Curriculum Vittae

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname			:	Offer

First Names		:	Stephen Frederick Owen

Nationality			:	South African

D.O.B			:	5 August 1975

Drivers License		:	Code 02 (motorbike)

Contact	phone		:	(031) 462 0307
	Cell            	:       	083 278 0988
	E-mail		:	steveo@ananzi.co.za


EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Matric			:	1993
New Forest High School			

Period			:	1995 - 1996
Unisa			:	B.A. Soc. Sci.

Period			:	January 1999 - February 2000
Crux CTI			:	Comprehensive programming Diploma
				(Visual Basic & Informix SQL & 4GL))


SKILLS

I am work with Universe Basic, have done a few private programs in Visual Basic privately and am currently teaching
myself HTML and Java. 
I work well independently or as a member of a team, adapting to either quite readily. 
I enjoy learning new ideas and putting them into operation.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Position held		: Universe Programmer

Period			: May 2000 to present

Name of Organisation		: Unibase Solutions

Duties			: Maintenance of Database programs. 
			  Writing reports and spreadsheets from specifications. 
			  Ensuring programs meet the end user requirements.
			  Data conversions. File maintenance

Courses attended		: Informix Ardent - Database Administration
			  Informix Ardent - Universe Programming

Position held		: Administrator

Period			: February 1997 - October 1998

Name of Organisation		: London Borough of Camden
			  Home Ownership Group

Main duties		: Right to Buy and House Purchase Grants
			: Allocation of grants to Council tenants.
			: Ensuring the regulations according to the Housing Act were met

Reason for leaving		: Returned home to continue studies at expiration of work permit


Position held		: Function Co-ordinator

Period			: Temporary while studying

Name of Organisation		: Stetsons Caterers

Main Duties		: Control and co-ordination of staff including training. 
			: Set up and running of functions
			: Liaison with clients and their customers


OVERVIEW

After finishing Matric at New Forest High School in 1993, I realised I needed to broaden my outlook on life and so decided
to go to Israel and stay on a Kibbutz. By the end of my trip, I had been on 3 different Kibbutz all over Israel from the Gaza Strip 
to the more prosperous North, working at a variety of jobs ranging from the dining hall to the only non-kosher meat factory in Israel. 
After my time on the Kibbutzim, I moved down to Eilat where I spent a few weeks as a construction worker, saving enough money 
to see Egypt, but without ever setting foot in a tourist bus or hotel.
On returning to South Africa, I enrolled at UNISA for a degree in Social Science (BA Soc. Sci.) to become a social worker, 
and attended lectures at Damelin College during the day.
The next year (1996) I continued my studies through UNISA, but worked at many part time positions including a yeast factory 
and a catering company called Stetsons.
In 1997 I decided to do some more travelling. Taking my savings I headed of to London. Almost immediately I got a job at the 
London Borough of Camden in the Home Ownership Section (reference available), as a filing clerk, as time went by I got more 
responsibilities, becoming a member of the Right to Buy team (which administered the sale of Council flats).
After a year there I took on the duties of House Purchase Grant officer, giving grants of up to £25,000 to Council tenants to move 
out of Council flats into place of their own.
During this time I had plenty of opportunity to go travelling. I saw the Bafana-Bafana play England at Old Trafford and the 
Springboks play France in Paris. I saw the Scottish Highlands, visited the picturesque Cotswolds Villages of England and 
experienced the friendliness of the Welsh. I also found time to feel the cold of a New York winter, have my eyes opened 
in Amsterdam and visit beautiful Stockholm. After all that I decided it was time to settle down and start working on a career.
I consequently went to Crux Cti and studied a Comprehensive Programming Diploma, again working part-time for the catering 
company Stetsons again.

I am currently working at Unibase Solutions, working as a programmer. My main duties include the writing of report and 
spreadsheet programs from specifications from the users. Updating the older programs as they become redundant or no 
longer meet the requirements of the end users. Fault finding, and lately as a couple new customers have been taken on, I have 
done a few data conversion programs, converting the new customer's data onto our system.

I am willing to start as a junior programmer learning a new language, although ideally I would like to utilize my skills in 
Universe Basic, Visual Basic or those freshly aquired in HTML