
2000 Development Programming II (OPG20BB)
2000 Information Systems II (INL20DB)
1999 Accounting Practices (RKV10AB)
1999 Development Programming I (OPG10BB)
1999 Quantitative Techniques (Statistics) (KWN10AB)
1999 Information Systems I (INL10DB)
Microsoft ® .NET C# (1.1 - 3.5) Microsoft ® Visual C# 2003,2005 & 2008 Microsoft ® ADO.NET Microsoft ® VB.NET SQL Database design and implementation Borland Delphi 5, 6, 7 & 2005 InterBase / Firebird (Server and embedded) HTML / CSS / JS / PHP Object-orientated programming 3-tier application programming Database design and Entity relationship (ER) diagrams Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat ES) Wireshark (Ethereal) Network Analyzer MySQL 3.23 & 5.0 databases Project Management Functional Management Smartcard technologies Fujitsu COBOL 85 Programming C/C++ Programming JAVA