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Summary :

Gerd Naschenweng joined bidorbuy in March 2010 and serves as Chief Technology Officer overseeing architecture, technical design, strategy and technical product development.

He worked as a freelance Internet consultant and contractor prior to joining bidorbuy and provided IT consulting and architecture guideance for companies such as Vodacom South Africa, First National Bank, BG Phoenics GmbH, CEDA Botswana, VHV Hannover, DBV Winterthur, Daimlyer-Chrysler/Smart and Standard Bank.

Naschenweng began his career in 1992 at Uniquare (formerly known as Genesis Software Consulting) where he worked as a Lead Programmer on the development of financial branch-banking solutions and successfully implemented the then largest IBM OS/2 branch solution. After consulting for more than 5 years at Standard Bank, he joined smart.com in 2000 to manage the IT-franchise setup for the new market launches in UK, Japan and Taiwan.

During his four-year engagement in Germany he consulted as the technical lead architect in the implementation of several insurance internet portals and architected an unique single-signon solution for the major insurers in Germany.

Upon his return to South Africa in June 2004, Naschenweng joined First National Bank's branch-banking division as Chief Architect and headed up the division's architecture migration to a thin-client, web-based transactional system supporting 700 outlets and 14,000 users.

In 2006 he consulted at Vodacom South Africa as JEE architect and in 2007 assumed the role of Acting Manager Systems Design of the Vodacom Commercial System Group, responsible for technical solutions across 12 call-centres, 550 retail franchises and 15,000 users and was instrumental in the migration from old WebSphere stack, the implementation of open-source solutions, compliance with PCI and SOX and acted as an evangelist for open source technologies and portal technologies.

He holds diplomas in Business Enterprise Studies and Marketing Management.

Experience

Director

UbuntuDeal

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

April 2011 - Present

Strategic Consulting, Brand development, web site traffic growth, SEO and coordinating new development initiatives.

Chief Technology Officer

BidorBuy

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

March 2010 - Present

Web site traffic- and revenue growth for Africa's largest online marketplace. The main focus of the role is on development, ensuring rapid deployment of new tools and functionality, with the overall objective to ensuring reliable and continued operation of bidorbuy's IT platform. Formulating IT strategy and processes as well as directing focus and actively participating in the architecture, design and development, security, operational integrity, system support and support and maintenance across the organisation.

Java/JEE Application / Solution Architect

Vodacom South Africa

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry

January 2006 - February 2010

Initially hired to design and implement a customer acquisition solution. Moved as acting manager and solutions architect into the design team and responsible for application- and infrastructure architecture solutions for Vodacom's customer channels (consumer, corporate, call-centres) comprising of 12 call-centres, 550 retail franchises and 15,000 users. Instrumental in the migration from old WebSphere stack, the implementation of a standardised webservices gateway and various cost-savings and open-source initiatives.

* Responsible for managing the design team and defining architectural roadmaps and introducing technology enablers to maintain the company's competitive edge.
* Design/implementation of acquisition and score-card systems running on JEE standards
* Evaluation of replacement for Websphere product stack with Open Source solutions
* SOA initiatives to establish a service registry & repository, an enterprise integration bus
* Design/implementation of webservices gateway for B2B transactions
* Commercial negotiations with vendors (RFP, SOW, budgets)
* Application infrastructure design
* Design of a pre-production environment based on virtualisation technology comprising 16 logical partitions resembling five different pre-production environments
* SDLC and process improvement projects
* Design/implementation of Vodacom Business portal
* Implementation of legislative processes for PCI (Payment Card Industry), SOX and RICA

Chief Architect - Branch Banking

First National Bank (Johannesburg, South Africa)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Banking industry

July 2004 - January 2006

Consulted as a J2EE architect to implement architectural principals in the technology division of Branch Banking. Branch Banking Technology services a branch network consisting of 700 outlets and supports over 14,000 users. During the engagement the scope of work changed to apply enterprise architecture principles, to streamline the software development life-cycle and to establish an IT strategy to support future business initiatives.

Resolved stability and performance issues in the current environment and improved scalability from 50 concurrent users to 1500 users.

Assisted in the design and implementation of a fully automated, clustered and fail-over Blade Centre environment.

Architectural design of system infrastructure and involvement in Linux vs Windows proof-of-concepts.

Definition of architectural roadmaps for Identity Management, Peripheral Integration via J/XFS.

Development of architecture strategy and roadmap to transform branch technology.

J2EE Architect, Snr Developer

BG Phoenics Gmbh (Munich, Germany)

September 2003 - June 2004

BG Phoenics GmbH has developed a J2EE application for different social insurance groups in Germany. Scope of the project is to support the production readiness project for the company during the hardware-tender process, mediate between the different hardware providers and produce results to facilitate the hardware selection process.

BG Phoenic's application is a document-centric solution which required scanning, recognition, indexing and management of 60,000 documents per hour.

Performance optimisation and troubleshooting for applications.

Development and customisation of LoadRunner scripts.

Utilisation of privately developed "UniversalServer" - a extensible client-server framework to control load tests.

Performance measurement and profiling using Wily Introscope.

Performance tuning / problem resolution

Performance tuning of infrastructure environment (especially MQ Workflow, DB2, IBM Websphere and JVM, Content Manager)

J2EE Architect, Snr Developer

Atos KPMG (Botswana)

July 2003 - September 2003

The Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (= CEDA) is a government-funded agency to develop the business development in Botswana. The core business of CEDA focuses on the distribution of loans in the commercial-, property-, agricultural- and livestock sectors. The project included a loan-origination and appraisal process which interfaces into SAP and utilises the SAP portal server to present the web-based business application to the end-user.

Technical assistance in the last 4 weeks of the implementation phase to implement the appraisal models for commercial-, property- and agricultural loans.

Design of the database model and generic access beans to store/retrieve business data via JDBC.

Development of SAP portal-components (DynPage and JSPDynPage).

J2EE Developer

Standard Bank

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SBK; Banking industry

1992 - 1996

Development of a Java interface to communicate and exchange data with the mainframe via IBM CICS Transaction Gateway.

Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Instant Card Issue functionality to issue (print & encode) ATM cards in the branches.

Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Print Monitor Interface which extends/replaces the functionality of the OS/2 Print Manager. Purpose of the project was to increase the speed of documents printed and to manage 5000+ printers in the branch network.

Snr Developer

Uniquare

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

June 1992 - September 1996

Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Customer Information System to manage customer information and utilise key data for marketing purposes.

Cross Selling Interface to support customer consultants in their marketing efforts.

Development of the support-tool "BDRemote/32" to remotely control 800+ servers and 10,000+ desktops in the banks branch infrastructure.

Education

Bournemouth University

Marketing Management

1996 - 1996

Damelin

Marketing Management

1996 - 1996

Bournemouth University

Business Enterprise Studies

1995 - 1995

Damelin

Small Business Management

1994 - 1994