Project Management

R E S U M E

MARIUS NIEUWOUDT

Senior Microsoft Application Developer

Telephone # 513-***-****

Email Address: **********@***.***

Summary:

Organized Professional with 18 years IT experience ranging from single web applications to large corporate intranets and portals.

Completed a $4 million 4 year Billing System at Convergys, using C# ASP.net with Oracle 10g as the database. This is a very complex and sophisticated multi tiered system with thousands of Stored Procedures and 27 000 very complex PL/SQL and SQL Statements.

Did about 30% of all coding hands-on and controlled and mentored 9 developers in the US and 5 Developers in India throughout the full life cycle project.

Developed very large Corporate Engineering Intranet at Procter & Gamble all hands-on.

Strong organizational skills leading a combination of direct and dotted-line reporting relationships. Exhibit superior management skills that emphasize team-building and strong leadership. Display a comprehensive understanding of application development, project management, technology infrastructure and related issues. Experience developing information technology solutions for distributed multi-location businesses. Excellent management and leadership skills with the ability to provide clear direction to the department while also functioning as an individual contributor.

Successfully developed more than 100 Web Applications and Intranets, using Notes/Domino R4.6 and R5. Oracle 9i and Microsoft.NET Framework.

Expertise in Software Analysis, Design, Development, Coding, Integration, Maintenance, Implementation for Applications such as E-Commerce, Intranet, Extranet, Internet, Client Server, Web Services and N-tier Applications with emphasis on Object Oriented Programming Analysis and Design concepts.

Strengths include Full Life Cycle development (SDLC) in the MS Visual Studio .Net Framework 4 SQL Server 2008 R2 and Oracle toolset as well as Lotus Notes Domino.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a good mentor.

In-depth expertise in developing Web Applications using Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Interdev 6.0, ASP, .Net Architecture Framework, HTML, DHTML, FLASH, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, IIS, Oracle 9i, PLSQL, DB2, SQL, MS SQL Server, MS Visio, FrontPage 2000, MS Project 2003.

Extensively interact with business users to convert business requirements to technical specification and architecture using Use Cases, UML class diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and Activity diagrams.

Strong on developing and sticking to programming standards, best practices, documentation and code and design reviews with the team.

Responsible for development; organization and control of project documentation; schedules and costs for multiple medium to large scale projects and ensure compliance with contractual agreements

Personal goal is to get a PMP certification as soon as possible.

Involved in converting Lotus Notes Intranet databases to MS SharePoint Services including Workflow.

Evaluate converting all Notes Databases to either Sun Portal or SharePoint MOSS.

Develop sophisticated Reports using Crystal Reports XI as well as Cognos for various departments at Convergys, as well as integrating Crystal Reports into .Net Applications using C#.Net and ASP.Net.

Controlling off-shore developers in India for various other projects, besides the billing system.

Extensive Active Directory Development

Education:

Formal Education

Bachelor 4 year Degree in Accounting, Business Economics - University of South Africa.

Information Systems Management Program - University of Cape Town.

Certification

Notes R4 Principal Developer - 1999

Notes R5 CLP Developer - 1999

IBM Web Sphere 4.1 Commerce Suite – 2000

LEI-3 (Lotus Enterprise Integration)

Microsoft ASP.net, VB.net and C#.NET Advanced Course

Advanced Object Oriented Analysis and Design Course

Advanced Crystal Reports XI R2 Course

Advanced Cognos Reporting Course

PMP Exam Preparation Course – George Washington University

Key Current Responsibilities

Responsible for entire product life cycle from inception through rollout as well as chairing the Customer advisory board CAB

Stays abreast of IT direction and technology

Creates business cases and cost estimates

Drives product/ systems requirements

Owns vendor relationships of all third party applications and outsourcing

Drives showcase creation

Interfaces with sales and marketing to determine product's market and sales readiness

Demonstrates systems and products to internal groups and customers

Project management and working with stakeholders

Hands on application development

Project Management Work Breakdown Schedule

BI Developing Digital Dashboards covering 50 metrics

Technical Skills:

VB.Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, ODP.Net, DevExpress .Net Controls

Presentation Layer, Code Behind, Business Layer, Data Access Layer (N-Tiered)

DataSets, ResultSets, Collections, DataTables

Arrays and StringBuilder

TreeLists, DataGrids, GridViews and Spread For Web, Pivot Tables

Active Directory Authentication

Validation Controls

Custom User Controls

Web Services

Ajax

LINQ to SQL Server 2008 Access

Web Config and Global Assembly

DataBinding and XML

Cascading Style Sheets

Visual Studio 2010

MS SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2

MS SQL Server Analytical Services

DevExpress Business Intelligence Analytics Tool for dashboard development

Oracle 9i and 10g

PLSQL Stored Procedures and Triggers

Complex SQL Statements

Physical and Logical ERD Analysis and Design

.Net to Oracle XML and vice versa

Oracle Arrays and Bulk Collect

Union Statements

Nested Ref Cursors

DataSets and ResultSets

DB Helper Classes

LINQ Oracle Access

SQL Server Reporting Services and MS PerformancePoint

Other Technologies:

Object Oriented Analysis & Design

UML Diagrams and Design using Enterprise Architect

Web Graphic Design

Web Graphics using Adobe PhotoShop 7.0, Flash Vector Graphics and Style Sheets

Database Design

Database Design using Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2008 / 7.0 MS Access 2007, DataEase, DB2, Domino

Web Services

Web-Services using XML and C#.Net. Developed Data Access between different Databases using XML Web Services. SOAP, WSDL

Versioning and Source Control

Versioning Extensively used versioning and control of Source Code in a Team environment using Visual Source Safe.

Project Management

Project Management - MS Project 2007

Quality Testing

Unit Testing Extensive unit testing and systems testing of systems using Test Director 8.0

Crystal Reports XI

Extensive Reporting integrated with .Net

JavaScript

Extensive JavaScript development and validation

WorkFlow Using SharePoint Services and Notes Domino

Employment:

Talbert House – January 2011 – Current

Position: IT Technical Lead Application Development (Full Lifecycle)

Independently performs wide range of complex project assignments

Operates with substantial latitude

Develops applications like the LINX Billing System, BI Analytical Dashboards covering 50 metrics, Data Visualization, using the following technologies:

oASP.Net,

oVB.Net,

oADO.Net,

oJavaScript

oHTML 5

oSQL Stored Procedures,

oDevExpress Custom .Net Controls,

oDevExpress Analytics, Multi-Dimensional Pivot Tables

oSQL Server 2008 R2

oObject Oriented Analysis and Design

oPhysical and Logical ERD – SQL Server

oExtensive Active Directory Development

Manages and supports Agency’s centralized business intelligence needs

Coordinates modification of software programs to keep them responsive to user needs

Highly skilled in installing new and/or expanding existing computer systems

Assures continuity of service of applications software

Takes lead providing technical assistance to staff regarding solutions to complex data problems as well as Mentoring other IT staff members

Meets with staff at all levels to determine needs and required outputs

Develops detailed specification and technical documentation

Defines and administer SQL Server 2008 R2 Databases

Troubleshoots applications, network and operating systems and programs

Define business need, collect data in the form of UseCases, design and build solutions to meet the need

Assists and trains users on use of complex applications

Participates in hardware and software planning

Assists with evaluation of vendor hardware and software products

Resolves vendor contract issues with software products

Skills needed:

Software analysis, Design, Development, Integration, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance and support

Applications such as eCommerce, Intranet, Extranet, Internet, Client Server and Web Services

Web-based systems from single web applications to large corporate intranets and portals Business Intelligence OLAP Reporting and Dashboards from cubes Mobile Apps compatible with iPhone, and Android

Convergys Corporation – April 2001 – December 2010

Position: IT Technical Lead Application Development / Platform Lead (Full Lifecycle)

Management of 13 Developers over a 5 year period developing a complex Billing System, excluding hiring and PTO approval, but includes time spent on daily tasks and activities.

