T*****y

Specialist Software Engineer - Technical Lead
August 23, 1976

About Candidate

I have been in the IT industry for 25 years. I have held a variety of roles which include Managing my own company for 16 years until I decided to start contracting. I have good communication skills. I enjoy being involved from concept to implementation of the complete solution.  I have managed people in my own business and as Technical Lead at my current place of employment. I enjoy helping my team to grow and enjoy seeing them make a success in their careers. I am passionate about my work and take full responsibility for the work that I deliver to make sure it is of the highest quality of workmanship. I have a reputation for being honest and reliable and my integrity is very important to me. My word is my bond.

Location

Education

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Diploma 1996
Van Zyl and Pritchard

COBOL Programming, Systems Analyst

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Microsoft Visual Basic 5 Advanced Course 1998
The Workgroup Institute

Microsoft Visual Basic 5 Advanced Course

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High School: Subjects Studied: English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Physical Science, Accounting, and Computer Science. 1994
Post Shepstone Secondary School

Completed High School: Subjects Studied: English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Physical Science, Accounting, and Computer Science.

Work & Experience

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Specialist Software Engineer – Technical Lead 08/01/2016 - 02/07/2022
Redbridge Management Services (PTY) Ltd - Contracted to Liberty

I am the TECH Lead for the Team I am currently working in: • I have multiple Development teams that I provide technical Support and Direction for: o Real-Time Screening of Potential and Existing Clients. o Responsible for Tax Submissions to SARS for Liberty Employees. o Responsible for Maintaining Compliance Data for Persons and Organisations. o Maintaining a Central Repository that contains Lookup and Mapping Data for various systems at Liberty.

Awards

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2nd Place in Liberty Hackathon 2021
20 Teams competed in a 24 hour Hackathon to come up with a solution to some of the problems currently at Liberty. I was part of the team that came up with the concept of anonymizing Data in the Development and Test Environments so as not to compromise production data. My Team took the 2nd prize.
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2016 MTN Business Awards Finalists 2016
TransUnion 1Check App was chosen as one of the finalists for the MTN Business App of the Year Award for 2016. I was the 2nd Developer on the team.