Louis van den Berg

Louis van den Berg Mobile: - E-mail:- Profile I have worked in a variety of roles in IT over the past 18 years. I have experience from managing, architecting and rolling out systems for global FTSE 100 Company in London as well as architecting systems and managing development teams using state of the art technologies and Agile methodology. I have a desire to work in a challenging IT environment. Have strong consulting and people skills, excellent leadership and problem solving skills. Very creative and live by the motto “Anything can be done”. Good communicator and team worker. Experience Highlights 2019 Launched Meatco GO, mobile app that is integrated with live systems. Which has a Java backend and Angular front end. 2017 Architecting, managing a development team to replace Meatco’s (Namibia’s largest meat processor and exporter) 20 year old legacy systems. Development was done in JAVA with Spring and Groovy in the backend. 2016 Architected a remotely located slaughtering system using Couch DB, Angular and Docker. 2015 – Moved to Namibia Started working at Meatco as IT Manager: System Development and Architecture which involved process engineering, system architecting and laying the foundation to start developing new systems that integrates with the IT landscape. 2014 Adapt the Financial system architecture to accommodate business units in South America, Australia, South Africa and the far east from Hyperion Planning V11.1.2.3 to Hyperion Planning V11.1.2.2 to leverage the existing Oracle on Demand environment and AWS the FTSE100 client already has. 2013 Performed as lead Financial Systems Architect in upgrading the full Hyperion suite to V11.1.2.2, and moved it to Oracle on Demand, for a global FTSE100 Company. 2010 Implemented and project managed upgrade from System 9 to Hyperion V11.1.1.3 full suite of Hyperion products. 2007 Page 1 of 6 Louis van den Berg Re-designed the financial systems architecture for Anglo American to upgrade and Hyperion System 9 upgrade to 9.3.13, and move to 4 global data centres that servers the company globally. 2006 Planned, implemented and project managed the Hyperion upgrade project at Anglo American, from HFM 3.5 to Hyperion System 9. 2005 – Moved to the UK Support HFM 3.5 with high availability clustering and a public facing web front end. 2004 Did a full Windows 2003 migration, which resulted in a Microsoft case study. 2001 Started a software development company that developed internet ready software using ASP and SQL. 2000 One of 17 delegates from Africa to be trained on Windows 2000, with the aim to train MCSE’s in our home countries. Career Meatco Namibia 1 Oct 2015 to 30 July 2019 IT Manager: Systems Development • Manage team of both in-house and outsourced developers • Re-Designed systems architecture to replace 20 year old legacy systems, with modern technology to address modern business needs. Using Java (Spring, Groovy) and Angular front end. • Launched mobile app that integrates with the newly developed systems to make facilitate better interaction with the company. • Managed the development of the new systems using Agile methodology. • Architected a remotely located slaughter system, with very poor connectivity and zero IT support. This was achieved using Couch DB (JASON), Angular and Raspberry Pi’s. • Facilitated and managed data Warehouse to facilitate better business insight analysis. Anglo American 17 Sep 2013 to 31 August 2015 Hyperion Transformation Architect • Outsource partner management; ensuring Oracle is delivering the appropriate service. Page 2 of 6 Louis van den Berg • Relocated other Hyperion installations in the group and moved them to Oracle on Demand. Anglo American 9 Jun 2010 to 16 Sep 2013 Lead Financial Systems Architect • Support Anglo American Group Hyperion Systems 24/7, products include: HFM, Planning, Essbase, Reporting, FDM, Workspace, Shared Services and security and surrounding infrastructure, Windows, network and SQL server and Share Point. • Re-Design the Financial Systems Architecture and upgraded Hyperion suite of products to support high availability environments. • Lead Financial Systems Architect in moving The Hyperion suite to Oracle onDemand and integration between Anglo American and Oracle infrastructure. HP/Anglo American 14 February 2005 to 8 Jun 2010 Financial Systems Engineer • Project Manage software upgrades of treasury and Hyperion systems. • Troubleshoot and Support Hyperion Financial Management and Quantum systems. • Monitor and support Hyperion Financial Management and Quantum systems. • Manage and optimise 25 SQL database used globally by Anglo American. • Monitor and support the WAN that spans over 4 continents. • Write database optimisation scripts for databases. • Plan, implement and test DR (Disaster Recovery) for Anglo American’s Hyperion Financial Management. • Administer Exchange 2003. • 2nd Line support for backup cycles. • Development of knowledgebase running