Ryan Lopez

Ryan Lopez

Software Support Engineer & Software Developer for Special Projects

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Full Stack Software Developer | Systems Integrator | MCSD | Dreamer & Explorer

  • Education

    • Technikon South Africa

      1995 - 1998
      NDip Information Technology
    • University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

      2005 - 2008
      Bsc Information Technology and Computer Science
    • University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

      2010 - 2012
      Clinical Psychology non-degree purposes
  • Experience

    • SA Scale Company (Pty) Ltd. (Avery Berkel)

      Jan 1994 - Feb 2000
      Software Support Engineer & Software Developer for Special Projects

      Provided training and support on standard and bespoke in-house Clipper/DBase and Visual Basic weighing software systems. As part of the special projects team, developed custom Visual Basic and C applications for integration into weighbridges, over-head track scales, axle weighers, PLC's, PC-36 cards and remote displays for the mining, farming, cement and general industrial sectors.

    • RedScreen Systems (Pty) Ltd.

      Mar 2000 - Dec 2002
      Systems Developer

      Visual Basic and SQL software developer and project lead for various clients in the insurance and finance sectors.

    • Lifetime Information Systems CC

      Jan 2003 - Apr 2005
      Senior Software Developer

      Lead Visual Basic and SQL software developer on a custom in-house quotation system for an electrical engineering company.

    • Admiral Underwriting Group

      May 2005 - Feb 2008
      Solutions Manager

      Supported, maintained and enhanced existing in-house Visual Basic/SQL insurance and claims systems according to user requirements. Managed multidisciplinary team of software developers on project deliverables. Managed and maintained relationships with external software consultants and software vendors for Admiral's managing agents and brokers.

    • Barone Budge and Dominick (Pty) Ltd.

      Mar 2008 - Nov 2008
      C# Software Developer

      Developed C# web services and orchestrations, pipeline components and itineraries for BizTalk and Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

    • IS Partners (Pty) Ltd.

      Dec 2008 - Apr 2011
      Senior CRM Consultant

      Developed plugins, processes and entity customisations for CRM 4.0 and CRM 2011 using Asp.Net, HTML, Javascript and C#. Technical developer for various clients specialising in C# WinForms, ASMX services, SSRS and VBScript.

    • Centriq Insurance Company Ltd.

      May 2011 - Dec 2018
      IT Systems Developer

      Developed intranet and internet-facing C# Asp.Net MVC applications using HTML5/CSS3, Javascript, JQuery and Bootstrap. Specialised in architecting and building custom C# components and K2 smartforms and processes for integration into various platforms and systems such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, M-Files, Exchange and Outlook.

    • Erniesoft

      Apr 2019 - now
      Senior Software Engineer

      Provide technical, architectural and best-practice guidance and design for new and existing integration components for XML, Edifact, X12, WCF and RESTful communications and OAuth authentication and authorization. Design and build custom, self-learning fuzzy matching engines to facilitate data cleansing and best quality matches for address, carrier and container data. Design and build custom PDF text extraction engines and low-to-no-code tooling to define, search, cleanse and shape extracted text into various output types for submission into importation engines. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • MCSD - Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Web Applications

      Microsoft
      Sept 2015
    • K2 Blackpearl Core Workflow and Smartforms Builder

      K2
      Jan 2015
    • MCTS - Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration

      Microsoft
      Oct 2009
    • MCSD - Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: App Builder

      Microsoft
      Sept 2016
    • MCTS - Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Applications

      Microsoft
      Jun 2010
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Counselor

      Issued by Lifeline on Jan 2010
      LifelineAssociated with Ryan Lopez