Jacques van der Merwe

Responsible for the architecture and development of our in-house operations automation platform, and managing a small team of DevOps engineers. Platform abilities: - configuration management - asset management - software/patch management - service management - monitoring - provisioning (VM and Physical) Managerial responsibilities: - managed a small team of 2-3 DevOps engineers - product and project interactions - multiple location/timezone coordination

Responsible for the architecture and development of our in-house operations automation platform, and managing a small team of DevOps engineers. Platform abilities: - configuration management - asset management - software/patch management - service management - monitoring - provisioning (VM and Physical) Managerial responsibilities: - managed a small team of 2-3 DevOps engineers - product and project interactions - multiple location/timezone coordination Recognition: - Outstanding Performa

Senior Linux system administrator - server farm administration over geographically dispersed data centres. All aspects of administration undertaken such as scripting, data protection, small scale application development, maintenance, application deployment, server/service/application monitoring, capacity management, MySQL database administration etc.

Java Developer - Enterprise application developer working with J2EE, JBoss, Tomcat, Struts, XSL, Javascript. API maintenance development and typical 3 tier web application development.

Senior Linux system administrator - Senior Linux system administrator - server farm administration over geographically dispersed data centres. All aspects of administration undertaken such as scripting, data protection, small scale application development, maintenance, application deployment, server/service/application monitoring, capacity management, MySQL database administration, etc.

Senior system administrator and network engineer - System administration of two server environments (Production and Disaster Recovery) which contained a mixture of Linux, Solaris and Microsoft technologies. MySQL database administration. Cisco router, switch and firewall administration which included various network technologies including X.25, Frame Relay, GPRS, Point-to-Point circuits and Perebit network compression.

Senior System Engineer handling various Microsoft technologies including NT4.0, Windows 2000, Exchange 5.5, MSSQL Server, Internet Information Server, SMS and various backup applications. Basic network engineering and small scale linux server administration.