.Net Solution Architect
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
- Current
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- Solution Architect at Deliveryfocus.net
- Past
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- Solution Architect (Nedbank) at Infomet
- Software Architect at Hollard Insurance
- Senior Consultant (ABSA) at Infomet
- Technical Lead at Shoprite
- Project Manager at Solution Dynamix
- Technical Lead at Software Futures
- Consultant at Vodacom
- Owner at Paradoxical Business Solutions
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Simon Munro’s Summary
- Hands-on coding Solution Architect on .net Microsoft stack.
- Leadership, mentorship and technical design on 3-8 developer bespoke software development teams.
- Delivery focussed architectural, development and deployment approach using agile practices and the implementation of processes, methodologies and techniques configured for the specific project.
- Extensive (>12 years) experience in OO and RDBMS design and implementation.
- User, sponsor and executive interfacing through personal interaction, presentations, documentation, prototyping and delivery into order to implement technical and architectural vision.
Currently working on user presentation of BI in banking regulatory reporting (Basel II) using .net Winforms client with Developer Express components, ClickOnce, WSE 3 web services, SQL Server Analysis Services and Oracle 10g with ODP.NET.
Simon Munro’s Specialties:
Microsoft technologies (.net, SQL Server etc)
Rapid delivery of bespoke business software solutions
Leadership, management, skills transder and participation in highly skilled technical teams
User interfacing, requirements gathering and non-technical presentations
Development and implementation of practical SDLC processes
Simon Munro’s Experience
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Solution Architect
Deliveryfocus.net
(Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (5 months)
Solution Architecture and consulting on .net projects
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Solution Architect (Nedbank)
Infomet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)
Business Intelligence supporting Basel II regulatory reporting at Nedbank (South Africa). Responsible for team leadership and implementation of architecture of user front-ends to BI data. C# Winforms UI providing query, slice & dice and transactional interfaces to SQL Server Analysis Services and Oracle.
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Software Architect
Hollard Insurance
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
December 2005 — November 2007 (2 years)
Solution Architecture and Technical Lead for motor warranty insurance (Autoprotect UK). Quoting, sales, underwriting and financials using ASP.NET 2 for public interface and Winforms for administration accessing the same WSE 3 web service using SQL Server 2005.
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Senior Consultant (ABSA)
Infomet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Technical Lead on ETL of LOB data into Oracle based banking data warehouse used for regulatory reporting. Design and implementation of stakeholder structures within data warehouse. Customer engagement and assistance with project management. Design and implementation of high performance (Itanium based) secure data centre for offsite processing
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Technical Lead
Shoprite
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
Lead on implementation of high volume transactional system using .Net 1.1 (VB.NET) and SQL server. Centralized processing of ordering and receiving processes on high pressure project due to decommissioning of mainframe
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Project Manager
Solution Dynamix
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Project management of new version of shrink wrapped product for SAP training. Scheduling, feature and defect prioritization, issue management, management of development and testing teams.
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Technical Lead
Software Futures
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Technical lead across various projects in financial services including web-based procurement (Delphi) and integrating call centre applications with multimedia switches
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Consultant
Vodacom
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Management of project to select COTS product for GSM network management and rollout.
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Owner
Paradoxical Business Solutions
(Information Services industry)
1993 — 1998 (5 years)
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Basel ii Compliance Professionals Association member
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