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Curriculum Vitae of Tim Parker-Nance
Personal Information
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Surname: Parker-Nance
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First names: Timothy Craig
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Identity Number: 6410235091084
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Date of birth: 1964-10-23
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Gender: Male
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Home address: 22 Galpin Street, Summerstrand, 6001
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Postal address: P. O. Box 13995, Humewood, Port Elizabeth, 6013
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Work address: Orion Software, P.O. Box 40131, Walmer, Port Elizabeth, 6065
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Tel: 041 583 4070
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Cell: 072 141 7953
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Tel: 041 5818305
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E-mail address: tim@justblue.co.za
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Marital status, spouse and dependants: Married to Shirley Parker-Nance with
two children, Kayra and Jorja.
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Drivers license: Code 08
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Nationality: South African
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Criminal offenses: None
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Home language:English and Afrikaans
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Health: Good
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Education
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Period
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Institution
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Degree
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Graduation
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1989 - 1990
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University of Port Elizabeth
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M.Sc. (Computer Science)
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1991
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1988
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University of Port Elizabeth
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B.Sc. Honours Cum Laude (Computer Science)
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1989
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1985 - 1987
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University of Port Elizabeth
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B.Sc. Cum Laude (Computer Science, Mathematics)
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1988
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1978 - 1982
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Grey High School
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Full matriculation exemption
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1982
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Prizes and Achievements
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Date
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1985
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University of Port Elizabeth Alumni Merit Award
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1988
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University of Port Elizabeth Academic Colours
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Bursaries and scholarships
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Date
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1985
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Standard Bank University Scholarship
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1986 - 1987
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Pilkington Shatterprufe Bursary
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1988
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Scholarship
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1989
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Foundation for Research Development (FRD) Scholarship
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1989-1990
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Volkswagen Research Scholarship
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None of these carried any work commitments
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Papers and publications
- Parker-Nance, T. C. and Warren, P. R. (1989) Human-Computer Interactions: What Determines
Computer Acceptance. Fourth Annual Conference for M. Sc. and Ph. D. Students in Computer
Science.
- Warren, P. R. and Parker-Nance T. C. (1989) Human-Computer Interactions: What Determines
Computer Acceptance. SACLA 1989 Conference Proceedings.
- Warren, P. R. and Parker-Nance, T. C. (1989). The Human-Computer Interface: A Strategic
Issue for the 90s. Proceedings of the Conference of the South African Institute for
Management Scientists.
- Parker-Nance, T. C. (1990) Human-Computer Interactions Research at Volkswagen S.
A. Proceedings of the Fifth National Masters and Ph. D. Computer Science Conference
Students Conference.
- Parker-Nance, T. C. (1991) Human-Computer Interactions. Masters Dissertation,
University of Port Elizabeth.
- Parker-Nance S. and Parker-Nance T. (2001). Using technology to simplify the process
of Ascidian identification. Zoological Society of Southern Africa Symposium 2001.
A Southern African Odyssey.
Employment history
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Date
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Employer
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Position
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1992 - present
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Orion Software
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Chief Software Architect
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Architect of distributed software systems based on the Microsoft .Net Framework.
Wide experience in the software development life cycle (SDLC). Extensive knowledge,
experience and expertise with the .Net stack; from the data layer using SQL Server,
SQL Compact and SQL Azure, ADO.Net, Entity Framework (EF) and Language Integrated
Query (Linq), to the Services layer using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF),
Workflow Foundation (WF), WCF Data Services and WCF RIA Services, to the Presentation
layer using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, ASP.Net web forms
and ASP.Net MVC.
Some recent projects:
New Dimension Accounting Series: Delphi, COM, ActiveX, ADO, SQL
ISP Management System: CRM, integration with servers (DNS, IIS, IAS, AD, WMI, ADSI)
Delphi, C# Web services (ASMX, WCF, WF, WCF Data Services, WCF RIA Services), SQL,
ADO.Net, Entity Framework, Linq
Dakota mail server: Delphi, SQL
Project Manager: Delphi, SQL
Office Management System: C#, ASP.Net
Instant Dynamic DNS: Delphi
Components, forms, database, reporting: Delphi, C#
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1998 - present
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Internet Services and Technologies (iSAT)
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Software and Network Architect
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Design of networks (BGP), system integration (DNS, Web servers, Mail servers, Radius
servers, Firewalls), management systems, server software (Mail severs)
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1999 - present
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Just Blue
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Lead Software Engineer / Developer
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Biodiversity and taxonomic information systems and databases.
Darwin Core, TAPIR, ABCD.
Some recent projects:
Addo Elephant Manager: An application that can be used to capture the knowledge
on the elephants at the Addo Elephant National Park and can identify the elephants
based on a set of observed character states.
Coral Reef Research Foundation (CRRF) Collection Manager: Provided the CRRF with
a database to manage all their worldwide collections.
Molenaars River Invertebrates: Provide an online data management system to record
information on all the samples collected, record species composition and diversity,
and the export of data in the preferred analytical formats.
Quadrat Analyser: A useful tool to obtain biodiversity data from photos of quadrats.
TAMIRA: The Tunicate and Marine Invertebrate Research Assistant. Designed to centralize
all the information taxonomists need for tunicate taxonomy and identification. It
can, however, be used for any marine invertebrate taxonomy.
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1989
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Port Elizabeth Technikon
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Part-time lecturer Computer Science
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1st year computer literacy
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