Jason Pugh

Current

Vice President - Education at Neotalk Toastmasters
OSS / BSS Development Manager: Information Technology at Neotel

Past

Software Engineer at Computer Answers
Technical Consultant at EppixComm
Software Delivery Manager at EppixComm

EPPIX CCBS - Development Team Leader at MTN
Design Analysts and Java Developer at EppixComm
Design Analyst at LogicaCMG
Project Engineering at CMG
Software Designer at Taylor Micro Systems

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Education

University of the Witwatersrand
Pershore High School

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Jason Pugh

Jason Pugh’s Summary

Jason is a dedicated and highly motivated management professional with over 18 years of experience in many areas of IT management and software development.

The most recent experience has been in managing external development vendors, project management and monitoring delivery of software projects.

• Currently doing a management advancement programme (MAP) with Wits Business School (finished and passed in September 2008),NQF level7, that has broadened knowledge in several fields:
o Human resource management
o Economics
o Financial management
o Marketing
o Strategic management
o Operational management
• Project management and programme management, where was responsible for managing several projects simultaneously and the administration of resources within those projects.
• Have the flexibility to cope with changing scope in an organised manner, methodical and documented manner.
• Capable of meeting tight, and demanding, deadlines under pressure.
• Compilation of information for the production of management reports on a monthly basis.
• Experience in interacting with external customers, working at client sites, customer account management.
• Management of resources to deliver software projects on time and in scope.
• Knowledge of OO methodologies, Rational XDE, UML, an understanding of design patterns, SSADM, RUP and use of extreme programming techniques.
• Comprehensive experience in the following programming languages:
o Informix 4GL,
o Visual Basic,
o Java,
o ANSI C
• Have an extensive knowledge of billing systems with specific knowledge of telecoms and the EPPIX CCBS.

Jason Pugh’s Specialties:

Development manager, outsource, relationship management, Guru, Technical Consultant, Management, Software Design, Java, Informix 4GL, Visual Basic VB, C, UML, Billing Systems, Software for Manufacturing and general business, OOAD, RUP, Project management, Business analysis, SOA, OSS/J,Network marketing, Leadership, IT professional.

Jason Pugh’s Experience

Vice President - Education

Neotalk Toastmasters

(Events Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)
OSS / BSS Development Manager: Information Technology

Neotel

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Development and Integration manager, responsible for the end to end management of the IT build process managing resources to support software deliverables.

- Develop, manage and mentoring a software development and intergration team
- Delivery of the software and software intergration components in accordance to agreed timelines and requirements
- Establish development and project timelines
- Liaise with programme management, QA, and IT operations
- Provision of accurate development estimates
- Ensure proper handover to other organisations
- Producing detailed system documentation and deatils system specifications
- Analysing, designing, developing and implementing complex system intergration/development projects in accordance with architectural guidelines.
- Coding, testing and debugging computer programs.
Software Engineer

Computer Answers

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1994 — May 2008 (14 years 5 months)

Started at Computer Answers Europe -> Computer Answers International -> CMG -> LogicaCMG -> Eppixcomm
Technical Consultant

EppixComm

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

Technical consultant working mentoring a team of developers and software designers to pass on extensive knowledge.
Almost 20 years experience working within the information technology arena, considerable experience in software development, having developed systems for customer care and billing (CCBS) in the telecommunications industry for over 10 years.

My work has involved all areas of the development process:
• From working closely with users obtaining their requirements
• Taking user requirements through to the design of systems
• Developing code to required standards
• Support of software systems on-site and remotely.
• Project managing the software through it’s lifecycle

I have used both the traditional waterfall methodology and the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for software delivery with extensive development experience in Java, Informix 4GL, C, and Microsoft Visual Basic.

And much, much, more...
Software Delivery Manager

EppixComm

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Project managing software delivery, producing project plans and managing a team of developers to meet time lines.
Also involved in business analysis of software requirements and production of technical documentation specifying software requirements.
EPPIX CCBS - Development Team Leader

MTN

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 1 month)

Working as team leader with a team of 10-20 developers, managing project delivery.
Design Analysts and Java Developer

EppixComm

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1994 — December 2005 (12 years)

Designing and developing enhancments to the EPPIX billing system in VB, Java and Informix4GL
Design Analyst

LogicaCMG

(Public Company; LOG; Telecommunications industry)

January 2002 — March 2005 (3 years 3 months)

Designing and developing enhancments to the EPPIX billing system.
Project Engineering

CMG

(Telecommunications industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years)

Company changed from CMG to LogicaCMG
Software Designer

Taylor Micro Systems

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

August 1987 — December 1993 (6 years 5 months)

Developing and support of software for manufacturing and general business:
Stock control, bill of materials, purchase order processing, sales order processing, sales ledger, purchase ledger, nominal ledger, material requirments planning

Jason Pugh’s Education

University of the Witwatersrand

Management Advancement Program , Business Management , 2008 — 2008

MAP82, NQF level 7
Pershore High School

A levels , Computer Studies, Physics, Biology , 1982 — 1998

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Jason Pugh’s Interests:

Toastmasters, Chess, Digital photography, Diving, Entrepreneur, Family, Golf, International travel, Investing, Mountaineering, Music, New technology, Personal development, Property investing, Reading novels, Rock Climbing, Software Development, Travel, Books, read recently, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Martin Fowler, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Sam Harris, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great, Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Legacy, Disney – Toy Story, Jungle Book, Thomas the Tank Engine