Willem P. Botha

As in-house consultant my responsibility is to evaluate, setup, integrate, collaborate and train various departments on new web technologies, both online and on location. The most important improvement in my skill-set are learning and teaching the Atlassian tool chain. Areas of focus include: Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket Technical Documentation IT Security vSphere management Linux Server monitoring and automation Postgres, nginx and tomcat administration. Domain and Certificate management.

Areas of focus included: Silverstripe Development PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery Development. Linux CentOS, MySQL, Apache and SVN Setup/Administration.

Focusing mainly on Google ADWords for the Companies Client base I managed up to 1000 Running Campaigns per month with a self developed API solution. Keeping a profitable Conversion rate was the most challenging part of this position. I also consulted on SEO optimization, social media solutions for Facebook and assisted in the general Social media strategy. Internal training and support remained a minor part of my duties in this position.

Heading the IT department I was responsible for all technical solutions in house. This position involves evaluating current and future IT solutions, product improvement and development The most important improvement in my skill-set was the improvement of my German Language skills. Other areas of focus included: Server, Workstation and Mobile procurement. DB, Mail, Apache and DNS Administration. IT Security. PHP, Javascript, MySQL, HTML and CSS Development. Online Marketing.

I worked in the Library department mainly on improving and intergrating the departmental systems into a new framework for the Intranet. Most of my work was spent creating productivity driven tools, redesigning the department site, and giveing training to the administrators. I introduced FCKEditor into the CMS system with great results, and worked with AJAX, SMARTY and XML feeds.

My development time at B.R.S. was spent mostly on improving and designing productivity tools. Most of my development was done in ColdFusion, but I also managed to introduce small Linux tools to the company and converted their call center to a complete Linux solution. Complex data mining and syndications with external companies made this one of the most challenging positions I have had to date. Other tasks involved maintaining the File server and DNS server. Training and consulting was also provided to inter

During my time with Trigger, I managed to learn Linux development and server administration. The company also managed to win 2 awards for best marketing company of the year 2004. Two of my projects won awards on the national South African advertising and marketing awards, the Loeries. This was a very vibrant company with tremendous short turn around time in project development using new and innovative technologies and ideas. Their core business was brand positioning with the aid of online viral campaigns.

My contract with Electric Pencil was for a British based company on a project for the British health care system called Care-Exchange. This project involved only high level action scripting in Flash Object Orientated Programming. All of my time was spent debugging and improving sub systems and methods for the main system.

My contract was with Vardus in Cape Town South Africa, and I was responsible for debugging and fixing a previously developed system in Spectra. At the time I was the only person in the country that had Spectra knowledge. The application was for the British horse racing board, and after completion I returned to Johannesburg.

My contract was with Cambrient in Johannesburg, and involved work for Investec Bank. This project only used ColdFusion and was for the corporate banking department. I had great influence in the online corporate design of Investec at the time and learned to work with their XML/XSLT Java based back end

Most of my time with VWV was spent working for their biggest client, Investec Bank. I was fortunate to receive training from Allaire’s in-house training department, Fig Leaf, from America, in ColdFusion and Spectra. The product was designed using only ColdFusion and Spectra, and improved productivity and distributed workload between bank brokers. The system also integrated various systems with XML data syndication.

The start of my development career also marked the start of a department, and even though I was not a manager, I managed the department without the the title. I managed to gain valuable skills and created leading cutting edge portals for a very young Internet market.

Programming, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Digital systems, Mathematics, Computer Systems