Devin de Vries

Current

• Co-Founder & CEO at WhereIsMyTransport

Past

• Software Developer & Lead Interface Designer at RedZebra Mobile
• Operations Supervisor at eCentric Switch

Education

• University of Cape Town
• Rondebosch Boys'

Recommended

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Connections

98 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My RSS feed

Devin de Vries’s Experience

• Co-Founder & CEO

  WhereIsMyTransport

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Securing investments, creating marketing tools and promoting the company to the private sector and government.
  
  Locating strategic partners and deciding the business roadmap and vision.
  
  Putting in place all formal business structures and policies, from financial to development and human resources.
  
  Designing the overall product look and feature development focus.
  
  Server-side and client-side developing and designing of the 4 product & service offerings.

• Software Developer & Lead Interface Designer

  RedZebra Mobile

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2008 — September 2008 (8 months)

  Developing PHP-based web applications, and social platform (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo) widgets.
  
  Conceptualising and designing the user experience for the new Enterprise product line to be released at the end of ‘08.

• Operations Supervisor

  eCentric Switch

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2002 — December 2007 (5 years 3 months)

  Hiring of part-time operators.
  
  Training of operators in the monitoring of all online transactions includes debit card and credit card transactions, online prepaid, pension transactions, and money transfers via a Postilion Switch.
  
  Responding and attending to client problems or complaints concerning the services detailed above.
  
  Scheduling monthly shift rosters of part-time staff and ensuring month end part-time payroll completion.
  
  Updating management, via email, on the current status of the switch on an hourly basis.
  
  Performing batch processes on an hourly basis.

Devin de Vries’s Education

• University of Cape Town

  BBusSci , Information Systems , 2004 — 2007

  Keynote speaker to the graduation class of 2008 and the receiver of an award of excellence from UCT in recognition of the many accolades achieved whilst carrying the university banner, in October (2008).
  
  Lead the team onto the international finals in Paris where we came top 12 in the Software Development category, placed 2nd for the Rural Innovation Award and were one of three teams chosen for the Innovation Accelerator Award. All these awards were out of an original competing pool of a near one million students from 110 countries. Never before had a single team featured in three categories (2008).
  
  Team leader of the winning team in the Software Development category for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007 National Finals (2007).
  
  Awarded 1st prize for the winning business proposal in the National Innovation Competition Regional (2007).
  
  Recipient of the Honours KPMG award for the top Systems Development Project (2007).
  
  Top Honours system development project mark (2007).

  Activities and Societies:

  Secretary of the LANSOC at UCT (2003).
  
  Performed a braille publication system implementation for the Honours Outreach and Community Involvement Project.
  
  Volunteer for the SHAWCO Information Technology outreach programme teaching computing skills to disadvantaged learners.
  
  Social Representative for the Information Systems Honours Class.
  
  Project Team Leader for both the 3rd and 4th year Systems Development Projects at UCT (2006-2007).
  
  3rd Squad Hockey team (2004-2005).

• Rondebosch Boys'

Additional Information

Devin de Vries’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My RSS feed

Devin de Vries’s Interests:

Squash, tennis & hockey. New technologies, and gadgets. Public speaking and networking events.

Devin de Vries’s Groups:

IS-Labs, Velociti

•    University of Cape Town Information Systems
•    VeloCITI

Devin de Vries’s Honors:

Invited to give a press conference speech with Microsoft Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie at the meeting of the top 450 IT grads worldwide (2009).

Gave closing keynote at Microsoft Summit (2009).

Top 5 in the Regional Finals of the HIT Barcelona Global Entrepreneurship Comp (2009).

1 of 7 student delegates invited to the Learning and Teaching World Forum & 1 of 2 students to give the closing keynote (2009).

Imagine Cup World Finals: Top 12 in Software Development; 2nd for the Rural Innovation Award; 1 of 3 chosen for the Innovation Accelerator Award. Never before had a team featured in 3 categories (2008).

Team leader of the Software Development category winners for the Imagine Cup National Finals (2007).

Awarded 1st prize for the winning business proposal in the National Innovation Competition Regional (2007).

Recipient of the Honours KPMG award for the top Systems Development Project (2007).

Top Honours system development project mark granted by UCT (2007).

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