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Hendri Coetzee 1975-02-05 South African +27 (0)82 860 6279 info@hendri.nom.za http://hendri.nom.za Remote Developer Magaliesburg, South Africa

Short Introduction

Hendri Coetzee is an experienced, proactive remote developer and software architect with a proven track record in the Insurance, e-Commerce, Auction, Travel, Automotive, Marketing and Property industries. Hendri has worked for multiple big corporate companies and help grow many startup companies into what they are today. Roles over the past 16 years have included lecturer, developer, team lead, project manager, system analyst and system architect. Hendri has mostly used mainstream technologies such as Java/J2EE, PHP, Oracle and MySql as building blocks, but likes to combine different cutting edge technologies to deliver unusual and efficient interactive solutions, that is simple and intuitive to use for the end user. Hendri obtained a computer science diploma from Executive School of Computers in 1999 where he lectured the year after completing his diploma whilst getting some valuable real world experience in the field at WebServ where started working as a student. Hendri has been on numerous short courses, conferences, seminars, webinars and hackatons touching topics such as Unix, Security, SEO, Google’s Adsense and AdWords and as recent as 2016 he completed Discovery's one year intern Peak Performance Program accredited by the University of Stellenbosch towards a master of business administration(MBA).

Professional Experience

01/2017 - 07/2017 JMR Software, Magaliesburg, South Africa Remote Java Developer The project migrated Wesleyan's Insurance books over to Sapiens using mainly Java 8 and Hibernate with some complex mapping rules from core dump files. 06/2014 – 11/2016 Vitality Corporate Services Limited trading as VitalityLife and VitalityHealth in the United Kingdom and part of Discovery Limited, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa Senior Java Developer / System Analyst Worked in the New Business, Underwriting and Retention space as Senior Java Developer / Team Lead and soon thereafter acted as a System Analyst / Team Lead. I attended daily architecture planning meetings and if planning was needed draw up the plans for the team and got them approved by architects. We also had daily scrums where we followed the Agile methodology, which I led until we got a scrum master. I throughout had to deliver and write Java to support and enhance the current systems. The projects varied in size and most I independently designed and delivered with the team with the Architectural approvals needed. We as a team mostly enhanced the Servicing Underwriting system they used. I wrote multiple proofs of concept to support, introduce and replace new technologies into the aging systems they had. The one which was the most encompassing was using Solr to index most of the underwriting business near real time and showed huge potential to increase productivity. I was also chosen to participate in a year course called the Discovery Peak Performance Program which is a business executive leadership development course that was in conjunction with University of Stellenbosch and acquired some credits towards an MBA (NQF Level 5). Apart from the executive development it also included a business driven access learning program where we identified the part of the business with current issues and delivered an implementable solution to business as a final project. 04/2013 – 05/2014 JMR Software, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa Senior Java Developer I was contracted out to PruProtect now called VitalityLife UK which falls under Discovery Limited. I was assigned to the CMaIR (Channel Management and Intermediary Renumeration) team. The main purpose of this department was to pay out agency commission and to load new networks, agencies and financial advisors to the system. Java was used as the main development language and I wrote a complex debt age analysis tool as one of the bigger projects. 04/2004 – 03/2013 bidorbuy (Pty) Ltd. Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa Senior Developer I think bidorbuy speaks for itself, it's like the South African eBay equivalent, but I think in a lot of ways even better. I mostly developed in Java, Oracle, PL/SQL using an OO class base to serve JSP's with HTML, JavaScript etc. I also wrote all the web services and collaborated remotely with Cobi Interactive and RedEye to develop bidorbuy's Android and iOS applications based on these service calls.  Also did some PHP developments from time to time including work for QXL Ricardo PLC - Partnering with the London-based Evening Standard newspaper for a new concept in auctions called the Standard's Big Bid. We used the QXL SmartBid engine (previously known as QXL MaxBid) to auction a Bentley Continental GT worth over £110,000, with the lowest unique bidder winning. The Evening Standard was so pleased with the results that they immediately followed on with the second auction for a Spanish villa. The concept was nominated and ended runner-up in the European Innovation Awards. SmartBid followed suit in South Africa.  I also provided the backbone code PayFast was developed on using a technology that logged into bank accounts to retrieve payments by payment references from an import company TradeBroker. Tradebroker was at the time selling items on bidorbuy to boost its R1 no reserve Crazy Wednesday auctions. The system could determine by logging into its bank account if an order has been completed. It also picked stock from Expeditors and automated the whole process by listing and relisting on bidorbuy.  In the early days, there was also a South African portal site called Sawubona I worked on, but that is way back when bob employed 4 people and we all sat in one office except for another developer who was based in New Zeeland. I worked closely with him over the years and for many years we were the only developers. I wrote numerous plugins for Joomla, Magenta, WordPress enabling mass imports and also won an innovation award with Clickatell for out bid notifications. 07/2007 – 11/2007 Matthew Buckland, Fairlands, Johannesburg, South Africa Freelance Web Developer Remotely developed hotcourses.co.za using PHP, MySql, JavaScript & CSS at the time one could book and pay for a course online and as admin load various courses as well as resellers to log in and sell their courses. 10/2003 - 12/2003 Rothmans (UK) Limited, Oxford House, Oxford Road, Aylesbury Bucks, HP21 8SZ Freelance Software Developer Remotely developed some in-house software for them using VB6 that got deployed to representatives’ tablets that could capture current market share in any of its current or future vendor locations that could be sent back to the head office for processing later. It captured the address, the time of visit, max audience, the location of vending machines, the location of its brands in the vending machines etc. 8/2002 - 7/2003 FC Networks (UK2U), Docklands, London, UK Freelance Web Developer Remotely developed a payment gateway, which enabled external clients, an e-commerce checkout platform with live credit card payment solutions and later extended this project into a sellable shopping cart system.  I also built a restaurant and hotel-booking platform derived from the shopping cart project. A dating platform, business search, local statistics and much more as it became a portal site.... The site seems to be gone now but still partly visible on the way back machine it used to reside at http://www.uk2u.net but still visible at  https://web.archive.org/web/20030724133550/http://www.uk2u.net:80/ PHP, MySql, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and Flash was the main technologies used with HTTPs protocol and security in mind. 7/2002 - 7/2002 Forde Recruitment, Sheffield, UK Freelance Web Developer Worked remotely as a private contractor and created a fully functional website that allowed dynamic postings of jobs, news and content through a secure backend displayed and searchable from the front using PHP, MySql, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Their current site can be viewed at the URL below: http://www.forde-recruitment.co.uk 4/2001 - 6/2002 Envent / (Now Ensight), Johannesburg, South Africa PHP Programmer • Database Design in MySql • Secure back end Web Page creation in PHP through extensive use of in house modules • (Access to database, images, sound, animation, e-mail, form validations, file uploads, e-commerce, shopping baskets, automatic e-mail confirmation, e-mail retrievals, customized templates, password creation, automated mail lists, ftp, pop3, smtp, xml, send to a friend (HTML mail), extensive reports, external data retrieval, media tool, search tool) • Added extra functionality with Java Script, xml, dhtml; • Client consulting • Project Planning (Flowcharts, Technical specs through Visio) Sites I have built or worked on some sadly seem to have disappeared. http://www.1stcontact.co.uk http://www.marketingpower.com http://www.touchrugby.com http://www.themarketingsite.com http://www.vered.co.za http://www.weddingcards.co.za http://www.christmascards.co.za 2/2001 - 6/2002 Visage Media (Now Free Mind Media), Johannesburg, South Africa Freelance Web Developer Contract based web design and dynamic integration from a remote location. Sites I have built or worked on some sadly seem to have disappeared. http://www.stgbags.co.za http://www.acewholesalers.co.za http://www.jico.co.za http://www.lovematch.co.za http://www.cosmiclink.co.za http://www.floraimports.co.za 1/2000 - 3/2001 Executive School For Computers, Johannesburg, South Africa College Lecturer After completing my course I was asked if I wanted to lecture here and I lectured the following subjects the following year: Turbo Pascal, C++ (OO), Java (OO), VB6, HTML, JavaScript, Delphi, Access, Excel, SQL, Flash, Dreamweaver 9/1999 - 1/2001 Webserv, Johannesburg, South Africa Web Developer I started working here half day as a student. • Database Design in MySql • Secure back end Web Page creation in PHP, (Log in, cookies, e-mail, data management, setting security levels) • Front end Web Page design • Access to database, images, sound, animation, e-mail, form validations, file uploads, e-commerce, shopping baskets, automatic e-mail conformation, e-mail retrievals, customized templates, password creation, guest books, currency conversions, domain name search, site search, automated mail lists, ftp, pop3, smtp • Added extra functionality with JavaScript, Java applets, Flash • Created Perl pages for CGI Bin • Client consulting Sites I have built or worked on some sadly seem to have disappeared. http://www.gatewayhomeloans.co.za http://www.goldtycoon.co.za http://www.adpro.co.za http://www.dreamafrica.co.za http://www.10118.co.za http://www.swear.co.za http://www.spotofafrica.co.za http://www.homelesstalk.org.za http://www.dreamafrica.co.za http://www.fishingowl.co.za http://www.bestbuys.co.za http://www.smartinvestor.co.za http://www.webserv.co.za http://www.eserv.co.za

