1. January 2000 to December 2004: By 2004 I had been promoted from Development manager to Divisional Managing Director
of Reach Technologies. Reach Technologies was the IT division within the Fuel Logistics Group (Pty) Ltd. The group’s major
focus was distribution and logistics, and pharmaceutical warehousing. Reach supported these companies with regards to
infrastructure, hardware, procurement and support, and software development and support. Reach also targeted external
markets with distribution management software, document management software, and web-based ERP reporting and
handheld Rep/Territory management systems. SAP SD and FI were implemented at two of the divisional companies.
Roles
 In 2000 - Started as Development Manager at RTT, managing a group of INFORMIX 4GL developers/support staff.
o Responsibilities
 staff management
 project management of all development and maintenance requirements.
 managing the development environment. Started with INFORMIX Online 5, then ONFORMIX Online 7
and finally Online 9.2 (Dynamic Server 2000) as the database and development using INFORMIX 4gl 7.
 Continued developing (4GL) during this period.
 In late 2000 - the RTT IT department was split into an independent entity and Reach Technologies was created. I was
promoted to Development Manager at Reach, responsibilities of previous position continued and now also included:
o managing Visual Basic development team.
o managing the Web development team.
 In 2001 - promotion to Development Director.
o all previous responsibilities continued along with the new directorship requirements and still developed with
INFORMIX 4GL on an ongoing basis. (There were systems that I had developed and continued to manage due to
staff restrictions).
 In 2003 - attended the SAP ABAP Academy and obtained the ABAP certification.
 June 2004 - Promoted to Divisional Managing Director at Reach Technologies. The company had a staff of 28 broken up
into the following groups:
o Project Managers (3).
o Customer Support (6)
o Accounts and Admin (3)
o UNIX and Microsoft Technical support (2)
o MS VB/VB.Net developers (8)
o Web Developers (3)
o Training staff (1)
o External Sales (1)