Computer Programmer and Systems Analyst

To positively impact the vision and operations of any business, organization or institution through the utilization of computer technology (applications & software),

WORK HISTORY
POSITION COMPANY (A) PERIOD EMPLOYED
Technical Director: MSDN Technologies (Pty) Limited Sep 2003-Dec2004

` PROJECTS
(1) National Economic Education Trust: First engagement of the company to execute the requirements analysis and implement a new bursary profiling and management system.

WORK HISTORY
POSITION COMPANY (B) PERIOD EMPLOYED
System Builder: Standard Bank S.A (Pty) Limited Feb 2002-Sep2003
PROJECTS
(1) General Clearing Merchant System: Getting Standard Bank’s merchant clearing system compliant with MasterCard/visa GCMS format for changing credit-cards for magnetic-strip to smart card technology before the 2005 deadline.

(2) Merchant Acquiring System: Consistently available to business clients and merchants investigating and resolving queries system problems, general ledger balancing discrepancies or any other incidents/errors/bugs occurring in the production environment.

WORK HISTORY
POSITION COMPANY (C) PERIOD EMPLOYED
Analyst programmer: Nedbank S.A (Pty) Limited Dec 2001-Jan2002
PROJECTS
(1) Capability Maturity level-3: Nedbanks application services department institutionalized a software process culture and was accredited by the Gartner group for competency as a cmm level-3 organization which is the international benchmark.
(2) Investments Project: successfully enhanced Nedbank investments main batch update module NDSP020Z and that being on the critical-path of daily production batch runs.

WORK HISTORY
POSITION COMPANY (D) PERIOD EMPLOYED
System builder: Absa Bank South Africa (Pty) Limited Jan 1998-May2001

PROJECTS
(1) Tandem Front-End Balancing Team: in-charge of reporting of transactions coming into Absa’s front-end processor (tandem) linked online to the banks 1500 atm’s and point of sale devices.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS


(1) Neural Technologies Uni-School Group
Programming Fundamentals
C++ programming
Java programming
Linux Operating System


(2) Banking Experience at Standard Bank & Nedbank:
Virtual Sequential Access Mode fundamentals
CICS application programming
CICS systems programming
Java programming


(3) Absa-Bank Flying School
Mainframe Cobol programming
MVS/TSO
Information Management System/DB
ISPF/PDF.
Job Control Language
Easytrieve Plus
Shandi/Sortlist (Absa utilities)
structured query language (SQL)
DB2
Abend-Aid


(4) TDF Computer Development People CC
entry-level programmer.


(5) University Of Botswana
pre-entry science course (P.E.S.C)
First-year Bachelor of Science obtaining a degree recommendation.

ABEND-AID COURSE (Compuware Certificate)
ABSA Bank (Flying School) - System Developer Certificate
Advanced CICS Application Programming
BSc. 1st-Year Exam Results (University Of Botswana)
CICS Command Level Programming
COBOL II Programmer - tekMetrics 1999
DB2 Application Programming - Connection42
GCSE Examinations
Intro to CICS Application Design
Intro to DB2 Application Programming - Connection42
Intro to Structured Query Language (SQL) - Connection42
Job Control Language - Verhoeff Training
SDF II - Verhoeff Training
TDF - Entry Level Programming Certificate
U.B BSc. Degree Recommendation
UniSchool -System Developer Programme
University Of Botswana Transcript
Virtual Sequential Access Mode (VSAM) Fundamentals

(a).Undergone an aptitude test to qualify for an intensive entry-level programming course. Inherent qualities in me are those defining a programmer in terms of reasoning and logical thinking.

(b).Outstanding communication and inter-personal skills gathered through many years of corporate experience in the information technology industry. Alongside my experience in the technical programming environment. I have other accompanying complimentary skills for instance, assertiveness, presentation and listening skills just to mention a few.

(c).Extensive knowledge in the analysis, design, building, implementation and support of information systems. Well versed in a spectrum of various application systems associated methodologies.

(d).Very quick to learn and adapt to new applications, methodologies and technologies with relative ease attributed to in-depth knowledge of the information communication technology industry (ICT).