Pieter Jansen van Vuuren

Current

Development Manager at Grosvenor Financial Services Group
Director at Knowledge Cubed

Past

Senior Development Consultant at Intergen Limited
Analyst/Developer at Formway Furniture
Owner at Peter's Software House

Contractor at T-Systems
Project Manager at EasiRun Software
Partner at Kevin Hudson and Associates
Developer at Standard Bank of South Africa

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Education

Victoria University of Wellington
Van Zyl and Pritchard
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

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Industry

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Websites

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Pieter Jansen van Vuuren’s Summary

Application Development, Systems Development, Application Maintenance and Support (One of my peculiar interests, I like fixing other peoples stuff-ups). My current interests are in .NET 3.0 (WF, WPF & WCF), SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server and .Net Development.

Pieter Jansen van Vuuren’s Specialties:

Development and design of Software Applications.
Using VS.NET (C#, ASP.NET).
SharePoint Portal Server Specialist.
SQL Server Specialist.
Smart Client Development.

Pieter Jansen van Vuuren’s Experience

Development Manager

Grosvenor Financial Services Group

(Financial Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Director

Knowledge Cubed

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

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Senior Development Consultant

Intergen Limited

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Intergen is a Microsoft Gold Partner and I worked in the Development and Integration department. I was responsible for the development teams on a number of large scale projects. As a member of the Development Steering Group I was involved in setting the strategic direction for D&I. I acted on the behalf of Intergen as a consulting Architect on the Design Authority of a large government agency, advising and reviewing software architecture strategy.
Analyst/Developer

Formway Furniture

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

January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Consulting and developing intranet based Sales/Marketing systems.
Redevelop Sales/Quote system as a Smart Client application that can function off-line, is self updateble, easily extendable with Add-In architecture. To be used by internal and external sales people. Using .NET WinForms for the Application, WebServices for the messaging layer, SQL Server as the database and Windows SharePoint Services as the document storage system.
Owner

Peter's Software House

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — December 2004 (4 years )

As a Microsoft Partner we deliver software development skills around Microsoft products and technologies.
Contractor

T-Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Development of the BlueCatalyst Portal using
SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Exchange 2003, Active Directory, Windows 2003, and Visual C#.NET.
We've done major customization, using webparts, webcontrols and webservices. The best part of this project is althought it is a large and complex project the team that worked on it was all senior developers and contractors. The project management of the team was exceptional and we have met every deadline, came in under budget and all this without working overtime. A true .NET success story!
Project Manager

EasiRun Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 7 months)

KHA merged with EasiRun Software and we then listed on the JSE under the UCS group. It was a great time to be in I.T. and I became a paper millionaire before I turned 29!
Two years later the good times was over and I decided to go at it alone again.
Partner

Kevin Hudson and Associates

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1996 — May 1998 (2 years 5 months)

I started at KHA as a contractor, but quickly established myself to such an extend that I was offered a partnership in the company. We were an od bunch of old and new school developers, I headed the Microsoft Technology drive and Kevin headed the COBOL development.
Developer

Standard Bank of South Africa

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1995 — December 1995 (1 year )

What a great team! I worked in the Money Transfer division, I was placed on call-out duty only one month after I joined, above people three to six months my senior, talk about being tossed into the deepend. I survived and truly enjoyed my stay at SBSA. But I was more interested in the new GUI developments and COBOL CICS just wasn't all that exciting for me.

Pieter Jansen van Vuuren’s Education

Victoria University of Wellington

MIM , Information Management , 2007 — 2009
Van Zyl and Pritchard

COBOL , Entry LEvel Programming , 1994 — 1994
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

BCom , Information Systems , 1989 — 1992

Additional Information

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Pieter Jansen van Vuuren’s Interests:

Basketball, Programming, Gholf, Agile Methodologies, Scrum Development, Test Driven Development, C#, SharePoint, Knowledge Management, Smart Client Development