Danie Roux

Current

Team Mascot at FinWorks

Past

Team Lead at DevStream
Portal and Web Integration Specialist at University of Pretoria
Multimedia Programmer at University of Pretoria

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Education

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
Linux Professional Institute
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

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Danie Roux’s Summary

Currently employed as a Smalltalk developer on Squeak/Seaside/GemStone.

- Signed the http://agilemanifesto.org and have worked in Extreme Programming teams since 2006.
- Used to be a senior Java/J2EE developer employed in the supply chain management industry.
- Honours degrees in Computer Science and Technology Management.

Danie Roux’s Specialties:

J2EE, Extreme Programming, Agile, JMS, ESB, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Java, IDEA, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, GemStone

Danie Roux’s Experience

Team Mascot

FinWorks

(Financial Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (6 months)
Team Lead

DevStream

(Financial Services industry)

November 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 6 months)

Devstream currently employs close to 40 developers split into small teams of 4-6 people.

The technical core team builds and maintains the infrastructure that those teams use. We serve as an architecture clearing house, ensuring that a central place for architectural decisions and implementations exist.

Our duties include, but are not limited to:

* Creation of architectural guidelines and the frameworks to support those.
* Specifying the development environment and the tools to be used.
* Researching and deciding on frameworks to use.
* Developing of the deployment mechanisms and the setup of the hosting environment.

I played a major role in the architecture since the inception of the project.

We follow Extreme Programming (XP) as our software development methodology. In that capacity I have done presentations on XP.
Portal and Web Integration Specialist

University of Pretoria

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 9 months)

The position of Portal and Web Integration Specialist was a new one created specifically to investigate the use of portal technologies to form a unified work environment for both lecturers and students.

As part of this job I investigated the portal technology landscape and recommended certain technologies and the strategy we should pursue. This strategy included single signon practices and a unified view of all person data.

Part of the job specification included developing a standard development environment. I also defined the deployment model and the Subversion repository workflow. This allows clean deploys from the source repository onto the production servers.

I was also responsible for implementing a new content management system for the University of Pretoria's web pages. On this project I did the technology selection, the source code modifications necessary as well as the initial information architecture.
Multimedia Programmer

University of Pretoria

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; E-Learning industry)

January 2001 — January 2003 (2 years 1 month)

I was originally appointed to do programming tasks for multimedia projects. I worked myself into the position where I was the expert programmer on the Learning Management System in use at the University of Pretoria (WebCT).

I was on the project team that created the Virtual Campus for the university. I participated in requirement analysis and system design.

Further, I wrote the Java connector to the Learning Management System. Our integration with this Learning Management System was the first of its kind in South Africa.

I attended two WebCT conferences in South Africa, giving presentations at both.

Danie Roux’s Education

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

BSc(Hons): Technology Management, Management, 2006 — 2007

I did this degree part time while working full time
Linux Professional Institute

LPIC1, 2006 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

Passed LPI 101 and 102 exams, completed LPI level 1 certification
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

BSc(Hons): Computer Science, Computer Science, 2002 — 2003

I did this degree part time while working full time
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

BSc Information Technology, Computer Science, 1998 — 2001