Visionary software entrepreneur & solutions architect
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
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- Founder & Chief Technology Officer at TEMBO Technology Lab
- Founder & Chief Technology Officer at TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd
- Founder, CTO & Chief Architect at Silverlake Strategic Consultants (Pty) Ltd
- Founder, Chairman, CTO, Technical Director, Chief Architect & Trustee at Silverlake
- Past
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- Chairman at LUSO Computer Institute (Pty) Ltd
- Chairman at LUSO
- Founder, Chairman & Chief Architect at TEMBO Technology Innovations (Pty) Ltd
- Chief Technology Officer at IDION Technology Holdings Ltd
- Chief Technology Officer at IDION
- Chief Architect & CTO of Holding Company at Vision
- Chief Architect at Vision Solutions Inc
- Co-Founder/ Technical Director at Silverlake Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- Owner/ Technical Director at Van Sandwyk Computer Consultants CC (Sole Proprietorship)
- Project Manager & Solution Architect at IBM
- Solution Architect & Project Manager at IBM South Africa
- Project Manager & Solution Architect at ISM
- Technical Director at QUBIC Computer Services (Pty) Ltd - part of QDATA Ltd
- Technical Director at QDATA
- Technical Director at QUBIC
- Technical Manager at Phoenix Software & Support (Pty) Ltd
- Technical Manager at Phoenix
- Analyst/Programmer & Project Leader at MONDI Richards Bay
- Analyst Programmer & Project Leader at MONDI
- Education
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- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Association for Computing Machinery
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Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Summary
Kindly note I am NOT an OPEN networker.
Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions at Board level as a director. I have always subscribed to very hands-on management.
My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as “impossible” from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking.
As a result of technical excellence, my most successful endeavour, Silverlake Technology Solutions was appointed Premier Partner in development with the IBM AS/400 lab in Rochester, Minnesota, USA in 1996 - one of the first companies outside the USA to achieve this. Technology designed by me have been used in all the major economies around the globe and I have lectured on five continents on subjects ranging from systems management to continuous operations to application resilience.
The bulk of my career has been spend on enabling continuous operations, effecting high availability, systems management in all its disciplines, clustering, partitioning, self healing systems and application resilience. As such, my expertise tends to focus on the middleware and operating system level. In addition, I have spend quite a few years of my programming career doing low level communications programming between various shop-floor devices, PLC’s and between different computer systems.
Started as a trainee programmer on IBM System/38 in 1983.
Some companies whose IT strategy I have influenced and/or steered:
IBM - various countries: South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, USA, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Switzerland.
Other: Investec, Momentum Life, Nashua, Mondi Group, SABC, Clicks, Unibank, SA Eagle, SA Department Foreign Affairs, ISCOR, Protea Assurance.
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Specialties:
Enjoys “impossible” technical challenges.
Latest focus on leveraging existing software infrastructure, unlocking value through application modernisation, SOA and SaaS. BPI and Agility specific focus area.
Continuous operations, middleware, clustering, partitioning, virtualisation, “self-healing” applications, application resilience and software architecture.
Interests:
genetic programming
Compiler technologies
middleware
software architecture
BPI & Agility
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Experience
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Founder & Chief Technology Officer
TEMBO Technology Lab
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
Company dedicated to innovate and provide solutions to optimise ROI within IT, focussing on application modernisation and improving efficiencies within IT. Specific focus areas BPI, Agility, SOA, SaaS and Cloud Computing.
The company exist solely to assist our customers to unlock the true value from their existing software investments, allowing them to leverage latest technological advances. We are focussed to enable you to maximise your ROI from your systems.
UNLEASH your systems!
TEMBO maintains several interfaces with the various IBM and other international software research labs. Allow us to demonstrate the value of this network to you.
See TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd for more detail. -
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
Company dedicated to innovate and provide solutions to optimise ROI within IT, focussing on application modernisation and improving efficiencies within IT. Specific focus areas BPI, Agility, SOA, SaaS and Cloud Computing.
The company exist solely to assist our customers to unlock the true value from their existing software investments, allowing them to leverage latest technological advances. We are focussed to enable you to maximise your ROI from your systems.
UNLEASH your systems!
TEMBO maintains several interfaces with the various IBM and other international software research labs. Allow us to demonstrate the value of this network to you. -
Founder, CTO & Chief Architect
Silverlake Strategic Consultants (Pty) Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)
Company specialising in strategic positioning of new technologies and evaluation of new products.
