Software Design Consulting, Contracting

Zwartberg Research & Development is a company. Our employees total just 4 people: CEO, Software Engineer (Brian Modra, described on this page), and two support staff.

This page describes Brian Modra, written by him, in his capacity as a contracting/consulting Software Engineer or Software Architect.

Personal Details


Brian Modra	5 Jan Louw Street, PO. Box 2, Prince Albert, 6930, South Africa

Mobile Phone	+27 (0)79 69 77 082	Phone	+27 (0)23 5411 462

Fax	+27 (0)23 5411 379	Email	brian@zwartberg.com

Introduction

I was introduced to computers as a teenager, 25 years ago, in the form of a Motorola 6800 microprocessor which I programmed in machine code. My programming experience has included CAD/CAM systems, mapping applications (GIS), large scale database systems, and massively concurrent services.

When Nokia was investigating Java as a way to enable third party applications in phones, they recruited me. Nokia puts its heart behind industry co-operative standards, and I was glad to be central in their initial standardisation work with Java. I was reporting, as a Specialist, directly to Jyrki Yli-Nokari, Nokia's global strategist for Java.

Since leaving Nokia, I worked for Vodafone in the UK to help them with their platform strategy regarding Java, but I gained a lot of useful experience working for two games companies; and have been working recently mainly with C++ in large scale service applications.

Career History

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OSSC	June 2006 - current	Senior Software Developer

3G-Scene	Nov 2003 – Sep 2004 Jun 2005 - May 2006	Senior Software Engineer

Vodafone	Sep 2004 – May 2005	Terminal Platform Manager

Power Corp	April 2003 - Nov 2003	Software Architect

Jippii Group	May 2000 - March 2003	Senior Software Architect / Specialist

NOKIA	August 1998 - September 2000	Chief Engineer, Specialist

AMRAD	April 1992 - July 1998	Senior Software Engineer

QikDraw Systems	June 1990 - December 1991 July 1986 - May 1989	Software Engineer

Microbyte	May 1989 - June 1990	Software Engineer

Philips	January 1986 - July 1986	Software Engineer

Caddsman Bureau	January 1984 - January 1986	CAD Operator/Trainer

BHP	February 1981 - August 1982	Trainee Draftsman

Company

Open Source Software Consulting CC (trading as Zwartberg Research & Development)

Responsibilities

Designing/implementing a system for applications by cellular integration. I contract/consult regarding implementation of this system.

Achievements

So far, version 1 of the the system is in use in a production server which is used in a vehicle tracking application. Version 2 is being re-written from scratch.

Technologies / Languages / Skills used

C/C++, Linux, Distributed Computing, XML, XSLT, SVG, etc.

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