Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions at Board level as a director. I have always subscribed to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as â??impossibleâ?? from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking. As a result of technical excellence, my most successful endeavour, Silverlake Technology Solutions was appointed Premier Partner in development with the IBM AS/400 lab in Rochester, Minnesota, USA in 1996 - one of the first companies outside the USA to achieve this. Technology designed by me have been used in all the major economies around the globe and I have lectured on five continents on subjects ranging from systems management to continuous operations to application resilience. The bulk of my career has been spend on enabling continuous operations, effecting high availability, systems management in all its disciplines, clustering, partitioning, self healing systems and application resilience. As such, my expertise tends to focus on the middleware and operating system level. In addition, I have spend quite a few years of my programming career doing low level communications programming between various shop-floor devices, PLCâ??s and between different computer systems. Started as a trainee programmer on IBM System/38 in 1983. Some companies whose IT strategy I have influenced and/or steered: IBM - various countries: South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, USA, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Switzerland. Other: Investec, Momentum Life, Nashua, Mondi Group, SABC, Clicks, Unibank, SA Eagle, SA Department Foreign Affairs, ISCOR, Protea Assurance. Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions at Board level as a director. I have always subscribed to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as â??impossibleâ?? from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking. As a result of technical excellence, my most successful endeavour, Silverlake Technology Solutions was appointed Premier Partner in development with the IBM AS/400 lab in Rochester, Minnesota, USA in 1996 - one of the first companies outside the USA to achieve this. Technology designed by me have been used in all the major economies around the globe and I have lectured on five continents on subjects ranging from systems management to continuous operations to application resilience. The bulk of my career has been spend on enabling continuous operations, effecting high availability, systems management in all its disciplines, clustering, partitioning, self healing systems and application resilience. As such, my expertise tends to focus on the middleware and operating system level. In addition, I have spend quite a few years of my programming career doing low level communications programming between various shop-floor devices, PLCâ??s and between different computer systems. Started as a trainee programmer on IBM System/38 in 1983. Some companies whose IT strategy I have influenced and/or steered: IBM - various countries: South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, USA, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Switzerland. Other: Investec, Momentum Life, Nashua, Mondi Group, SABC, Clicks, Unibank, SA Eagle, SA Department Foreign Affairs, ISCOR, Protea Assurance. Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions at Board level as a director. I have always subscribed to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as â??impossibleâ?? from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking. As a result of technical excellence, my most successful endeavour, Silverlake Technology Solutions was appointed Premier Partner in development with the IBM AS/400 lab in Rochester, Minnesota, USA in 1996 - one of the first companies outside the USA to achieve this. Technology designed by me have been used in all the major economies around the globe and I have lectured on five continents on subjects ranging from systems management to continuous operations to application resilience. The bulk of my career has been spend on enabling continuous operations, effecting high availability, systems management in all its disciplines, clustering, partitioning, self healing systems and application resilience. As such, my expertise tends to focus on the middleware and operating system level. In addition, I have spend quite a few years of my programming career doing low level communications programming between various shop-floor devices, PLCâ??s and between different computer systems. Started as a trainee programmer on IBM System/38 in 1983. Some companies whose IT strategy I have influenced and/or steered: IBM - various countries: South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, USA, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Switzerland. Other: Investec, Momentum Life, Nashua, Mondi Group, SABC, Clicks, Unibank, SA Eagle, SA Department Foreign Affairs, ISCOR, Protea Assurance. Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions at Board level as a director. I have always subscribed to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as â??impossibleâ?? from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking. As a result of technical excellence, my most successful endeavour, Silverlake Technology Solutions was appointed Premier Partner in development with the IBM AS/400 lab in Rochester, Minnesota, USA in 1996 - one of the first companies outside the USA to achieve this. Technology designed by me have been used in all the major economies around the globe and I have lectured on five continents on subjects ranging from systems management to continuous operations to application resilience. The bulk of my career has been spend on enabling continuous operations, effecting high availability, systems management in all its disciplines, clustering, partitioning, self healing systems and application resilience. As such, my expertise tends to focus on the middleware and operating system level. In addition, I have spend quite a few years of my programming career doing low level communications programming between various shop-floor devices, PLCâ??s and between different computer systems. Started as a trainee programmer on IBM System/38 in 1983. Some companies whose IT strategy I have influenced and/or steered: IBM - various countries: South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, USA, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Switzerland. Other: Investec, Momentum Life, Nashua, Mondi Group, SABC, Clicks, Unibank, SA Eagle, SA Department Foreign Affairs, ISCOR, Protea Assurance. My professional areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence, genetic programming, cluster and partition management, intuitive user interfaces, compiler technologies, soft transaction boundaries, externally defined recovery points, technically challenging projects, middleware and software architecture. I believe my life should reflect that of Jesus Christ, the ONLY Lord and King. Avid hunter and African dangerous game hunter. Enjoy being close to my Saviour and King when in nature. Qualified Professional Hunter - do not practice us such. Qualified in order to be a better hunter. Love photography of game and nature. Bible study Reading Teaching youngsters to enjoy nature Visiting nature and game reserves with the love of my life, my wife Angelika.