Currently developing a very complex and sophisticated Team Lead Digital Dashboard covering over 50 metrics.

This is a highly scalable system catering for 60,000 users with 5,000 concurrent users using .Net Framework 4 technology.

Developed a very large and complex interactive Billing System as Senior Systems Analyst and Technical Lead in a multi tiered architecture using the following technologies:

oASP.Net,

oC#.Net,

oODP.Net,

oPLSQL Stored Procedures,

oSpread for Web,

oCrystal Reports 11

oOracle 9i and 10g

oObject Oriented Analysis and Design

oPhysical and Logical ERD – Oracle Database 10g

o27 000 SQL Statements / Oracle Stored Procedures

This state of the art project took 4 years of development and save the Company $10M per year

The Continuous Improvement Intranet has been inherited and substantially enhanced, graphically and functionally.

Full Life Cycle developments have been completed for four new projects i.e. CIPS Client Repository, Product Management Intranet,

Trade Media Project, CRR to CRDB Discussion Database, which included all graphical design and development.

Technical assistance has been provided in developing the COE Technical Repository, as well as designing and creating all graphics using Photoshop & flash.

Technical assistance has been provided to the development team for the FTM DB Replication Database. LEI activities have been developed to migrate HR data from Oracle to Notes for better search capability. (Exit Interview Database).

Attended a two day course in the latest version of Lotus Enterprise

Integrator.(LEI)

Assisted in some of the LEI activities involved with populating the Unified Directory. Assisted and developed the Legal Department Homepage graphically.

Prepared Estimates and Initiation documents for the following proposed projects: IVR Project, Project Office 24 Calendar, COE

Gave assistance and technical advice to the LNADT support team and

Co-developers on a daily basis and act as mentor for junior developers.

Lotus Notes Domino Application Development R5.

LotusScript, JavaScript.

PhotoShop 5.5 and Flash 4 for graphical design and development.

HTML, DHTML and Cascaded Style Sheets.

Oracle 10g, SQL, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, VB6

QA Testing: Test Director 8, EasyTest, WMS

Most recent Appraisal

Skilled: Greatly skilled in technology and demonstrates his abilities on all layers of the architecture.

His knowledge and background in IT and Billing has enabled us to overcome obstacles that we might not have been able to achieve.

Has proven himself to be a valuable member.

He is very skilled in the manipulation and creation of web graphics and has taken the team’s applications to a new level graphically. He takes initiative on his tasks, and demonstrates technical leadership.

He has excellent technical skills, and is able to extend the functionality of the product in valuable ways. Although he has been very busy he has managed to keep up-to-date on new trends in Web Development.

His experience helps him suggest value-added solutions to our customers.

He is never rigid about his preferences.

Focus on Priorities: Makes a point to understand exactly what is expected of him on each of his many tasks and if he is uncertain of the priority of his tasks he makes a point to discuss this as soon as possible.

Follow through: Performs every task and insures that it meets each of the requirements including the schedule.

Planning and Organizing: Is often responsible for many tasks that must be performed at the same time.

Manages to organize these tasks with little involvement from upper management.

Sense of Urgency: As an individual performer all tasks were within an acceptable variance of the schedule. The team was instructed to perform mandatory overtime. The average overtime performed by the team was 9%. He performed 20%.

Gracious and patient about multi-tasking even when he finds it stressful.

Accountability: Does what he says and says what he does.

Knowledge Sharing: As the Technical Lead, establishes a climate of good professional communication between all developers from various backgrounds.

Relationships & Respect for Others: Managed to surpass the hurdles associated with a cross-functional and multi location team and gained the respect of the development team.

Gracious, patient and customer service oriented. Always willing to take time to answer a question or assist his team or customers.

Diversity: Works well with everyone regardless of his or her background.

Excels in all these qualities. Very easygoing, easy to talk to, and very respectful to all individuals.

Has made a good contribution to the team, both in troubleshooting and short-term development, and in support of long-term projects. Demonstrated a senior level of expertise by providing technical information and support to his team.

