XDODE (PTY) LTD

Entrepreneur and Software Developer, April 2015 – Current (Freelance basis)

Manage the daily business activities and finances, ensure partners act lawfully and honestly, mobilising team members and supporting the execution of various strategies. Make decisions in the best interest of the company, its customers and funders.

• Acquisition, maintenance and retention of 13 customers.
• Plan, organise and lead temporary staff.
• Manage business finances and pay wages and suppliers.
• Develop and deploy WordPress and MERN solutions onto Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Configured automated backup and security audits on AWS LightSail instances.
• Slashed AWS costs by 20% through optimisation.
• International travel to Brazil to fundraise and acquired level 2 status for my start-up, met 37 potential angel donors and venture capitalists.
• Develop and maintain Django Web App for briefing email sends.

USB Executive Development (Pty)Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa

Digital Marketing Coordinator, USB Executive Development (Pty)Ltd, Oct 2019 – Feb 2020)

Leading video campaigns, analytics, web and social marketing in order to execute clear, personalised messaging across multiple online channels.

• Develop digital materials using Adobe Creative Cloud software.
• Configure Google Analytics, Dynamics 365 CRM and PowerBi dashboards to optimise and report on cross-channel digital marketing campaigns.
• International travel to Botswana and Mauritius in order to coordinate executive networking events.
• Use JIRA and Microsoft Teams to report, track and report on bugs on website and Dynamics 365, 48-hour turnaround time for issue resolution.
• Manage website content using company CMS (Laravel, WordPress and React)
• Act as point of contact between non-technical users and developers, I.T staff and CRM specialist.

Juta and Company (LTD) PTY Cape Town, South Africa

Digital Marketing Coordinator, Juta’s and Company, Jan 2016 – Oct 2018

• Craft concept and content for press releases and email marketing campaigns.
• Develop mobile-first HTML emails and distribute to targeted groups of about 100 000 users a month.
• Develop landing pages and forms on Django site to support campaigns, leading to the acquisition of about 400 user records over two years.
• Lead configuration of Google Analytics on Django website to allow for reporting and analysis on ecommerce site generating approximately R300 000 a month.
• Develop Python scripts to convert book metadata into required formats.
• RanRequirements Gatheringworkshop to solicit user stories and completed test scripts during SDLC of Django Wagtail project.
• Increase sales and boost customer satisfaction by providing technical support to customers using Academic eBooks.
• Used Unified Modelling Language (UML) to conceptualise and communicate processes in department

Khayelitsha Social Center

Director, February 2014 – January 2016

• Fundraised R150 000 from American donors to finance worker salaries and operations.
• Engage in high-level discussions with the City of Cape Town in order to acquire land.
• Maintain office, prepare budgets and ensure financial management of entity.
• Interview hire and train new staff. Worked with a team of 3 part-time staff members.

Jared Sacks
Children of South Africa Founder, chosa.org
Cell: 021-531-1961, jsacks@chosa.org

The Book Lounge,

Part-time bookseller, February 2014 – January 2016

• Sell books to customers.
• Keep up to date with news in the publishing industry.
• Document marketing events perform post-production work on high-quality footage and export to required multimedia formats for use on various social media and websites.
• Coordinate activities at Open Book Festival.

Mervyn Sloman
Store Owner and Director of Open Book Festival
Email: booklounge@telkomsa.net

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

University of South Africa

Award: Technology Leadership Awardee, Unisa Innovation Challenge (and R 100 000 grant)

Issued by: Prof T Meyiwa, Vice Principle: UNISA Research Postgraduate Studies: Innovation and Commercialisation

Description: The Unisa Innovation Challenge is open to all registered Unisa students. The Innovative idea should be targeted at addressing an identified societal challenge. An idea is considered innovative if it is new and provides a significant benefit to the target market.
Date: 2019

Secured Microsoft Partner Status

Description:Partners access instant support from regional service centres, get all the latest product training materials, and support when deploying Microsoft-based solutions to customers.

Dates:Aug 2019

EDUCATION

HyperionDev by CoGrammer

Certificate: Full Stack Web Developer

Dates:Dec 2019 to Feb 2020 (Currently on Level 2 of 3)

ClickDimensions Academy

Certificate: Advanced Exams

Dates:2019

Google Analytics Academy

Certificate: Advanced Google Analytics

Dates: 2017

GetSmarter
Certificate: Project

Management Foundations

Dates2016– 2017

Activate: Leadership for Public Innovation

Dates:January 2013 – January 2015

University of South Africa

Degree Name:Bachelor of Commerce in Business Informatics

Dates:2017 – 2021 (In progress)

Stirling High School, East London, 2010.

• Grahamstown Eisteddfod Gold Awards for oratory (2009).
• Achieved Bachelors pass university entrance.
• South African Schools (Honors Cum Laude) for Jazz performance.

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SKILLS

• Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premier Pro and After Effects.
• Highly Proficient in the following web-related languages:
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, specialising on the MERN stack.
  • Visual Studio Code, Node.JS, GitHub and related technologies
  • Amazon Web Services configuration
  • Office 365 ProPlus administration, configuration and deployment
• Ability to win new clients, negotiate rates and project manage work using rapid application development techniques.