at Graviton
South Africa
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- Contract C# Developer at Graviton
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- Analyst Developer at PMP Limited
- Applications Developer at Prism Software NZ
- Contract C#.Net Developer at Barloworld Logistics
- Software Developer at Tourism Holdings Limited
- Analyst Developer at Symsys-IT
- Trainer at Compuways
- Software Engineer at R & M Technologies
- Education
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- Tshwane University of Technology
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Karel Jordaan’s Summary
Having obtained a management degree and three Microsoft Certified Solution Development (MCSD) qualifications, he enabled himself in the areas of consultation, software design, development and training. Project level collaboration with clients in the area of IT Operational requirements.
Karel Jordaan’s Specialties:
Design and development of mobile, web, windows and data bound enterprise applications. Analysis, improvement and upgrading of existing legacy applications. Global business strategies.
Karel Jordaan’s Experience
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Contract C# Developer
Graviton
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (8 months)
Contracted to Nedbank Group Technology for development on straight-through-processing of loan applications (STP). Compilation of scope, functional and technical specifications as well as common developement tasks.
Team award recipient for decreased application processing time, while increasing client base and market share. -
Analyst Developer
PMP Limited
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PMP; Printing industry)
January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)
Provided future direction for national and international infrastructure, application sub-systems and technologies within the various business units of PMP, aligning strategy with business drivers. Analysis of current business processes within the distribution division.
Progressive identification, classification and auditing of a thousand plus MS Access databases for inclusion in a migration plan. Scoping and functional documents for various projects.
Corresponding with international peers on development direction and data movement within existing sub-systems. Advice on the improvement of development processes and procedures.
Upgrading existing MS Access applications to MS SQL. OLAP MS SQL database development for usage in conjunction with MS Reporting Services. RS and SSIS Development. -
Applications Developer
Prism Software NZ
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — December 2007 (3 months)
Development on all areas of an impressive windows based MIS for use in the Printing and Graphics Arts industry, using C#.Net. Project analysis and consultation. A great international company filled with friendly people.
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Contract C#.Net Developer
Barloworld Logistics
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
Awesome company and superb personnel. Up to date development environment, with the latest Microsoft technologies. Development on an enterprise logistic application, front to back, concentrating on importation and transformation of data, with a user easy drag & drop front-end.
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Software Developer
Tourism Holdings Limited
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Entertainment industry)
May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)
Less than one millisecond response, XML file driven, in memory search engine for frequently queried information.
Support, continuous development and design for a round the clock vehicle rental reservation system. Web based international business to business and business to customer implementation with local phone and walk–in reservation capabilities. -
Analyst Developer
Symsys-IT
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — December 2005 (9 months)
Research and development of mobile update and deployment methodologies. This included low level CE API development, preparation for Microsoft testing and a VS.Net like IDE diagramming application for a SQL replication system.
Improving internal business processed and procedures, including leading the development of company coding standards for Java, C#.Net and VB.Net -
Trainer
Compuways
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
February 2004 — November 2004 (10 months)
Training students in Sql Server, web applications, windows applications, web services, solution architectures for MCP, MCAD or MCSD certification in both VB.Net and C#.Net.
Up to a maximum of six students per class to allow for optimum quality training, this added customization and flexibility for optimum customer service. -
Software Engineer
R & M Technologies
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)
February 2001 — February 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Logistical Manager. An application to manage and simulate management of personnel, parts, tools, manuals, cost and utilization mainly for military estimates of usage and product breakdown of parts.
This enabled British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) to forecast the parts it needed to maintain equipment. An existing application was upgraded to Access 2000 and then VB.Net and SQL 2000.
Karel Jordaan’s Education
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Tshwane University of Technology
B.Tech , Production Management , 1996 — 2001
Also associated with Operations and Facility Management. Received five honorary awards, one being a council medal for exceptional academic achievement. The degree itself has been awarded cum laude. He has lectured the diploma subjects during the latter part of his graduate year.
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Karel Jordaan’s Interests:
The linux family.
Karel Jordaan’s Groups:
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Karel Jordaan’s Honors:
Council medal from the Techikon Council for exceptional academic achievement.
Siemens trophy for the best student.
Siemens trophy for the best third year student.
Brigestone Firestone trophy for the best academic student in any year.
Brigestone Firestone trophy for the best academic student in the course B-Tech Production Management.
Honorary Award for academic achievement in the course Production Management.
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