on SQL with and ASP interface. • Administer IBM Websphere servers. Travelling Holiday End of Nov 2004 to 13 Feb 2005 Trustco Group International (Pty) Ltd March 2003 – November 2004 A Namibian based company with subsidiaries in the financial, insurance, technology and medical industries. Assistant IT Manager – System development and design • Manage and maintain Fujitsu Siemens SAN and a WAN Across Namibia and South Africa. • Project manager and designer for the in-house developed short-term legalinsurance program, that is used by Legal Shield Namibia, a subsidiary company of Trustco Group International using MS Project and SQL Server 2000. Page 3 of 6 Louis van den Berg • • • • • • Planning and implementing the Windows 2000 to 2003 migration plan on a managerial level and technical level. Configuring and stabilising Terminal Server, active directory, security policies, DNS and a Windows 2003 Server cluster to facilitate load balancing and fail over between the various servers. Planning and implementing the SAP DB to SQL 2000 migration on a technical and managerial level, which involved re-designing the database schema. Implemented SQL 2000 cluster with replication for disaster recovery. Writing stored procedures and queries for financial report from SQL 2000. Writing VB scripts to make SQL 2000 data visual in Excel using graphs. Data Solutions February 2001 to March 2003 Co-founder and member of the Namibian internet software development close corporation. Specialising in development of database applications for the internet using MS SQL, My SQL, ASP and PHP. Development Manager and Software Architect • Leading the company into the Internet age. • ASP development. • Maintained and configured IIS web servers. • Securing web servers. • Development relational databases in SQL 2000 for internet software. • Development relational databases in MySQL for internet software. • Securing SQL 2000 servers for internet use. • Managing development projects, using Microsoft Project. PricewaterhouseCoopers December 1998 to February 2001 One of the big 4 accounting and auditing firms in the world. Microsoft specialist consultant and Microsoft trainer. • Planned and implemented a Novel 3.51 to Windows 2000 Migration. • Implemented SQL 7. • Administered Lotus Notes databases. • Trained MCSE, A+, Microsoft Office, MS Project and MS Access courses. • Developed a relational SQL 7 database to manage training centres. • Project manager for various Visual Basic and SQL development projects. • Managed programming budgets. Skills - Technical Computer /Technical Skills: Software Development: Cuba, IntelliJ IDEA, Financial Systems: Hyperion HFM 3.5, System9, Hyperion V1.1.1.3 (HFM, Planning, Essbase, Reporting, FDM, Security),BI+ and Quantum Page 4 of 6 Louis van den Berg Hardware: PC assembling, troubleshooting, upgrading, configuration, installation, diagnostics of hard disk, multimedia devices, network cards, modems and printers. Networking: Advanced knowledge of installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS and Active Directories. Limited CISCO PIX, CISCO Router and CISCO IDS experience. OS Software and Platform: Windows 9X, NT, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Visio, MS Project and MS-DOS6. Computer applications and programming languages: Microsoft Office, Adobe Photo Shop 7.0, HTML, ASP.NET, ASP and Visual Basic 6, Cuba Platform, Java. Databases administration and development: SQL 6.5, SQL 7, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, MySQL, SAP DB, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL and MS Access. Web technologies: IIS 5.0, IIS 6.0, Websphere portal 5, WAS 5.1, BEA Weblogic, Tomcat. Skills – Personal Human Relations and Interpersonal Skills: Accept guidance and direction positively, excellent rapport with colleagues, willingly offer help and assistance, flexible and adaptable. Very creative and strong leadership skills. Excellent ability to get along with others. Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, effective listening skills, bilingual (English and Afrikaans). Organisational Skills - Set priorities, perceptive skills, attention to detail, research and development skills, and effective decision-making skills. Critical Thinking Skills - Identify critical issues in a situation, identify reasonable criteria for assessing the value or appropriateness of a behaviour, and adapt own behaviour to meet the criteria of a situation. Group Work Skills - Co-operate with a group, set realistic personal and group goals, set and meet deadlines, communicate effectively with team members. Academic BSc Computer Science, MCSE, MCP+I, A+, Internet Security Certification, Training and Facilitation Certification, WebSphere Application Server 5.1 (WAS 5.1), WebSphere Portal 5 – installation, Deployment and Administration. Windhoek High School (Namibia) Page 5 of 6 Matric (with full exemption) Louis van den Berg 1997 Page 6 of 6 Louis van den Berg