PERSONAL DETAILS

Full Names

JAN HARM HAVENGA

ID Number

610829 5053 081

Language Proficiency

ENGLISH

AFRIKAANS

Nationality

SOUTH AFRICA

Outside Interests

FISHING

CAMPING

Residential Area

PRETORIA:  Home Number – (012) 3311657   Cell - 083 261 8207 Work (011 4845070)

.. QUALIFICATIONS

QUALIFICATION

SUBJECTS

INSTITUTION

YEAR

MATRIC

AFRIKAANS, ENGLISH, BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, ACCOUNTANCY

MONUMENT, KRUGERSDORP

1979

.TRAINING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

COURSE

INSTITUTION

YEAR

NATURAL  / ADABAS

SPL

1990

COBOL COURSE

GOVERNMENT

1983

DATA GATHERING

DGT

1991

JUNIOR MANAGERS

GOVERNMENT

1988

SYSTEMS DESIGN

DGT

1991

..CAREER SUMMARY

TOTAL  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  EXPERIENCE:

                19+         YEARS

COMPANY

EMPLOYMENT DATES

POSITION

TECHNOLOGY

JMR

09/2000 - PRESENT

SENIOR PROGRAMMER

NATURAL/ADABAS

DB2/COBOL/SQL

EMERGE(SAPIENS)

AS400

IBM/MVS

FARITEC – OUTSOURCE

04/1999 – 08/2000

PROJECT MANAGER->CUSTOMER MANAGER

NATURAL / ADABAS, IBM, MVS

LIGHTHOUSE CORPORATION (DP DYNAMICS)

DEC 95 – 03/1999

CONSULTANT / PROJECT LEADER

COBOL, NATURAL, IBM MVS, ADABAS, TSO, COMPLETE

DEPARTMENT FINANCE / EXPENDITURE

JUN 83 – NOV 95

PROGRAMMER

COBOL, ADABAS, NATURAL, ICL, VME, SCL, LAN, WAN, IBM VMS, TSO, COMPLETE, OS/2, PC

RECEIVER OF REVENUE

JUN 82 – JUN 83

TAX CONSULTANT

NON DP RELATED

CAREER DETAILS

COMPANY NAME

JMR

EMPLOYMENT DATES

SEPT 2000 – PRESENT

POSITION HELD

SENIOR PROGRAMMER

TECHNOLOGY

 ADABAS, NATURAL

DB2/COBOL/SQL

SAPIENS

·       Maintenance of Fedsure/Capital Alliance Insurance systems

·       Norwich was bought out by Fedsure and a team of resources was needed to go to Cape Town, learn the ins and outs of the Norwich system and to run and maintain it from Johannesburg without any of the original team members. Jan was an integral part of this team.

·       Fedsure was then sold to Capital Alliance and the Fedsure and Norwich systems had to be converted to Capital’s systems.

·       Duties as part of above team:

·       Responsible for after hours batch processing (full time standby)

·       Analysing the system documentation and setting up the documentation to assist the rest of the project team.

·       Changing online and batch programs to assist the users on problem areas.

·       Data fixes before conversion.

·       Workshops to set up the data conversion to a Sun machine.

·       Responsibility for the batch processes to convert the data across

·       Support on enquiries once the data were converted

·       Extracting data from the mainframe and setting up Excel spreadsheets for the client’s use.

·       Training on Sapiens(emerge).

·       Proof of Concept on Sapiens

·       Maintenance and Development of systems at Transnet Pension Fund

COMPANY  NAME

FARITEC / OUTSOURCE

EMPLOYMENT DATES

04/1999 – 04/2000

POSITION HELD

PROJECT LEADER->MANAGER – CUSTOMER RELATIONS

TECHNOLOGY

NATURAL / ADABAS, ISO 9000

·       Implement new products and programmes

·       Maintenance of these systems

·       Writing of specifications to implement new products 

·       Responsible for after hours batch processing (full time standby)

·       Project manager on all legacy credit systems and user / customer relations

·       Manage customer queries, and problem resolution telephonically

·       Implement telephonic response system, and manage support team

·       Account management of two customers and also project manager on their systems, including Y2K

·       Direct contact with problem management as well as new products (modules) to enhance their system

·       Managed a ISO 9000 project for Outsource at one of their clients

COMPANY  NAME

LIGHTHOUSE CORPORATION / FARITEC(EDGARS)

EMPLOYMENT DATES

DECEMBER 1995 – MARCH 1999

POSITION HELD

CONSULTANT/PROJECT LEADER

TECHNOLOGY

COBOL, NATURAL, IBM MVS, ADABAS, TSO, COMPLETE, CRM

·       Implement new products on Edgars, SalesHouse and Jet’s Credit Account maintenance systems

·       Maintenance of these systems

·       Writing of specifications to implement new products 

·       Responsible for after hours batch processing (full time standby)

·       Project leader since January 1998 on all legacy credit systems and user / customer relations

·       Manage customer queries, and problem resolution telephonically

·       Implement telephonic response system, and manage support team

·       Part of Beta team on implementation of Edgars’ proposed call centre

·       Developed the predictive dialling Software for the call centre