Herman Smith

Current

• Software Developer at MIH

Past

• Software Developer at 24.com
• Software Engineer at Korbitec
• Senior Software Engineer at Cellfind (Blue Label Investments)

• Software Developer at Prosource
• Software Programmer at Team Management Services (TMS)
• Student Intern at Obsidian

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Education

• University of Johannesburg

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Herman Smith’s Summary

I am a platform/language agnostic software developer who believes in leveraging the best tool for a job.

My primary drive and what I enjoy the most in the industry I am in is "problem solving", however I have learnt that sometimes the most obvious solution is not always the best one.

Herman Smith’s Specialties:

I am able to develop any software given sufficient resources and lead time.

System Analysis, Software Architecture, Development

Open Source (Linux), Proprietary (Microsoft)
PHP, C#, Java, SQL
Symfony, .NET
XHTML, CSS, JS

Herman Smith’s Experience

• Software Developer

  MIH

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2008 — Present (8 months)

  Working on the future of Mobile Internet in Africa.

• Software Developer

  24.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)

  At 24.com I work as a developer in the Open Source (LAMP) Social Networking division. One of the exciting projects that I am looking forward to working on is going to be a single sign-on Profile management platform. Hopefully we also get to do some LBS (Location Based Services) work.
  
  In the past 24.com has been a purely Microsoft shop but with the forming of a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) division which I am a part of the stage has been set for some very exciting development and cross platform integration.

• Software Engineer

  Korbitec

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  At Korbitec I am involved in the re-development of the GhostConvey conveyancing system. We are using .NET and SQL Server infrastructure to realize the goals of this project which are to modernize the architecture of the existing GhostConvey system which has been the market leader for the past 10+ years.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Cellfind (Blue Label Investments)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  At Cellfind I was responsible for the Corporate LBS (Location Based Services). These included Look4Me for Business and the South-African Police's Risk Management system.
  
  Other LBS services / systems I were involved in included Look4Me, Look4Help and Ifind (34600)
  
  All the LBS systems were developed in a combination of Java, PHP and utilizing a MySQL database.
  
  During my time at Cellfind I also performed development of Mobile content Management and Distribution Portals. These portals were developed in a combination of .NET (C#) and PHP.

• Software Developer

  Prosource

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

  July 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  At Prosource I was involved in developing "Print Solutions" in .NET utilizing C# and SQL Server 2000 / Access as database. These Print Solutions accepted as input the relevant delimited text files and produced formatted invoices / account statements which were then printed with industrial lazerjet printers and produced in batches per delivery locations.

• Software Programmer

  Team Management Services (TMS)

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

  January 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 11 months)

  At TMS I wrote Panel Beating Workshop management software utilizing Delphi 5 and writing to a Paradox database. I was also involved in the assembly of Computers.

• Student Intern

  Obsidian

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

Herman Smith’s Education

• University of Johannesburg

  B.Tech , Software Development , 1999 — 2003

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