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Copyright © 2002 Johann L. Botha
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Johann has a wide range of experience in the Information and Communications Technology industry. Motivated and independently thinking. First-class analytical, design and problem solving skills. Full of energy and charisma yet diplomatic and professional. Versatile with a good sense of humour. Successful two-year track record in running small businesses.
Cape Town : Part Time Contract
Lecturing GNU/Linux Training Courses with topics ranging from basic Unix philosophy to Security, Administration and Networking.
Cape Town : Full Time Employment
Currently working for saproperty.com, in a role ranging from architecture design, systems administrator, database administrator and developer to support and project management. The saproperty.com system is an XML, PKI-crypto B2B exchange listing properties for the nine largest real estate agencies in South Africa, completely running on free software with an uptime of more than a year, serving an average of more than 10,000 page impressions a day.
Extensive use of relational databases, XML, LDAP directory services, Public Key Cryptography encrypted eMail containing XML. PHP, Apache, PosgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Qmail-LDAP, PureFTPd, GnuPG, djbdns, Debian GNU/Linux, PKS PublicKey Server. Central authentication of services using LDAP for an excess of7000 property agents.
Cape Town : Small Business
Co-founded a startup Embedded Systems Company called the blio Corporation which is currently in the development phase of a product range of network appliances and security devices.
Cape Town : Full Time Employment
Worked for the Independent News and Media group's IOL.co.za, a news portal which currently ships is excess of 10 GBytes of traffic a day or more than 10 million page impressions per month. Experience in being part of the team managing and building the content management systems and database back ends for this high load database driven web services environment.
Primarily using FreeBSD, MySQL and PHP. Informix, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware.
Cape Town / Stellenbosch : Small Business
Co-founded an ISP called Frogfoot Networks and gained valuable networking and business experience. Frogfoot is currently running smoothly and growing at a good rate.
Frogfoot runs almost completely on Free Software and provides a very stable environment for corporate fixed line clients. At the time of writing Frogfoot has servers with uptimes in excess of 465 days.
Cisco Routers, Qmail, Apache, FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux, Traffic Graphing,LDAP authentication systems.
Stellenbosch : Full Time Employment
Worked as a Systems Administrator for a Java Development House.Experience with running and supporting Java technology. Managing eMail systems, firewalls, routers and source repository.
Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Qmail, Exim, Apache, CVS
Stellenbosch : Part Time Contracting
Developed and built a Touch Screen Information Kiosk for a Hardware store to display inventory and price comparisons. The touch screen interfaced with a Pastel accounting back end for stock info and pricing.
Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Touch screen Hardware
Stellenbosch : Full Time Employment
Worked for a company building the E*TRADE Africa Online Trading System as Unix Systems Administrator and DBA.Experience developing and supporting high availability systems with load balancing related to mission critical web applications.Gained knowledge of the JSE's trading system, news feeds and real time share price information systems.
Debian GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, Apache, PHP, Perl, PosgreSQL, Exim, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware, SSL accelerator hardware, Cisco LocalDirector load balancing hardware.
Johannesburg, Kempton Park : Full Time Contract
Gained a wide range of experience in a diverse IT environment ranging from development work, systems administration to end user support.System Administration of company Wide Area Network connecting four remote sites using, 3Com Routers. Developed an integrated Proof of Delivery Document Scanning and Achieving System.
Debian GNU/Linux, Samba, Perl, HP-UX
Pretoria : Part Time Contract
Worked as systems administrator and web developer.
HTML, CGI, SNMP, Sun Microsystems Server Hardware
Ellisras Grootegeluk Coal Mine
Industrial Process Monitoring and Production Environmental Modelling
I was awarded bursaries from Iscor Mining and the SA Air force to study Engineering. Chose the Iscor bursary and to study at Stellenbosch University.
Committee Member, Organiser of the Wine of the Month Club
1997/1998 :: Committee Member, Secretary
1996 to 1999 :: Maties Underwater Hockey 1st Team
Sport Representative for the Swimming Team
Squash Team
Pretoria, Higher Grade, Afrikaans Medium
Pretoria, Afrikaans Medium
Table 3. School Subjects
| Subject | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | C |
| English | B |
| Mathematics | C |
| Applied Mathematics | C |
| Science | B |
| Computer Science | A |
| Accounting | C |
Northern Transvaal A Team
I am a strong believer in the principles and values of Free Software.Basically the freedom and liberty of software and the people who use the software.
I've been running Unix on all my desktop machines for more than 6 years.
I am a Debian GNU/Linux Developer and I admire Debian's pragmatic idealism,the scale of the project and its success in producing high quality software.
I am a member of the Western Cape GNU/Linux User Group (CLUG) Committee where I keep in touch with the local Free Software community and give occasional lectures at the group's meetings. For the last two years I've been in charge of the design and manufacture of the propaganda clothing sold by the group at the Cape Computer Fair.
I am a co-founder of The Hub, a group of people working on a project in the interest of better Internet Traffic Exchange or Peering in Cape Town.
Founding Member of the Stellenbosch LUG
I am a member of ISOC and it's South African chapter and take a keen interest in general Internet matters like discussions on the NANOG and IOZ mailing lists. ISOC, AfriNIC, AfNOG, Afrispa, ISPA, PAVIX, CTUF, CITI.
Co-founder Frogfoot Networks, Blio Corporation and fellow Debian Developer
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Technical Manager of Generation Trading 5
theo [@] gen5 [dot] co [dot] za
+27 82 448 1222
Chairman of Western Cape GNU/Linux Users Group
tandrews [@] mindspring [dot] co [dot] za
+27 83 708 1872
Managing Director
saproperty.com (Pty) Ltd.
geoff [@] saproperty [dot] com
+27 21 481 6217