Microsoft PowerApps

Bernard has more than 15 Years of experience as part-time and full-time lecturer and trainer: University of Pretoria (Hons class in Informatics), Monash (First Year Introduction to Business Computing and Second Year Software Development), University of Witwatersrand ("Organization, Data, Information and Business Intelligence") and Oracle University.

Technical courses include :

• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Power BI
• SQL
• Java
• XML
• Oracle Data Warehousing
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Project

Information Technology experience includes: IT blueprints, outsourcing, data migration, and software development. The project environments include: research, financial services, medical services, telecommunications, short-term insurance, mining, retail and IT outsourcing.

Project Management experience include acting as senior project manager on IT Projects, setting up project approaches and project offices, acting as a project mentor and trainer, and as an IT Team Service Manager

Memberships:

• IPTSA
• Project Management Society of South Africa
• ACM (Signatory to Code of Ethics)

Award: Oracle University: “Best Fusion Middleware Lecturer. ZA FY2010 and ZAFY2011”

Relevant Qualifications and Training:

Date: 2014 APM Group. Passed Agile Practitioner. Certificate Number 02905943-01-L9LH
Date: 2005 APM Group, on behalf of the Office of Government Commerce (United Kingdom),
London Passed PRINCE2 Practitioners Examination and certified as a "PRINCE2 Practitioner".
Date: 1998 University of Pretoria Advanced Certificate in Information Systems Management (cum laude).
Project Management and Decision Support were amongst the subjects
Date: 1993 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Course in "Managing People in Software Development"

Lawrence is a Sales Manager and Training instructor at Leading Edge Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd since April 2008 and has been a technical instructor since 2004. Lawrence combines technical knowledge with good communications skills and consistently receives enthusiastic reviews from his students. Lawrence has trained in all 9 provinces of South Africa as well as in the DRC, Botswana, and Swaziland.

Operating Systems and Application Software
Windows 95 – Windows 10, Office 97/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016
Linux
PowerBI
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, Microsoft Excel Dashboards
Open /Libre Office Writer, Calc, Impress, Base
Thunderbird
Google Apps
Gimp, Scribus
Wordpress and Joomla Content Management Systems
Soft skills / Business Skills
Selling, Presentation, Communication, Time Management & Anger Management.

Certified
Certified Technical Trainer (Ctt+)
N5 Electrical Engineering
Installation Liaison Officer (Telecommunication)
Business Communication
Entrepreneurship
Microsoft Office Specialist, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
ICDL
Network+
I-Net+Hardware and Networking from City & Guilds of London
IC3
Google AdWords
Google Analytics

Mark is the Managing Director of Leading Edge Business Solutions. Mark has been programming since the age of 10 when he wrote his fist Basic Program on an Apple IIe. He has always been passionate about computers and education and started tutoring matric students in 1994. Mark has been training advanced Linux courses, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers since November 1999. In 2002 Mark began training Perl courses. Mark was among the first group to write the LPI level 2 Certification in South Africa in 2004. Since March 2006 Mark has been training PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. Since 2009 Mark has started training Java and Python.

Mark's formal qualifications include:

Bsc (Engineering) Electrical

Institution: University of the Witwatersrand.

Final Subjects IncludedComputer Engineering

Certification: Level 2 Certification

Institution: Linux Professional Institute