Accomplishments

Lead a team of developers that were both technology and culturally diverse. Molded this group into a sophisticated and professional team. The work of this team achieved the goal of developing the GAPNET release of CBS.

Made decisions as to what programming language and architecture would be the best fit for developing CBS.

Led the development of a set of programming and development standards. In addition, he made and attempt to ensure that each and every developer understood, accepted and adhered to such standards.

Developed a significant part of the GAPNET release including the CBS Contract, Bill Element, Source modules and the web applications "look and feel" including the menu navigation and screen layouts.

In addition created all graphics needed by the other members of the development team to insure commonality.

Organized and managed weekly technical developer meetings to insure that all developers were on the same page.

Convergys Key Projects:

Creation of the Product Management Intranet with self service Content Management

Enhancements of the Continuous Improvement web site

CIPS repository

CBS Large Sophisticated Corporate Billing System - $ 4 million project just completed.

OFAC – Office of foreign assets control to be compliant not dealing with denied parties.

Mobile Apps compatible with iPhone, BlackBerry and Droid.

Xerox Connect - March 2000 – March 2001

Position: Senior Consultant (Full Lifecycle)

Senior Consultant in IBM e-Business and Workflow group. Working with Notes Domino Applications, WebSphere/Domino/DB2 integration using Lotus Script. Received formal WebSphere Commerce Suite and App Server training from IBM Toronto Labs.

Accomplishments:

Hands-on development of Notes Domino Applications R5

WebSphere/Domino/DB2 integration using Lotus Script

Full Life Cycle Project Handling

Training of all users involved.

Giving presentations of the capabilities of Notes & WebSphere

Automating Applications using Lotus Script agents

Implementing Workflow using mail routing.

Developing Multi-Database Notes Applications

Combining Notes, HTML, JavaScript & Lotus Script in powerful Web-enabled applications.

Notes to Excel OLE using Lotus Script

Numerous Discussion, Workflow, Team Room etc. developments

Extensive Domino, HTML, Lotus Script, JavaScript used

Customizing Sales Force Automation Package developed in Notes

Customizing Notes Same Time 2.0 using the Java 2.0 Toolkit.

Notes Administration – Installing Notes R5 Servers & Clusters.

SameTime 2.0 Administration – Installing SameTime Servers.

WebSphere Administration – Installing WebSphere Application Server.

Integrating IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite with Lotus Notes R5.

Responsible for development; organization and control of project documentation; schedules and costs for multiple medium to large scale projects and ensure compliance with contractual agreements

Conduct in-depth research when ever needed and present technical recommendations

Organizing and running efficient client meetings and written and oral presentations to clients, management and executives at all levels

Origin Technology in Business - February 1998–February 2000

For (Procter & Gamble)

Position: Senior Application Developer (consultant for Procter & Gamble) doing Lotus Notes Domino 4.6 work. Used HTML, Notes, JavaScript, and Lotus Script for web development.

Accomplishments:

Hands-on development of Notes Domino Applications

Extensive Intranet / Extranet Development

Full Life Cycle Project Handling

Training of all users involved.

Giving presentations of the capabilities of Notes.

120 000 Lotus Notes Seats worldwide.

Automating Applications using Lotus Script agents.

Implementing Workflow using mail routing.

Developing Multi-Database Notes Applications.

Combining Notes, HTML, and JavaScript & Lotus Script in powerful Web-enabled applications.

Responsible for development; organization and control of project documentation; schedules and costs for multiple medium to large scale projects and ensure compliance with contractual agreements

Conduct in-depth research when ever needed and present technical recommendations

Organizing and running efficient client meetings and written and oral presentations to clients, management and executives at all levels

Act as a liaison between internal and external clients; technical resources; contractors and vendors from conception to project completion.

Work with upper level management to determine project priorities, dependencies and budgets.