Silverlake Strategic Consultants (Pty) Ltd consults exclusively in the fields of application resilience and application modernisation of commercial transaction processing applications internationally. A substantial portion of the R & D time and effort of SSC is rendered to TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd. In addition, SSC holds the various designs and intellectual capital of all my efforts and maintains my various international professional affiliations and certifications.
For ENDORSEMENTS kindly review the TEMBO as well as various SILVERLAKE entries, which represents most of the endorsements received for my work at Silverlake and the various CATS and CATSe technologies that I architected and designed.
SSC was largely dormant from March 2001 to January 2008, due to bad health, but all our various international contacts was maintained throughout. -
Founder, Chairman, CTO, Technical Director, Chief Architect & Trustee
Silverlake
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1992 — Present (17 years 5 months)
Kindly review all the relevant "Silverlake" and "TEMBO" entries on my profile.
There are several, as I used the R & D project name for my favourite computing platform (Silverlake aka AS/400, iSeries, i5, PowerSystems and IBM i) and favourite dangerous game animal (Tembo, Swahili for Elephant) on several of my companies and trusts.
The primary entries you can focus on are:
TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd
Silverlake Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Most dramatic results were generated at Silverlake Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd from 1994 up to 2000. I was largely out of action due to a medical surgeon's bad judgement from start of 2001 until late 2007, but remained in close contact with the international computer software industry. -
Chairman
LUSO Computer Institute (Pty) Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 4 months)
The top instructer led programming school in South Africa experienced financial difficulties since the late '90's due to a number of reasons. Our Family Trust acquired the majority shareholding in this company, re-financed it and attempted to turn it around. This was to allow me an "easy" entrance back into the computing industry, after a prolonged absence due to bad health. Due to a combination of factors, including my bad health at the time, it was unfortunately not to be. The failure to turn LUSO around will remain probably the single biggest failure of my professional career and one that saddens me to this day.
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Chairman
LUSO
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Kindly see "LUSO Computer Institute (Pty) Ltd
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Founder, Chairman & Chief Architect
TEMBO Technology Innovations (Pty) Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 4 months)
Company specialising in strategic positioning of new technologies, evaluation of new products and development of leading edge technology - from initial inception to delivery of "proof of concept".
Once proven, assistance with selling the technology concept and designs, looking for international investors or software houses who can take the technology to market. Performing this service primarily for South African software developers and software houses.
The activities of TEMBO Technology Innovations (Pty) Ltd have been absorbed by TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd.
Due to my bad health during the period 2001 - 2007 (medical surgeon's bad judgement), this never really got of the ground. At the time the medical fraternity was still grapling to come to terms with my problems. -
Chief Technology Officer
IDION Technology Holdings Ltd
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IDI; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Van Sandwyk had retired on February 28, 2001, due to poor judgement of a surgeon, following a tenure at JSE Securities Exchange-listed Idion Technology Holdings as Chief Technology Officer.
He transferred to Idion on completing a profit warranty period after selling Silverlake Technology Solutions to the company in 1998, during which time the CATS & CATSe technology of the company started to achieve large acceptance internationally.
The CATSe Cluster Manager Command Centre Module was also developed and today it forms the heart of VISION Solutions’ ORION product. (VISION was subsequently acquired by Idion.)
Responsible for technology strategy at Idion until retirement and one of the primary drivers of the acquisition of VISION Solutions by IDION Technology Holdings.
Several of the technologies and products architected by Van Sandwyk form an integral part of the products from Vision Solutions Inc and Lakeview Technology Inc. -
Chief Technology Officer
IDION
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IDI; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Kindly see "IDION Technology Holdings Ltd" entry for more details.
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Chief Architect & CTO of Holding Company
Vision
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)
Kindly see the entry below "IDION Technology Holdings Ltd". Assisted Vision Solutions with the architecture of a number of product initiatives.
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Chief Architect
Vision Solutions Inc
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)
Whilst being Chief Technology Officer of IDION Technology Holdings Ltd (Ticker symbol IDI on JSE) I was one of the primary drivers of the Vision acquisition. After succesful conclusion of the deal, I assisted briefly with resolving a couple of technical challenges. This was only temporary, as I was not prepared to relocate to the USA at that stage.
