CTO, Chief Architect and IT Specialist
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
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- 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
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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:
Rare blend of technical expertise & business acumen (proven entrepreneur).
Enjoys breaking new ground, “bleeding edge” projects and “impossible” technical challenges.
High availability, continuous operations, middleware, clustering, partitioning, virtual processing, “self-healing” applications, application resilience, software architecture, SaaS and SOA.
Interests:
genetic programming
Compiler technologies
technically challenging projects
middleware
software architecture
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Experience
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Founder & Chief Technology Officer
TEMBO Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Company dedicated to innovate and provide solutions to optimise ROI within IT, focussing on application modernisation and improving efficiencies within IT.
TEMBO is the authorised Sub-Saharan Africa VAR of the highly acclaimed "looksoftware" application modernisation software products.
TEMBO is also the exclusive SADEC VAR for the unique service provided by 6th Sense Analytics to manage and improve efficiences within IT. -
Founder, CTO & Chief Architect
Silverlake Strategic Consultants (Pty) Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — Present (7 years 6 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".
Silverlake Strategic Consultants (Pty) Ltd consults exclusively in the fields of application resilience and continuous operations 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 Technology Lab (Pty) Ltd, TEMBO Technology Innovations (Pty) Ltd, 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. -
Founder, Chairman, CTO, Technical Director, Chief Architect & Trustee
Silverlake
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1992 — Present (16 years 8 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 computer software industry.
Additional Information
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Websites:
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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Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I) -
Stealth - ISS INFO SEC and Data Center Professionals -
Enterprise Architect User Group -
International Association of Software Architects -
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Link Silicon Valley, LLC -
Triangle Networking Group -
Christian Professionals -
Six Sigma Network Group -
Disciples of Jesus Christ (DoJC) -
ITSM (ITIL) Professionals -
SoftwareEngineering -
Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group -
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) -
Software Engineering Institute Virtual SPIN -
Lean Six Sigma -
MSDN -
IEEE UNIVERSE -
PRINCE2 Practitioners -
Association of Information Technology Professionals -
CBMW -
IT Architects Network -
African Dangerous Game Hunters and Conservationists -
COBIT 4.1 -
ACM Members -
IEEE Computer Society Members -
CEO Crossing -
Professionals in South Africa -
The ITIL Group -
AS/400 Professionals -
Object Oriented Analysis and Design Users Group -
CIO / Academic Forum -
TOGAF for Architecture -
Project Management Expert™ -
Friends of Jesus -
Senior .NET Developers -
M3 Ministries -
IBM Business Partners -
Tres Dias -
Computer Society of South Africa -
Well-Connected IT Professionals -
Software Professionals -
DB2 UDB DBA -
looksoftware -
Africa ICT Network -
Johannesburg Business Club -
Microsoft Developers -
IT Architect Association
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Honors:
Professionally:
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-American participant.
IBM launced an international sevice on the back of technology designed by me. Firstly their Rapid Recovery/400 service offering and then the CATSe ACE (Application Cluster Enabler) and CATSe Command Centre which facilitated fast adoption and rollout of clusters.
Personal:
South African Senior Grand Champion Hunter 2001
Largest Elephant Bull 2001 (50lb per side)
Largest Male Leopard 2001
Largest Buffalo bull 2001
Largest Sable bull 2001
Largest Livingston Eland bull 2001
Largest Chobe Bushbuck ram 2001
Largest Male Lion 2003
Largest Buffalo bull 2003
New world record East African Duiker 2003
Marinus Van Sandwyk’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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