Career Achievements

Employment References

Dane Richards - Technical Consultant at JMR Phone number +27 (0)11 484 5070 Email Address: dane@jmr.co.za Reference Type: Professional (Wesleyan / Sapiens) Jaco Jonker - CEO bidorbuy (Pty) Ltd. Phone Number: +27 (0)11 367 0000 Email Address: jaco.jonker@bidorbuy.co.za Reference Type: Professional (bidorbuy.co.za) Matthew Buckland - CEO at M&C Saatchi Creative Spark Phone Number: +27 (0) 21 422 0683 Email Address: matthew@creativespark.co.za Reference Type: Professional (www.hotcourses.co.za) Aslam Motola - MD at Free Mind Media Phone Number: +27 (0)11 781 8670 Email Address: aslam@freemind.media Reference Type: Professional (Visage Media & Webserv) Gareth Slaven - CEO at Ensight Phone Number: +44 (0)74 2761 0131 Email Address: garethslaven@icloud.com Reference Type: Professional

Education & Qualifications

Executive School for Computers South Africa-Edenvale-Johannesburg 1999 Computer Science Diploma 2000 MCSD University of Stellenbosch 2016 Discovery's Peak Performance Program - Inhouse accredited management course with MBA credits)

Skills & Technical Experience

Skills: Android Angular Apache C++ Centos Clickatell (SMS & MMS) cPanel Cron CSS CSV Curl CVS DHTML DNS Eclipse Edit Plus Facebook – FBML, FQL, API Flash FreeMarker FTP GD Gimp Git Hibernate HTML IntelliJ iOS iVeri Java JavaScript Jboss Jetty Joomla JQuery Json Linux Magento Microsoft Office MySql Oracle Perl PHP PL/SQL Plesk PostFix Rman Solr SSL Tomcat Unix VB Virtualmin Web Services REST & Jersey WebLogic WordPress XML XSL Zend Zip Zlib