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 :
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:
Award: Oracle University: “Best Fusion Middleware Lecturer. ZA FY2010 and ZAFY2011â€
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
You are an experienced business user of reports and dashboards and understand the role that reporting plays in the decision-making process of your organisation. You need to build reports and dashboards with the minimum involvement of the IT Department, using diverse data sources, for deployment on internal servers, Microsoft OneDrive, Web interfaces, tablets, and smartphones. You create reports and dashboards on an advanced level and / or make these available to colleagues for use on their own dashboards. You need a tool to support the process of creating these reports, and to manage the data and visualizations required by other reports and dashboards. The visualizations may be charts, tables, matrices, text boxes, slicers, etc Your company may use Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SSRS or MS Excel Dashboards Come and learn how to use Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence)
In this three day course, attendees will learn the fundamentals of creating their own rich interactive reports and sharing their insights with others.
We will cover
| Delivery Method | Duration | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulltime | 3 day | R 7,887.00 | |
| Webinar | 3 day |
R 5,547.00 |
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
It is intended for use by non-IT staff, including both Line and Senior Managers, Personal Assistants, Business Analysts, BI Specialists, and Knowledge Workers
No prior experience with Power BI or other BI tools is required, some experience with excel is desirable but not mandatory.
If you don't have admin rights on your computer please request your IT department to pre-install Power BI Desktop from https://aka.ms/pbidesktopstore
To apply for a booking, click on the relevant "Book Now" button below.
Note: places are only fully secured once payment has been made.
| Start Date | End Date | Branch | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 17 May 2021 | Wed 19 May 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 28 Jun 2021 | Wed 30 Jun 2021 | Woodmead | Provisional | |
| Mon 12 Jul 2021 | Wed 14 Jul 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Tue 10 Aug 2021 | Thu 12 Aug 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 6 Sep 2021 | Wed 8 Sep 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 20 Sep 2021 | Wed 22 Sep 2021 | Woodmead | Provisional | |
| Mon 4 Oct 2021 | Wed 6 Oct 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 1 Nov 2021 | Wed 3 Nov 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 29 Nov 2021 | Wed 1 Dec 2021 | Not Applicable | Scheduled |
For clients who want to enjoy the convenience of public transport, consider the Gautrain.
For more information you can download the official Gautrain brochure.