## BIO
I currently work in South Africa, creating and maintaining the websites and back-end systems for SA's biggest subscription based broadcast company, M-Net (<a href= "http://www.mnet.co.za/mnetchannel/">http://www.mnet.co.za/mnetchannel/</a>). I've worked on sites like Ktv, KykNet, The Block, Big Brother Africa among others. I also created the global modules used by all sites, like the media player and community registration/sign-in.
I built the M-Net broadband website which is aimed at South African Ex-Patriots living in the US and UK. The URL is <a href= "http://www.mnetondemand.com/">http://www.mnetondemand.com/</a>. I also built and maintain the portal website for the group's broadband initiative, run by a sister company (<a href= "http://www.kuduclub.com/">http://www.kuduclub.com/</a>).
Before this, I spent 4 years working for two of the biggest development houses in South Africa, namely IOCORE Systems and Aqua Online.
I recently built a website for a non-profit organization, the School of Practical Philosophy in South Africa (<a href= "http://www.practicalphilosophy.org.za/" target= "_blank">http://www.practicalphilosophy.org.za/</a>). I designed it according to their specs, but had my reservations about working within such a tight frameset and navigation, which is how they wanted it. I'm hopefully going to be working on an updated version which will be more scaleable, but that's after some selling on my part.
**Professional Profile
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* Solutions-oriented consultant with 12 years of significant, growing experience in the Information Technology sector, focusing on web-based and client/server based applications.
* Competent technical expert with 6 years of hands-on online application development, primarily focussing on the Microsoft platform.
* Approachable client support coordinator, with extensive problem-solving skills and a keen sense of client and business requirements.
**Experience Includes
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* Architecting systems, including database and application architecture.
* Creating clear and precise user and technical specification documentation.
* Dealing with client requests appropriately, taking into account their requirements as well as the impact on the business and project lifecycle.
* Solving technical problems efficiently.
* Managing every step of the project lifecycle keeping complete and concise communication between all parties involved.
## Area of Expertise
| **Expert Practical Experience** | | **Solid Practical Experience** |
| Active Server Page (ASP) Development | 6.3 yrs | | Microsoft IIS Administration | 6.8 yrs |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | 21 mths | | Microsoft Visual InterDev | 4.5 yrs |
| Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) | 21 mths | | | |
| XML Path Language (XPath) | 21 mths | | | |
| JavaScript Scripting Language | 6.3 yrs | | | |
| Database design | 6.3 yrs | | | |
| Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) | 6.3 yrs | | **Some Practical Experience** |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 6.3 yrs | | Microsoft ASP.NET | 6.3 mths |
| Dynamic HTML (DHTML) | 4.3 yrs | | Microsoft Visual Basic .NET | 6 mths |
| Transact-SQL for Microsoft SQL Server | 6.3 yrs | | Microsoft Visual Studio .NET | 6 mths |
| Homesite Development Tool | 6.3 yrs | | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 | 1 mth |
| Graphic Design using Photoshop | 6.3 yrs | | Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 | 6 mths |
| Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server | 6 mths | | Microsoft Digital Dashboards | 3 mths |
| Microsoft Window Operating Systems | 12.3 yrs | | Macromedia Flash | 1 mth |