Johan Pretorius

Current

Web Design and Development at next step design

Past

Software Developer/Analyst at Fujitsu Services
Owner at Host24.com
Consultant at Fischer and Associates

Independent contractor at Solfact
Junior Software Engineer at CSIR/Teklogic

see less...

2 more...

Education

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

Recommended

2 people have recommended Johan

Connections

188 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Blog

Johan Pretorius’s Summary

I'm currently pursuing opportunities in the Ruby on Rails environment, Facebook and OpenSocial application development as well as Rich Internet Applications (using Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails or Merb on the server side).

My main focus areas are thus:

- Ruby on Rails
- Flex on Adobe AIR
- Facebook Application development
- OpenSocial development

...all of the above sprinkled with Ajax...

I also have solid experience in System Analysis & Design and Client/Server application development utilizing C/C++ and Oracle, and may consider applicable opportunities in that sphere as well.

Johan Pretorius’s Specialties:

- System analysis and design
- Next generation Internet development
- Technical software development
- Data migration
- Interface development
- System integration

Johan Pretorius’s Experience

Web Design and Development

next step design

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Software Developer/Analyst

Fujitsu Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1997 — February 2008 (10 years 7 months)

Worked on the Airlines Project (on various sub systems, notably interfaces) utilizing C/C++ against an Oracle database.

More details about the project can be found on the Fujitsu web site:

http://www.fujitsu.com/za/industries/travel/airlines/
Owner

Host24.com

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

February 1999 — April 2006 (7 years 3 months)
Consultant

Fischer and Associates

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1996 (5 years)

Was involved with the NaTIS project - mostly on interfaces and data conversion
Independent contractor

Solfact

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year)

Developed various smaller systems, such as a Ticket Issuing System, an Interfacing project for KPMG and a Reservoir Simulation System.
Junior Software Engineer

CSIR/Teklogic

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1985 — 1990 (5 years)

Embedded systems at NIAST (CSIR); software simulator for an embedded real-time system (written in ADA and C)