Residential Address:
153 Banhoek Road
Stellenbosch
South Africa
Postal Address:
153 Banhoek Road
Stellenbosch
7600
South Africa
Tel :
+27 21 887 6559 (Home)
Personal Information
Identity No: 770704 5009 084
Date of Birth 4 July 1977
Age: 22
Marital status: Single
Nationality: South African
Vehicle License 08
Place of Birth: Pretoria
Health Excellent
Criminal Offences None
Language Proficiency
English Speak / Read / Write
Afrikaans Speak / Read / Write
Summary of Qualifications
Matric: Menlo Park High School 1991-1995
Pretoria
Higher Grade - Afrikaans Medium
Subjects
1. Afrikaans C
2. English B
3. Mathematics C
4. Applied Mathematics C
5. Science B
6. Computer Science A
7. Accounting C
Awards Received
Academic Colours 1991 to 1995
Swimming Colours 1991 to 1995
Supervisor of School Novell Netware Lan - 1995
Tertiary Education
Received a bursary from Iscor Mining and SA Airforce to study B.Ing Engineering. Chose to take the Iscor bursary and study in Stellenbosch.
B.Ing Industrial Engineering Stellenbosch University 1996 to 1998
Languages and Tools: Visual Basic, Excel, Qbasic, Autocad
Advanced Excel Applications using VBScript and Visual Basic.
Parallel and Serial low level communication programming in Qbasic.
Mechanical Design and Engineering Drawing using Autocad.
B.Sc Computer Science Stellenbosch University 1999
Languages and Tools: Oberon, Matlab
Object Orientated Programming Design in Oberon.
Numerical Analysis and Iterative techniques in Matlab.
Graphic Design with Corel Draw.
University of Stellenbosch Residence Huis Marais: 1996
Sport Representitive
Swimming Team
University of Stellenbosch Underwater Club
Secretary 1997/1998
Maties Underwater Hockey 1st team 1996-1999
University of Stellenbosch Wine Culture Society Committee member
Organizer of the Wine of the Month Club
1999/2000
Professional Education
Iscor Mining Bursary Training 1996, 1997
Ellisras Grootegeluk Coal Mine
MS Excel Financial Analysis and Logistics Modeling.
Industrial Process Monitoring and Production Environment Modeling Applications.
VB Enterprise Programming - Mark Greene 1998
Spartan Kempton Park 2 Week Course
Advanced Design
Creating Classes
Data Access DAO, RDO, ADO, ODBC, SQL
Microsoft SQL Server
ActiveX Client, Servers, Documents and Controls
Internet, ASP, DHTML, VBScript, Visual Basic
Component Object Model, DCOM, Corba
Professional Experience
South African Department of Land Affairs - 1997
Pretoria : Part Time
Languages and Tools:
HTML, JavaScript, MS Frontpage, MS Photo Editor
Design, implementation and management of Department Web Site.
Platforms include Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows NT and Novell Netware.
Administration of Sun Microsystems Sparcstation 5 Server.
User Administration and Support in a Novell Netware Environment.
Chet Chemicals (Now a division of CHET INDUSTRIES)
June 1998 to February 1999
Spartan, Kempton Park - Full Time Contract
Languages:
Visual Basic, VBscript, MS Access, SQL
Technical:
Management and implementation of technical aspects of the Computer Department. Administration of HP-Unix Server, NT Servers, NT LAN, DHCP, WINS, NT Terminal Server, Citrix Winframe, MS SQL Server, Print Servers, Win95 Clients, NT Workstation Clients.
Hardware and Software Support duties including Installation and Setup of NT4 Server, MS SQL Server.
WAN experience:
System Administration of Company Wide Area Network connecting four remote sites using, 3Com Routers, X21 Telkom NTUs and 64k Diginet Leased Lines. Implementation of a leased line Uptime monitor system on a Linux server.
Experience in a High Availability SCSI RAID and UPS Server room environment.
Cross Platform Resource Sharing:
SAMBA, NT/Win 9x File and Printer Sharing using a Linux server in a NT Server PDC environment.
Business Application Programming:
Proof of Delivery Document Scanning System for Achiving on CDR media.
Design of a document scanning and archiving system across a NT LAN.
Label Printing Solution.
Implementation of a SQL database driven Label Printing System to aid automation of Debtors Department
Correspondence.
Bill of Material Cost Rollup.
Data mining executive information application developed using MS Excel and VBScript to aid Accounting staff in a period of business system data migration.
