Gert Van Tonder's Resume

 

Miller St, North Sydney, New South Wales 2060 Australia
Mobile Number:0434275809

Overview

Web & applications developer with experience in software design and project management. Experienced in design and development of PHP, Java, C# and C++ solutions in Linux/Windows, UML/SDLC and object-oriented design, design patterns, Python, HTML & JavaScript/Jquery, PHP, MySQL and MVC frameworks. Strong knowledge of database design and large datasets.

Strong team player, fast learner and excellent problem solver with strong communication skills and a keen focus on delivering high quality web applications.

Achievements

1st Class Masters in Electronic Engineering:
Institute of Engineering & Technology prize for best student in Class.

Australian Computer Society - Adaptive Business Intelligence: Top Student in Class Dec '11


Projects involved with in past:

http://www.cv.com.au (Custom yii-like mvc framework)
http://www.parkingfinder.com.au (Drupal7)

Career History

May 2012 - Present
Company name:Swift Digital
Location:Sydney
Industry:Information Technology
Company size:11-50 employees
Comments:Swift Digital provides email marketing software and bespoke web application development to many blue-chip clients in Australia.
    
Job Title:Development Manager & Applications Architect
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Software Architect
Summary:PHP Web Applications Developer
Detailed Description:Various duties including:
- Liaising with internal and external clients for implementation of enhancements, bug resolutions and jobs (larger enhancements to the current suite application) using PHP, Javascript (& Jquery) and MySQL database design.

- Design and implementation of bespoke ticket management system for QBE insurance. This was a large project utilizing the Yii framework with a focus on efficient database design and UI/UX using JQuery.

Jul 2007 - Nov 2012
Company name:Larger Systems Pty Ltd
Location:Sydney, Australia
Industry:Information Technology
Company size:1-10 employees
Comments:Larger Systems is an established web design and development studio with a growing portfolio
of longstanding and new clients, for whom they have developed web sites, intranets, extranets, mobile applications, content management systems(Drupal) as well as a wide range of other web based solutions.
    
Job Title:Web Developer & Applications Designer
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Web Developer
Summary:Web Developer & Applications Designer
Detailed Description:Duties have included (but not limited to) the design and development of CV.com.au as well as ParkingFinder.com.au (Drupal 7):

Requirements gathering and specification design, prototype development in PHP5, MySQL, HTML & CSS, Jquery and JavaScript.

CV.com.au - Used a custom-built MVC-framework for extreme flexibility and speed.
ParkingFinder.com.au - Drupal 7 based site with listing, booking & payment system and many more features.

Various Wordpress development projects from custom theme design to plugin development.

Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
Company name:Pac-Invest Pty Ltd
Location:Sydney, Australia
Industry:Information Technology
Company size:1-10 employees
Company web site:http://www.pac-invest.com.au/
Comments:Pac-Invest specializes in providing equities reporting and related services to the financial industry.
    
Job Title:Software Architect & Data Analyst
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Software Architect
Summary:Senior Software Architect & Data Analyst
Detailed Description:Duties include web development. Development of PHP, C#, MySQL and MS SQL Server solutions. Using Drupal CMS, duties include module building, content management and database design and management. Also managing social media and SEO strategies.

Aug 2010 - Aug 2011
Company name:Amadeus Pacific Pty Ltd
Location:Sydney, Australia
Industry:Information Technology
Company size:1001-5000 employees
Company web site:http://www.amadeus.com
    
Job Title:Systems Developer
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:Engineering
Closest Job Role:Systems Engineer
Summary:Systems Developer
Detailed Description:Large-scale multi-threaded systems developer in C++, Java and Edifact message protocol.

Feb 2009 - Aug 2009
Company name:ANZ Banking Group
Location:Sydney, Australia
Industry:Banking & Financial Services
Company size:More than 10000 employees
Company web site:http://www.anz.com
    
Job Title:Financial Software Engineer
Job Type:Casual/Temporary
Position Department:Banking & Financial Services
Closest Job Role:Investment Banking
Summary:C# Development Front-end & Database Applications
Detailed Description:Primarily C# .Net design of front – and backend systems. Database integration for management of derivatives and equities. Extensive use of VisualStudio and Visual SourceSafe source & version control. Use of design patterns to implement functionality of managing CDO, CDS and equity trades management.

Nov 2007 - Feb 2009
Company name:Kokomo Capital
Location:Sydney, Australia
Industry:Banking & Financial Services
Company size:11-50 employees
Company web site:http://www.kokomocapital.com
    
Job Title:Financial Software Engineer & Quantitative Researcher
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Analyst / Programmer
Detailed Description:Duties included: quantitative trading strategy back-testing using various technologies including C#, Java, Excel (& VBA), R, Python, MySQL & SQL Server in both Windows and Linux environments. Statistical significance testing and risk modelling of various trading strategies involving the opening auction (match) period. .Net development and interface design for IRESS ORC Trader and TT Trader.

Building of trading system infrastructure and multi-threaded applications in C++, Java and MySQL. GUI design in Java and C#, QT design in C++ and Python.

.Net development for equity trade management, particularly design of interfaces with IRESS & Bloomberg systems.

Projects I've been involved in include: Design of a trade-tagging application for participant recognition, the build of a ladder order management application - featuring open trade position monitoring and some basic built-in market-maker quoting algorithms.