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Co-Founder/ Technical Director
Silverlake Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1994 — November 1999 (5 years 3 months)
Silverlake, a Premier Partner in development with the IBM Rochester, MN Labs, specialised in the areas of cluster & partition management. The company developed a software solution to virtually partition a single AS/400 (CATS).
“Conceiving the CATS partitioning concept, architecting and developing it into a product, is one of my top achievements,” “At the time, partitioning a single AS/400 was deemed impossible".
IBM licensed it as the foundation of its international Rapid Recovery/400 service.”
IBM and several other international software companies licensed technology designed by Van Sandwyk. His customers spanned across 5 continents.
Silverlake was voted "Outstanding Performer" by IBM SA for 3 consecutive years. Received similar accolades from Lakeview Technology.
During my tenure at Silverlake, I have spend a total of about two years at IBM Rochester USA, IBM Netherlands in Zoetermeer and IBM UK in London. -
Owner/ Technical Director
Van Sandwyk Computer Consultants CC (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1992 — August 1994 (2 years 6 months)
Started my own consulting business after leaving QDATA. The bulk of my time (80%+)was contracted to IBM (ISM at that time) on challenging technology solutions. My time was spend mostly on ISCOR and the architecting and project management of the IBM AS/400 Competency Centre for Africa.
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Project Manager & Solution Architect
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1992 — May 1994 (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for the design and implementation of the African IBM AS/400 (iSeries) Competency Centre and the launch of the Support Family/400 series of support offerings. The result was acknowledged as being revolutionary.
This project was managed and executed for IBM whilst being an external consultant.
In addition responsible for various projects around the Globe, with emphasis on continuous availability, partitioning and clustering. -
Solution Architect & Project Manager
IBM South Africa
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1992 — March 1994 (1 year 7 months)
See IBM.
Responsible for the design and implementation of the African IBM AS/400 (iSeries) Competency Centre and the launch of the Support Family/400 series of support offerings. The result was acknowledged as being revolutionary.
This project was managed and executed for IBM whilst being an external consultant.
In addition responsible for various projects around the Globe, with emphasis on continuous availability, partitioning and clustering. -
Project Manager & Solution Architect
ISM
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ISG; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1992 — September 1993 (1 year)
ISM (Information Services Management) was the South African Company representing IBM. For all practical purposes it was IBM, with direct access to all international IBM infrastructure and technology.
Responsible for the design and implementation of the African IBM AS/400 (iSeries) Competency Centre and the launch of the Support Family/400 series of support offerings. The result was acknowledged as being revolutionary.
This project was managed and executed for ISM (IBM) whilst being an external consultant. -
Technical Director
QUBIC Computer Services (Pty) Ltd - part of QDATA Ltd
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; QDI; Computer Software industry)
March 1989 — February 1992 (3 years)
Headhunted by QDATA to head up their entrance into the IBM AS/400 market. Negotiated international software distributorships, acquisition of technologies and positioning of the company in a very overtraded - but badly serviced - market. Responsible for technical positioning of Old Mutual, SABC, Dept. of Foreign Affairs AS/400 systems whilst in this position. Was also instrumental in the GOVNET acceptance of the AS/400, which allowed the AS/400 to be used by the SA Government and the SABC.
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Technical Director
QDATA
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; QDI; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1989 — February 1992 (3 years)
Technical Director at subsidiary company QUBIC Computer Services (Pty) Ltd
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Technical Director
QUBIC
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; QDI; Computer Software industry)
March 1989 — February 1992 (3 years)
Kindly see "QUBIC Computer Services (Pty) Ltd - part of QDATA Ltd" entry for full detail.
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Technical Manager
Phoenix Software & Support (Pty) Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1988 — February 1989 (1 year)
Head hunted by Phoenix to start their Technical Department. Responsible for performance tuning, performance analysis and capacity planning, network design and technical training.
Was also the leading South African Genesis V technical resource, an Expert System based application generator. -
Technical Manager
Phoenix
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1988 — February 1989 (1 year)
Kindly see full details under "Phoenix Software & Support".
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Analyst/Programmer & Project Leader
MONDI Richards Bay
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1987 — February 1988 (11 months)
Responsible for the development of certain modules of the MIMICS (Mondi Integrated Manufacturing Information Control System) {specifically Production labelling, weighing and printing, Warehouse Control and intelligent bay-allocation} as well as implementation of the entire system whilst with MONDI. System was very advanced, making extensive use of bar-coding and integration with PLC's on the shop floor. Bar-coding was still in it's infancy in South Africa on the manufacturing shop floor.