Edata Trading Solutions (now known as Entelligence)
December 1999 to date.
Stellenbosch: Perminant position
Unix Administrator, Systems Engineer, Web Developer and DBA.
Languages:
Perl, PHP, Universe Basic, pSygn
Technical:
Support and Administration of computer systems.
Administration of Web servers, DNS, Proxy, Firewall, Mail on Linux and OpenBSD. - bind, squid, ipf, ipchains, exim, sendmail, apache-ssl
Network design, planning and monitoring.
SNMP network monitoring.
Network Time Protocol Server.
Installation and Support of Universe RDBMS.
Multicast routing, Streaming Media, Realserver on Linux and Solaris.
High Availability / Hot-Standby Clustering Study for the E*TRADE Africa Project.
Experience with Cisco Local Director.
E*Trade Project:
Most of my experience at Edata was as a result of the E*Trade Africa Project, an online equity trading system. This includes experience of JSE Information systems, Database Design and High Availability Web Infrastructure.
Security and Authentication:
OpenBSD / Linux Firewalls
Network Security Auditing
NAT routing,
Prevention of DoS, TCP/UDP spoofing attacks
pgp/gpg, PKI systems
SSH1/2, Kerberos, SSL/https
LDAP
Solaris:
Solaris v7,v8 on Sparc Ultra 10 and i386 Platforms.
Universe RDBMS on Solaris
pSygn, Apache, mod_perl on Solaris
WAN skills:
Diginet and Dual Analog Leased Line Administration.
BGP routing
Subnet Migration
DBA:
Universe RDBMS on NT/linux/Solaris
Daily Share Equity Dissemination
Tricle Feed Dissemination
SENS (JSE news service)
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Web:
xml, dhtml, javascript, css, cgi
www.wijnhuis.co.za - PHP/PostgreSQL Admin Pages
Web-based Chat system for MyNewEconomy.com
Web-based free email system for MyNewEconomy.com
Web-based email user registration system.
Web-based free email system for electricdesk.co.za
General Programming:
c, make, perl (sysadmin), CVS
email to SMS Gateway with Perl and Exim Mail Filters
Hardware:
Built and supported x86 based servers for E*TRADE Africa project.
SCSI RAID, Hardware SSL Accelrators
Sun Microsystems Sparc Architecture
Linux Touchscreen Kiosk Project : Jan 2000
Stellenbosch : Freelance Contracting
Developed and Built a Touchscreen Information Kiosk for a Hardware store to display invertory and price comparisons. The touchscreen interfaced with a Pastel accounting backend for stock info and pricing.
Technical:
Two Touchscreens connected to a:
Debian GNU/Linux Server running Apache, PHP, MySQL, MetroX
Languages:
JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Bash
Informal / Personal Experience
DOS and Windows 3 1988 to 1995
Languages and OSs: Basic, Pascal, Novell Netware, OS/2
Knowledge and use of the following Applications and Packages:
Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw
Linux, Open Source Software Movement 1995 to 2000
Languages: C, Bash, Perl, PHP, sed, awk, ksh
Interest in Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD as a hobby and chance to learn the Unix Systems Philosophy.
Founding Member of the Stellenbosch Linux User Group.
Linux: Debian, Red Hat, Open Linux, Corel Linux, Slackware
*BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Network Setup, Hubs, Switches, Routers and Cabling, UPS
Modems, Dial-up and Leased line Setup
IP Traffic Accounting
Mailing Lists: Majordomo
Network X-Window system: xdm
Novell IPX Linux integration: Mars-nwe
Graphics : The Gimp
Typing Skills: 35 Words per Minute
Other Interests and Hobbies
Advanced NAUI SCUBA Diver
Mountain Biking
Underwater Hockey
Spear Fishing
Golf
Ham Radio: Amateur since March 1999, Packet radio, tcp/ip over ax25
References
Professional References:
Janse Papenfus (Contractor at Chet Chemicals)
Tel: +27 12 6650558 Home
Tel: +27 082 6654624 Mobile / Work
email: papenfus [@] mweb [.] co [.] za
Herbert Schroder (Contractor at Chet Chemicals)
Tel: +27 9912082 Home
Tel: +27 083 4474929 Mobile / Work
email: performance [@] mweb [.] co [.] za
Personality and Character Reference:
Dr. Noleen van Wyk
Department of Educational Studies
Unisa
Tel: +27 12 429 4346 Work
email: vwykjn [@] alpha [.] unisa [.] ac [.] za