Feb 2007 - Nov 2007
Company name:Strategic Risk International
Location:Chatswood, Australia
Industry:Banking & Financial Services
Company size:11-50 employees
Comments:SRI is a financial risk modelling and implementations software company specialising in producing semi-bespoke asset & liabilities management (ALM) solutions to large financial institutions.
    
Job Title:Financial Software Developer
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Analyst / Programmer
Summary:Design and implementations software engineer at SRI.
Detailed Description:Duties included: Programming VB and quantitative C++ solutions using Visual Studio & other platforms. Completed a brief course in stochastic modelling and applied financial maths.

Mathematical modelling of interest-rate risks and the use of derivatives (swaps and options) to perform hedging of underlying assets/liabilities.

Jul 2005 - Dec 2006
Company name:Renishaw PLC
Location:Wotton-under-Edge, United Kingdom
Industry:Engineering
Company size:1001-5000 employees
Company web site:http://www.renishaw.com
Comments:Renishaw is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of high-precision metrology equipment.
    
Job Title:Software & Control Systems Engineer
Job Type:Full-Time
Position Department:IT & Telecommunications
Closest Job Role:Software Development & Engineering
Detailed Description:Specialised in developing Windows applications in C# and the .NET platform using Visual Studio 2005 and .NET framework 2.0. Matlab (and Simulink) GUI design and numerical analysis using M-scripting.

Received training in multithreaded application development, UML, object-oriented design in C++, Java and C#, databases (Access, SQL) and various AutoCAD packages (CR5000, MicroCAP).

Gained good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills whilst communicating with customers regarding requirements for software projects.

Electronic hardware systems design including microprocessor embedded systems programming in C and adaptive signal processing for noise-cancellation applications.

Education & Training

Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
Institution:Australian Computer Society
Institution Type:University
Location:Australia
Course Name:Adaptive Business Intelligence
Grade:81 (Distinction) - Top Student
Comments:Design of a fuzzy rule-base stock ranking trading system utilizing adaptive techniques. Included analysis of the following topics:

Datamining techniques;

Optimisation techniques (Genetic Algorithms, Simulated annealing);

Prediction methods and statistical analysis: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks.

Oct 2001 - May 2005
Institution:University of Exeter
Institution Type:University
Location:Exeter, United Kingdom
Course Name:Masters Degree of Electronic Engineering (MEng EL)
Grade:First Class Honours
Study Units/Modules:
  • Software Design & Object Oriented Programming
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Calculus & Probability
  • Project Management & Accounting

Aug 1998 - Jun 2000
Institution:Frankfurt International School
Institution Type:High School
Location:Frankfurt, Germany
Course Name:International Baccalaureate
Grade:32
Study Units/Modules:
  • Physics (High-level, 5)
  • Mathematics (HL, 4)
  • Business & Organisation (HL,6)
  • Chemistry (Standard level, 5)
  • English (SL, 5)
  • German (SL, 6)
  • Theory of Knowledge (1 bonus point)

Skills

Business Skills

  • Arbitrage Trading (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Business Analysis (Advanced - 4-5 years experience)
  • Business Intelligence Analysis (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Market Risk Analysis (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • MySQL Workbench (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • Program Trading (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Project Management (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Quantitative Analysis (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Risk Analysis (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Risk Modelling (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • SEO (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Systems Analysis / Business Systems Analysis (Advanced - 2-3 years experience)
  • Technical Analysis (Intermediate - 3-4 years experience)
  • Time Series Analysis (Intermediate - 1.5-2 years experience)

Product Skills

  • .Net Framework 2.0 (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • .Net Framework 4.0 (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Apache Solr (Advanced - 1-1.5 years experience)
  • C# (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • C++ (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • CakePHP (Advanced - 2-3 years experience)
  • Cascading Style Sheets (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • Debian (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Derivatives (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Drupal (Advanced - 1.5-2 years experience)
  • Dynamic Modelling (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Entity Relationship Modelling (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • Equities (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Excel (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Forex (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • Futures (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • HTML (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Investment Analysis Software (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • IRESS (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Java (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Java Swing (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • JavaScript (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • JQuery (Advanced - 1.5-2 years experience)
  • Linux (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • MATLAB (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Microsoft .NET (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • MS Access (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • MS SQL Server Development & Design (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • MS SQL Server Transact SQL (Advanced - 3-4 years experience)
  • MYSQL (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • OO Analysis and Design (Expert - >5 years experience)
  • PHP (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Python (Intermediate - >5 years experience)
  • R (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • SOAP (Advanced - 2-3 years experience)
  • Tibco (Intermediate - 1.5-2 years experience)
  • UML (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • VBA (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • Wordpress (Advanced - 4-5 years experience)
  • Wordpress (Advanced - 2-3 years experience)
  • Yii (Advanced - 2-3 years experience)

Languages

  • Afrikaans (Expert - >5 years experience)
  • English (Expert - >5 years experience)
  • French (Advanced - >5 years experience)
  • German (Advanced - >5 years experience)

Visa Information

South Africa

Visa Type:Citizen

Australia

Visa Type:Citizen

Interests

Web Design, Online Business, Socialising, Touch Rugby, Foreign Cultures, Trading Strategies, Chess, Guitar, Reading, Surfing.

Personal Information

Job Seeking Status:Open to Opportunities
I am on a notice period (days):  14
I am available from:26th March 2013
Would you relocate for a job?Yes
Gender:Male
Marital Status:Single
Do I have a drivers license?Yes

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