Leading a technical team and provide leadership to all project team members and mentor junior resources

Establishment and management of project "best practices" from a technical perspective

Facilitate various technical steering committees and provide detail and summary reporting of project status including progress and completion outlook

Preparing cost estimates by analyzing project/client requirements, the size of the project team needed and vendor / contractor bids

.Make sure that the project life cycle, schedule and activities and responsibilities meet the business plan expectations within the capital and expense budgetary limits

ABSA Bank - September 1981 - January 1998 16 years

Position: Application Developer in Specialized Banking Systems.

Developed front-end delivery systems and was project Lead for mainframe application development. Created electronic banking, accounting, fleet control, commodity trading, budget control, and other banking applications. Received Trust Bank Merit Award and ABSA Bank Management Award for development work.

Managed, controlled trained and mentored 5 developers over a period of 8 years.

Accomplishments:

Hands-on development of front-end delivery systems using Visual Basic

Project Lead for Mainframe development- (CICS, COBOL, DB2)

Responsible for all Management Information

Developed the LINK2000 Electronic Banking system

Developed a back-office admin system for Commodity Trading support.

Marketing & Training of Electronic banking systems

Developed a sophisticated Banking Accounting system

Developed a Fleet Control system for Clients

Installation of Banking systems at 300 Corporate Clients

Training & Systems support of 300 Corporate Clients

Hands-on Clients/Bank systems integration – Bank reconciliation etc.

Developed a Commodity trading system using Lotus Notes 4.0

Facilitated Huge savings [Client/Server technology]

Save the Bank $ 300 000 in development costs

The Bank gained a positive market image

Clients as well as the Bank saves on costs

The Bank gain more & more clients from other Banks

Budget Control – Banking using Lotus Notes 4.0

Controlled 6 developers and 2 systems analysts.

Responsible for development; organization and control of project documentation; schedules and costs for multiple medium to large scale projects and ensure compliance with contractual agreements

Conduct in-depth research when ever needed and present technical recommendations

Organizing and running efficient client meetings and written and oral presentations to clients, management and executives at all levels

Act as a liaison between internal and external clients; technical resources; contractors and vendors from conception to project completion

Work with upper level management to determine project priorities, dependencies and budgets

Leading a technical team and provide leadership to all project team members and mentor junior resources

Establishment and management of project "best practices" from a technical perspective

Facilitate various technical steering committees and provide detail and summary reporting of project status including progress and completion outlook

Preparing cost estimates by analyzing project/client requirements, the size of the project team needed and vendor / contractor bids

.Make sure that the project life cycle, schedule and activities and responsibilities meet the business plan expectations within the capital and expense budgetary limits

Santam Bank Corporate Banking - May 1973 - August 1981 8 years

Position: Head-Office Accountant

Accomplishments:

General Ledger Entries.

Bank reconciliations

Group Financial Final Year End Statements

External Audit Assistance.

Controlling Banking Accounting Staff of 8.

Training:

Notes R4 Principal Developer - 1999

Notes R5 CLP Developer - 1999

IBM Web Sphere 4.1 Commerce Suite – 2000

LEI-3 (Lotus Enterprise Integration)

Microsoft ASP.net, VB.net and C#.NET Advanced Course

Advanced Object Oriented Analysis and Design Course

Skills:

Job Function Experience

Accounting, Audit - 6 years

Business Analyst - 5 years

Database Administration 4GL - 10 years

Programmer-Analyst - 10 years

Project Lead - 6 years

Consulting/Marketing - 5 years

Quality Assurance Tester - 2 years

Trainer - 5 years

Notes Application Developer - 6 years

Oracle 9i – 4 years

ASP.net, C#.net VB.net and ODP.net – 3 years

CSIR Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - May 1978 - July 1981

Position: Head-Office Accountant

Accomplishments:

General Ledger Entries.

Bank reconciliations

Group Financial Final Year End Statements

External Audit Assistance.

Controlling Banking Accounting Staff of 8.

Participation:

Spread for Web Users Group

References:

David Rickart – Director IT

Cell Phone – 513-***-****

Robin Levy – Wellpoint Director

Cell Phone - 513-***-****

Home Phone - 740-***-****

Email: *********@*****.**.***

Don Cheek – Kendle Associate Director Finance

Email: *****.*******@******.***

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