Demitri Baroutsos

Senior Software Developer at Yellowtail Software

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Current
Past
  • Software Developer at Omnibridge
  • Software Developer at Ukubona Development
  • Director / Developer at Simplicityinc Limited
  • Software Development Manager at Clever Media / Enterprise IG
  • Software Developer at Dimension Data

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Education
  • Cape Technikon
  • Westerford High School
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Demitri Baroutsos’s Summary

Started out doing software development in late 1997 for a company under the Dimension Data group working with companies like Old Mutual and Sanlam. I then moved to the United Kingdom and worked for a company, part of the WPP group, doing web development for 2 years (clients like Knight Frank, P&O Stena Line, Getronics) before starting my own web development company together with one of my colleagues (clients like Cybersuitors, Camp America, Gilt-Edge Travel).

I subsequently returned to South Africa in late 2002 with my family and started working for a small digital media company in Cape Town (clients like Top Holidays, THIRT, expAgency, Promobon, Ford Academy, Sewells, Smirnoff, BAT, J&B).

I then joined a company in Stellenbosch (July 2006 - Nov 2007) doing software development for a company who are leaders in the vehicle asset tracking and fleet management industry.

I joined Bottomline Interactive to head up software development and also did some development work and data analysis for various clients of Customer Care Solutions (a sister company to Bottomline, in the call centre industry).

In August 2008 I joined the software development team as a .Net developer at Consequent working on .Net web applications using MVC patterns for 24.com and Cape Town Tourism.

I joined the team at KRS in June 2009 as the senior .Net software developer.

Demitri Baroutsos’s Specialties:

ASP (VBScript), HTML, JavaScript (traditional, OO, AJAX), DHTML, CSS, SQL, Visual Basic, ASP.Net (VB, C#), MVC, COM, ADO, ODBC, Subsonic, XML (XSLT, XPATH, MSXML), PHP, mySQL, Streaming Media (Pocket PC and Web), SQL Server (7, 2000, 2005, 2008)

Demitri Baroutsos’s Experience

  • Senior Software Developer

    Yellowtail Software

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    November 2009 — Present (1 month)

    I've re-joined the team at Yellowtail Software (formerly Consequent Software) as a senior .Net software developer.

  • Senior .Net Software Developer

    Khanyisa Real Systems

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2009 — November 2009 (6 months)

    I've just joined the vibrant and exciting team at KRS as the senior .Net web developer and looking forward to growing with the rest of the teams.

  • .Net Software Developer

    Consequent Software Development

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)

    I joined the team at Consequent as a .Net software developer helping out with the MyFundi application for 24.com and then joined the Cape Town Tourism team as Lead Developer building a .Net application for managing visitors and members.

  • Technical Director

    Bottomline Interactive

    (Design industry)

    December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

    I've been working at Bottomline as a software developer doing various web development jobs as well as initiating .Net development for a few of their clients. During my time here I've also been doing some development work and data analysis for various clients of Customer Care Solutions (Bottomline's sister company providing outsourced call centre work).

  • Software Developer

    Omnibridge

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 5 months)

    I joined Omnibridge as a .Net software developer working on their Fleet Management web application. FM-Web is an enterprise-level web-application that allows clients to manage and track their assets (as well as perform a multitude of fleet management tasks) at any time, from anywhere in the world.

  • Software Developer

    Ukubona Development

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2002 — June 2006 (3 years 8 months)

    Developed PM, CRM and CMS tools. Worked on a variety of apps like simple websites to complex financial systems. Improved programming practices utilising re-usable code. Re-wrote CMS to be more secure, robust and re-usable, multi-lingual and multi-site capable. Top Holidays (3 sites driven from same CMS), MDY (5 websites, 2 languages each driven from same CMS). Integrated with 3rd party software (bar-coding, PDFs, JPEGs, SMS- and payment gateways) and non-standard databases. Developed a business card generation module so dealers could update their details and view/order business cards (print quality PDFs generated for printing). Online examination module for Ford Academy. Exam consisted of pool of questions from which random questions were asked (to ensure difficulty copying answers between candidates). Successful exam results sent to a third party (via XML) so candidates could redeem loyalty points and print-quality PDFs generated for candidates who successfully passed exams.

  • Director / Developer

    Simplicityinc Limited

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 4 months)

    Own business start-up with ex-colleague from previous company. Sold shares to partner once immigrated back to South Africa.

    Since leaving Clever Media/Enterprise XP I took on various contract projects which include using skills such as HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, ADO, COM, XML and XSL. Involved in doing web development as well as liaising with the clients (based in UK, Sweden and South Africa), project manager and lead designer to ensure quality of work and on time deliveries. The clients involved include: Cybersuitors.com, MatchYourFriends.com, Hotel-Gallery.com, CampAmerica.co.uk, Gilt-Edge.com, Ford Mondeo Safety Microsite, Findus online JavaScript game, SportsWorld.Net Chillil Factor microsite, SportsWorld.Net Super models competition website.

  • Software Development Manager

    Clever Media / Enterprise IG

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 10 months)

    Web app dev, bug fixing DHTML code, documenting web apps and DB structures, developing an online fares calculation and booking system for P&O Stena Line, client liaison wrt specification and user requirements for projects. Porting Excel application to the web for calculating costs and % of savings by ordering food online instead of through normal distribution methods. Recruiting, project mangement and team lead. Developed a content- (CMS) and asset management system (AMS). CMS built with client-side technologies using JavaScript, XML and ASP/SQL, while the AMS used XML and VB components with ASP as the middle tier and SQL for the back-end. AMS used as an extranet tool by the company and clients allowing them secure access to assets. Provided cost-saving alternative since overseas flights and couriers are involved in transporting these documents for approval.

  • Software Developer

    Dimension Data

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DDT; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1997 — February 1999 (1 year 4 months)

    I was appointed at Dimension Data (formerly BSW Data, software department at Plessey Telumat) as a software develoepr after completing my in-service training and my National Diploma in Electrical Engineering. I was contracted to Sanlam and Old Mutual as a web developer. At Sanlam I built their marketers and brokers intranets and at Old Mutual I developed the customer Unit Trust Portfolio Management website to allow customers to manage and trade in Unit Trusts. It was through BSW Data that I started my commercial career as a software/web developer.

Demitri Baroutsos’s Education

  • Cape Technikon

    National Diploma , Electrical Engineering , 1993 — 1997

  • Westerford High School

    1988 — 1992

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