Christian Jonas

Christian Jonas

Information Technologist - Level 1

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Principal - Derivative Markets

  • Education

    • Luso-Zakheni Computer Institute

      1998 - 1998
      Certificate in Systems Development Cobol 85 Programming

      Activities and Societies: First cohort of students to complete ITBIP in 1998, part of the students selected by the South African Reserve Bank to enter the program under their sponsorship and contract. Under the auspices of the Information Technology Banking Internship Programme (ITBIP)

    • Bankuna High School

      1991 - 1995
      Senior Certificate (with Endorsement)

      Completed matriculation with Science and Mathematics.

    • Damelin

      1998 - 1998
      General Principles of Banking

      Topics covered:Banking LawBanking ProductsGreater Economic EnvironmentIntroduction to EconomicsIntroduction to CommunicationsCustomer ServicePresentation SkillsGeneral Principles of BankingAwarded 50 points towards The Institute of Bankers' CAIB (SA) qualification.

  • Experience

    • South African Reserve Bank

      Mar 1999 - Mar 2002
      Information Technologist - Level 1

      Programming in Natural Adabas, Lotus Notes R5 and Domino.Doc 3.1 Bopcus web application development with VB6, ASP and XML.

    • Peregrine Consulting

      Oct 2002 - Feb 2003
      Contractor, Lotus Notes Development

      Offering On-site consulting for Lotus Systems development, maintenance and administration.

    • ABSA Brokers

      Mar 2003 - May 2006
      Lotus Notes Developer

      Lotus Notes web development and maintenance.Lotus Notes administration for the web server.Lotus Notes mail administration.Lotus Notes application development and upgrade on R4.6, R5 and R6.Workflow development.

    • Above and Beyond Concepts

      Jul 2006 - Jul 2008
      Software Developer

      Lotus Notes development and maintenance working with both web clients and notes client.Upgrade the client from Domino.Doc 3.1 to Document Manager 7.0.2Document manager configuration, installation and customisation. Consulting at Anglo American and Columbus Stainless Steel.

    • Conekt Business Group

      Aug 2008 - Dec 2008
      Systems Developer

      Consultant Lotus Notes development based at Toyota.

    • PricewaterhouseCoopers

      Jan 2009 - Sept 2015
      Senior Lotus Notes Developer

      Developing and maintaining applications running on Lotus Notes. Running daily morning scrum meetings with all developers, Business Analysts and Management team. Coaching junior developers, code reviews and quality checking solutions. Doing review of implementation plans to minimize impact to business of changes to environment. Managing developer workloads and prioritizing incoming and standing calls for system enhancements and fixes. Technical Lead Developer on high impact, high visibility major systems. Solution Architecture on new development. Show less

    • Retia Investments

      Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
      Founding Director
    • PwC

      Jul 2016 - Nov 2019

      Responsible for Google Cloud Platform application development technical leadership and migration of legacy applications to GCP. Rapid Development Technical Lead for OneTechnology Africa Software Engineering. Provide consulting services to migrate legacy IBM Notes applications to Hybrid Cloud. Assist with IBM Notes sunset adapting current applications to interface with Google Cloud Platform by developing custom solutions to allow for this interface.

      • Manager - Google Cloud Platform Technical Lead

        Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
      • Manager - Rapid Development Technical Lead

        Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
      • Consulting Software Architect

        Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
    • PwC

      Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
      Manager - Cloud Migration Technical Lead

      Responsible for transitioning to cloud technologies and application prototyping, r&d and adoption of current development paradigm.

    • Falcorp Technologies

      Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
      Microservices Team Lead
    • Khonology

      Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
      Technical Lead - Solution Architect

      Responsible for providing technical leadership and solution design and architecture for a team of developers working on 2 major client projects as well as providing technical leadership to inhouse projects. Responsible for provisioning the environments on AWS, consulting for pen test of the environment and deployment of applications to the environment. Engagement with client and collaboration with analysis team, design team, development team as well as the QA/testing team to ensure delivery of solutions according to specifications following Agile/Scrum methodology. Presenting to cab meetings for production release and doing post implementation review presentations. Reporting to delivery manager as well as responsibility for managing team performance. Show less

    • Retia Investments

      Oct 2024 - now
      Director

      Maximizing Financial Market Edge.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Domino.Doc System Administration

      IBM
      Dec 2000
    • Building XML-Based Web Applications

      Microsoft
      Nov 2000
    • CLP Domino R5 Application Developer

      IBM
      Aug 2002
    • IBM Certified Application Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 7

      IBM
      Nov 2007
    • Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Development

      Microsoft
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Christian Jonas
      Governor’s Award South African Reserve Bank 2001 Team Work