Was also responsible for an unique product, responsible for manipulating the recovery sequence of an IBM S/38 and AS/400, to reduce recovery times for critical applications. -
Analyst Programmer & Project Leader
MONDI
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1987 — February 1988 (11 months)
Kindly see the entry under "MONDI Richards Bay" for full details.
Additional Information
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Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Interests:
LinkedInnovator CityHost Nickname MBOGO comes from the Swahili word for the Cape Buffalo, taxanomical name Cyncerus Caffer Caffer. An animal you don't want to face once wounded or mad... Professionally: My professional areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence, genetic programming, cluster and partition management, intuitive user interfaces, compiler technologies, soft transaction boundaries, externally defined recovery points, technically challenging projects, middleware and software architecture. Personal: I believe my life should reflect that of Jesus Christ, the ONLY Lord and King. Avid hunter and African dangerous game hunter. Enjoy being close to my Saviour and King when in nature. Qualified Professional Hunter - do not practice us such. Qualified in order to be a better hunter. Love photography of game and nature. Bible study Reading Teaching youngsters to enjoy nature Visiting nature and game reserves with the love of my life, my wife Angelika.
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Groups:
Professionally:
IEEE, MCIEEE, ACM, CSSA
LinkSV - Link Silicon Valley member,
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur member,
Pioneer Entrepreneurs member,
SDForum Member - Software Development Forum,
Javadesk JUG member
Enterprise Grid Alliance http://www.gridalliance.org/
Global Grid Forum http://www.gridforum.org/
Open Grid Forum http://www.ogf.org/
TeraGrid http://www.teragrid.org/
The Globus Alliance http://www.globus.org/
Personal interests and hobbies:
Rowland Ward Guild of Sportsman Hunters
KZN Hunters & Game Conservation Association (KZNHunters),
South African Arms & Ammunition Collectors Association (SAAACA),
Life Member - Safari Club International (SCI),
Boone & Crockett Club - Life Member,
Dallas Safari Club,
North American Hunting Club,
Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA),
Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA),, Global Worker, LinkedIn SPIN, Disciples of Jesus Christ, VC Group, KM Cluster
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The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Link Silicon Valley, LLC -
SoftwareEngineering -
Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group -
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) -
Software Engineering Institute Virtual SPIN -
PRINCE2 Practitioners -
LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group -
Association of Information Technology Professionals -
Open Source -
Open GRID -
IT Architects Network -
COBIT 4.1 -
ACM Members -
IEEE Computer Society Members -
Java EE Professionals -
Joomla! Professional Users Group -
Professionals in South Africa (PiSA) -
The ITIL Group -
AS/400 Professionals -
Business Process Improvement -
Cloud Computing -
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CIO Forum [Academic] -
TOGAF for Architecture -
BPM Guru -
Project Management Expert™ -
openSUSE -
IBM Business Partners -
Computer Society of South Africa -
Well-Connected IT Professionals -
Software as a Service (SaaS) Group -
The IT Developer Network -
looksoftware -
Johannesburg Business Club -
Microsoft Developers -
AS/400 Advanced Technical Experts -
EVC Leaders - Practitioners of IT Economic Value Creation (Only for CIOs, IT & PMO Managers) -
IBM i professionals -
System iNetwork Website & Magazine Forum -
Application Modernization and APM -
TEMBO Tech Lab Groupies -
Strategic use of IT -
Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession -
Johannesburg Professional Network -
Agile South Africa -
IBM i PHP developers -
iManifest EMEA
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Honors:
First non-IBM employee from South Africa to participate in IBM AS/400 (iSeries) Residency on Clustering and Partitioning in 1999.
Invitation by 3X/400 Systems Management Magazine in 1994 to participate in "Round Table" on Systems Management trends internationally - the only non-USA participant.
IBM International sub-licensed technology designed by me on a worldwide basis in 1997.
Have lectured on all the continents on subjects ranging from Systems Management, continuous availability, partitioning, clustering and application resilience.
Technology designed by me in production in all the major economies of the world, in the various products offered by Vision Solutions and also in the offferings of their latest aquisition, Lakeview Technology.
South African Senior Grand Champion Hunter 2001
Largest Elephant Bull 2001 (50lb per side)
Largest Male Leopard 2001
Largest Buffalo bull 2001
Largest Male Lion 2003
Largest Buffalo bull 2003
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Contact Settings
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