Work History
Oranje Printers
Responsible for assorted design tasks, from logo design, to business cards to 250+ page books and large format material printing (signboards) My experience and knowledge of the Adobe suite comes from working at Oranje Printers.
Come Alive
Employed as an apprentice and given the title of "Websiter Designer" during my second year at the company. My duties were to maintain, update and create all websites taken on by the company, in addition this meant doing the necessary graphic design work, allocation and maintenance of the hosting platform, other SLA services such as SEO and other marketing means
Tech5
I was employed at Tech5 to create, grow and develop the development and graphic design department. This has been an ongoing responsibility and each year is better than the last. I currently manage a small team which I interviewed and hired during my third year at Tech5. My duties and responsibilities at Tech5 range far and wide. I do everything from managing my team, to quoting, advising and invoicing my clients. I am fully responsibility for the price rates and also am held responsible for the state and effectiveness of our apache servers where our clients are hosted. I help other areas of the company such as the "support department" when email issues arise. I manage and maintain the billing and client capturing software Tech5 uses and at the same time am responsible for all branding and marketing strategies. Amongst this I need to attend to my duties as a website developer and graphic designer and still do my fair share of development and design work.
Self Employed
I am currently self-employed and have a small, private, clientele that I take care of on a monthly basis, this has allowed me the much-needed time to refresh and brush up on my skillset and new tools that have become prominent in the design and development industry. I have never felt more confident in my skillset and more excited to find a company that I can dedicate my time and resources towards. I’ve been working remotely for nearly 2 years now and pride myself on my work ethic and communication skills.
Education
CTU Training Solutions
I attended CTU in Bloemfontein, Free State, for a 1 year Graphic Design qualification with a pass rate of 80% which I am proud to say I completed. Upon completion I received my Adobe Suite Master Certificate
IT Academy
During this period I started branching away from Graphic Design and more towards IT in general. During 2013 and 2014 I complete the following courses via a well known and accredited learning platform referred to as IT Academy
- A+
- N+
- MCSA
Udemy
Once employed as a full time web designer my skill set changed and ambitions changed from general IT related qualifications to a more specific direction, during the years to come I resisted and completed various courses through a company referred to as Udemy, receiving certifications of completion for each course. The following courses were completed successfully
The Web Developer Bootcamp
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JS
- Node
The complete Web Developer Course
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JS
- PHP
- Python
- MySQL
The Complete Android Oreo Developer Course
Learning to develop real time applications using Java & Kotlin