Rob Valentine

Experience

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  Port Elizabeth Technikon

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Lab Assistant
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  REHAU

  Jan 2004 - Dec 2008

  IS Administrator

  I was responsible for all software development and maintenance at Rehau's South African branches including (but not limited to):- LAWI solutions and troubleshooting (Warehouse Management Software)- Development of in-house solutions - Maintenance of the South African web presence- General end user support- Remote support

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  University of Fort Hare

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  Web Services Administrator

  Assisted in engineering and troubleshooting all strategic web properties.

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  Maxiware

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2024

  Systems Designer (PHP)

  Develop custom Drupal SolutionsHandle any and all support queriesSystems design and developmentCustomer Relations

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2024

  Following on from EMISTools, the EMIS EC Upload Tool processes SASAMS databases from the province's schools. At 5612 schools, this translates to approximately 561GB of data in the form of MS Access databases.The EMIS EC Upload tool processes these databases as efficiently and quickly as possible - reaching speeds of around 1000 databases a day. Data is pumped into a SQL Warehouse for further analysis with each Quarterly warehouse reaching sizes of approx. 1.2TB.The system is (currently) written using C# and makes heavy use of parallel processing, scaled bulk insert and efficient error reporting (in a friendly way). Show less

  • Lead Developer: EMIS EC Upload Tool

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2024

  • Lead Developer: EMISTools.co.za

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2024
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  DomainCheap

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2015

  CTO

  Responsible for managing, planning and overseeing implementation of Web Hosting technology including server monitoring, WHMCS, Billing and custom integration with South African service providers such as Domains.co.za and Uniforum.Domaincheap was sold to WebAfrica in its entirety in August 2015 along with ~2500 clients and ~ 5000 domains.

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  Techtree

  Oct 2018 - Apr 2020

  Software Developer
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  Mercedes-Benz South Africa

  May 2019 - Apr 2020

  System Analyst (Software Developer)
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  Oracle

  Apr 2020 - now

  • Development Manager

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Software QA/CICD Manager

    Sept 2022 - Jun 2023

  • Principal Member Of Technical Staff

    Apr 2020 - Sept 2022