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Jeff Veit
Wide ranging experience in software development
- financial, telecoms, education and shrink-wrap
software industries. I'm versatile, equally interested
in technical and business issues, and skilled
in ensuring projects and programmes run smoothly.
I maintain abilities at the sharp end, whilst
taking a strategic view of software development
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Skills
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Thorough
software development and project management background
with experience on large and small projects. Consultancy
experience. |
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Programme/Development manager
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I have
designed strategies for product families, and had
overall responsibility for managing entire development
programmes. |
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Project manager/Software team
manager
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I have
managed the build of commercial software products
- from inception to delivery. I have recruited and
lead small teams of very high quality software developers
to deliver exceptional commercial products. I have
formal project methodology experience, and experience
of iterative/extreme practices. |
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Analysis/Specification/User
interface design
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I have
requirements and needs analysis experience. I have
written detailed functional specifications for bespoke
and shrink-wrap software. I have an active interest
in user-friendly interface design. My products have
been successful in the marketplace. |
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Developer/Architect/Integration
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I maintain
my hands-on development skills - about 50% of my
time is spent on this. I have experience in technology
for many uses, including web applications, commercial
and bespoke business applications, and software
for children and multimedia applications. I have
architected software solutions and have authored
frameworks and libraries for web and application
development. Have devised systems integration mechanisms.
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Tester/ Change control/Release
control
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I have
designed and built automated testing software. I
have developed testing programmes, and managed them.
I have designed and built test harnesses and run
tests for applications and services. I have experience
of end-to-end testing for large-scale systems. I
have devised and run integration tests for business
critical projects. I have managed the change control
process and the release of software into production.
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Tenders/3rd Party selection/Offshore
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I have experience in offshore software development,
having run tenders, selected vendors, written contracts
and then managed offshore projects. I have a very
good understanding of the key importance of the
cultural aspects involved in offshore work. |
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Business critical
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I have
repeatedly been responsible for projects where failure
could not be afforded, in some cases where the deadlines
were absolutely fixed. Business critical projects.
No failures; I have good risk management experience.
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Consultancy
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I regularly undertake investigations
into new technology and ideas for startups, potential
investors and existing businesses, writing reports
and giving presentations and have experience of
package selection.
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Professional
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MD & Software
Consultant,
Tanasity
Software Manager,
Pearson Education - Software Publishing Division
(Pearson
Ed, Logotron,
Longman Software,
TeacherLinc)
Senior Analyst/
Programmer,
Pearl
Assurance
Analyst/Programmer,
Eskom
PC Support,
Toolquip
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Training
and Education
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BSc (Computer Science)
(Applied Maths)
University
of the Witwatersrand 1989, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Certificate of Merit for final year Computer Science
(First Class pass and in the top five percent).
Certificate of First Class for second year Applied
Maths. |
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Memberships
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Chair of CHASE
(Cambridge High-Tech Association of Small Enterprise).
CHASE holds two meetings a month - a topical talk
on a business or technology theme, and a pubmeet.
We have around 100 members. Organised a hugely successful
conference for 120 people - 'Where Angels Tread
and VC's also dare' - to explore the relationships
between Entrepreneurs, Business Angels and VC's.
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Training
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Management courses,
GUI design course, health and safety for managers,
Cambridge Network Summer School for Entrepeneurship.
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Self study
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Recently the Web
Forms 2.0 proposal - we desperately need a richer
user interface to build web applications, and this
may be heading in that direction. I read copiously
- some recent books: The Beermat Entrepreneur, The
Future of Software. Linux - very interested in the
Open Source movement - for most people, software
is unsustainably expensive in comparison to hardware
and this may be the beginning of change. In my spare
time I still enjoy hands-on software development
- I subscribe to PC-Plus, and Dr. Dobb's. I'm a
keen Internet user; I enjoy Slashdot. Tinkering
with hardware.
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Personal
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Married. Two children,
two cats and the children want a dog. I also speak
rusty Afrikaans and German. |
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Independent traveling
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Saw Checkpoint Charlie
on its last day and lots of the USA. Round the world
trip in 2002.
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